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December 15, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Good and evil, famous and notorious, darkness and light, positive and negative, all are within the Supreme Being and yet, in its essential essence, the Supreme Godhead is not affected by the opposi...

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December 14, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

We are saying that the next stage after aesthetics is spiritual evolution. In aesthetics, you have to put things in order; in spiritual evolution, you have to put your mind in order. In aesthetics,...

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December 13, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

When they (the images) fall like nine pins and when you no longer have an image of anything, or when you see that all the images are primarily only an aspect of the Supreme Reality, that they (the ...

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December 11, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

When a spiritual teacher puts his disciples to the test, even the most exalted amongst them can fail. It is very difficult for a disciple to pass the master’s test. Therefore, be prepared to examin...

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December 09, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Have patience in the face of criticism. Even when greatly agitated, try to be patient. Things will take care of themselves. We can never say when the Grace of God comes, so we cannot be impatient. ...

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December 08, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

If it is difficult for you to do service and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me. Then, your mind is automatically controlled to give...

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December 06, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

The confluence—the sangam of the Varuna river and the Asi rivers — is known as the holy city of Varanasi. The rivers are symbolic of the ‘ida’ and ‘pingala’ meeting at the ‘brumadhya’ or the ‘ajna ...

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December 05, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 7 comments

You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes! The problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.

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December 04, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...

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December 03, 2015 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

Swami Vivekananda explained it beautifully; he said: “We are hypnotized by the false happiness that the world seems to give us. We have to de-hypnotise ourselves and come back to our senses.”