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Sri M said...

January 30, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...

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January 29, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The only way to study yourself, the only way to know yourself, the only way to realize yourself, to understand yourself as you are and not as you imagine you are, is by being a part of the society....

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January 27, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

So, I am here today, I work hard, I think happiness comes out of a solid bank balance. I have done everything. And then, what happens? Suddenly, destiny takes someone away from me who is most dear ...

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January 26, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Again, in Gita, is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is karma yog...

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January 25, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

From my personal experience I would say that since the ‘Truth’, is in the present, an ever living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, memory being a thing of the...

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January 24, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Very often, we tend to mistake tamas – tamo guna – for sattva. Sattva is goodness and calmness and quietness. Tamo guna is not goodness and calmness and quietness but laziness, sloth and pretending...

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January 23, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

There is an ancient sloka which is chanted before starting various activities. Sahanavavatu – we have chanted it many times, it is interesting to learning meaning of it – sahanaubhunattu sahaviryam...

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January 22, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Dedicate all actions. (then) Slowly, the outside disappears and the inner takes over. Whatever happens – good or bad – that it is the Lord who does! And whatever you enjoy – think that it is the Lo...