To whom SATSANG appeals?
SATSANG appeals to all
irrespective of faith, culture or any other considerations, Sat-sang endeavor
to emulate Sri Sri Thakur’s belief, “I understand that every single
individual is a living universe. To the extent that a single person is ignored
or neglected, just so much, any plan, movement or institution betrays existence”.
But does not the practical application of such a universal conception
create problems and parasites?
SATSANG readily admits, this unlimited sense of responsibility and
universal love, no problems are created. Sat sang also insists that possibilities
are created. For those who associate love only with the good and beautiful,
this universal love, practically applied is the greatest liability of sat-sang.
For those who see in this world of missiles, and destructions, mistrust and
disintegration that the heart of mankind weeps for a love that has no
condition, no demands – this unfailing fountainhead of love is considered to be
the greatest real asset of Sat sang.
What is the ultimate
Goal of SATSANG?
It is the resolute conviction of Sat sang that just as the handful
of men who gathered around Sri Sri Thakur fifty years ago,
steadily increased over the following decades, from hundreds into thousands and
today number in hundreds of thousand; so in the next decade, those hundreds of
thousand will grow into millions out of that universal and desperate urge for
life and growth.
Further, as this
spontaneous expansion takes place, we and our children will find that the
ancient racial memory of an era when men were Gods and walked upon the earth –
that memory which stirs in the deep unconscious of all of us – will have been
unknowingly transformed into a reality – for ourselves, our family, our country
and the world. When the late Deshbandhu C.R. Das approached Thakur at Calcutta a few years
before his sudden demise and accepted him as his spiritual guide.
Thakur said— I know
of no other politics, if service to the necessities of man is polities then I
am a politician to my backbone. I understand
love, I can appreciate what service is. I love life, not death.
Thakur can
repair men like motor cars in the hands of an expert engineer and the nervous,
debilitated and imbecile bloom in health and vigor if they have the sincerity
to keep his company for sometime, with a few strokes of his chisel he can
create life and energy in a block of lifeless mass, the hopeless beam with
hope, the weak quiver with thrills of energy unfelt before and the depressed
became inspired with his slogan of love, life and lift.
Thakur’s life –
drama is played not in the stirring fields of politics, he worked smilingly in
the depth of the human soul with his un-vulnerable love, service and activity.
Sri Sri thakur’s odd combination of practical religion,
visionary idealism and intuitive insight attracted the attention of larger and larger
number of people, his deep compassion and willing acceptance of the frustrated,
the social outcast, the insane and incapable remained what one has described as
his greatest asset and greatest liability. This sense of unlimited
responsibility for everyone who came, gave to everyone a vision of an almost
universal love. Thakur sometime has stated that even he shelters evil
in the hope that someday they will change, he never supported evil, he told
that he was the foolish father of a foolish son. The remarkable thing is that Thakur
inspired everyone and waited for till his transformation is achieved.
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