The Satsang Foundation

The first chapter of Bhagwad Gita is ‘Arjuna Vishada Yoga’—it begins with the sorrow of Arjuna.

The Buddhists use the term ‘paraa gati’ to mean ‘one who has walked across’ or ‘one who has gone beyond’.

The ‘Tandav Nritya’ of Shiva is meant to free you from all the conditioning,

The root sorrow is about the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. Being body-oriented, one becomes vulnerable to sorrows.

When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay.

Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper,

Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts that are not related to the inner come, try to keep them away.

‘Prasna Upanishad’ is an Upanishad that questions anything before accepting it. This should be the hallmark of all enquiries.

Nobody can say, “I have Absolute Power.” One can say, “I have touched deep one of the conduits,

If the desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind,

In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it.

If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow.