The Ultimate Rendezvous
SHAMMI PARANJAPE
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The power of satsanga or holy association is exalted by scriptures. For every step you take towards satsanga, your yajna account with the Divine wins more credits.Satsanga is a gathering of likeminded people trying to hone their spiritual instincts.Evolved souls are powerhouses of divine energy from which everybody can draw freely. Contact with them can raise your spiritual quotient and help you attain the life divine. The aim is not a life of asceticism, denial or mantrachanting; it is one which is lived in consonance with spirit, manifesting qualities like satya, dharma, shanti, prema and ahimsa.
Satsanga helps you to nourish and nurture higher aspirations. Sathya Sai Baba asks: “Does satsanga refer only to the company of persons performing bhajans or doing social service? No. Sath refers to that which is everlasting (Truth). It is Divinity .Satsanga means cultivating the company of the divine... or the company of one's own conscience. In that sense good company means simply the company of good thoughts and feelings“. Any activity which puts one into association with the divine in any form qualifies as satsanga.
Satsanga's primary motive is the awakening of God-consciousness. Ultimately , the purest and most distilled meaning of satsanga is company of Self or Sath. To be immersed in the knowledge of the Self as one goes about the duties of the world is the highest achievement.
Satsanga helps you to nourish and nurture higher aspirations. Sathya Sai Baba asks: “Does satsanga refer only to the company of persons performing bhajans or doing social service? No. Sath refers to that which is everlasting (Truth). It is Divinity .Satsanga means cultivating the company of the divine... or the company of one's own conscience. In that sense good company means simply the company of good thoughts and feelings“. Any activity which puts one into association with the divine in any form qualifies as satsanga.
Satsanga's primary motive is the awakening of God-consciousness. Ultimately , the purest and most distilled meaning of satsanga is company of Self or Sath. To be immersed in the knowledge of the Self as one goes about the duties of the world is the highest achievement.
