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Reasons for Satsangh
- To promote brotherhood; when we come together, when
we meet often, some mutual regard grows. It has to! When
we meet a person again and again, some friendship develops.
Here, we are not only friends, we are supposed to be brothers
and sisters. Why? Because we recognize one person.
We are going to one goal. We are following the
same marg, and we are all heading for what we think
is one destiny for us. So, that is the first important
thing for promoting brotherhood.
- That when we sit and meditate, hundred or two hundred
people, it has much more capacity to draw the Divine towards
us, or the Grace of the Divine towards us, than when one
person meditates. Combined effort is much more than the
multiplication of the individual effort.
- As Babuji used to smile and say, "Because I say
so!" - Obedience to the Master. Now, I consider this
one to be much more important. If a man is obedient, his
goal is already in sight.
- The opportunity to be together should not be misused.
Because sometimes it seems to me that if we are alone,
we have less chance of going amiss, astray. And so, to
be together means an opportunity and a test. So we have
to rise to that too, and while being together, preserve
our independent integrity.
This was one great aspect of his practice, you see, that
he could bring people together under one common roof, forgetting
all our differences of race, language, nationalistic ideas,
proving what he always maintained, that where religions
divide human beings, spirituality unites. That was his highest
truth, and again proves his first statement, the credo of
Sahaj Marg, that where religion ends, spirituality begins.
When we have a group, the change is easy, because now we have a small
society and all are doing the same thing, thinking alike, so their dependence
on the other society is reducing. Whereas if you are one abhyasi in
a place it is very difficult. So that is the value of satsangh. Satsangh
means, similar people coming together.
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