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April 17, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

Great literature, sublime poetry, and exquisite works of art—they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity, which is the culmination and the highest point that l...

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April 16, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...

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April 15, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different...

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April 14, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experi...

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April 13, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’; if this is not permanent, then what is permanent? Or t...

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April 12, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me and what belongs to me cannot be I. This is not I. Now it is I, n...

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April 11, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 3 comments

Arjuna attempted to run away from sorrow and hide. Krishna said, “Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it. Understand its reason. If you understand the reason, then you can be free of it for...

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April 10, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

Again, in the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is...

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April 09, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem? The world may turn upside down but you don’t care. That’s why everybo...

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April 08, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read

We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...

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April 07, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 2 comments

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

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April 06, 2015 Team Satsang 1 min read 1 comment

In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...