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Sri M said...

March 03, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

So, you see, by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater Self is gained. How can one become unconscious when the fountainhead of consciousness is that ve...

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March 01, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...

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February 28, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...

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February 27, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self, with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to mak...

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February 26, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...

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February 25, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 2 comments

"Sat-chit-ananda" is a three-syllable word— ‘Sat’, ‘Chitta’ and ‘Ananda’. ‘Sat’ meaning reality, ‘Chitta’ meaning consciousness and ‘Ananda’ means bliss (not ordinary happiness which has an end). T...

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February 24, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached by any of our known modes of communication.

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February 23, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

You cannot conceive of a mind without thought; so the mind in totality is actually a bundle of thoughts from the past to the present and projecting into the future.

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February 22, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

The Vedanta asserts that this basic attitude, this basic instinct to unite, comes from the fact that we have separated from Unity and have now become dual. Therefore, there is a built-in instinct t...