Satsang 6 October 2020
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 2020-10-06

Even the activities that are considered as spiritual discipline is done with a lot of sense of doership. 
"I am chanting"
"I am doing bhajan"

Because of this attitude , we are stuck up

All spiritual discipline is to let the mind go within...

Then actions leave no impressions on the mind

Actions leave impressions on a fettered mind

BECOMING AWARE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE POWER is all that MATTERS

IN SELF-SURRENDER , YOU DO NOT OFFER RESISTANCE TO THE FREE PLAY OF HIS WILL

Either we get stuck up at the emotional level ( while chanting mantra or singing bhajan ) or we get stuck up at the intellectual level ( while enjoying words of the masters and scriptures )

UNLESS OUR LIFE IS LINKED WITH THE DIVINE AUTHOR OF OUR BEING OUR LIFE IS LIVED IN VAIN

4 steps

feeling His nearness 
feeling His presence within
having His vision everywhere
becoming One with Him

Thought tries to see it's origin. It realises it cannot touch the Source. Intellect has its limitation. All that we do in the name of spiritual discipline is for knowing that it is of no use....

because IT is beyond our mind

Pair of tongs can hold everything but not the hand that holds it

Swadhyaya
Satsanga
chanting
bhajan...........all these are only preparations for                                                            
                                              inward journey

Utterance of God's Name is to make the mind ultimately still, free from all thoughts. 

Through the sound we enter into the perfect stillness within us...