The word "satsang" is composed of two Sanskrit words "sat" meaning "truth" and "sang" meaning "assembly". Thus, it means "union with the truth", "encounter with the truth", or "union with those who follow the path of truth". AT in the highest sense, it means direct perception truth and connection with it. For more practical level satsang means being in the presence of wise men and women and listening to what they say.
This practice has its advantages in comparison with lectures or seminars, where the teacher can devote time to only 4-5 students, asking them questions. In addition, lectures transmit data without discussion, as a result, the topic is considered only from one angle. The teacher is not particularly interested in whether the student applied this knowledge in practice.
The satsang system eliminates all these problems, and also allows you to deeply and comprehensively understand the material, expand your horizons, develop communication skills, and realize something new.
This practice allows not only to gain new knowledge, it is a way spiritual communication self-knowledge people. A person feels powerful support from like-minded people, which gives him additional strength to follow the path of spiritual development.
This kind of communication eliminates fears and removes all barriers in communication. A person develops skills colloquial speech he becomes more confident. Also, a person learns to listen to others, to show tolerance and respect for all points of view.
This technique turned out to be so successful and positively proved itself that it began to be used not only by persons involved in Eastern spiritual practices, but also by Christians.
The Satsang lesson is a lesson in the art of communication that increases self-control, mutual understanding and trust in each other.
Satsang with a sage
Satsang is nothing new. It has existed in all corners of the world since time immemorial. At the dawn of history, in primitive tribes and rural communities there have always been wise men, shamans, healers - call them whatever you like. These were respected people whose opinions others listened to.
Christ gave satsang to thousands of people throughout Galilee. He transformed the lives of many people, converting them to the faith. Many examples of this can be found in the Bible. The greatest recorded satsang of Christ is the Sermon on the Mount (Gospel of John, beginning on verse 5). The Buddha gave satsang for nearly fifty years wherever he went. The Buddhist scriptures are full of recorded sayings of the Buddha. All religions of the world are based on satsang - the words of a sage. Any mystical system is based on satsang and any Holy Bible nothing but recorded satsang.
How can you know if another person is wise, whether he is a saint or a charlatan? You must determine this for yourself. Don't listen to what others tell you. They can tell you only about their personal preferences and prejudices, likes and dislikes. listen to own experience. If you really feel good in the presence of any sage, then this is a sure sign that you are on the right way. If you feel a certain peace, then this is also a good sign. If you experience negative feelings, this does not mean that you do not have a great sage in front of you; it's just that he (or she) probably isn't meant to be part of your path to self-discovery. You must attend satsang and find out for yourself. There is no other method.
Word "satsang" consists of two Sanskrit words " sat", meaning "true" and " sang", meaning "fellowship" or "assembly". Thus, it means "Communion of Wise Men" but in fact it is a circle of spiritual communication, which is equated with spiritual practice, since spiritual issues are always discussed at such meetings.
This practice came to us from India, where it has been used to transfer spiritual knowledge for many centuries. It has its advantages compared to lectures or seminars, where the teacher can spend time only 4-5 students asking them questions. In addition, lectures transmit data without discussion, as a result, the topic is considered only from one angle. The teacher is not particularly interested in whether the student applied this knowledge in practice.
Satsang eliminates these gaps, allowing you to deeply and comprehensively understand the material, expand your horizons, develop communication skills, and realize something new.
So, The learning process goes like this:
- Training is conducted, as a rule, in small groups of 10-12 people. If the group has 30-40 people, then it is divided into 3-4 groups for a detailed discussion of the topic.
- The facilitator for 20 minutes gives a topic for discussion and reads questions. During this time, the listeners do not have time to turn off their attention, and therefore are completely focused on what the presenter says.
- After the questions have been raised, each member of the group expresses his or her opinion, trying to answer them, based on the text read out at the beginning of the session by the facilitator. The peculiarity of this whole process is that all points of view are accepted, there is no criticism, everyone expresses their opinion without fear. If it is difficult for him to speak out, then the rest of the group members help him in this, supporting him.
