“Bad actors have been hindering all progress.  That will change and your aspirations will bring success.” – Today’s Reading

Yogi Bhajan on this mantra:
One day Yogi Bhajan told his students, “Now suppose something happens (in) your life which you want to move and it’s not moving. There is a block, which you want to move, and it’s not moveable.”then chant ‘Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhae Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhae Sach.’ It’s a lever. It is the biggest lever available to you among mantras.” (8/14/91)Baba Siri Chand was the eldest son of Guru Nanak (the first Guru of the Sikhs). He was a very detached yogi and lived for 150 years. He did nothing but good; his strength is not only miracles, but spontaneous. We have this mantra of his, and if you do that, anything which is stopped in your life it shall flow. There is no power like it on earth. In some circumstances I have seen it make the impossible to become possible very fast. (7/28/94)Guru Arjun Dev (the fifth Guru of the Sikhs) went to Baba Siri Chand and said, ‘Sahibo, I am writing Sukhmani. I am writing the great situation and combination of words that will give people comfort. I want to produce on this earth everlasting comfort. I have finished the 16th pauri of Sukhmani and now it doesn’t proceed further. I am stuck. Seventeenth (pauri) I am to write, please say something.’ And then Baba Siri Chand said, ‘Well, wait a minute. Guru Nanak gave the Guruship to you folks, and it is your problem to write Gurbani, not mine. I just came to bless you. It doesn’t mean I have to say Gurbani for you. Guru Arjun Dev replied, ‘No, sir, this writing isn’t working for me.’ And there Baba Siri Chand wrote: Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhae Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhae Sach.” This mantra became the slok of the 17th pauri of Sukhmani Sahib.

53 – Fifty-Three.  Chien / Gradual Progress

The gnarled Pine grows tenaciously off the Cliff face:
The Superior Person clings faithfully to dignity and integrity, thus elevating the Collective Spirit of Man in his own small way.
Development.
The maiden is given in marriage.
Good fortune if you stay on course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Adaptability mixed with integrity will bring a calm, steady progress.
Move from your center, always faithful to your principles, yet with the flexibility to weather any tempest.
Yours is not a meteoric rise to the top, but the solid, confident footing of one who has a clear vision of what can be, and who is willing to climb the distance to reach it.
The oracle foresees companionship along the way — a Divine comfort on any journey.

Nine in the fifth place means:

The wild goose gradually draws near the summit.
For three years the woman has no child.
In the end nothing can hinder her.
Good fortune.

The summit is a high place. In a high position one easily becomes isolated. One is misjudged by the very person on whom one is dependent – the woman by her husband, the official by his superior. This is the work of deceitful persons who have wormed their way in. The result is that relationships remain sterile, and nothing is accomplished. But in the course of further development, such misunderstandings are cleared away, and reconciliation is achieved after all.

17 – Seventeen.  Sui / Following

Thunder beneath the Lake’s surface.
The Superior Person allows himself plenty of sheltered rest and recuperation while awaiting a clear sign to follow.

Supreme success.
No mistakes if you keep to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Thunder from the Lake — the lulling, rhythmic roar of the faithful tide, eternally wearing away the stone of the shoreline, forever obedient to the phases of the moon.
The pull of the moon on the tide is the Following called for now.
As mighty as the tide is in its own right, it is ever the puppet of the invisible, irresistible gravity of the moon.
What cyclical forces pull you along?
Are you futilely attempting to resist a natural attraction?