page_title: Satsang (Deoghar)
section_title: Philosophy and teachings
hierarchical_section_title: Satsang (Deoghar) / The Founder / Philosophy and teachings
caption_attribution_description: English: Satsang Vihar Bengaluru
context_page_description: Satsang is a philanthropic organization founded by Thakur Anukulchandra. It is one of the major spiritual and cultural movements in India started in the early 20th century. Satsang was originally registered in Pabna in 1925 as a public charitable institution. However, after the Independence and partition of India, it was again registered in 1951 in the Indian Union under the Societies Registration act of 1860.
  Its headquarters was established as Satsang Ashram at Deoghar, Jharkhand after Thakur Anukulchandra moved to Deoghar from his birthplace in the Pabna District of East Bengal on September 2, 1946. At present Satsang has more than two thousand branches located in India, Bangladesh, Burma, Europe, Middle East, Africa and America.
context_section_description: Anukulchandra Chakravarty's teachings and philosophy is based on the Being and Becoming of every living creature. According to him, science and Dharma are not opposed to each other. He says, the stay of all existence is dharma. His philosophy teaches individuals how to approach the life's problems in a balanced, dynamic, rationalistic and scientific way. According to him, the formula of spiritual enlightenment is to lead and practice a simple but meaningful Ideal centric life, i.e. making a realized living ideal as the guide or center of one's life. According to him, "Ideal means- who enrich the past, enliven the present and enlighten the future."
  He opined that, everything that humans do both individually and collectively must be beneficial to the human existence in their entirety. According to him-
  “The source of all 'isms' is existentialism – no existence, no 'ism'."
  Anukulchandra Chakravarty has put forward his views and solutions on almost every aspect of life, be it individual, conjugal, family, social and universal. Most of his messages were dictations revealed primarily in Bengali and English in the form of passages, simple rhymes and poetry and extensive discourses with his disciples and visitors. His messages cover the topics of dharma, religion, spiritualism, ideal, love, service and activity, society, education, philosophy, science, psychology, health and hygiene, economics, industry, commerce, politics, law and administration, varnashram, culture and tradition, eugenics, genetics, heredity, marriage, woman, conjugal life, Universal laws and others.
  His discourses with people were primarily compilations of him answering to the questions of individuals and groups during his meetings on a daily basis. Several volumes of the discourses have been published by the in-house publication house of Satsang. About the answers to the questions asked to him, Thakur Anukulchandra clarified as below:
  "I have answered to thy quest
  
  what I see, what I think and what I know
  
  to be beneficial to our life and growth
  
  with every blazing outspoken reply
  
  as far as I conceive."
caption: Satsang Vihar Bengaluru
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