- At the end of the discussion, the facilitators ask how the listeners apply this in their lives, ask them to talk about their realizations, spiritual experiences. Such sharing of experience inspires others in their spiritual practice, helps to understand the inseparable connection of spiritual knowledge with everyday life.
This practice allows not only to acquire new knowledge, it a way of spiritual communication of people engaged in self-knowledge. A person feels powerful support from like-minded people, which gives him additional strength to follow the path of spiritual development.
This kind of communication eliminates fears and removes all barriers in communication. A person develops speaking skills, he becomes more confident. Also, a person learns to listen to others, to show tolerance and respect for all points of view.
Satsangs are held, as a rule, on Thursdays, which is considered the day of the Guru, which is under the influence of the planet Jupiter. On this day, knowledge is assimilated better.
This technique turned out to be so successful and positively proved itself that it began to be used not only by persons involved in Eastern spiritual practices, but also by Christians.
Satsang class is a lesson in the art of communication, increasing self-control, mutual understanding and trust in each other.
Is it awakening training or something else?
Satsang is not teaching this is a talk about awakening and enlightenment.
Satsang is simply denunciation of what is happening, highlighting what is really happening when you wake up. At satsang, you realize the clarity of vision, correctly interpret what is happening, you begin to hear the voices of commentators in your head.
Awakening arises, is born within you. This is the Lotus that blossoms and begins to exude its fragrance. In satsang you taste and listen to this fragrance.
In satsang you start:
Know what enlightenment is. Be aware of yourself, be aware of life, be aware of the moment.
Grace covers from head to toe - this feeling and awareness cannot be confused with anything. Is that so? You seem to be in the hands of God. You feel warm, you feel cared for, things are getting better with lightning speed, you experience completely unreasonable joy inside, you look at people and marvel at their fuss and tension over trifles, you want to live and see everything around as if illuminated by additional light. This is what awakening is. All this is spoken in satang.
Satsang is a conversation with a person about his soul, about his pressing issues concerning states of awakening.
Conversations about how not to miss moments of enlightenment? Which happens in almost 99% of cases. A person is already himself, like a divine candle, and all life is illuminated by God, and he keeps saying: “How to enlighten? How to see the situation clearly?
This deep-rooted habit of yours is as old as you are now. Try to root it out. Yes, it's impossible. Therefore, I never condemn a person if he is identified for the millionth time in satsang and cannot go into observation in any way.
I carefully lead him by the hand again and again.
I am often asked: “Why are you not irritated? Why do you endure for the hundredth time the Ego that jumps on you or the chatty mind of a person? To which I always answer: “I, even if I want to get angry, it won’t work out. I always see the soul, not the mind or the ego. And only people who deliberately do not want to go out, and there are many of them, continue to have an arrogant conversation with the smell of rudeness and hidden humiliation. dignity as seeming inconspicuous in conversation. I see and feel all the shades in the voice and hear the thoughts of a person, they always run faster than speech. And I always give 10 chances to wake up and stop from the overclocked high of the ego to stab and humiliate. Then I move to his plane of communication, that is, to the personality, and there we most often immediately find the line of communication, the person begins to hear, since the language of communication in the personality is familiar: caustic, selfish, vibrational and motivated to personal goals. Dispersed Ego cannot be stopped from there. The ego begins to hear only in its own range of speech and vibration, unfortunately.”
Satsang is a space where a person should not be afraid to reveal something secret, because he is in the right place, in the right audience. And I take upon myself the right to protect him and gently talk to his soul, while protecting him from possible attacks in the hall, if they occur, which is extremely rare.
Satsang is the energy space of the Gods. They lead rigidly who gets into this space, and someone has things to do (do not take anyone personally), the reasons are different, a person may simply not be ready for a strong transformation.
After all, a guru from God ALWAYS has a special energy in which a person wakes up without words, as soon as he enters the hall or approaches the place of satsang. This is how it should be according to the laws of higher powers. Otherwise, this is not a guru and not a teacher. Special energy works, not the word.
Satsang is Holy place in literally. And energetically protected by higher Forces. Always. This I know from my own experience.
Never be afraid to open up. Take the chance to speak and talk with the guru, if he came to your house, then only he, in this guise, will be able to reach you, and you will accept his answers as something simple and easy, and the mind will not interfere with pure perception .
