I reread today the seven steps that Yogi Bhajan listed as necessary to achieve happiness. It is always beautiful to return to places that make sense, and that make even more sense only after you have experienced them.
The first of these steps, and it is the only one I want to refer to today in this writing, is COMMITMENT - wao! - and it is ironic that this is the very first thing that people these days generally abort as a life mission. Nowadays, commitment is conspicuous by its absence. It is normal to hear "I don't commit" and this in many angles and perspectives of life.
But, it is worth asking ourselves: What is commitment? What do each of us understand as commitment? What am I capable of committing myself to? Who am I capable of committing myself to?
Somehow I understand that, when a person refers to commitment, and it generates aversion, it is because he/she may feel that this is going to restrict his/her freedom, and yes! When you make a commitment you must give all of yourself to follow that idea, that path, that person, and yes, there will be times when your commitment forces you to do things that at the moment make you feel lazy, that demand a certain degree of energy, and you want to abort your mission. But you must always put that commitment first, remember that commitment, and this will give you the strength you need?
For me commitment is like discipline, and whoever knows me and has attended some of the classes I guide will have heard one or a thousand times when I say "Discipline is Freedom". And I insist that commitment and the discipline to maintain that commitment is the only thing that can take you to places closer to the mystique of your soul. Committing to yourself and committing to causes, ideas, people, is what generates your truth, an unwavering - yet flexible - truth that pursues only to find that place your soul longs for.
Create habits that make this commitment to whatever can stand as a standard, and commit first to yourself, to respect for you as a human being, to respect for your soul, for what you feel, for what you sense, for what your heart calls.... Commit yourself to your truth, to what your soul knows it has to do, but without overwhelming others with your power, the commitment should not be from the mind or ego, it should be from your inner world, the one that is in contact with you when you meditate, when you are in spaces of silence with the absolute, there when you empty yourself of your hidden agenda, your reactive patterns, positive or negative emotions, commit yourself from your fourth body: neutral mind; from your fourth chakra: the heart, let the fourth Guru: Guru Ram Das guide you (love and justice); four in tantric numerology is associated with service, and this service must come from the commitment to be you, truly you.
And this is how you generate this second step to happiness: CHARACTER.
So far today...
SAT NAM.
Livsangat Kaur
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