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July 25, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...

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July 24, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

The first chapter of Bhagwad Gita is ‘Arjuna Vishada Yoga’—it begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is an important thing to understand. One will not turn around and try to find the truth behind t...

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July 23, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The Buddhists use the term ‘paraa gati’ to mean ‘one who has walked across’ or ‘one who has gone beyond’. Such a person is called ‘Bodhi’—meaning one who has the 'bodh’. ‘Paraa gati paraa sangati b...

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July 22, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The ‘Tandav Nritya’ of Shiva is meant to free you from all the conditioning, all the images, all the attractions and repulsions that keep you rooted to the understanding that you are a different in...

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July 21, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The root sorrow is about the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. Being body-oriented, one becomes vulnerable to sorrows. One experiences the sorrows because anything that happens to the bod...

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July 20, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within and try to find out. Nothing should be allowed to intrude. A great mas...

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July 19, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that are hidden in your subconscious mind would surface. This is the poi...

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July 18, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts that are not related to the inner come, try to keep them away. There are other thoughts that can take you to the spiritual. For...

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July 17, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

‘Prasna Upanishad’ is an Upanishad that questions anything before accepting it. This should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Do not believe because somebody said so, but rather question it to conv...

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July 16, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Nobody can say, “I have Absolute Power.” One can say, “I have touched deep one of the conduits, through which I link myself to the Absolute Power.” As long as one has the physical body, and as long...

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July 15, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

If the 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 could just be an ordinary person but the in...

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July 14, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The relationship between the teacher and the taught — first of all, when a person begins to look for a spiritual teacher, there are certain things to be very careful about. One, I have already ment...