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Satsangs, the

company of truth

ASATSANG speaks from the heart of truth. It is the truth rendered
in words and it has the wonderful potency to lift its hearers or
readers above their mind-stream. The satsang is a devotional tool,
one that has a long and revered standing in the religious tradition
of this country. A satsang occurs when a group of people talk or,
in this case, write about their experiences in faith. Through natural
sympathetic listening or reading it draws its audience into the circle
of faith. As an electron carries an electric charge, a satsang carries a
charge of faith.

These satsangs are for those standing on the edge of scepticism
and faith. Each satsang, as we have learnt from Guruji, blesses
both the reader and the writer. Each one offers a turning-point in
the life of an individual as distressed as you are. Each also offers
a continuation, a reaffirmation, a moment of faith. For in Guruji’s
presence, we are in the presence of him whose light is more radiant
than the instantaneous luminescence of all the suns in the universe.

And each puts the sword to doubt which walks—so many times—
arm in arm with faith. Doubt and faith both inhabit our world of
contradictions and contrariness. Satsangs put the doubt to sword.
Each of these true-life stories shows how the spirit of man rises up
to claim its innate faith. We call that faith Guruji. Others have called
him by different names, all as dear, as loving as him.

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