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"LAST Life-Changing Seminar by Sandeep Maheshwari in Hindi"
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Please see once this video.
Then give me comment.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
" The Man Making Factory"
Satsang’ that evolved out of the dynamic and divine personality of Sri Sri Thakur has been the matrix of all creativities, integral to ‘existence’. ‘Uphold of existence’ is the core of Sri Sri Thakur’s philosophy. ‘Satsang’ has evolved out of Sri Sri Thakur and has been nursed by the disciples, whose discipline is moulded by Sri Sri Thakur’s conception of the term ‘satsang’.
‘Sat’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘sti’, meaning existence and ‘sang’ means a fellowship, a brotherhood or a company. ‘Satsang’ community developed into a man-making factory with Sri Sri Thakur as the expert technician who could repair human character like motor cars, by applying three principles or "pillars of existence" that constitute the basis of his faith.
The three pillars are ‘jajan’, ‘jaajan’ and ‘istavrity’:
Jajan
Sri Sri Thakur has said about self-culture (Jajan)—“Be consecrated to the Ideal, dedicate yourself to the service of the Ideal with an ardent concentric urge, equip yourself with your everything in all respects spreading and all that concerns you thoroughly consistent—thus do achieve becoming yourself–verily this is the attuned secret of self-culture (Jajan)”.
So self-culture is something very comprehensive. It comprehends within its sweep Ideal-centric repetition of Holy Name, meditation, worship, self-analysis, principles, personal study, pursuit of vows and penance, exalting service, prayer, etc. we shall have to completely anoint and imbue ourselves with the ideas of the Ideal. The essence of self-culture lies in completely soaking ourselves in his ideas and identifying ourselves with him, and this is calculated to affect a thorough metamorphosis in our personality.
Jaajan
Sri Sri Thakur says—“Jaajan means to come in contact with people and to infuse your Ideal-centric ardour in them with an inspiring zeal of serviceable dexterity through words, conduct, behaviour, association, assistance and actual deeds in a manner that impels them to be untotteringly fastened and attached to your Ideal with all vital urge being attracted, enthused and tinged by your concentric adherence, as a result of which they develop a tenacious continuity in imbibing the immortal culture of life and growth with an upheaval of spontaneous regard and devotion leading to worship, sacrifice, devout offerings and communion with the Ideal in a normal loving embrace”.
Here we see that the fundamental thing is to impart our Ideal-centric adherence to others. So we must possess the thing that we seek to impart. Adherence to Ideal is something positive. The more we shall possess it, the more shall we able to impart it. Now let us analyze what this adherence is. Let us describe it in his words,--
“Our life-urge normally tends to run towards him, who is the object of our utmost attachment. And we naturally imbibe his character and traits as we endeavour to please him and win his heart”.
Istabhrity
Along with the daily observance of Jajan and Jaajan we should observe Istabhriti everyday with due regard. For our life, we are simultaneously indebted to God, human society and all nature. Our existence depends on the service and cooperation of all. The most important fact is that at the back of our creation there lies the self-dedication of God. It is through the grace of the Supreme Father that we have been endowed with life if we are conscious of this truth we cannot but be infinitely grateful. An active manifestation of this gratitude is the observance, nurture, protection and fulfillment of the Ideal. The Ideal is verily the source of all life that exists in the universe. So to maintain and fulfill him means to nurture the source of universal life. By this we invigorate the very basis of our life. In the domain of our life the contribution of the wide world is infinite. But at the rot of the evolution and stable stay of this world-environment there exist the most gracious Supreme Father. And the Ideal is none but the embodied manifestation of Him. So before thinking of maintaining and nurturing ourselves, our family and our environment we should give priority to maintaining and nurturing Ideal; because everything flows from Him. So before taking any food every day we shall have to properly offer oblations to the Ideal with all regard and adherence.
About Satsang
Satsang is a philanthropic organization that emerged out of Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra. Whenever Sree Sree Thakur plunged into any activity, he did it as a spontaneous response to the demand of the situation or a necessity that popped up before him. The organization Satsang too was born of such a natural process rather than any deliberate pre-planned effort to establish an organization. When people multiplied around Sree Sree Thakur, drawn by the irresistible magnetic pull of his personality, the assembly and the neighbourhood that was fast coming up around Sree Sree Thakur’s home and was throbbing with life and multifarious activity like school, research and so on, it normally took the shape of a well-knit organization bubbling with vitality. So, in the case of Satsang, an organization was not floated. Rather a congregation of people fast cumulating around a great man grew into an organization: an organization of people drawn and dedicated to existence—their own and that of the environment.
Satsang, therefore, is not merely a religious institution or just a social organization but one dedicated to the service and existence of humanity as a whole—the being and becoming of all, using whatever existential means that may be felt necessary evoked by the urge of the situation with Sree Sree Thakur as the Living Ideal and Pivot.
Satsang was registered after independence and partition of India under the Societies Registration Act of 1860, the administration of which is vested in an executive committee comprising not more than 30 members including the President elected for a period of three years by the members of the institution. Its registered office is situated at 68, Surya Sen Street, Kolkata. But the advice and wishes of the Pradhan Acharya is considered paramount in all matters and affairs related to the management, protection and preservation of the properties of Satsang and in all activities relating to the furtherance of the objectives of the society.
