The Satsang Foundation

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.

When all the ‘maya‘ or delusion has been cleared and when all the agitations of the mind are cleared, then only the true essence is left behind.

Shruti means shrotrasya – ‘that which is heard’, not ‘that which is read’. So ‘hearing’ meaning ‘listening’ is an important part of the Upanishad.