The Satsang Foundation

The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman.

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.

I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary

In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’,

I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins.

One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down

The center at the navel is known as the ‘Manipura Chakra’. When the heat of ‘Kundalini Yoga’ practice emanates from the ‘Manipura Chakra’

Kakasaheb Dixit, a close associate of Shirdi Sai Baba, was sitting in meditation and he saw Vittala in a vision. At noon, when he went for his dear Baba’s darshan,

This is a very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom,

So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity.

There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch

If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Being would not have created the world at all.

In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness, which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise, that is the real you. So to get back there, you have to allow the thoughts to quieten down.

The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita says: “Sarvo Upanishado Gaavo—all the Upanishads are cows; Dugdha Gopala Nandana—the one milks them is Krishna,