Something to Think About

A satsangi should honestly adhere to the pledges taken at the time of his Initiation. Your conduct should be such as to set an example for others to follow. A satsangi should never behave in such a manner as to bring discredit to his Master or to be the cause of discredit to the society to which he belongs. Beware that your mind does not deceive you. How do you know that you and the other woman were husband and wife in a previous birth? Do not make it a cover to find excuses to satisfy your lust and sensuality. It is only a justification for your weakness. I would be very sorry to see a devoted satsangi fail and fall.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Divine Light}

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When you begin meditation, expel all thoughts from your mind and tell your mind that all anxiety and all kinds of thoughts can wait till the meditation is over. Do not allow any kind of idea or thought to arise while doing your repetition or listening to the Sound. When the mind and soul sit quietly within, the spiritual progress will begin. Clearness and intensity of Sound depend on the degree of concentration. The greater the concentration, the clearer and louder the Sound.
_{Maharaj Sawan Singh, Spiritual Gems}

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How we waste our precious human lives in running after sense pleasures, which bring only distress, disease, agony and pain in their wake. In fact, we do not seem to realize the great value of this precious gift which the merciful Lord has bestowed upon us. We get the human body after passing through millions of lives in lower species. As worms, birds and beasts we had father, mother, spouse and children. Love, hate, lust, hunger and greed we experienced even then. What then is the superiority of man? Our benign Creator’s main purpose in giving us intelligence was that we may know ourselves and seek and meet our Creator in this life. If we fail to do that, we are no better than beasts. Let us then avail of this gift in realizing God.
_{Maharaj Jagat Singh, The Science of the Soul}