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Positive Work Will Always Help You
Satsaṅg is the highest technique of spirituality. It is association with truth, which can be practiced alone with holy books or in gatherings where divine topics are discussed. Negative association is to be avoided. The world is unreal; only truth remains. Heaven lacks satsaṅg. Deva refers both to celestial beings and to one's own positive karma, which is the true help. Constant idle calling disturbs divine peace; puruṣārtha, or righteous self-effort in work and meditation, is essential. Daily sensory contact pollutes the mind. The Mahāmantra "Oṁ Śrī Dīpa Nirañjana" invokes the spotless light of truth that purifies this mental dust and opens the heart. When the Anāhata Chakra opens, one sees the divine in all, becomes free from greed, and expresses natural wisdom and poetry. True greatness is never self-proclaimed. A pure heart recognizes the saint. One must open the heart's eye to achieve the complete human quality of Puruṣottama, who perfectly follows dharma.
"Sat means the truth, and saṅg means to be with."
"Through this mantra, all the dust which we collect in our mind is immediately purified."
Filming location: Wellington, New Zealand
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
