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August 29, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

If an intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual.The intensity of desire to get out of it is mainly emotional, not intellectu...

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August 28, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that the mind can be a friend, but the same mind can also be an enemy.  Cultivate the friendly side of your mind.  And, don’t give too much attention to t...

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August 27, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Music cannot be played if the flute is filled with muck. You have to empty it out. It has to be hollow. You can’t blow through a solid flute. So, all the muck has to go and when it is clean, hand i...

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August 26, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Krishna is also called Navanita Chor – one who steals the butter, which is derived by churning the milk.  Hence, churning is essential, without which nothing can come out. And, when the butter come...

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August 25, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Krishna is depicted mostly with a flute in his hand, playing beautiful music. Music penetrates the heart. When you listen to music in rapt attention, you go so deep that you begin to hear the inner...

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August 24, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that one of the most important qualities of my bhakta, ...

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August 23, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

Krishna represents love. Love is a comprehensive panacea for all ills. If you really understand the meaning of it – utter selflessness, not love for my own sake but love for Love’s sake – only then...

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August 20, 2024 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read

If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...