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In this class, we generally focus on meditation itself, on the psychology of meditation, and we often limit ourselves to that. We don’t usually talk about the greater context of our spiritual development. That is something I usually leave to the other c...
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All of us are emanations of the divine light and the oneness of the supreme love. But the ego plays hide-and-seek with that light and that love and eventually the ego is lost more often than it is found. If we are going to get out of the game of lost ...
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So life is about love, right? The problem is that, for the ego, love is always tragic. Romantic love is a form of bhakti, devotion. In fact, you could say that every form of suffering is a form of bhakti. Our neurotic suffering is always a result of m...
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The difficulty in explaining the meaning of Self-realization is that the mind tends to understand everything from within the paradigm of subject-object duality, and that is the very obstacle to the Self-realization we wish to achieve. That dualistic p...
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True Sat Yogis must be members of the KGB. In this case, of course, KGB does not refer to the defunct Soviet intelligence agency. Rather, it means to be those who vow to always act with KGB—Kindness, Generosity, and Benevolence—toward everyone we ...
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Most people today, before they enter a spiritual path, are made miserable by a mind that is out of control. The ego mind is wild, savage, selfish, filled with lusts, anger, greed, demands, judgments, hostile disregard for the feelings of others, it is...
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Someone asked recently if the teachings of Sat Yoga are frozen, or if they are evolving. It was clear that the questioner had some objection to certain teachings and wanted them to change. But the question of the evolution of spiritual teachings goes ...
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Like alcoholics at a twelve-step meeting, we must admit the truth: existence has become unmanageable for the human species. At every level, from individual emotional stability to couple and family relationships to global politics, life is in deadlock. The...
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A young student I am counseling just told me about a question she must answer on an application to an elite boarding school. The question is: “Who are you?” I laughed when I heard it.
I could hear Sri Ramana laughing as well. In fact, I could hear ...
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People like to believe they understand the game of life. In fact, the ego does not only like to believe it is in control of events—it has a desperate need to believe it does. So, for example, the religious person needs to believe that carrying out the d...
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Namaste. To those of you who are new here, or to an Indian satsang, “Namaste” means “I greet you from the heart and recognize your real Self, which is the Holy Spirit.” Holy means pure. Pure means undefiled, uncorrupted, unconditioned. A state...
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The Sat Yoga Institute is a school of logic. Our philosophy is based on the understanding that everything in the universe, including the universe as a whole, has a precise logico-mathematical structure—everything except the intelligence that gives r...
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Some of the deepest spiritual literature being written today is actually coming out of the psychoanalytic tradition. Since the days of Freud, several great sages have emerged in that tradition, who have made it truly a mystical path. The writings and ...
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Human character structures are undergoing cataclysmic deformations worldwide. This disruptive process is accelerating exponentially. The factors involved are well known. They include alienation, cynicism, and collective paranoid psychosis, exemplified ...
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One name for our current historical moment could be Quantum Yuga. The discoveries of quantum mechanics have shattered the assumptions of the Newtonian paradigm that has too long held our consciousness in collapse, in the straitjacket of naïve pseudo-real...
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All human beings worship power. Where they differ is in their conceptions of power. There are many different ways to understand the nature of power and the source of power-and most importantly, in how to reach the underlying goal of possessing real power....
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Sat Yoga is the ancient science of metabolizing our theomorphic potential. Human beings, alone of all creatures, have the power of re-designing our own psychic structure in the direction of ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, and spiritual perfection. Through ...
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As the world falls deeper every day into the infernal grip of the final days of kali yuga, ever greater spiritual efforts are required to remain serene and compassionate. Without adhering to a dedicated practice of meditation that keeps us centered in the...
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There is a common misunderstanding concerning the implications of ego death. Many people assume that once the ego dies in the process of spiritual transcendence that the individual will have no further will to live. This is incorrect. The will to live wil...
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That which the current materialist ideology considers the objective external world is apperceived by illumined sages as a collective dream-field. Space and time exist only as structural features of the matrix of the collective illusion. Once awareness bec...
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