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Sri M said...

May 06, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

The word Buddha means ‘one who is enlightened’. Buddha is one whose buddhi has become enlightened - one who is no longer limited by the limiting mind. As the Buddhists call it, he is one who has fo...

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May 05, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

Fear, in Sufi vocabulary, is the activation of conscience, whose exercises can produce extra sensory perception. This is an area in which the formal intellect is not used and other faculties of the...

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May 04, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 3 comments

Nasiruddin’s salt-laden donkey’s load is lightened as he wades through a stream but when the panniers are laden with wool, the animal is almost drowned because the wool soaks up water. “There”, say...

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May 03, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

"A celestial apple would be perfect, but as far as you are able to judge it! Situated as we are in this abode of corruption and, with our present faculties, this is as near to a heavenly apple, as ...

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May 02, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

A neighbour came to borrow Mullah Nasiruddin's clothesline. Mullah said: ''I am sorry, I can't give it to you because I am drying flour on it.” ''How can you dry flour on a line?'' asked the neighb...

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May 01, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

People have this feeling that, if you have to be enlightened, it has to be exotic. Something has to be different. It cannot be the same. It must be something extraordinary. Then only enlightenment ...

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April 29, 2017 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

The neighbour was watching Mullah Nasiruddin down on his knees. The neighbour asked, ''What have you lost Mullah?’’ ''My key'', said Nasiruddin. After a few minutes of searching, the neighbour said...