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March 13, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Mantra Japa is meant primarily for the mind and that which is beyond the mind. Because only when the mind becomes completely free of its distractions, then only it gets the tarmac to go to higher l...

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March 11, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

In meditation, the more you go towards that which is nothing, because we cannot define it, the more things happen. We are going towards the ultimate, ‘Shunya’, which doesn’t mean nothing. It means ...

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March 08, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The night of Shivaratri is supposed to be the day of Shiva. What is night to us, is the day to the deity. It’s an awakening of energies and at that time if you sit down and do your sadhana, it will...

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March 07, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Do go at least once to the temple and see the aarti. If you can’t do that, sit quietly and meditate on the Shivam within you. Ajna is the doorway. When you look there, the light appears and, in thi...

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March 06, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Har Har Mahadev! Har means hara - to finish, to destroy, to remove and when everything is removed, who stays? Mahadev, who is in each one of us. So, the aim of sadhana is to find Shiva in yourself. 

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March 05, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Trishool that Shiva holds - central part is the sushumna, right is the Pingala and left is the Ida nadi. When the Yogi symbolises the Trishool, it’s the spinal cord, the sushumna. And there is a da...

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March 04, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The Yogi knows that the first thing you hear in the Anahata, when the mind becomes calm, quietly enjoying, contemplating on the inner Shivam, is dum, dum, dum, the damru. Normally you don’t hear be...

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March 03, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Damru is special to Shiva. Dhug, dhug, dhug, when you make the sound of the damru and the nagada, you are sending a message to those beings who are responsible for the Jyotirlinga, saying we rememb...