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April 11, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

To discover that unconditional ever free self in all human beings was the aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India. Break free from all bondage, all psychological bondage, realize that your t...

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April 10, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The next chapter (after Karma Yoga) is called, Karma Sanyasa Yoga, where Krishna says that sanyasa is not giving up activity but not getting caught up by the results of the activity. Let go and Rej...

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April 09, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Arjuna attempted to run away from it and hide. Krishna says, ‘Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it. Face it. Understand the reason for it. If you understand the reason for it, then you ca...

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April 07, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

The salient feature of the last chapter (Bhagavat Gita) – the 18th Chapter – is after saying all this, and taking Arjuna through the whole course, the last chapter Krishna says, surrender everythin...

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April 06, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Therefore the importance of bhajans, kirtan , going to places where other people worship and going on pilgrimages, all lead you to the stimulation of the emotional parts of your minds, for opening ...

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April 05, 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 t...

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April 04, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

So what I’m saying is that irrespective of whether you are an intellectual or what normally can be called a non-intellectual, irrespective of this condition, the most important condition to find th...

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April 03, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

If the mind is made up of thoughts and thoughts are always vibrating, moving - sometimes up, sometimes down, constantly in motion; that movement of thought or the waves of thoughts are known as vri...

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April 02, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 7 comments

The first Chakra – the mooladhara – represents prakrithi, the solid earth or solidity. The next one – the swadisthana, which is silvery and which is shaped or symbolized by the crescent moon – repr...

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March 31, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

You see, it is very simple. When we are little infants, we are helpless.. Even if we have to go to the other room – somebody has to lift us and put us there. We can’t even go to the toilet. Somebod...

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March 30, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

We can go anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. So, the only way, according to the Gita and also according to people who have walked on this path at least to some e...