Yogi Bhajan Speaks on Nuclear War and the Need for Civil Engagement
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Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa
Oct 2, 2015, 10:30:42 PM10/2/15
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Sat Nam. These are strange and desperate days in North America. The U.S. Congress has been bought off. The big corporations are "too big to fail." The rich are getting much richer, while middle income earners, seeing their jobs outsourced or automated, are taking service work at poverty wages. All the while, the oceans - the lungs of the Earth with their vital blue-green algae - are dying and everything is heating up. As North American prisons fill up, nuclear arsenals remain intact. There are about 16,000 worldwide.
Yogi Bhajan was a master of consciousness and usually an astute diplomat, seeing the unseen, but saying little. Then sometimes he would go below the surface and, in a flash of brilliance, poke, provoke, confront and elevate those in need. In 1982, America was in a situation of political gridlock with an impending disaster in the wings. At that time, the danger was nuclear Armageddon. Today the catastrophe Americans - and the world with them - face is climate change.
At the Summer Solstice gathering that summer in New Mexico, Yogi Bhajan gave an inspired call to action, calling on his students and guests to take small, but effective measures to influence public opinion and to pressure their elected representatives to stop the nuclear arms race. In the course of his talk, he spoke of how corporations ruled the United States (an observation recently corroborated by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page at Princeton University) and that people no longer mattered in American democracy. Yogi Bhajan also described some of the tactics used in the Indian struggle for independence and his own part in that fight.
This talk, of course, is the copyright material of the estate of Yogi Bhajan. It is shared freely here for your inspiration and engagement. We don't want global warming and our grandchildren do not deserve to die of asphyxiation because we killed the oceans. The time to take action is now. Please share this message widely. Sat Nam.
Link to the talk (45 minutes): http://www.gurufathasingh.com/listen-to-yogi-bhajan-speak-on-nuclear-war-and-civil-engagement-at-summer-solstice-1982-new-mexico.html
Link to the transcript: http://www.gurufathasingh.com/blog
Sat Nam. These are strange and desperate days in North America. The U.S. Congress has been bought off. The big corporations are "too big to fail." The rich are getting much richer, while middle income earners, seeing their jobs outsourced or automated, are taking service work at poverty wages. All the while, the oceans - the lungs of the Earth with their vital blue-green algae - are dying and everything is heating up. As North American prisons fill up, nuclear arsenals remain intact. There are about 16,000 worldwide.
Yogi Bhajan was a master of consciousness and usually an astute diplomat, seeing the unseen, but saying little. Then sometimes he would go below the surface and, in a flash of brilliance, poke, provoke, confront and elevate those in need. In 1982, America was in a situation of political gridlock with an impending disaster in the wings. At that time, the danger was nuclear Armageddon. Today the catastrophe Americans - and the world with them - face is climate change.
At the Summer Solstice gathering that summer in New Mexico, Yogi Bhajan gave an inspired call to action, calling on his students and guests to take small, but effective measures to influence public opinion and to pressure their elected representatives to stop the nuclear arms race. In the course of his talk, he spoke of how corporations ruled the United States (an observation recently corroborated by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page at Princeton University) and that people no longer mattered in American democracy. Yogi Bhajan also described some of the tactics used in the Indian struggle for independence and his own part in that fight.
This talk, of course, is the copyright material of the estate of Yogi Bhajan. It is shared freely here for your inspiration and engagement. We don't want global warming and our grandchildren do not deserve to die of asphyxiation because we killed the oceans. The time to take action is now. Please share this message widely. Sat Nam.
Link to the talk (45 minutes): http://www.gurufathasingh.com/listen-to-yogi-bhajan-speak-on-nuclear-war-and-civil-engagement-at-summer-solstice-1982-new-mexico.html
Link to the transcript: http://www.gurufathasingh.com/blog
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