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will you gain anything when you are in search for peace? No. So you have to ask the shopkeeper from the very beginning and make sure that you are in the right place. Tell bapji (the guru), "I am willing to spend six months to a year with you if you tell me to and if I can attain moksha; but only if I attain liberation and only if all my worries will cease. Otherwise I will search elsewhere." For countless past lives all you have done is make payments to such shopkeepers and still you have not attained moksha. So tell bapji, "I will pay my dues if you are able to grant me moksha. "Just test bapji a little in this way! If he gets angry, you will have your answer right away. You will know immediately that this is definitely not the shop for liberation. Despite this make bapji happy, spend a couple of hundred rupees for him, and be thankful that you are getting away by doing only that much
What is the purpose of satsang? It is to settle everything with equanimity. It is to solve all your puzzles and confusion. The path of liberation is to know and be free. Kusang : Company of that which increases the
non-self interaction
The entire worldly life is in the form of kusang and what is more it is influenced by the current era of this time cycle called Kaliyug. Through satsang, new parmanus replace parmanus of kusang.
It can be said that satsang has occurred when all the pains and miseries depart, and if the miseries do not leave then it is a sign that kusang has occurred. If you put sugar in the tea, it is bound to taste sweet is it not? All miseries depart through satsang
One acquires pain and miseries because of kusang. Kusang will bring pain and misery and satsang brings happiness, and 'this' satsang will liberate you. The Gnani Purush will take away inclinations and tendencies that attach you to the worldly life and place them directly in the Self (Brahma). And then your work is done! This is the religion of liberation (moksha). You will constantly remember (laksha) the Self once 'we give you the realization of the Self. Otherwise, it is impossible to attain this awareness (laksha) of the Self. The manifest Gnani (pragat) will light your candle which then manifests as the Self (sakshatkar).
One creates paap (sin; or demerit karma) through kusang and these in turn will sting you. With free time, one encounters kusang. In kusang he squanders away valuable time in useless talks and gossips and this creates 'stains' (paap). All the misery in the world is because of these 'stains. What right does one have to talk about anyone else? He has to look after his own affairs. Whether another person is happy or unhappy, what does it have to do with you? But here one even gossips about the king. He talks about things that have absolutely nothing to do with him and this creates abhorrence and jealousy, and these are the very causes of his misery. The Lord tells us to become vitarag. In reality, you are vitarag, so why harbor raag-dwesh? There is nothing but raag-dwesh if you become one with the name, the relative self, the non-self, and if you become one
There are two types of companies or associations: one is kusang (bad company, company that harms; company that takes you away from the Self) and the other is satsang (company of the eternal company of the Self and that which leads to the Self). Satsang enlightens and the inner turmoil ceases. Kusang increases inner turmoil. Kusang is like fireworks; it sets your clothes on fire as it goes off. So beware and know that kusang is a burning fire. Exercise this much restraint. When you practice restraint and follow a regimen of diet prescribed by your physician, you will not have the disease. Foods prepared outside carry bad parmanus, that too is considered kusang. In this world, bad things happen because there is no awareness, and not because there is. So maintain awareness.
