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December 16, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

If what we think and how we act can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It means, as you go about your life, a pa...

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December 15, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

‘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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December 14, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached, by any of our known modes of communication

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December 13, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

A spiritual teacher need not necessarily be someone who lives in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. He may be living in your outhouse, your backyard or your kitchen garden. There are hundreds of ...

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December 12, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Can the Truth be found through the mind ? Vedanta says, “Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind ...

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December 11, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Satsang is very important; you become according to the company you keep. If you live with people who talk of the Truth, who do japa, kirtan and bhajan, then you become like them in a short while. I...

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December 10, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Here was a prime example of a manifestation of the Supreme Being, in the form of a poor ‘Fakir’. For all intents and purposes, he appeared as a poor Fakir, and taught the unity of not only Vedanta ...

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December 09, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries by Shankara and others, you find that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean this is an instrument for us. Th...

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December 08, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Don’t we look at ourselves and see how we are always occupied with ourselves? Spend some time to look at others, maybe half an hour. When we can look at others, we are progressing in our outlook.

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December 07, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

We discussed the meaning of the word Upanishad. It is that which is learnt sitting close to the teacher with complete humility in order to understand the ultimate supreme truth. So the Gita itself ...