Satsang 12 April 2023 - Anandashram Kanhangad - Om Sri Ram
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 12/04/2023

Discipline

Yoked to God thought

Meditative and reflective approach

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This session, one must make sure that it doesn't slip into intellectual exercise

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These sessions on Gita must enable us to handle everything in life properly-- this perspective must be there. In other words, we must be able to hand over the reigns of our mind to him. 

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First and foremost thing is to know that he is within us and we must seek guidance from Him within us

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We must have the proper diagnosis. In the first chapter, the diagnosis is made. Me and mine is the problem. All problems stem from attachment to me and mine


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Attachment can go only when we realise the perishable nature of the sense of individuality which is caged in the body mind complex. When people pass away, we think only those people pass away. We don't realise that we too should pass away

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Keeping a sense of equanimity helps us to get rid of the hold on me and mine. 

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Whatever you do, do it whole souled. While doing something wholeheartedly, we forget ourselves. Only when someone calls us out, the sense of me comes back. 

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We must not be carried away by the allurements of sense objects

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me and mine is the problem. When we are children, it is not predominant. 


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None of us can be free from activities. So it must be done with dedication to God. How to make it a dedication. By feeling it is He who has provided the field and the wherewithal and the know-how. This awareness makes the work, a dedication to God

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Only by giving up me and mine, peace can come



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Change of attitude needed 

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Sense control

Moderation

Practice and dispassion

Sense of equanimity 

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Probing into the God dimension of everything including delusion



Jnani bhakta is the safest passport to Peace

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God is eternal

Everything else is ephemeral

Awareness of these truths ensures peace

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Absolute surrender to the supreme Power is the Royal Path in spirituality. Handing over the doership enjoyership sufferership ownership is the express way to Peace

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Becoming aware of the grandeur of the Reality is an aid in spiritual path

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By dwelling on His all inclusive form, mind experiences peace

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Having understood him as everything and everyone, one cannot but love all. 

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Studying the inseparable relationship between the sense of individuality and the reality, strengthens the eternal values which helps in having peace

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Satva 
Rajas
Tamas

Peace can be had by knowing, He, the core of our being is separate from the Gunas

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Deep penetration into the 3 phases of manifestation - creation, preservation, destruction-- ensures peace

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Tug of war between higher mind and lower mind. Hold on to values in professional, family and social life. This brings peace

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Yagna
Dana
Tapas

Gives peace

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For final liberation, total surrender is needed