Yogi Bhajan Quotes on Woman

"Men cannot stop the Third World War. It is not in their cells. But women can. A man can love a child, but he
doesn't go through the labor pain. The solutions on this Earth are not in the hands of men. The solutions on this
Earth are in the hands of the woman, in the psyche of the woman."

7/10/86

"If you cannot be a national leader, be a local leader, be a community leader, be a street leader. Somehow as
a woman be a leader of righteousness. Be a lighthouse."

8/7/79

"You are the master of your destiny, you are the prediction of your horoscope, you are the leader of your day,
you are the light of your life.”

6/1/83

"You are the nucleus of this Universe. You are the source of beginning. You are the master of the space. You
are the hub, you are the pivot, you are the force, you are the mother. If you walk tall, that's all you have to do.
Resurrect yourself, exalt yourself, excel. You are born to rule, that's the rule of the creation. You are Ashtabhuja
Bhagvati, you are the giver and the birth of the eight facets."

6/28/94

"These are the areas where a woman can really do justice to herself: she can always relate to higher
consciousness and lead others to do so, and she can help the surroundings move towards that courage of
Infinity, glory, dignity and Divinity."

8/7/79

"If you do not accept your own dignity as a woman, all external trappings shall mean nothing. It has nothing at
all to do with any man or with any relationship. Once you accept your own dignity, the whole world will come to
you."

7/1/96

"The one thing woman has to remember is that whatever the time and situation may be, she has to be a
creative leader."

7/19/84

"You are the first teacher. The whole world goes around you. Whenever you are you, you have always won.
The day you know you are a woman in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end, God cannot defeat you."

6/28/94
 "Look at the history of man. With one smile from you he can build everything; with one frown from you, he
becomes insecure."

7/10/86

"A leader is one who can stand on the top of the ladder and stay balanced and alone. If you do not want to be
the leaders and lead the home, the family, and your environments with grace, courage and intelligence, you will
have nothing in your life but pain."

6/30/94

"The highest faculty of God is in peace and that peace is the woman. Without woman there never was, is, or
will be peace. It doesn't matter what the politicians say, it doesn't matter what the leaders say. When the
woman will start talking about peace there shall be no war."

7/11/85

"Woman has basic strength; that's why kundalini is called the mother power. If woman can live righteously to
a standard of a pure woman, Kundalini Yoga will shine through her, and not only shine through her but the very
touch of her will convert people into that experience. They call it the glow."

7/29/76

"For every action you take, you must decide where it will lead. If it leads to righteousness, if it leads to Infinity,
if it leads to the enhancement of your grace, only then should you allow the matter to move."

8/12, 8/21, 1978

"Woman has the power to beam out energy in any way and send a message in any form. She can totally fix
things the way she wants."

8/12, 8/21, 1978

"Go inside, pull out all the smiles and happiness, and spread them freely, like a princess of radiance."

8/12, 8/21, 1978

"There is a great beauty in you. If you become sacred, your price will go up. If you want to protect your future,
never act cheap. If you want to be free, never control anything, it will drag you to death. And if you want to be
loved, then deliver and let your words mean what you say."

7/4/95
 "Live like a God and give like an angel and be a bright, beautiful, bountiful human and never come lower than
this. That's what you can do for me. I want to hear how great you are."

7/4/95

"A leader has to do three things. The first thing a leader has to do is sacrifice. The second thing a leader has to
do is stand alone. The third thing a leader has to do is lead. And a leader has to lead by example, by action and
by word."

6/30/94

"Consciously ask your intuition to show you the path. Consciously ask your courage to face the calamity. Ask
your grace to face the insecurity. Ask your breath of life to face the depression. Rise, rise and excel. Resurrect
yourself through this world to be happy, healthy and holy."

6/30/94

"You must look beyond the mirror! You are the spirit, you are the soul, you are the self. You are the honor,
you are the source of all sources. You are the redeemer of all redeemers. From you, this creation is born."

6/28/94

"I believe woman is the door to God...Her sway and her grace is keeping

the Earth in its own place."

"If a woman sits with folded hands in her lap for a few minutes every day, and feels she is a container so vast
that she contains the whole Universe, she will never feel weak or have any problems. There is nothing beyond
woman except God."

7/18/1987

"When you lose trust in your own dignity, your own grace, your own power and your own psyche, there is
nothing."

7/10/86

"Do you understand that all relationships go around you and you are the hub of every relationship? And still
you want a relationship. Have you ever thought that you are the giver, you are the destiny, and you are the
moksha, you are the redeemer?"

6/28/94
 “Adi Shakti is the Divine Mother, the primal, protective, and generating energy in the cosmos. Let us call on
the Divine Mother, the Infinite, the powerful. Her jantra (symbolic form) is the two swords of God to protect
you, the center of your world. These are the two-edged swords of the being, the negative and the positive. This
is her being. This is her presence.”

