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January 12, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

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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January 11, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

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 ‘karma...

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January 10, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...

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January 09, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...

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January 07, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

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 togethe...

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January 06, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 7 comments

The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...

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January 05, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide because we are largely walking on unexplored territory....

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January 04, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...

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January 03, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

To understand, while we are OK that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self and to understand that THAT is much more...

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January 02, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

From the unreal feeling, the unreal understanding, the unreal imagination that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the Reality dawn ...