Satsang Quotes

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”
― Osho

“With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.”
― Osho

“Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.”
― Tony Samara

“Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity”
― Tony Samara

“The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness.”
― Tony Samara

“The Divine has created this moment in time. It is a very powerful moment, where there is only one way and that way is that you completely let go. Completely let go of what is known, what is safe, and move into the space of beauty.”
― Tony Samara

“Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.”
― Tony Samara

“The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.”
― Tony Samara

“Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.”
― Tony Samara

“As you embrace Consciousness, you embrace Perfection.”
― Tony Samara

“There's really no reason to come to satsang at all, unless you have an open heart! If you came to satsang with an open heart, Reality will be yours. Not my reality or your reality, but Reality, the Reality, what people call the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God. You are already That, but you have so many concepts you cover it up. You have so many feelings and dogmas and attitudes that you cover up the Godliness. So you have to open your heart and let your reality shine through. How do you do this? By keeping silent, by not being judgmental, by leaving the world alone. There will always be something in this world to correct, either in yourself or in your family or in the world or people. You have learned from experience that you cannot do this. The correction is always made within yourself. It is yourself with a small "s" that sees the problem. But if you try to resolve the problem outside of you, it will never be resolved. It's resolving yourself, knowing the Truth, understanding who you are, that brings you peace and realization. (p. 3-4)”
― Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

“Spiritual discourses with poor people is good, but what is the use of bad company of wealthy people?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-4

“The wisdom mind is not some faraway attainment. You got it when you were born, you have it every second, and it is always trying to get you to listen a little closer.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayava

“Attachment to enjoyment limits your ability to enjoy, and guarantees eventual misery. So when you’re not attached to enjoyment, you enjoy much more.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“There are two ways by which one will realize the life’s goal. If we have not met a Gnani Purush, then we should live life in such a way, that we hurt no one. Our highest goal should be to not hurt any living being in the slightest. The other way is if you encounter the Gnani Purush, then you should remain in the Gnani’s satsang. In doing so, all your work will be accomplished. All the 'puzzles' will be solved.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Right Understanding to Helping Others Benevolence

“For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, for the one who gets into bad or harmful associations.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and the Disciple

“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self (kusang). Whereas happiness will not leave from where there is excessive association with Self-realized beings or spiritual discourses (satsang)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Avoid Clashes

“Satsang means the path to One's own town, to One's own home! Satsang is the discussion of one's own Self, everything else is of the non-self.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Essence Of All Religion

“What is the inherent nature of the relative self (pratisthit atma) like? It mimics what it sees, it does not have to be taught anything. Therefore, association should be with a truly (enlightened) person, a spiritually elevated person. And if there is association with bad people, then evil thoughts will arise.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-9

“This satsang (spiritual discourse) of 'ours' is considered unprecedented! It is such that it has never been heard before!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Anger

“What is this satsang (in Akram) like? Here, there are no such botherations of, 'do this', 'do good', 'do that', 'ask for forgiveness', 'do introspection', 'do chanting', 'do penance'. Here, One does not have to 'do' anything. Here, One just needs to Know and to understand. The right belief of 'I am pure Soul' (Samkit) can be attained only through understanding and Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) arises through Knowing. And the One who has Known and understood, He can have the right Conduct as the Self (samyak Charitra).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Satsang (association with the Self) means to understand, 'What this world is and what it is not.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free of fear. Otherwise, no one else can free us of fear.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“What is the worldly life like? People will cook out the vegetables of you [people will take your benefit]; If a mango is unripe, they will grate and make pickle; If a mango is ripe, they will suck out all the juice and pulp from it. That is why the worldly existence with these people is very difficult. Instead one would fare well even if he were to remain in satsang.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Worries