Various Institutions of Satsang
Sree Sree Thakur’s innovative and independent thinking on the why’s and how’s of various natural phenomena and his inborn inquisitiveness found a thoroughfare for expression when men of science like K. P. Bhattacharya came to stay permanently in his company. Viswa Vigyan Kendra (World Science Centre) came up where researches began with great enthusiasm. From the urge to air the views of Sree Sree Thakur and his Satsang on different aspects of life, problems plaguing man’s personal and public life, his politics and science, his society and industry—the perennial and day-to-day problems— and from the urge to preserve and protect the invaluable, easily understandable, enlightening, clear, unambiguous solutions offered by Sree Sree Thakur to these problems so that the humanity at large and the future generations might be benefited by them, were born Satsang Press and Satsang Publishing House. The works of the press were mainly run by the women of the ashram. The Publishing House has brought out innumerable books on the life and sayings of Sree Sree Thakur maintaining amazing authenticity which includes fresh releases and re-editions of previously published volumes with better, innovative and handy get-up. Satsang brings out five magazines every month, namely ‘Alochana’ in Bengali, ‘Urjana’ in Oriya, ‘Ligate’ in English meant chiefly for the English reading public, ‘Sattwati’ in Hindi and ‘Agamvani’ in Assamese.
People suffering from different kinds of diseases—many of which acute and chronic—would regularly come to Sree Sree Thakur, often as the last ray of hope for relief and cure. And he came out with indigenous medicinal solutions based on herbs, often rare, that worked wonderfully on them. He would sometimes ask one of his devotees adept in the matter to work on the formulae given by him and prepare medicines. Satsang Chemical Works and later, Rashaishana Mandir were the outcomes of the urge born out of the necessity to permanently preserve those formulae and systematically manufacture in larger quantities those extremely efficacious medicines with proven results to cater to people at an easily affordable price.
As in the early days all the works of the Ashram starting from digging soil, burning bricks to making wooden furniture and windows were done by the disciples of Sree Sree Thakur themselves as he wanted them to learn every technique, every sort of work and stand on their own feet, Satsang Carpentry, Satsang Garage and centres like this came up in course of time to cope up with the demand of the situation and time.
Satsang Tapovan Vidyalay started functioning in Himaitpur, Pabna, from the educational need of the sons of the disciples of Sree Sree Thakur who started living with him at the Ashram. For girls and even for adult illiterate women most of whom were mothers and housewives staying in the Ashram and nearby, the operations of Matri Vidyalaya began, with almost no infrastructure in today’s standards. In these institutions teaching and learning started and continued in keeping with Sree Sree Thakur’s views on education. The objective was that the learner would truly become educated and not merely literate holding degrees with hardly any common sense. Education, Sree Sree Thakur felt, should nurture a pupil’s individual specific specification, mould his character and conduct so that after graduating from college he can fend for himself standing on his learning, without having to frantically search or beg for an employment. A teacher, he felt, apart from being a master in his own subject would be an Ideal-centric person, able to inspire and motivate. He laid emphasis on practical hands-on training and technical education. Sree Sree Thakur’s own children were among the earliest students of this school. Later Satsang College was also established, the functioning of which has now been handed over to the government. Today Satsang Tapovan Vidyalay boasts of a huge campus complete with playground, hostel and other facilities. The girls’ school, now named Vinapani Vidyamandir, has its own separate premises and facilities.
At Satsang 'Dutdeepti Charitable Hospital' thousands of people are treated free of cost. Patients with financial distress are given medicines. During acute water crisis in the long summer months in the region the organization tries to mitigate the suffering of the people using its own reserve and facilities.
The Ashram situated at Satsangnagar has large buildings with rooms and dormitories where people from different places of India and abroad can stay during their visits to the Ashram. The Ashram has a free kitchen named 'Anandabazar' introduced by Sree Sree Thakur's Mother decades back in Pabna with the support of her own household for those who visit the Ashram and who stay there permanently. It has been offering very simple lunch and dinner daily to the Ashramites and to lakhs during Utsavs and festivals. Satsang organizes football tournaments, annual sports, cultural competitions among children, painting exhibitions in consonance with its express support for every normal mode of sports and culture that give healthy enjoyment to body and mind. Often plays are staged in its own auditorium by enthusiastic youths of the Ashram including members of Sree Sree Thakur’s family though theatre groups invited from Kolkata also sometimes perform.
Satsang has a library also, named 'Amardyuti Vidi Mandir', with a good collection of books. The Philanthropy with its large computerized set-up is the main administrative facility. It has various departments to administer the reqirements of the vast organisation and the devotees of Sree Sree Thakur. The Ashram has a huge cowshed. One of the most conspicuous features of the Ashram is the indulgence the green enjoys here. The existence of green has never been sacrificed to the process of continuous development, rather nurtured and encouraged with great sympathy. The trees and the innumerable gardens of the Ashram indicate that man and nature have an inseparable inter-dependent cohabitation here. Apart from the lush lawns and captivating flowers that may take one’s breathe away with their splendour, there is a sprawling garden here, albeit a little away from the main compound, where medicinal plants are grown.
Charitable Activities
Satsang extends financial assistance to the Prime Minister’s relief fund and other state governments during flood and other natural disasters. Its Pradhan Acharya personally offers assistance with money and means to those who are in distress.
Satsang now has hundreds of its centres in the form of Mandirs and Vihars spread all over India and Bangladesh. These centres operate almost independently in their day-to-day financial and administrative affairs remaining very much emotionally tied, tuned and connected with the heart at Satsang, Deoghar. The centres have become the centres of life and moral shelter for people of the localities where they are situated.
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