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Sri M said...

May 19, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

Imagination or Visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and make reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create fro...

Sri M said...

May 18, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Even in the smallest of selves bound by chains, a human being experiences true freedom for he or she realizes that one has never been bound. This is the immortal great message of the Upanishads.

Sri M said...

May 17, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

The rising of the kundalini therefore is the rising of consciousness from the gross to the subtle, subtler and subtler levels until It reaches the highest stage in the sahasraara chakra and the yog...

Sri M said...

May 16, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 8 comments

Reality is not that things don’t exist but they don’t exist in the form or state in which we think they do. That wrong understanding of objects, of anything is called Maya, a misunderstanding. And ...

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May 15, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 9 comments

This is a very, very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom, it cannot be freedom. It can only be something similar t...

Sri M said...

May 14, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I do not say that humans are born with intrinsic freedom. I say that the true self of every human being is eternally free; and when I say eternally free, it’s free even before birth. At birth, it i...

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May 12, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I’m trying to draw a line between intelligence and intellect. Intellectual is gathering more and more information. Intelligence is to do with understanding. Intellectuals are those who gather knowl...

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May 11, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Philosophically, Buddha for instance, talked about freedom from sorrow for all mankind which he defined as nirvana which is another word for moksha. According to the Buddha, desire is the root of a...

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May 10, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

I can know many things but if I don’t act on it then it makes no sense either to me, or to others. So the third chapter (after Sankhya Yoga, the yoga of knowledge), is Karmya Yoga which is, to act ...