Satsang 10 10 2020
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 10/10/2020

In the presence of the Atman, the body, senses and mind function.... resulting in good or bad deeds.

Good and bad deeds can be subtle as in the case of thoughts and desires

Good and bad deeds can be gross as in the case of perceptions and actions

Atman is not tainted by good and bad

Papa------"be a witness to all movements....identification with the body will go, witness consciousness will develop"

what is needed is to integrate in our lives , the messages of IN QUEST OF GOD

NOT A BREATH OF AIR STIRS THE STILLNESS OF SPACE

As a Bhakta, you are at once, One with God and separate from Him. You are like the river that flows towards the ocean and is also one with it. 

We are miserable because we expect things to happen the way we wish

Contentment is a perpetual feast

You have to sacrifice the pairs of opposites. Otherwise you will be like the sacrificial animal at the sacrificial alter

Mataji---Papa tests us in small things first . If we fail in small tests how can we hope to pass in big tests.... first of all learn humility... Consider you are the dust of Guru's feet and consider all as the forms of the Guru... Slightest conceit over birth, learning etc will crash you to the bottom...The only way to avoid the fall is to make Papa(God) yours. Cling on to Him.....The Guru may say it is night when it is day. He does so , to accelerate your progress. You must have implicit obedience which alone takes you to the summit of God Realisation...

Papa replies to Satchidanand Swamiji on 11th July 1950... immediately after the Sanyas Deeksha

1. You now know that your life is entirely dedicated to God. This thought itself helps you in reaching the Goal

2. Do sadhana in a disciplined manner

3. Be regular in early morning meditations

4. Avoid tamasic influences both from within and without

5. Do not get involved in external work however exalted it may appear to be. 

6. Occasionally visit Mahatmas ( Swami Shivanandji)

7. Let Ramnam ring on your lips whenever you are not otherwise engaged

8. Reduce reading to the minimum

9. chant stotras

10. Be cheerful and free like a bird

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External work has a knack of distracting us by expanding human connections

Mind space must be occupied with God thought

Moha enfeebles us by making us think only of ourselves and our kith and kin

Human contact disrupts the introverted thought

Saguna and nirguna are complimentary to each other

Let us offer ourselves at the alter of sacrifice to bring relief to the distressed and help the needy

Tests come to purify us...Come out of it ennobled

No aquisition is greater than the true faith that stands all tests and trials

IN QUEST OF GOD

TESTS FACED BY PAPA

1. If one is responsive  to the needs of fellow beings...(Papa gave money to the hungry sadhus)

2. How deep rooted is the clinging to the vow of living on only alms...(Though he still had money, he did not use it for himself)

3. Is it possible to possess and not be possessed..(Papa ignored the money he had and was delighted to get 2 pies as alms)

4. Is it possible to have total reliance on God..(Papa handed over all the money to sadhu )

5. Is it possible to accept all situations in a positive attitude..(While other sadhu was grumbling to walk, Papa consoled that it was only six miles)