11/16/73

“Oh Lord of Lords of the time, if you have created this world, create those environments where everybody’s
mother, sister, and every woman on this planet can live with grace and there shall be no circumstances in which
she has to sell her beauty, sell her body, sell her being, or sell her consciousness to exist on this planet.”

5/9/71

"If every woman makes every man so born to respect, respect, respect, then there should be no cruelty, no
disorder, no mental cruelty, no crime on this whole planet, and the world would be just heaven."

6/28/94

"Aad Shakti Namo Namo. That's what you are: the primal nucleus power with absolutely no deficiency;
complete and perfect and positive; one who can create another human being out of her. She can bring God on
Earth, she can bring a saint, and she can bring heavens, and she can build a house with a needle which man
cannot build with millions of dollars and with all his vigilance. When you are corrupt, you are terribly corrupt.
When you are not, you are the most powerful individual psyche on the planet."

-7/12/89

"By construction, the fulfillment of a woman is motherhood—and motherhood does not mean that she gets
pregnant and delivers a baby. If you understand her total behavior, you will understand her motherhood. Her
motherhood is service, her motherhood is sacrifice, her motherhood is relationship. When she knows
motherhood, she is fulfilled."

[The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan p. 28]

"In your firmness lies your grace. You have to understand that the environment in which you are developing
yourself as a woman cannot be emotional."

7/10/86

"The universal Infinity we bow to, this Adi Shakti, this kanda, that represents Infinity. That's our symbol. When
we worship Infinity, then we appreciate the Infinity, we bow to the Infinity, and we ask the Infinity to be with us.
When you are with Infinity, you are not limited."

-10/18/87
 "Your greatest art of life to win the world is to move gracefully with utmost patience, tolerance, kindness and
compassion, because Mother is not which delivers a baby. Mother is which delivers the universe...If you want to
see the strength of a nation, you can see it in the depth of the eyes of the woman and the smile on the face of
the child. If you want to see God on earth, you can see it in the depth of the commitment of the woman
towards her own nobility. If you ever want to see the miracle of God, just see a very saintly, noble, committed,
divine woman, and wherever the light of her human eyes fall, that becomes heaven...and that is the power of a
woman."

7/15/88

"You cannot love me if you will not love your first teacher, who is woman. You are born of a woman. If you do
not learn to respect woman, the Supreme Consciousness will not talk to you. You will end up with broken homes
and broken hearts.

[The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan p. 28]

"Woman has to understand her role. Her role is not to worship God; her role is to be the very self of God. Her
oneness can affect and open every heart."

"Your caliber, your consciousness and your self is sixteen times stronger than all the men. Your intuition is
given because you are potentially going to be a mother, so all dangers in and out are known to you. You have
everything plus, plus, plus."

"Whether you can bear a child or not, whether you are pregnant or not, whether you are going to have
children or not, whether you get married or not, whether you want to be single or not, is not the point. In your
manufacture, your makeup, patience, grit, tolerance and grace are there."

"God cannot create another God. Therefore God is impotent. The potent God is when God, through the
Divinity of the Infinity of the Adi Shakti, prevails."

“We put a turban on and put Adi Shakti on. That means, whenever you look at yourself, you will see one thing:
you are nothing but divine. Your clarity of mind embodies itself in that reality when you become that light of
God. You don't have to look beautiful to the whole world. The whole world has to come down to bow to you,
because you belong to God.”

"There was one primal force—Aadi Shakti. She has three disciples; Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh—the one
who created, the one who sustained, and one who destroyed or delivered. And those three letters became God:
G for generation, generating and being generous; O for organizing, ovulation and effectiveness (that is Vishnu);
and Mahesh, the one who delivers or destroys, and in principle, whatever you cannot deliver shall destroy you."
 "You are the light. Your touch, your feeling, your word, your saying, your nursing, and your being are nothing
but the light of God."

“I ask every man who would seek peace to realize that peace doesn’t come by protests and rallies. Peace
comes by peaceful actions, and so long as those born of the mother will not learn to respect the woman, there
shall not be any peace on this planet. The day the woman will not be exploited on this planet, there shall be
peace on this Earth.”

"Have you ever seen that there is nothing more Divine than you? You have become what a mirror tells you
and you do not know where your soul is! You do not know where your grace is! You do not know where you are.
You have to find it."

"You are woman, not a playmate. You are a woman, not a good-for-nothing. No creature on this planet has
the beauty, the strength, and the power that you have as a woman."

“May the light within you guide your way on. Because when you look to the outside for light, there is a
possibility that you may be blinded and exploited. But one thing shall never betray a woman: her own light and
her own radiance as a woman. If the light within you can guide you, you will definitely excel. The time has come
when this exploitation must stop. The time has come when a daughter should be treated as a daughter, a
mother should be treated as a mother, a wife should be treated as a wife, and over and above all, woman
should be treated as a woman.”