“All the doors of your intellect get shut in this satsang. Slowly everything becomes clarified; the Gnani Purush makes us just as He is! The Gnani himself has become the real form as the absolute Self (Parmatma swaroop). [By remaining] In 'his' company, that form manifests for us too.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“सच्चे गुरु की पहचान
"जो सच्चा गुरु है वह सदा अपनी जीविका के लिए स्वयं उपार्जन करेगा। कुछ न कुछ कार्य करके वह अपना जीवनयापन करेगा लेकिन दान लेकर नहीं खायेगा। यदि वह दान लेकर खायेगा तो उसकी आध्यात्मिक कमाई समाप्त हो जायेगी। दिन रात आत्मानन्द में लीन वह सांसारिक भोगों से उदासीन रहता है। उसके जो भी सांसारिक कर्म होते हैं वह केवल कर्तव्य मात्र के लिए होते हैं।"
(साभार प्रेम का सूर्य- ब्रह्मलीन सद्गुरु डॉ. करतार सिंह जी महाराज)
- पुस्तक- अतृप्त (एक अधूरा आध्यात्मिक सफ़र)”
― राकेश कुमार श्रीवास्तव 'राही'

“Spirituality is how to get back to the love game you started with.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Satsang is an initiation into the space where one starts belonging to God, the divine. Satsang is an initiation into the space where one no more thinks of oneself in egoistic terms, but where one starts thinking in terms of the whole.
When you start feeling yourself in harmony with the whole great joy arises in your heart.
Harmony with the whole is joy and disharmony with the whole is misery and separation.
Whenever we a attuned to the whole suddenly the clouds on the sky disappear, and all is sunshine. Suddenly the flowers start blooming in your heart, and you are full of the fragrance of the unknown, of the beyond. But it happens only in the moment when you are in harmony with the whole.
And everybody knows these moments once in a while. It happens accidentally: watching a
sunrise. listening to beautiful music, in love, out in nature or for no reason at all. - and you
fall into a subtle harmony. Something inside you becomes silent and quiet. The beauty of the sunset or the music may overwhelm you, so that you for a moment forget that you are
separate from life. And then you feel great joy, beauty and silence.
Satsang means to learn the art of creating situations, where it starts happening more
and more consciously. It is to learn the art of creating the right conscious space for
it happens, so that one day it happens but never leaves you again. This is the day
of enlightenment, and one becomes a Buddha or a Christ.
That is the day of harmony, when it has become so ingrained in you, so that now there is no possibility of separation from life.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“The first time that Padma, Giten's beloved friend for many lives, attended satsang with Giten, she did not really know how deep the satsang was going. After the satsang she exclaimed astonished: "Did you feel the timelessness, the eternal?" She had gone so deep that it is possible in the inner being,
which is the dimension of the timeless, of the eternal.
Padma described her experience of satsang with Giten: “I love satsang with Giten. Satsang with Giten is heaven. Satsang with Giten is like coming home. I went into samadhi three times during a satsang weekend with Giten - and I also got a map
and an understanding for how to go into samadhi again. I was so scared that I would
lose the stillness that I found in satsang in India, but I found the stillness again in
satsang with Giten. Previously, I did not think that enlightenment was possible, but now I think it is possible.”
The essence of satsang is meditation. Meditation is the art of discovering the light within. Meditation is the art of discovering your own soul. It is only through meditation that we can discover the light within. Otherwise man lives in darkness. Meditation
enkindles something that is already latent in all of us, but which needs to be discovered.
Normally we are only looking outwards. We never look within ourselves, so our back is turned at our inner source of light. It is being ignored and neglected, and the only ignorance is to ignore our inner being, our source of light within.
To know the inner being is the only knowledge. All other knowledge is worthless. It may help you in the world, but it can't help you in eternity. Life is such a small and fast disappearing phenomenon. The real life
is something totally different. Seventy or eighty years are nothing compared to eternity. To pay too much attention to this life, and ignoring the inner life is just stupid. But that is what the majority of people are doing, which is why the world is full of stupidity, darkness, ignorance, violence, unconsciousness, misery and suffering.
The moment we turn our attention within ourselves, it enkindles a light within. Turning our attention within enkindles a light inside,
which knows no end. Once it is enkindled, it starts to spread. First it fills you, then it starts spreading outside you, and ultimately it
fills the whole universe.
Those who attains to that state, where the inner light becomes as vast as the universe has become an enlightened one, an awakened one, a Buddha, a Christ.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace