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Sri M said...

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

Now, from the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay to...

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January 16, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

However much we may try …because the brain is a very limited organism and we get limited inputs. All that the brain can think of and decide and conclude is from the information that it gets – the i...

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January 15, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

We have not changed. You see – the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. That’s what intellectual life has taken us to. There are other good things – we have found medicines for dise...

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January 13, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, ‘Among millions of people one turns to the spiritual path. Among millions...

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January 12, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 4 comments

According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said….who was, I think, one of the latest contemporary teachers of Vedanta who had the experience of it. He said that when y...

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

The path which has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow – not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting...

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

For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything – but be free from it. As far as spiritual...

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January 09, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 1 comment

When I am clear, when I have not a single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing automatically means replacing reality with something...

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January 08, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

The few who with their great devotion and good deeds who become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion, and with their purifie...

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January 06, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries of Shankara and others, you find what they are trying to say is that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean a...

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January 05, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 2 comments

If you think of one thought at a time, when one thought is gone, before the other comes, there is something. If it is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else is the consciousn...

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January 04, 2018 The Satsang Foundation 1 min read 5 comments

‘From the unreal feeling or from the unreal understanding or unreal imagination, that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the realit...