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August 06, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

We can go away anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. According to the Gita and also people who have walked this path, the only solution is to face it. Examine it. L...

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August 05, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. Ask yourself – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?

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August 04, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Whatever be the situations, look at them carefully and try to work out how best you can handle them. To handle them, ‘Sadhana’ is a very important part of your daily life. Without it, you cannot ha...

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August 03, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

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

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August 02, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Let Go! Upanishads have a beautiful saying ‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha.’ Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, our idea is that we have to gather things together. Here it is a completely ...

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August 01, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

‘That which does not move’ is like the eye of the cyclone —total motion amidst which there is nothing but absolute calmness. It is from this calmness that everything is sucked in because it’s a vac...

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July 31, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Mula’ which means ‘root’; ‘Adhara’ means ‘foundation’, support’. So, if you translate the word, it would mean ‘root support’ or ‘root foundation’. This means that the Energy, after doing all its wo...

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July 30, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in one essential state and this is the aim of the vedantic teaching. One discovers that One is not this body or the mind but the inner self, the ...

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July 29, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The Vedantin would say that absolute faith comes out of the understanding that the intellect is limited. The Bhakta would say that absolute faith comes out of a feeling that he cannot explain to yo...

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July 28, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The Bhagvad Gita says wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status and knowledge - especially knowledge - it is a manifestation of the Supreme Being. But, it may b...

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July 27, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Look inside our minds and we will see we have hundreds of images and it’s because of these images we get hurt, our ego expands and we have so many problems! “I believe that I am an intelligent man”...

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July 26, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

At the end of the 18th chapter in Bhagwad Gita, Krishna declares, “Now that you have understood everything, relax. Let go and rejoice! Do your things. Carry on. Nothing is going to happen. The roof...