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Detailed Notes

Core Notes from Last Week:

Satsang on dedication and trust

• My stuckness can only be fixed by you, Shri Hanumanji
  • Our thoughts want one thing, actions want another, words say another
• Fear and indulgence lead to escapism and forgetfulness – “I will do this later
• Life should evolve from me to “meaning”
• Dedication gives direction to our effort, and trust gives rest to our heart
• Control is an illusion
• Grace flows where effort and surrender meet
• With planning, the eraser on your pencil is symbolic of trust – Bhagavan has a master plan that we work through from his Grace
• Revolve around what is important, conviction is that what you must be doing

RAW from Last Week: Declutter one area of your life. Physical, mental, or emotional – a schedule, a space, or a habit. 

Core Notes from This Week:

Aur -> And 
Manorat -> Wish
Jo Koi -> Whoever
Lave -> Comes with or brings
Dasu -> That wish
Pave -> Is obtained
Amita -> in boundless amounts
Jeevan -> In this lifetime

• Whoever brings a wish or desire to Hanumanji, they will receive it in full measure in this lifetime.
• Seeking becomes possible when the noise in our lives becomes quiet.
  When the mind is quiet and directed, we begin to ask important questions
• Hanumanji responds to where we are and our sincerity
• If we are seeking belonging, Hanumanji gives us devotion
• If we are seeking purpose, Hanumaji gives us direction
• Hanumanji meets us at our intention.
• Hanumanji is a mirror reflecting our very selves.

• Hanumanji is here to lead us to the fundamental

• Vibhisana and Ravana reach Lord Rama as well
• What we seek and how we ask reveal where we are in our inner world

• Truth remains truth regardless of what we believe
• The outer world is a reflection of our inner world
• As we grow, our seeking matures, and that mirror begins to change in what we are asking for
• Be more reflective, like what Bhagvan is always teaching us how to be with him

RAW for this week: Contemplate the following question: Does God exist? Who or what is God? Can God be known?

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Detailed Notes

Core Notes from Last Week:

• Satsang on dedication and trust
• My stuckness can only be fixed by you, Shri Hanumanji
  • Our thoughts want one thing, actions want another, words say another
• Fear and indulgence lead to escapism and forgetfulness – “I will do this later
• Life should evolve from me to “meaning”
• Dedication gives direction to our effort, and trust gives rest to our heart
• Control is an illusion
• Grace flows where effort and surrender meet
• With planning, the eraser on your pencil is symbolic of trust – Bhagavan has a master plan that we work through from his Grace

RAW from Last Week: plan your week in pencil

• Planning should be intentional and we should put parameters on planning – otherwise, constantly planning can lead to anxiety
• When you plan your day out, you feel lighter
• When you plan your day out, you waste less time

Core Notes from This Week:

Tapasvi = ascetic, but practically, simple in lifestyle

Raja = king, the one who is most responsible or has the most responsibilities

Shri Hanumana – you carried out all tasks of Shri Rama with grace

Shri Rama = the most responsible and lives the most simply

• The verse means Shri Hanumana accomplished all the tasks of Shri Rama, the ascetic king

But the extrapolation teaches us – there is so much more depth to this verse

• It’s not just describing a Raja and a Bhakta
• Shri Rama is the embodiment of living simply and living up to responsibility
• Shri Rama doesn’t reject life, he carries life lightly – when he was leaving Ayodhya, he traded gold adornments for bark and does it with such dignity
• Puts sap in his hair to protect Shri Lakshmana and Sita. He does it for practicality
  • Tapasvi – living simply because one’s heart is clear
  • Shri Rama delegates, Shri Hanumana delivers
  • Leaping across oceans, Shri Hanumana is propelled by devotion
    • Freedom in clarity. Shri Hanumana, didn’t chase positions or possessions because his purpose was clear
    • Responsibilities stop feeling like a burden and start feeling like Seva

Never acts out of doubt or pride, only alignment

Simplifying is turning to the essence, turning to joy, independent joy. When we simplify, our purpose becomes more clear. Our actions become more effective

Self development isn’t about doing more, it’s about how we are doing what we are doing – not the volume of our activity

• When we chase more, the result is fatigue not fulfillment
• All we do is seva, but that must be backed by intention

We all move based on the clock to tell us when to move, instead we need to look at the compass to tell us where to go

