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In Sanskrit, sat means the truth, and sangh means, to
be together with. So satsangh means to be associated with the truth.
(He is the truth, God is the truth) So whenever we meditate, even alone,
it is satsangh. And when five hundred people sit or ten thousand people
sit, it can be satsangh only when each one of us is in touch with the
truth, the reality of the Ultimate.
So in a satsangh the contact with the Ultimate must be maintained if
it is to be a satsangh, and if you are to benefit by that satsangh.
Because each time we sit in satsangh and establish that contact by His
grace, we achieve several abilities, capacities. We are able to establish
the contact sooner and sooner, and the contact also becomes stronger
and stronger, until one day it becomes a permanent contact of the strongest
type.
This is why we have to meditate every day, until that act of meditation
becomes so perfect that, as Master once told me, "If a man sits
and becomes able to plunge into that perfect meditation, he cannot come
out of it." So that is meditation, real meditation. Because it
is like, you know, you walk through a door, and you are inside the house.
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