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March 14, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

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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March 13, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

As you sit and watch the thoughts, as in thought watching thought, one thought comes up which then becomes a chain. Here, use your thought itself as a weapon, think that you, with your mind, have m...

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March 12, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Vedanta says: when the mind understands its inability to reach out and find it, it finally rests or lets go; it surrenders, becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly. Then, when the mind and ...

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March 11, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...

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March 10, 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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March 09, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

Have you opened your window and, by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon, a beautiful night, and for a few seconds, forgot everything except the moon? You did not exist for the time being, those ...

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March 08, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...

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March 07, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

When you churn your mind in meditation, which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out is not Amrit. The first thing that comes out is po...

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March 06, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...

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March 05, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas we have about it. Look at what we think is substance, ...

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March 04, 2016 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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March 03, 2016 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads, is to realise its limitations. When it has realised its limitations, it just keeps quiet. It knows, “I’m very useful in this, ...