Prosperity - Life is a Game
Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan
December, 1991
For some people, prosperity is just a word. Prosperity means a big house... two, three cars, a boat, good businesses, money, good sex life, obedient children, political connections, status in society, etc., etc. And I can go on like this. Actually that is not what prosperity means. It's very unfortunate that you in the West have defined prosperity. It took the East five thousand years to define prosperity. Prosperity only means your perpetual strength and your progressions when you control the events as you want them. Perpetual progressions...yours, including your environments, circumstances, relationships, dreams, and wishes. It is the manifestation by you. You as a commander, you as a leader to purvey a projection, a penetration, a conception and a delivery of your dreams. If that strength is not there, you are not prosperous.
Langar, in Punjabi, means what you put from the ship to stabilize the ship, it's called anchor. And langar means 'anchor' exactly. It practically means that, and there are two words as a Khalsa we should understand, 'sangat' and 'pangat'. Anchor and communication. Sangat, 'sang' means friendship... community, nation, people, world. Any relationship is based with one sound, 'sangat'. 'Gat', in which we find the satisfaction. There are two words in it. 'Sang' 'gat' 'Sangat'. Where my relationship will find gat... satisfaction, honor, grace. Satisfaction of my honor and my grace. 'Pangat' 'Pang' 'gat'. Where I get food and water and I have satisfaction of my honor and grace. And in our ardas we say, "deg, teg, fateh". That our prosperity be perpetual, our power be Infinite. That's where our ardas starts: "Pritem bhagoti simarkay Guru Nanak layee dee-i-ee". Those who want to be prosperous have to learn to make others prosperous. If you cannot make others prosperous, you can not be prosperous....doesn't matter what you try.