"Three things: wise, radiant and sober. Early in the morning when a woman rises, she should know and see
that she is sober, she is wise and she is radiant. The whole day she should experience that. At night she should
make an account of it and tally the balance. You have to train yourself each day into the mystery of your
unknown, Adi Shakti, your symbol. It means you are Infinity; you are the primal power."

"There is nothing wrong with you except one thing: you undermine yourself. You don't need anybody else's
strength. You are the prayer, and you are the power. The moment you put yourself down, you forget the
existence of God."

7/10/86

“When are you going to decide, ‘This is the end of my exploitation—I am going to live today as a woman.’
When are you going to learn to stop being anything other than a woman?”

“Never be ungrateful in a relationship to any woman. For if you do not respect a symbol, then you do not
respect your clarity of consciousness, and woman is a symbol of regeneration. We call it the symbol of Adi
Shakti.”
 “Your inner concept and your outer projection have to be in absolute balance. From beginning to end, you
must act as a woman in absolute grace.”

“All man needs is a comprehensive understanding that he shall be comforted by the woman he’s in
relationship with. Man seeks a woman with whom he can put his head on her pillow and speak to her in
confidence, in trust. If man cannot trust you, then relationship with that man is a bust.”

“Accept yourself early in the morning when you look in the mirror or when you open your eyes—just say, “By
the Grace of God, I am a complete woman.” One affirmation only, and remember it throughout the day. Dress
up for yourself, be for yourself, and carry yourself. You will never be handicapped.”

“Your beauty, your duty, your makeup, your knowledge, your degrees, your education, and whatever else you
may want to use to your advantage are based on only one thing: From beginning to end, you act as a woman in
absolute grace.”

“You do not understand your features. Your features are not your beautiful nose, your beautiful cheeks,
beautiful lips, and so on. These are not your features. Your features are your beautiful behavior, your beautiful
character, your beautiful health, your beautiful spirit, your beautiful advice, your beautiful wisdom, your
beautiful inspiration.”

-August 21, 1978

"A woman’s inborn capacity to excel is 16 times more than a man’s. If she just has self-esteem that she’s a
woman, there’s no power on Earth that can make her do wrong. Woman is priceless."

-7/12/84

“You don’t need make-up; you don’t need to make up for anything. You are known by your spirit. You shall
project out by your radiance. You shall be loved and honored by your excellence.”

-July 24, 1996

"In your caliber there is a consciousness. In that consciousness there is a caring being. In that caring being
there is God. That's all I am saying. Look to your vastness. Look to your bigness. Look to your totality. Don't look
to the little things."

7/10/86
 “A woman has to learn the fundamental truth that she is she and she has her own design, her own consent,
her own self, her own life, her own projection, and her own beauty.”

-July 31, 1984

“The greatest thing you can praise is yourself. As you stand before the mirror and look into it, you look to
yourself as a woman. You look to yourself as a graceful woman. You look to yourself as a competent, intelligent
woman. You can give thanks for it. It should be so automatic with you. It should be so real.”

-July 31, 1984

“Not only are you powerful, you are prestigious. Not only are you prestigious, you are beautiful. Not only are
you beautiful, you are consciousness. Not only are you consciousness, you are the spirit. Not only are you the
spirit, you are the security of the future, the most bountiful beauty ever God created. Men call it ‘woman.’”

-July 23, 1984

“The greatest beauty in you is that if you become sacred, your price will go up. If you want to protect your
future, never act cheap. If you want to be free, never control anything—it will drag you to death. If you want to
be respected, never nag. And if you want to be loved, then deliver. Let your words mean what you say.”

-July 4, 1995

“When you do not fall into the pit of your mental depression; when your thoughts are not impure and
inferior; when you do not sell out to time and space and your temptation is not your guiding force, then the
beauty, the glow and the growth which you get as an independent person is your effective godliness. And it's
not garbage. A poor one can do it, a rich one can do it, a healthy one can do it and a sick one can do it.”

-July 9, 1995

“You have not learned to live by the decoration, beauty and make-up of grace. You have learned to look
beautiful by your make-up. And you cannot improve on the work of God. Your make-up does not make any
sense. That's why, spending all the money on make-up, still you are miserable. Nobody can improve on what He
made, the great Creator, the artist, whose creation you are.”

–June 26, 1988

“I know bana (spiritual dress) works. You don't. If bana doesn't work then Neiman Marcus won't work either.
Simply you end up with less money. Do you understand what I'm saying?”

–June 26, 1988

 "Just as rain showers on the land and brings green things, so on woman God showers His Blessing and brings
forth from her heart humanity."

-7/3/86

© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan

Photo of Yogi Bhajan from Women's Camp 1988