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March 05, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Can our ‘sundowner’ be the name of God? Can we have that special whisky that is not available even in Scotland? Can we listen to that music which moves our hearts and opens the doors to extra senso...

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March 03, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best – you don’t even need to ask anybody to do Naama Smarana. Along with that you should also take care of other aspects of one’s life, little disciplin...

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March 02, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

There is this great Buddhist chant of the Mahayanas, which says, ‘At some point or the other, in our endless cycle of rebirths, every individual on this earth must have been our mother! Therefore I...

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March 01, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The best thing is – better than not doing your duties is to do your duties. But don’t neglect your spiritual journey; keep that up seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are out of it. ...

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February 28, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Don’t think that the spiritual teacher should be like this….if he’s not like this, then he is not a spiritual teacher. This is not true because there may be many reasons for which a spiritual Maste...

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February 27, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The root sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anything ...

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February 26, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

I am saying if that desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual or any such thing. It can be just an ordinary person...

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February 24, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Actually, if you are a practitioner of yoga or sadhana, your attention becomes very, very good. You are able to concentrate fully on whatever activity that you are doing. If your complete concentra...

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February 23, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Most of the time we spend all our energies on worrying about failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies – we could move forward and look at fresher avenues.  A mind which i...

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February 22, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress.  And not finding that in the present conditioned mind,  try...

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February 21, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Freedom is our birth right. Our true self, the atman is free; it does not need to be freed from anything. It is free because it is complete, ‘poorna’. ‘Poornamadah’ that completeness is actually yo...

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February 20, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Those who have transcended the external rites of religion, they should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other,...