Yogi Bhajan Quotes on Teaching (Part 2)

When the whole world falls, you must stand as a lighthouse. When there comes a great, great destructive typhoon of temptation, you must bless it and walk out of it.
4/23/97

My kindness is your death. My kindness means you’ll never be a teacher. Never. My affection is that I totally carve you out and you cannot get defeated by time.
7/20/96

 That’s the pride of a teacher: that he has the privilege to serve another student, because somebody served him.
7/22/96

You are always afraid of tomorrow. “Should I become a Yoga Teacher? We will be poor. We will die hungry. My spouse will leave me. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da da, da, da, da.” This is what you do. But if you just think, “God has guided me to this. I’m going to grab it,”—unto God it is. Give God a chance to work, then see what happens.
April 25, 1997

Why are you becoming Teachers? Because it is the highest status in a human life. It is elegant, it is excellent and it is very, very, very, very, very fulfilling.
August 1, 1996

It doesn’t matter how much I teach you or how much you learn. The role of the Teacher is to elevate another person.
April 21, 1997

You must know and see and believe and trust you are never an individual. Your “I” is an institution. A Teacher is an institution for help, for service, for raising people’s consciousness, and granting them the Heavens. He’s the guarantor—a Teacher is the guarantor that the other person’s life becomes heavenly. So if you are teaching a class for that ten or fifteen dollars, you are not in the right job.
July 22, 1996

After twenty-seven years I am teaching the first Teacher’s course. Do you know how I used to pick teachers? “Hey, you two get up. Are you married or not?” “Oh yes, we are married.” “Go to such-and-such a city and start a center there.” And people stood their ground. Some of them are still there, enjoying and being. But now we are teaching how to be a Teacher. Why? Now the Age of Aquarius has come on us. We have to deal with the whole world, so everybody has to have this hands-on work.  That’s why.
July 23, 1996 

So just understand, with the grace of being a Kundalini Yoga teacher there’s a vastness of your heart which must go with it.
July 26, 1996

That is the first sign, the first qualification of a Kundalini Yoga Teacher—that he goes through calamity with a radiant smile, he deals with another person with a most humble understanding and he lives in the core relationship of Imperial Majesty. He appears as he appears, in utmost grace, with a bright and beautiful face and he doesn’t look like he belongs to this Earth. He belongs to the Lord because he is the Lord.
July 26, 1996