Satsang is always a holiday for your very vulnerable Soul!
Om namaste, my dears!
I give you definition of satsang from wikipedia.
"Satsang (Sanskrit Sadhu and Sangha) is a concept in Indian philosophy, denoting: the highest true community, the community of the highest truth;
communication with gurus; gathering of people around enlightened person for the purpose of hearing the truth, speaking about it, and assimilating it."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsang
Satsang - important aspect spiritual practice. This is especially important at the beginning spiritual path when spirituality is not yet an integral part of life. For the more experienced seeker attending Satsang, there is an opportunity to serve God and seekers by sharing their experiences and helping other seekers in their spiritual practice.
Below we give the experience of the applicants on how participation in satsang has helped them.
“Shortly after I got married, I came to the US. It has been a month since I started my spiritual practice of chanting the name of God. In the USA, I tried to chant and use some spiritual practices in my life, but it did not bring success. Therefore, after that, I did not do spiritual practice for almost a year. It was only after I started attending satsangs that I began to chant regularly again and began to put into practice all my plans for my spiritual progress.” – S.K., USA
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Be closer to the righteous, communicate with the righteous. From the knowledge of the true dharma, happiness will be replaced by grief
Buddha Kashyapa
The society of the sage is considered the root cause of all goodness
Tripura Rahasya
The term "satsang" is now in vogue. In the media, on the Internet, it is used more and more often: “We invite you to a unique online satsang conducted by a master psychologist”, “satsang will be held in the traditions of ... yoga”, “virtual satsang”, “sansang with a master of ... directions”, “ Silence Satsang Retreat. Usually this word is used to mean communication with a spiritual teacher, conversations on spiritual topics in any community, and, gradually, its meaning is expanding and expanding. The main interpretations are based on the translation of the Sanskrit roots that served to form the word: “sat” (truth) and “sang” (communication, communication): communication on the topic of truth, the society of sages, etc. Being in the company of sages is really very important:
But there is a slightly shifting interpretation of the term satsang: "True communication." You can be in the company of the wise, but not hear or perceive what they say, in fact, not be included in communication process. What could be understood by true communication, especially in such an energy-intensive language as Sanskrit. Is it really just talk about dharma? Of course, there is a deeper meaning behind this word.
A capacitive understanding of satsang is given in the Bihar School of Yoga. In the process of satsang, the mind must greatly change the principles, the foundations of its work, reorganize: “A sage can say almost anything - perhaps something significant or insignificant, obviously or not obviously directed at you; these may be seemingly superficial reports of facts, gossip or philosophical ideas- no matter what exactly, but these words help to rock and turn over the “boat” of psychological laziness and rigidity that exists in your mind” (“Bihar School of Yoga”). The subject of the conversation is not so important, the processes occurring inside the consciousness are important.
The basis for understanding the need for satsangs is the statement: “The mind tends to remain in a rut of false beliefs and conditioning; besides, it is full tangled knots. You can never get rid of them on your own” (“Bihar School of Yoga”). Even great souls could not overcome their karmic limitations on their own.
Kalu Rinpoche quotes the words of the Buddha: “No Buddha who ever attained enlightenment did so without relying on a guru, and of all the thousands of Buddhas that will appear in our kalpa, not one will achieve enlightenment without the help of a guru.”("The Practice of Guru Yoga"). Certain limitations can only be overcome by resorting to outside help.
Our mind tends to reproduce pre-learned patterns, we behave like a man or a woman, like a responsible or irresponsible person, like a head of a family or a subordinate, like a person constantly defending himself from the world, etc. - there are many such stereotyped patterns. And these stereotypes are perceived as an inseparable part of our personality. Some of them are relatively harmless, but others destroy both ourselves and the lives of people around.
One of the tasks of a satsang master is to show a deeply hidden problem, figuratively speaking, to put a finger on an abscess that has formed inside energy body causing this pain. In Buddhism, the analogy between mental and physical illness is quite clearly drawn:
“Bhikshu, there are two diseases. What are these two? Physical illness and mental illness. Bhikkhus, you can see beings free from physical disease for one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred years and more. But bhikkhus, it is difficult to find beings in this world who are free from mental illness even for a moment, excluding those who destroyed the mental pollutants"("The Horns of the Sutta").