Meaning of Chaupai 27 – Clear, Connect, Continue

• Clear = simplify your path; how are you spending your time? Where is that time going to waste? Simplify your path to being joyous. Life feels lighter
• Connect = Aligning your efforts when you have that simplified path. Remember why you are doing what you are doing and who you are doing it for. It makes the littlest action into the biggest task to bring you joy. Your attention and attitude need to be aligned. Life has more meaning 
• Continue = that clarity needs to be sustained. To revisit the compass to make sure it’s pointing to Bhagavan Rama is required. We get disoriented very frequently – orient once a day, once a week, once a month at least. Even when we drive, we still tap the screen to zoom out to see if we have other routes available to us. If there is, we reroute, if not we recenter.

Grace flows through our growth when our compass is always pointed towards Bhagavan Shri Rama

RAW for this week: declutter one area of your life. Physical, mental or emotional – a schedule, a space, or a habit.

For Class 6 – we did a team review of all the content we have learned so far!
For Class 7 – we engaged in a commUnity wide Deepavali Celebration.

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Detailed Notes

RAW from Last Week: Imagine an invisible thread from your spine to the ground.

• The visualization aspect of this RAW was really helpful! 
• Helped fix posture
• Helped with alignment and feeling attuned to what was being done

• Felt like a balloon (with a string)
• Reflecting on how we feel like every decision is the end of the world
• Reflection on death (the someone letting go of the string)
• Feeling present and with ourselves

Revisiting 24th chaupai:

When Shree Hanuman’s name is heard, the demons, ghosts don’t come near us. The demons are truly within. The strength to overcome these, Hanumanji models.

KEY THEMES: Fortify and Isolate

• To strengthen our inner mind
• To stay connected with what matters
  • To make clear decisions that align with 

Find steadiness wherever we stand

Core Notes from This Week:

Nasai- destroy
Rog- disease
Hare- removes
Saba – all
Peda- suffering
Japta nirantara- being chanted repeatedly/continuiously
Hanumanta veera- the Great Hanuman

He’s the best physician. In every encounter, he uplift not by healing the inner disease

Rog- the disease of become/ the releasedness of becoming

Not through philosophy but through presense

By invoking the higher and bringing that to every interaction

• In the hopelessness to faith by connection and comfort
• In helplessness, Invoke purpose and offers 
• Peace dissolves restlessness – Offers compassion and steadyness

Each invocation brings in the divine

Its when this invoking is continuous, that life feels whole

Shree Hanuman & Bhagavati Sita: 

She is so upset. His heart trembles to see her in this upset state. He doesn’t just rush in to save like we would. He quietly invokes presence by remembering Shree Rama. Gently reminds her of Shree Rama and that connection. She feels seen and not alone. She sees the love and reverse that Hanumanji has as he presents the ring, and refers to hims as son. In the hopelessness

Shree Hanuman & Shree Laskaman: 

When Shree Laskamana is struck and Shree Ram is struck by the inability to act. THe whole army is paralyzed seeing them like that. Hearing that a herb can save Shree Lashamans, as Rama Doota, he is the infinite abode of strength and courage because of who he serves. He is able to offer his whole hearted effort channeling his association with Shree Rama. There is no room for helplessness by offering purpose and action.

Shree Hanumana & Shree Bharata: 

As Shree Ram is about to return, Shree Bharata will not be alive if doesn’t return in 14 years. He has a bunch of formalities making Vibhshana king and the soldiers. He is so consumed with his brother as he may be delayed. He entrusts Hanuman to speak to Bharata so that . He anchors himself in Shree Rama’s infinite compassion.

WHen do these great people think about themselves, Shree Rama, Gurudev, Guruji they all think about us and bring us to the higher

He offers Bharata this strength by invoking this and talking to Bharata about Shree Rama and their shared love for him. 

Restlessness has not place where there is faith in peaces

Two important words

Bahava roga & peeda

He is not a massive hero in the gargantuan way. He helps us align internally

Bahava rog – the endless striving of trying to be what we are not.

