Recognize Your Reality

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 101)

Sadhana. That is where you sit, dwell in the thoughts and words of the soul, and peel away all your non-reality with the vastness of your spirit. If you train your mind this way, then you will discover something for yourself. If you live in absolute fearlessness, God will live in you because fear and truth cannot go together.

Select Your Path

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 91)

Many people believe that the spiritual path is difficult and the neurotic path is easy. Students profess it and even some teachers encourage this idea. I have never agreed to it nor am I willing to agree to it now. It takes the same effort and energy to walk either path. The difficulty lies in the nature of the mind and how it grasps things and becomes entranced by feelings and sensations. The problem lies in being subject to time rather than being one step ahead of time.

We often fight the wrong battle. We do not identify the real problem. The problem is not the spiritual path. It is the way we react to immediate feelings rather than to the things that will be with us through time and beyond time. We make sense of our soul, remote or close, according to how we handle our mind. Direct the mind with immediate sensations and convoluted negotiations, and we create neurosis and confusion. Direct it with the power of an Infinite word, words of truth, and we will excel with clarity, kindness, and love. 

Enrich Your Mind

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 79)


Your mind is designed as a preparatory system to guide and aid your life. It is a power to gather your resources and shape your behavior. You can refine the mind, its Facets, and all its combinations. Then you can act effectively in your Executive Mind, Creative Mind, Applied Mind, and hundreds of others. But you must train and refine the mind to give you those Functional Minds that serve you and your soul.


The mind forms patterns based on habits. Those habits are woven from our attention and from our thoughts. To break the shackles of low thoughts and habits, we have the ability to dwell in the vastness of our soul. By enriching and refining the mind and its Facets, we form a relationship within us that supports our projection to lead and contribute to the world.

Speak with Committed Language

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 71)

The greatest blunder that almost everyone makes is the feeling that you have to speak whatever is on your mind. That doesn't make sense. Your language becomes a loudspeaker and you sound like a squawking duck. The mind has automatic waves of thought and feelings from many sources. You are not meant to speak all of that. The mind is meant to know the truth. Train your mind to speak the truth in a committed language so it is beautiful and effective.

Look Through the Mind's Window

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 59)


You should always remain you. You are supposed to remain you, come what may. That is the actual strength of your mind when it is clean and clear. But you do not handle the mind right. You distort the ego first thing. Instead of handling the ego, its attachments and duties simply as they are, you over stretch the ego. You inflate it and deflate it until the window of the mind is like those funhouse mirrors. You over stretch your ego, you attack it as it is, and then you cannot handle the inflation and stretch.


Now you are caught in the game of mind and ego. Between the two, you can be stretched until nothing is left. If you can remember this one little thing and take it to heart, then you can solve your problems one hundred percent. Just remember: the mind is given to you, you are not given to the mind.

Eliminate Mental Intrigues

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 49)


The combined strength of your thoughts and your subconscious catches you. This combination, when subconscious links with the play of the mind, is the origin of mental intrigues and most of your self-defeating patterns. You need a habit to relate to your mind. Sit with your mind and review it, polish it, and direct it.

Balance the Elements

An excerpt from The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets  by Yogi Bhajan (page 41)


This connection between the mind and the tattvas leads to several common phenomena. All missionary people, all healers, and people who are zealous to help others get burned out. Counselors and advisors drain themselves, and it is a recognized professional hazard. Why? Because your mind gets involved and locked into the other person. It is called taking on the vibration of the other person.