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Ratnagiri mango from the Valsadi mango. But alas! They just do not understand the vitarag Lords! How can anyone help such
people?
The way to happiness is to not hurt any other being.
When 'we' return home late at night, 'we' walk very carefully so that the sound of our shoes will not wake the sleeping dogs. These poor dogs, they don't have soft beds to sleep on but we can at least let them sleep peacefully, can we not?
One night we heard someone running in our alley. 'We' knew the man, he weighed around 200 kilos and his footsteps were heavy and loud and then he fell. 'We'asked him why he was running and he told 'us' he was running to the sweet shop for some jalebis. He explained that he and his friends were playing cards and he lost the game and that he had to feed everyone jalebis so he was running to the shop before it closed. Goodness! How can an inanimate thing such as jalebi have the power to pull a two hundred kilo bundle! It is indeed a wonder!
Influence of company Dadashri : What is satsang?
Questioner: Satsang is where there are good talks of the house of the Lord.
Dadashri : If you do not have the knowledge of what or who God is, how can you talk about Him?
There are many types of satsangs. When people read scriptures, that too is considered satsang. Company with a sat purush (enlightened being) or a sant purush (a saint) is also considered satsang. Company of the Gnani Purush is satsang and ultimately being in the company of the vitarag Lord, that too is satsang. These are all different types of satsangs.
Who is a sant purush? It is one whose chit (the internal component of knowledge and vision) has become pure, but he does not have realization of the Self. Those whom 'we' give knowledge of the Self are called sat purush. Beyond that comes the Gnani Purush, also known as the mokshadata purush, the one who grants liberation. And above the Gnani Purush is the vitarag Lord. A person can attain final liberation (moksha) with mere darshan of the vitarag Lord.
The Gnani Purush represents the eternal truth (sat) and therefore company of the Gnani Purush is considered satsang (sat is eternal, sang is company) and the Lord has referred to this satsang as the gathering of paramhansa. Hansa means swans. In mythology the swans were able to separate water and milk with a mere dipping of their beaks. In the spiritual context param hansa is the one who is able to separate the Self from the