• Comparation
• Jealous
• Insurity
• Agitation in the mind

Invoking bala, brings santosha (contentment)

Unsubscribe from the binding belief by invoking the higher

3 ways to invoke:
– In the morning, feel calm
– Associate with hanuman chalisa
– R3 (read,write reflect)

When faced with a challenge. Invoke peace. Offer patience; feel calm

Envision Hanumanji with Rama and Laskaman on his shoulder, and you are there too 🙂

Expand oneself in offering 

RAW for this week: Pay attention to the second step you make while walking

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Detailed Notes

RAW from Last Week: Spend each day with voices clear about purpose 

• Discipline sustains concentration and harnessing.
• When steadiness matures, it becomes protective
• When we fortify what we gather and harness, it becomes our inner armor 

How to fortify what we built and insulate our peace?

Creatures of the night, like ghosts, demons don’t come near when they hear Hanumanji’s name.

• Booth -> Ghost
• Pisach -> Demon
• Nikata -> Near
• Nay ave -> Don’t come near
• Mahavir -> Great hero
• Jaba -> When
• Sunave -> Sing or chant

Not every battle announces itself with drums and armies

• Many sneak in quietly through the quiet glow of our screens, comparison, or a tiny thought that whispers, “Maybe I’m not enough.”
• These are the real ghosts and demons -> Energies that drain us
• The cure is not to run from them, but to come so strongly from within to not let them enter

1st Obstacle Hanumanji encounters

• Mother of all serpents confronts him
• Hanumanji grows bigger, she grows bigger
• Represents greed
• Defeats greed with contentment and humility
• Remembers he doesn’t need more to be whole

2nd Obstacle

• Simhika would bind animals with her shadow and drag them down
• Represents jealousy
• When we are jealous, we grab the shadow of another’s success
• Hanumanji dives straight through -> Jealousy can’t be negotiated with
• Jealousy is the least rational
• Is my recognition important, or is my responsibility important?
• Negate jealousy with knowledge
• Protect our peace from leaking through the cracks of comparison

3rd obstacle

• Lankini blocks the path and calls Hanumanji a thief
• Symbolic of confusion
• Mind mistakes dharma for adharma
• Hanumanji knocks Lankini out
• Sometimes it takes one precise moment of understanding to shatter years of fog.

Nisachara -> One who moves about at night, one who lives in dullness or laziness

• Part of us that thrives in dullness
• Prefers comfort over clarity
• Predominant guna at night is tamas.
• Fortification and insulation are catalyzed by clarity.

Hanumanji enters Lanka unshaken

• To fortify is to strengthen what holds you upright 
• Fortress strength depends on how tightly the stones are packed
• Our stones are our choices

When we fortify, we strengthen

• Choose one small routine you honor no matter what 

When we insulate, we preserve it

• At least once a day, when something provokes you, pause and take a full, deep breath before reacting.

RAW for this week: Pick a moment when you’re in motion safely, imagine there is a single invisible thread running from the top of your head down to your spine and into the earth

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Detailed Notes

RAW from Last Week: At least once this week, when your mind says “I can’t” or “I’m not ready,” pause and write it down. Then, intentionally, do one small action that disproves that doubt.

Even if you didn’t act, honor the thought – that spark of self-awareness matters.

Word-for-word meaning of Chaupai 23 was shared.

Aapan Tej Samharo Aape. Teeno Lok Haank Te Kaampe.

Hanumanji’s Roar:

• Triggered by remembrance of purpose after being reminded by Jambavan.
• The roar was not anger or noise—it was conviction, clarity, and presence.
• Symbolizes concentration (gathering energy) and harnessing (directing energy).

The Scene of the Roar:

• Described viscerally—cracking earth, trembling mountains, glowing eyes, rising winds.
• Emphasized that even Hanuman forgot at first.
• We, too, need reminders of our potential—and once we remember, it’s our job to gather ourselves and act.

Lanka as Temptation:

• Described as a land of excess, indulgence, and distraction.
• Hanuman remained unshaken, focused on seva (service), not seduced by pleasure.
• His discipline helped him stay aligned with his higher purpose.

Discipline is Key:

• Discipline sustains concentration and harnessing.
• Great beings are remembered for their discipline and steadiness, not indulgence.
• “Time remembers the disciplined with reverence.”

RAW for this week: 

“Gather. Harness. Discipline.”

• Choose one mundane activity (e.g., brushing teeth) and do it with complete presence.
• Write a daily intention that connects you to your higher purpose.
• Set a 5-minute anchor daily (chanting, journaling, gratitude).
• Surround yourself with voices of clarity – books, podcasts, teachers, mentors.
  Let the small steps train you for the leap when it matters.

