Satsang 6 January 2021
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 2021-01-06

Papa---- THE BACKGROUND TO THE ACTIVE LIFE IS THE STILL AND CALM SPIRIT. IF WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF THAT SPIRIT AND REMAIN ACTIVE OUR ACTIVITIES WILL BE THE EXPRESSIONS OF THAT SPIRIT. 

How do we forget God...How do we remember God..when we reflect, it is realized that both the forgetfulness and remembrance are part of the Leela. In Gita, the Lord says, I am forgetfulness, I am remembrance....

Papa says about the mysterious power. If that power was within the ambit of the knowables, we would have known it. 

Papa---the impermanence we see around us will take us to the state of immortality. So we say, “lead me from darkness to light, from  unreal to the real, from death to immortality”

Unless we do manana, we cannot understand the words of saints. What is this state of immortality. On observing the nature keenly we see that there is no death but only the recycling is going on. When we work in the farm, we see that fodder/grass is given to the cows. Cows give cow dung. Cow dung is given to the farm. There is no death. There is recycling. 

Papa----WHEN WE THINK OF HEIGHT, WE THINK OF DEPTH TOO. WHEN WE THINK OF DARKNESS, WE THINK OF LIGHT TOO. That is why Buddha said that it can be described only by saying what it is not. 

Papa—Do not dip the string of thought into the unfathomable. The one who questions errs. The one who answers errs.

Papa---when you constantly think of peace, you become peace...On the surface there may be conflicts, but deep down there is only peace. After realizing that, let us be active in the world. 

When we try to follow somebody, we reach nowhere. Papa says rely on the one within. We move from the state of devotee to the state of sadhaka , when we start questioning , where have I reached. 

Papa---God is a thought. Absolute peace is nameless. We can give absolute peace a name called God. We go on thinking of God until we become identified with God and the thought is no more there, only God remains. THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT PEACE. GOD IS BOTH DYNAMIC AND STATIC. WE HAVE TOO MUCH OF THE DYNAMIC GOD, LET US HAVE THE STATIC. THE ACTIVITIES IN THE WORLD BELONG TO THE BACKGROUND THAT IS THE STATIC GOD. THE BACKGROUND TO THE ACTIVE LIFE IS THE STILL AND CALM SPIRIT. IF WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF THAT SPIRIT AND REMAIN ACTIVE OUR ACTIVITIES WILL BE THE EXPRESSIONS OF THAT SPIRIT. 
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THE RESTLESSNESS MUST COME...WHY AM I CHANTING....THE BREATHING IS TAKING PLACE..COMING GOING..COMING GOING...HOW IS IT HAPPENING...WHAT IS THE POWER BEHIND ...

Papa----instead of rushing about for peace and happiness, if you reflect on the background behind the activities, your see everything as a blissful play.

CHANTING MUST TAKE US TO A STATE WHERE WE DO NOT FEEL WE ARE CHANTING...THE SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY TOTALLY RECEDES...