And in cases of illness of the body, and when the soul suffers, treatment is necessary. Realizing the problem, “you have to receive “treatment” from another person ... spiritual healer, sage, yogi or saint" ("Bihar school of yoga). A sage, a saint, a teacher, can only offer a medicine - but to drink or not - the choice will remain with the patient.
The task of a spiritually ill person in this situation is simply to entrust oneself into the hands of a doctor (guru, satsang master, sage, no matter what term we use), realizing that it is as difficult to cope with a spiritual illness on one’s own as, for example, cutting out one’s inflamed appendix . Here, first of all, the question of trust arises in the one who offers you medicine, surgery, etc. In whose hands do you give yourself? In this regard, attending Satsang is enough serious step. And is it possible to talk about satsang with a master, life path and value systems of which you do not know and closeness to which you do not feel? Especially the one you see online for the first time? What will he do with your soul and do you need it? To agree to such an intervention, you need to be sure that you are ready at the end of your life to come to the same result that this person came to, having considered both all the advantages of this option and the disadvantages.
The second aspect is also important. It should be noted that in Western society the problem of trust (in general, to anyone) is very acute. In Vedic culture, from a young age, the child learned to build certain relationships with the gods, learned to trust them, the warrior entrusted his life higher powers before the battle, the wife trusted her life to her husband, and the student relied entirely on the will of the teacher. If you try to interpret trust in this vein, it will mean approximately the following - in any life situation, the one whom I trust can make any decision regarding my thoughts, feelings, actions of my soul, and it will be the right one. It is this person (God) who knows what is best.
Consider one of the examples: in the Vedic culture, a girl from birth was brought up in “trust” to her future husband, even the possibility of not accepting his position should not have crept into her head. Try to offer a modern average woman, for example, to entrust her husband with making a decision about moving to another city, about choosing a school for children, in general, any decision - and most likely you will hear: “And if I get hurt, he doesn’t know what is needed at all children, and if he decides wrong? There is only one key to the problem - you can only trust someone whom you consider more developed, who is more authoritative for you. In your internal hierarchy, this person should stand higher than you yourself. That is why the wife addressed her husband as "Mr." In the family hierarchy, he always stood higher. Trust is not blurting out secrets and secrets to girlfriends on benches, not even expressing your innermost thoughts. Trust is entrusting oneself to someone else's will. And the first question - are we capable of it? Most will have to honestly answer: “Unfortunately, no.”
Satsang is always a qualitative change in personality: “Satsang is like a philosopher's stone. Even the most bad people were transformed by satsang, just like philosopher's Stone turns iron into gold” (“Ramayana”). Exaggerating and extremely exaggerating, one can describe the transformation of a person during satsang through the following example: you enter and start a conversation with the master as a tall, blue-eyed engineer Petya, and you leave as a dark, stocky philologist Vasya. Weird? You do not want? Why do you need such satsang? Of course, such changes are meaningless and absurd, but a satsang master can produce much deeper and more valuable transformations in your mind than changing, for example, stereotypes of professional behavior.
We are attached to our ideas about ourselves, and, in fact, do not want to change. As you observe your surroundings, you may have noticed how life periods do people change most dramatically, and, shall we say, willingly? In yoga, love is not always positively evaluated, and, indeed, anahata is, of course, not the chakra that should crown relations with the world. But, nevertheless, it was love in all ages that forced people to rebuild themselves. A man in love is ready to accept the partner's idea of himself, adapt to this idea, because for loving person self-image, self-image - turn out to be less valuable than the relationships that he is trying to build. For one who follows the path of dharma, the motivation is no longer love, but a sincere desire to turn "from iron into gold."
standing in front of the face life problem you should ask yourself a few questions:
- Do I really want to change?
- Do I really trust who I turn to for help?
- Do I want to be like him?
The chances of becoming a participant in "true fellowship" - satsang - will increase for those who answered positively to these questions.
