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A principle in life to remember is to travel light.
You are traveling all the time.
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.
– Yogi Bhajan
American Dreams
by Guru Fatha Singh
Yogi Bhajan was a discerning student of the human condition. Again and again, he found himself amazed by the social conventions of California society. In the India he had known, people cherished long-term, nurturing relationships. They had families, and belonged to communities. Here, he saw that many Americans lived alone. Families in California 's trendy social scene were sadly riven by separation and divorce.
Yogi Bhajan recognized that many of the people he met were also driven by a blinding, impersonal ambition. Relationships, so far as they existed, were often mutually exploitative. Pretty, unmarried women were called "chicks". A good-looking man would be called a "stud".
Yogi Bhajan went to the movies. There, he saw the cutting edge of America 's social drama, with its full complement of sex and gratuitous violence. On the streets of Los Angeles , he marveled at the gaudy, bubble-like quality of the American dream gone sour: its endless supermarkets and stretch limousines, its vast car parks and spiraling freeways, its smoky bars and shiny skyscrapers, its topless clubs, pornography, casual sex and bottomless morality.
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