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July 10, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Pranayama – usually when we say pranayama people think it has something to do with either slow or fast breathing or something to do with the breath. Actually the word pranayama means the knowledge ...

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July 09, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anything...

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July 07, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The agni tattva, vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically it is the digestive fire. It is the fire, the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. Agni ye sw...

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July 06, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; More than speaking the truth, think the truth. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. Ther...

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July 05, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Krishna says that if you would only fix your attention on ‘me’; He speaks not as a human being but as the manifestation of the Supreme Being. ‘If you fix your attention on me with complete faith an...

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July 04, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Let Go! The Upanishads have a beautiful saying “Tena tyaktena bhunjitha” – Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, we have ideas of accumulating things. Here it is a completely reverse p...

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July 03, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The practice of yoga is the way of finding that happiness which is our true identity. We discover that we are not what we think we are, but something entirely different. Swami Vivekananda explained...

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July 02, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in that One essential state. This is the aim of the Vedantic teaching. One discovers that one is not this body nor the mind but the inner self, t...

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June 30, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Upanishad means that which is taught by the teacher to the student through which he moves closer to The Truth. Upanishad is not in the words, it is in what is transferred between the teacher and th...