(powerful lecture by Yogi Bhajan which you can record in your own voice and meditate on it. Instructions are below)
The Self-Sensory System and the Transition of the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age
Yogi Bhajan – August 1, 2000
In the next twelve to fourteen years you will be needed by the world. It does not matter who one is today, or to whom one belongs; people’s minds are going to go empty.
In the Piscean Age, which is going to end, the main need was for knowledge, for creative legacy. That’s why in the Piscean Age sex was taboo; it was monitored, matured, glorified. Sex and sensuality were considered the primary attractions. Beauty was physical and people pursued each other. Sexual intercourse was the orientation of relationship and it reached the point of obnoxious duality; perversion became very prominent.
But the time is changing, people are looking towards fulfillment of the self through purity and piety, individuality, and reality. They don’t want to practice duality anymore; that’s why you will find few marriages. Sex will not be the attraction. A Sensory System will develop, a new system where the individual will find him or herself complete. Communication will be humongous. Everybody will have access to all knowledge. With a push of the button you can get any information you want. The whole world will be at your disposal. The obsession with sex will have no place. One will not look for satisfaction through physical intercourse. It will be automatic that one will find satisfaction through the self-sensory system, which people will develop in the coming fifty years. The foundation is being laid now because the cusp period is 1991 to 2012 for the Age of Pisces to go, and the Age of Aquarius to come. We have already gone through nine years of these 21 years.
What is that personal sensory system? There will be no need for cosmetic make-up. People will be open, straight, simple, and their beauty will be internal, not external. Man and woman are going to reach out with such dignity, such devotion, such an elevated, loftiness of self, and the beauty of the human character will be so bewitching that not only the one who is willing will be enjoying and realizing, but their realization will be so profound that no destructive temptation by another person will work.
The Piscean Age was the ugliest age. It was an era in which the female was rooted out from her roots, and exploited to the brink and to the brim by men. Male female relationship didn’t have any strength. It didn’t have any character. It didn’t have any taste. So females in the past century gave birth to the most fearful, insecure, impotent, or oversexed men, and sexual disorder was worse than ever before in the past three thousand years. In mankind, sexually, men were inferior; they did not have the power of endurance. And they could not carry the love and polarity of the female. In other words, they could not become a unit. Their sexual habits were so shallow that the Akashic record did not even record them. Men were the product of being worthless and useless; their sexual intimacy had no depth The men produced in the last century, whom you call “great,” wanted to indulge in the power of destruction. That’s why we created the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, smart bombs, we had two wars, and we killed more people in the name of religion than anything else. And religion became, not reality, but an ugly fanaticism. The ugliest thing that happened in this last century is that man started finding God outside himself.
Man forgot that God is the working God, Karta Purkh, which, Nanak said, works and breathes in us. It’s part of us; It’s not separate. We were blind to God’s presence everywhere.
The only way to survive today is through the insanity of the ego. Not ego- ego has a rational reference-but the insanity of the ego. And man’s ego is like a snake which spews poison like a fountain at you. It doesn’t mean anything. It just scares you, that’s all. People have become limited, small, squeezed to a point of just physical existence, just physical existence. Today we are six billion ugly ducklings of the human race living on the planet and we have no quality, no quantity, no character, and no commitment. Look at our character; it’s wrapped in lies and inconsistency. We say things which are not true. We truthfully say things which are not true. We dramatically say things which are not true. And we do the ugliest thing in this planet, we build a power which surrounds the individual; how many houses, how many boyfriends, how much money we have. We end up adding on dirt-a termite heap of dirt. In character we have become very shallow. How many TV sets we have, how much bigger our TV set is, how many cars we have … You’ll never hear a person talking about how much satisfaction, how much containment, how much contentment, how much character, how much realization he has. You won’t hear it these days. “Who had sex with who? Who wants who? Who chased who? Who is nude? Who is more nude?” You understand? There’s a competition going on. You see all our magazines; it’s a human joke. And when a race of humans starts making mockery of themselves openly and obnoxiously, nothing is sacred. So this is the state of affairs and it has to go on for twelve more years of this cusp period. And it will be bad to us. My idea to present this to you is that many of you will try to reach out to help people or help yourself, and you will have something to understand. It’s called “Building the Foundation of the New Age.”
