"The situation on this planet earth is a very wonderful thing, because in the beginning there was nothing, then there was something and then there was everything and in the end there will be nothing.  That is the law of the cosmos.  Nobody can change it.  Because this is the law of the earth, therefore humans experience the same thing, in the beginning human was nothing, then human was something and then human became everything, then all of a sudden human is nothing.  To incept that concept that there is something for a human here and hereafter because we are not aware of the hereafter, we feel that Dasvandh, one tenth is a part of not us but of that something to which we are nothing.  So basically that's the feeling in this time when we are very patriotic and we are very real and we have lot of things to do.  May I remind you that pay your Dasvand regularly so you may belong to the class of people, which has something.  In spite of the fact they will become nothing, this goodwill, good work and good participation will go on forever.  Don't ask me, I don't have anything.  I gave it away.  It belongs to you and you belong to me and this belonging and longing is a constant process in which we learn how to live in love.  What is an action?  One which has love and affection and that is Dasvandh in the Khalsa way."                                                          
 
"We are discussing a very spiritual question today that we have to believe what we have to understand, we have to go into the depth of it that whatever God gives us for our purposes, that is with karma.  But we who understand prosperity, have to take one-tenth of it and give it back for the welfare of the Dharma so that it can be done in a way that it serves the purpose of those who need it or it can build the great glory and the concept of God, which we like to decorate, we like to beautify, we like to expand ourselves, we want to build it up.  That is the theory of Dasvandh, one-tenth part of your sadhana.  It is actually a part of you.  It is something, which you collect not for here, but hereafter.  It's an investment.  You seed a seed of prosperity, of flourishing, from growing, from being, and it is for that many days as we live here and God gives us and whatever God gives us we take one-tenth of it and honestly and sincerely give back to our future, our conception of life that there is a life before and there is a life after, and within this lifetime we have to follow this very sacred rule.  Sometimes in our fluctuations, we feel different, but that is the time of test.  That's why we really have to be strong and true.  We have to see that we will continue this noble, gracious, divine act of participating in the betterment of our own future here and hereafter.  Sat Nam."      
 
                               © The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan 10/11/2001 and 10/24/2001