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attaining the Soul, you will attain the instruments i.e. the Gnani.
Doing satsang with anyone who harbors even the slightest
worldly desire will be useless if you want liberation. Such a
satsang will be helpful if you want to be born in the celestial
world. For liberation, you will need the satsang of the one who
is absolutely free of all desires.
You should tell vyavasthit, “Give me time for satsang”,
then vyavasthit will bring about such circumstances, but if you
don’t ask, it will not.
There is an ocean of infinite bliss within you, but you are
caught up in a frenzy of grabbing temporary pleasures, and that
too with deceit.
One way or another, the only thing worth doing is to
remain in the satsang or otherwise stay at home. It is not
advisable to touch kusang even for a moment; it is poison.
Your efforts should not be in vain; you should not waste
your days. Make time to avail yourself to only satsang. If you
are absorbed with ‘this’ satsang, then your work is done. The
whole world is absorbed in kusang. One complains that he is not
able to go to the temple, upashraya (gathering of ascetics) or
vyakhyan (spiritual lectures); he even gets angry and says that
he is not able to go even when he wants to. What is the reason
for this? The answer is that he is immersed in kusang and that
is why he is not able to go. And here for us all, we are filled with
only satsang and the whole world is forgotten! Everything in life
is mandatory, but there is no one with greater punya when
satsang becomes mandatory for him! In addition, this satsang is
beyond all that is the non-Self (alaukik). It is the real satsang.
Elsewhere in the world there is nothing but mandatory kusang.
Now satsang has become mandatory for you and that too sitting
in the comforts of your own home!
There is tremendous danger if you vacillate (employ