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February 10, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.

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February 09, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 2 comments

We like to think of something the way we prefer it to be and not as it actually is. And, what is it actually? Essentially, everything is in a flux. Everything is constantly changing and moving; the...

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February 08, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 2 comments

One of the deep-rooted illusions, which we all have, is the belief that we are going to exist forever. The Keno Upanishad says the probable reason why we think so is—deep in our subconscious, we kn...

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February 07, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

According to Vedanta, the entire Cosmos is a completely seamless, continuous unity—the one that contains within itself, in not manifest but potential form, millions of actualisations of the univers...

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February 06, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

An isolated understanding of something is a great detriment to the complete understanding of one’s self and the universe because such a vision becomes a fanatical vision. It has to change; it has t...

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February 05, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

The Vedantin searching for the truth comes across a certain set of conclusions and says: “Now this cannot be, it is not this. I am looking for the ultimate truth and this cannot be that.” It is rel...

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February 04, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

The whole theory of Maya does not mean that the world is an illusion. The world is a reality, but the theory of Maya says the world is only relatively real and, therefore, not absolutely real. It i...

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February 03, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

When it comes to enquiry, or going within and finding oneself, one has to discard a number of misunderstandings and illusions not only inside but also those of the outside world—the world which we ...

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February 02, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

Divine Love is to be understood through ordinary love. If you have a rough idea about ordinary Love, then expand it by a thousand times, you have divine Love—something selfless, utterly selfless an...

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February 01, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 8 comments

The best prayer is, 'God, you know what’s in my heart; I don’t need to tell you. You are omniscient; you know everything, so do what’s best for me. This is my earnest and sincere prayer to you'.

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January 31, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 2 comments

One who’s on the spiritual journey should not cry over what he loses. What is lost may be the stepping-stone to the ultimate goal — communion with the Supreme Being.