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Ma Gurupriya ji's reflections on Poojya Swamiji's morning messages (Prabhata Rashmih)
Date: 11 December 2024
Venue: Vijnana Bhavan, Narayanashrama Tapovanam

Ma begins the Satsang by exhorting all listeners to introspect on the fact that everything in the universe is the Self alone; The substratum of everything is the Self. Reading a page from her own spiritual journal, she narrates how she arrived at the realization that sukha, duhkha, enthusiasm, lack of enthusiasm, light, darkness, and all bhavas, are an expression of the Self alone.

Ma reads and explains a chapter from Poojya Swamiji’s book ‘Prabhata Rashmih’ (Self-realization—an all-time Sadhana), which says that a seeker’s goal is to know the Consciousness which animates and activates the body. The body is inert, but the Consciousness is the body-different sentience, presence within. To understand that there is something like Consciousness, a seeker must meditate. He must withdraw from the world objects and the senses. One must realize the magnitude and potential of the Consciousness, by which brilliance all sensory objects are illumined.

Bhagavad Gita says that the Supreme pervades the whole universe, in its imperceptible form. All beings abide in the Supreme. A seeker may be interacting with a variegated world, but by Sadhana he must wipe out the impressions of externality. He must understand that everything is a display and projection of the same internal Self.

In meditative absorption we are aware of the inner presence, the inner source into which all things recede during sleep. To meditate and experience the Consciousness within the body is not a very difficult task. But to develop a sense of universality and oneness in the wakeful and interactional state is difficult. So, in addition to meditative Sadhana, a seeker must take to interactional Sadhana.

Shlokas discussed in the Satsang:

4:00 - आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं…Bhagavad Gita 6.32
35:44 - मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना….Bhagavad Gita 9.4

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