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May 14, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I do not say that humans are born with intrinsic freedom. I say that the true self of every human being is eternally free; and when I say eternally free, it’s free even before birth. At birth, it i...

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May 12, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I’m trying to draw a line between intelligence and intellect. Intellectual is gathering more and more information. Intelligence is to do with understanding. Intellectuals are those who gather knowl...

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May 11, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Philosophically, Buddha for instance, talked about freedom from sorrow for all mankind which he defined as nirvana which is another word for moksha. According to the Buddha, desire is the root of a...

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May 10, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I can know many things but if I don’t act on it then it makes no sense either to me, or to others. So the third chapter (after Sankhya Yoga, the yoga of knowledge), is Karmya Yoga which is, to act ...

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May 09, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

Practice austerity, chastity and stick to the truth. Be chaste, be pure and have faith that the answer will come after you have lived thus. So, that is the preliminary preparation for the understan...

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May 08, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

Let’s say the guide, the teacher, or friend who has crossed to the other side, who has learnt to swim and cross the ocean of samsara, such a teacher who is our true friend, what does he do? He teac...

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May 07, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

It is interesting to note that the Bramharandra – if you compare with present day anatomy – sort of coincides with what is known as the center of the limbic system, where the pituitary gland, the a...

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May 05, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

The ecstasy that one experiences when the sexual energies are gathered together and made to awaken the Kundalini, and when that kundalini reaches the Sahasraara chakra at the crown of the head, it ...

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May 04, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

The sun, is a symbol of the Supreme primordial life energy, the Vaisvaanara which pervades all objects, protects all objects, gives life to everything on Earth. The poet, the Rishi is also known as...

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May 03, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

They speak of him as father as the FATHER. That being – having five feet and twelve forms seated in the higher half of the heavens, full of water and then again others speak of him as the omniscien...

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May 02, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 7 comments

The important aim of the Gita is to lead one to the main character in this whole drama of life, this whole kurukshetra of life, Krishna, the supreme being. Krishna not as a human being, not as the ...

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May 01, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

You cannot practice attaining freedom in day to day life. Freedom is not something that you practice; it’s something that you attain. It’s something which is you, which is yourself. You can’t pract...