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Satsang \

What is Satsang? Satsang means literally...
"To Be Present in the company of Truth."

 If you choose to enter the forum of Satsang (your own inherently True condition or the company of one who is Realised as True) understand from the outset that there has to be an honest willingness to surrender the limitation of knowledge, and the mental constructs that define your sense of individuality and the nature of Reality. If this willingness is absent then you will likely experience a painful journey of resistance. Satsang is an opportunity to be profoundly wrong, a place for those who are willing to lay their misconceptions to rest, and instead reside most simply in the emptiness of unconditional freedom.

The forum of Satsang is not a place to parade sophisticated life strategies and advanced concepts. It is the place where the ultimate emancipation may occur, where everything that presents itself as true is naturally tested in the fire of love. The Heart when truly exposed, in its rawest, most vulnerable state, exists without identity, need for approval, nor guidelines for moral existence.
It Is simply revealed as the Truth of Consciousness, perfectly innocent, empty of agenda and attached to nothing. This is the inherent and ever present invitation, where you are directed to the precipice only to find that no option exists other than to surrender to That which Is beyond life and death.

'You' have always been, and always shall Be as You are, Perfectly Liberated as Consciousness Itself. You have never been in bondage, and will never need to be freed. Your Very Nature Is unconditionally free. It is only mind that creates stories of limitation and circumstance. Being knows nothing of such things, abiding only in openness; empty and free.

You are encouraged to actively participate in the opportunity presented, if necessary to the exclusion of all else. Find out what is True prior to any thought arising. Resist nothing, and engage in the profound relationship available with Consciousness in whichever form it presents Itself.

This is living Satsang, where every moment of life's experience is accepted as an invitation to Realise the Truth. Truth is not something which can be discovered and comfortably integrated into your life, it will take your life apart mercilessly, piece by piece, until there is nothing left except the realisation that you Are Truth Itself.

Truth is uncompromising. It Is that which has always been, remaining untouched by the transitory nature of experience and existence. 'Your life' cannot contain It, indeed It contains and transcends 'you' and all life, including every nOT4on of personal identification no matter how sophisticated. You (the personality) are simply lived as an expression of Consciousness. Realisation occurs in the unconditional recognition of That which Is always, already, and ever So, prior to the emergence of somethingness.

Om Tat Sat…Thou Art That,

the imperishable Essence.

Namaste.

 

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