Articles in the satsang Q & A category

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[May 8, 2013]

Devotee: I have a hard time motivating myself to practice simply using my mind and will power. It’s much easier when it comes from my heart, but I can’t force my heart to motivate. Do you have some words about the movement from the mind to the heart?

Shri Anandi Ma: Both are essential . . .

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[Apr 2, 2013]

Who is not a householder in this world? Your mind should be pure. It is not necessary to renounce the world in order to have realization.

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[Feb 27, 2013]

Devotee: How do I open more softly and practice surrender to resistance in meditation? Shri Anandi Ma: The resistance that you’re talking about is an aspect of your mind. You’re trying to analyze something, trying to grasp something that is not even in the hands of the analytical mind. As long as the mind is
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[Jan 24, 2013]

“When there is so much association that you say, ‘I am doing this,’ or ‘I am in control,’ and you are not acknowledging that you are simply an instrument for some higher force or higher energy working through you, that level of ego creates a block in your spiritual evolution.”

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[Dec 25, 2012]

“So when you are sitting at home on your asan doing your practices, repeating the Guru mantra or meditating, that is satsang. When you’re reading a book on spirituality or the life of a saint, or a scripture, you’re reminding yourself of the truth, and that is satsang. If you are listening to a recording of chants that is satsang as well.”

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[Oct 12, 2012]

“. . . When we do not forgive, we plant the seed of samskara and tie karma to the other person. But when we forgive, the whole action is dissolved and there is no further interaction binding the souls together.”

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[Aug 5, 2012]

  Devotee: When the soul chooses the karma it’s going to take in a life, can it put off some of it? Shri Anandi Ma: There is always a mix of karma that is taken. It’s not possible to just take all the good and save the bad for a later date—it doesn’t work that
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[Jun 8, 2012]

Devotee: The purpose of human life is Self – and God – Realization. Do we have an individual purpose separate from that? Shri Anandi Ma: Once the soul has entered the human form, the ultimate purpose is Realization. Which other goal is permanent? All other goals are restricted to the physical plane, and there is
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[May 8, 2012]

Devotee: Would you talk about the relationship of seva to bhakti? Shri Anandi Ma: Seva and bhakti are interrelated. Who do you do seva for?  That’s where it starts; if you have some level of love or devotion for someone, then you will be motivated to do seva for that person. At the same time,
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[Apr 9, 2012]

Devotee: How can individual consciousness, and collective consciousness, be applied when natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes occur? I try to be stoic and compassionate, but honestly, I find it quite devastating, both on a personal level and for the planet. So what kind of attitude should we have towards these events, and how
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