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Detailed Notes

RAW from Last Week: Find a quiet moment sometime this week and reflect on who you were before you started attending satsanga. Write a word describing who you were then, and one word describing who you are now. 

It’s only with clarity that we know how to move in the appropriate direction. If we don’t know the first step, we don’t know there’s stairs to take us to the goal. After attending satsanga, Sumanji was able to connect with his guides and maps to guide him to peace. Sometimes change isn’t loud or dramatic – it is quiet!  Just the fact that you can look back and notice a difference indicates that you are truly growing!  Even if your “now” word is messy, it is ok — It is important that you are turning towards peace! Your “then” and “now” are not different people, they are the same with you just unfolding!

Review of Chaupai 10 – 22 — overarching theme is how to think = how to act 

C10: Exert/Transform

• The higher the purpose of your work, the greater your transformation 
• Invest in yourself, exert for peace and transform/evolve!
  • Exert for more than pleasure, possession, and position 
• Rising to meet our responsibilities is the way that we can evolve 
• In our own lives, when we’ve done our best and worked hard, we feel so light
  • Act well – with the right intention and attitude

C11: Effort 

• Live and act with intention = all that you do will lead to independent joy 
• Shri Rama embraced Hanumanji once he brought the herb to treat Lakshmana 
• Offer your effort (like Hanumanji did with getting the Sanjivani) – the truest form of prayer is through effort 
• We know that we are offering effort if we feel lighter
  • Lightness is measured by how much we laugh each day

C12: 

• Your efforts and sacrifice on the spiritual journey are never lost 
• In whatever way we sacrifice for the sake of peace, it never goes unnoticed 
• All that matters is sincere sacrifice; divinity does not care for who you were, divinity only cares for who you are striving to be 
• Take one step towards divinity, and divinity will come running 

C13: Identify 

• Seek the lowest common denominator (pursuit of happiness) of all beings
• When others are being praised, we feel jealous/inadequate
  • Reconcile jealousy with AAA
    • Acknowledge → acknowledge the presence of jealousy  
    • Analyze → ask oneself if this feeling is worth holding on to 
    • Appreciate → appreciate the greatness is another; strive to invoke our own greatness 
• It is our ego that separates
• From this feeling of separation is fear and sorrow 

C14 & 15: 

• Know who loves you the most and then love who loves you the most 
• If such great personalities cannot describe Shri Hanumana, why worship them? Why worship anything/anyone less than the best? 
• We often worship for pleasure, possession, and position – the finite 
• We should worship the infinite, which can give us the infinite!
• Know that you are being looked at, and looked after 
• Know that you are loved, and love the one that loves you the most – the infinite

C16: Follow & Sincerity 

• Follow through on the advice that you are given and the advice that you give
• All of us are inevitably headed in the same direction, our choice is to actively follow this 
• Once we follow what our guides and shastras share, we will get to know the highest 
• Karma Yoga – focus on the work, NOT the outcome
  • The work itself should be our joy! 

C17: Guide & Encourage

• Encourage yourself to follow through on choosing peace 
• Vibhishana followed your advice Shri Hanumana, and he became the king 
• “Mantra” – advice
  • That which when followed/reflected upon helps one cross over fear 
  • A mantra is a word or series of words that when reflected upon helps us navigate the challenges of life 
• Hanumanji reassured Vibhishana that Shri Rama does not care who you were; he cares about who you want to be! 
• When we choose peace (Shri Rama) over prosperity, both peace and prosperity happen (but not vice versa)

C18: 

• Your entire life, you have proven yourself wrong. All the things that you thought you couldn’t do, you have! 
• Shri Hanumana is our intellect reaching for the sun (representing knowledge)
• Indra represents the mind, which is always cutting down the intellect as it strives for knowledge
• “Yata drishti, tata shrishti” – So your vision, so your world
  • Embrace the higher vision of your intellect, and see how your life transforms! 

