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January 27, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

So, I am here today, I work hard, I think happiness comes out of a solid bank balance. I have done everything. And then, what happens? Suddenly, destiny takes someone away from me who is most dear ...

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January 26, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Again, in Gita, 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 karma yog...

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January 25, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

From my personal experience I would say that since the ‘Truth’, is in the present, an ever living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, memory being a thing of the...

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January 24, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Very often, we tend to mistake tamas – tamo guna – for sattva. Sattva is goodness and calmness and quietness. Tamo guna is not goodness and calmness and quietness but laziness, sloth and pretending...

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January 23, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

There is an ancient sloka which is chanted before starting various activities. Sahanavavatu – we have chanted it many times, it is interesting to learning meaning of it – sahanaubhunattu sahaviryam...

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January 22, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Dedicate all actions. (then) Slowly, the outside disappears and the inner takes over. Whatever happens – good or bad – that it is the Lord who does! And whatever you enjoy – think that it is the Lo...

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January 20, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Arjuna asks “Among those who worship the unmanifest and those who worship you as the manifest as Krishna, who is a better yogi? Krishna says, does not answer that question directly, he says: “as lo...

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January 19, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...

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January 18, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Prasna Upanishad is an Upanishad which questions and does not accept but questions before accepting. And that should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Not believe because somebody said so, but ques...

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January 17, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Now, from the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay to...

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January 16, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

However much we may try …because the brain is a very limited organism and we get limited inputs. All that the brain can think of and decide and conclude is from the information that it gets – the i...