The Age of Aquarius will be the Age of Experience where only people of experience will be liked, respected, worshipped, talked to and understood. It’s not a matter of how old you are or how young you are or how white you are or how black you are. Religion as it has been known has become absolutely obsolete. Because in the past 5000 years religion has been teaching you to redeem your soul. Soul is already redeemed. What you should redeem is your being cheap, shallow, worthless, useless, not true to your words, not true to your commitment, not true to your character. That’s what you should redeem. The majority of the world is nothing but show business. You put on a show. And spirituality is nothing but a show. No human believes that they are a fact of life, a fact of existence, that they are real; that they are born in the image of God. The most magnificent Allah, most infinite God Jehovah, most pure, wise Lord Buddha, whatever you want to call your God, has created you in His own image and this is it. So God in the New Age is called He-She-It; He, She, and It. And if you don’t understand the totality of God as He, She, and It, then you are shit. You can put silver leaf or gold leaf on it, that is still what you are. So you are wrapped in gold, your wealth and you think you are covered; you are wrong. You are wrapped in silver and you think you are shining and bright and you can make a fool of others? You are deadly wrong
The fact is there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy, or more conscious than you.
The time has come of self-value. And the question is not: “To be or not to be;” the statement is: “To be, to be.” “I am, I Am.” The time has come not to search for God, but to be God. Time is not to worship God; but to trust and dwell in the working God. As this is coming through me, it is cleansing me. If you are not listening and only hearing, you are not getting it. But if you are listening, it will go into you. You have to come to the awareness of how bad and unfortunate we have made this world as ugly as possible, and how beautiful actually God created it. We are purely enemies of God, because God within us is in pain and there is no God outside us. Each one is the manifestation of God so it won’t work to create God by making a stone God. Every grain of sand is God. And we have to have our subtle body, our sophisticated self to see it. In reality, you are a bunch of molecules living by the pranic body. You are nothing more, nothing less. As long as the psyche will not merge in you — equally in balance, you will have no awareness.
Human existence is a combination of the pranic body and psyche energy, which is the universe, Prakritee, the creation in proportion. When you have that state of mind you are clean and clear. You stop searching; you start practicing. The oddness in you becomes even, and your flow becomes as vast as the universe-and sometimes beyond the universe. You have the authentic reach to yourself. I don’t want anybody because I want everybody. This concept is very difficult. I don’t want to be “I;” I don’t want to be “we.” I want to be “just as it is.” And my run is with the flow of the psyche of the universe as it takes me, as it moves me, as it desires me. Man will stop cutting corners and come to a real existence. And it’s not long from now. Any person who thinks he is great may be nothing, because the Information Age is so powerful, and so knowable, and so acknowledgeable, and so understandable, that nothing can work. We will not be competent to cheat each other, but we can help and deal with each other as equal. There’s no beautiful, no ugly. The love of existence of our life and of our breathing will be in need of the flow of the psyche in us, therefore, we can be a real combination of self within the self. And the sensory system which will develop automatically out of us will be our archangel protecting us and glorifying us. Those who hustle and hassle and move and want, will just die suffering. They’ll not get anything.
Now the time has come that you will have a meditative mind to wait and see what comes to you. Your mind will direct you to work towards the right channels. You will meet the right people. Our future is now and our presence is our purity. We don’t have to purify ourselves; we are pure. We simply have to not make it ugly by diversion, by concoctions, stories, and by creating meaningless romance and fantasy, and imagining things which are zero. We’ll master ourselves through our service, through our character, through our commitment, and the most powerful thing which people have-our grace. Our individual grace is the most wanted today. And our projection, which will give us satisfaction, fulfillment, and exaltation, is our nobility. We will act noble, gracious, kind, and compassionate. These are our essential features. Our creativity will be our sensory system. And through this sensory system we will be overflowing with energy, touching the hearts of people, and feeling their feeling, and filling their emptiness. We will act great and our flow will fulfill the gratefulness in the hearts of others. It will be a new relationship. We will create a new humanity which will have the new sensory system and thus we will establish the Age of Aquarius. This is the fundamental character you have to learn by heart.
Meditation to Develop the Self-Sensory System
Sit in Easy Pose with a light Jalandhar Bandh applied. Point the Jupiter finger (forefinger) of the right hand straight up toward the sky with the thumb and other fingers closed in a fist with the right elbow bent and relaxed at the side. The left hand is placed flat over the heart center (center of the chest). Listen to the preceding lecture (recorded in your own voice.)
