Yogi Bhajan Talks about Drugs
DRUGS HAVE RUINED NATIONS
Drugs have not only done damage to human bodies, drugs have ruined nations. Drugs have ruined generations. I don't pay the bills for your alcohol, your two or three martinis, so I don't care what you do. But it will ruin you. The Chinese were very intelligent before they started doing opium. They were totally ruined. The Indian culture was great. It was a land of diamonds, milk and honey. It became enslaved. They were virtually taken and sold. Marijuana. The Egyptians were perfect. So perfect were they that through these pyramids they changed the weather of that land area. But what became of that strength? Peyote got them. You all know about the Roman Empire-you don't need to hear it from me. Alcohol took it to the ground. And you have all four of them!
When you smoke marijuana, it stimulates the brain cells and it constricts the spinal fluid, creating a draught condition in the skull.
When you drink or you take drugs, you are a living drag.
Drugs are not being taken for any other reason that people cannot face their reality, yet drugs take them to non-reality. Every stimulant, every drug, every love, every relationship is based on affirmation of non-reality.
Drugs and Kundalini Yoga (Don't Mix!)
Use of recreational drugs is not recommended for anyone, but especially not for students of Kundalini Yoga, and most especially not before practicing yoga. With a drug high, the powerful energies we excite may get out of control with unpredictable and possibly dangerous effects. You are a beautiful soul, why cover that beauty in a drug fog? Why dull your sensitivity and ability to experience the subtleties of life.
Student: How about the smoking of marijuana?
Answer: Marijuana is the outcome of insanity. Marijuana has ruined one of the greatest civilizations of humanity-India. Marijuana grows in that country like a wild flower grows in the jungle. Smoking marijuana is the sickest thing on this planet. When you smoke it, it stimulates the brain cells and it constricts the spinal fluid, creating a drought condition in the skull.
The only positive use of this marijuana is that it can be used as a remedy for severe digestive problems, and for pain. A juice is made from the green leaves mixed with almonds and milk. It takes away the pain. If you are a terminal cancer patient, and normal drugs cannot help you, you can get high on marijuana-you are dying anyway. If there is no cure, this is the only thing that takes away the pain.
CLEARING THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS WITH SADHANA
I know you may have taken LSD, you may have taken PCP, but you can get rid of the after-effects of these drugs if you are honest with sadhana. This is how it works. All of these drugs, stimulants, uppers, downers, (including sleeping pills), control the opening and closing capacity of the working of the brain's metabolism. It is permissible to take a drug only under medical emergency. Otherwise, in an normal functioning brain, when you take drugs, you make it function abnormally. Many people who stick to sadhana have been found to be totally clear of the effects and abnormalities created by the use of drugs. An abnormality includes any physical, mental or spiritual abnormality. That is why sadhana has been designed to cover three areas: physical, mental, and spiritual. We want to dispense this every morning with the idealistic thought that the person may gradually benefit from it.
You are not a miracle; you are the product of sadhana.
Drugs increase stress on the nervous system in many ways:
They energetically interrupt the natural balanced flow of the chakras and aura, forcing the nervous system to adjust.
The toxic overload also increases the stress.
The psyche creates the mistaken thought that we require the drug to feel God, that we are incomplete or helpless without it.
The Guru Ram Das Project, a registered charity in the UK, teaches those with addictive behaviours how to live a more happy and balanced life through the teachings of Kundalini Yoga. For more information, do please visit their website (link below):
*Taken from The Aquarian Teacher by Yogi Bhajan 2003*
