The Satsang Foundation

The world is such a funny place – you try to chase something and it always seems to run away from you…you leave it and it tries to follow you!

‘That which does not move’ – is that which is absolutely still like the eye of the cyclone, total motion but in the middle there is no movement – absolute calmness.

Plato has said it brilliantly. He says ‘there are two eternal things in this universe– one ‘Is’ and is never becoming and the other ‘is not’ but is ever becoming’. That ‘becoming’ is what is known as ‘jagat‘. That movement – it is physical as well as psychological

You must have heard the famous statement that many people think is a modern English saying – ‘blind leading the blind’.

As long as you have a physical body, nobody can know everything. We need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn.

The avadhoot Dattatreya had twenty-four teachers in his life, and one of them was the honey–bee. The Avadhoot says, I learnt the lesson from the honeybee, collecting and storing for a rainy day;

The meaning that Adi Shankaracharya has given for ‘shad’ in the word ‘Upanishad’ is ‘to shake up’ – shake the mind out of its delusion that happiness is outside and not inside.