C19: Faith & Fearless 

• Have more faith! 
• It’s only with faith that we can leap (like Hanumanji did too Lanka) into divinity’s arms
• The vanaras symbolize our thoughts 
• The few vanaras that went south were vichara (self-inquiry)
• Hanumanji represents the focused seeker – the one who finds what he is truly seeking 
• Bhagvan Shri Rama knew Hanumanji’s potential
• Jambhavan also believed in Hanumanji’s strength and purpose 
• We too grow when we believe in our guru, often before we believe in ourself

C20: Trust & Realize

• How to have more faith = to trust
  • To see how grace flows through every moment of our lives 
  • Our life has been custom-designed to lead us to divinity 
• 4 types of grace:
  • Grace of god 
  • Grace of scriptures
  • Grace of our teachers/guides
  • Our own grace (the most important, since it motivates us to develop)
• Trust the trajectory 

C21:

• With trust and faith as your wings, surrender! 
• Reflect on why what you are doing is important, this will allow you to feel that all that you are doing is important 
• Do your best!

C22: Lead/Develop

• Take ownership of your growth, be serious about happiness! 
• By surrendering to Hanumanji and Shri Rama through our best effort, the best in ourselves is brought out 

RAW for this week: At least once this week, when your mind says “I can’t” and “I’m not ready”, pause and write it down. Then, intentionally, do one small action that disproves that doubt.

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Detailed Notes

RAW from Last Week: Open your bag and remove one thing you are carrying “just in case” and reflect on what belief you were carrying about that item.

So many of these items are the ego’s need for control that is just an illusion to protect us from uncertainty. Real certainty is in our inner readiness. In our lives we collect so many “just in case” items. The more we hold on to each of these, the more we feel drained. Freedom is holding on to what is important and letting all else go.

The essence of Vedanta is attach to the highest and detach from everything else.

• Context of Hanuman Chalisa and vision – our trajectory lies in people, possessions and purpose.
  • The rails that guide our transformation to peace is our shastras (map)
  • In Seeking Culture, this is Hanuman Chalisa
  • Ramayana – Rama, Ayana
    • The journey of Shree Rama
    • More philosophically, Rama – Ram: to revel and rejoice in one’s own nature. Ayana: journey
    • Ramayana is the path in which we travel to know our true nature is independent joy
  • Sundrakanda
    • Sundra: beautiful (the most beautiful section of Ramayana)
    • About Shree Hanumanji’s stories that symbolize our path to realize our own potential and the beauty of each of our personalities that we are yet to invoke
    • The more beautiful because it reveals to us what is possible when we live with similar kind of devotion
    • Shree Hanumana is the navigator to Shree Rama

Review of Doha’s 1 and 2 and Chaupais 1-9

• First 2 Dohas
  • Preparation by associating with the why’s the develop wisdom – clarity of purpose
• 1st chaupai – develop virtues to master the mind and situations
• 2nd chaupai – devotion brings courage and confidence through clarity of purpose
• 3rd chaupai – integrate all aspects of personality to feel secure and serene
• 4th chaupai – self-care means nurturing inner wealth of body and mind
• 5th chaupai – remembering what real success is
• 6th chaupai – humility, understanding we are looked at so we are looked after
• 7th chaupai – encourages us to strive hard and to serve
• 8th chaupai – listening and following what we listen to, internalizing what is heard 
• 9th chaupai – acceptance and adaptation, applied understanding, internalize those teachings and we learn to adapt and accept – keep moving forward

• 1st Doha
  • Purify instrument
  • Framework – AID
    • A mind that is:
      • Available – how much is actually received and how much is remembered, how much are you able to relate 
      • Integrated – the 4 personalities are working together (body, mind, intellect, spirit)
      • Directed – there is a clear purpose and the purpose can be good or not so good. The idea is to follow the path of less resistance – selflessness, when it is directed to something higher. All 4 personalities sacrifice for that common goal.
• 2nd Doha
  • Prioritize
    • We know so many things but we still do it – we have so much knowledge but we dont live up to that knowledge
    • Knowing is not doing – live up to what you know and pririotize your knowledge by acting
    • Associate with the wise and develop wisdom
    • Quiet, integrated mind will lead to independent joy

• 1st Chaupai – Develop
  • Develop virtues so you can act on what you know 
  • When we develop mastery over the mind, we become a master of all our situation
• 2nd Chaupai – Devotion
  • Courage and confidence
  • You are the ambassador of Shree Rama so you are the abode of strength
  • Where there is clarity and sincerity of purpose – naturally courage and confidence flow with fearlessness
• 3rd Chaupai – Integrate
  • When we integrate we naturally feel quieter
  • One who is a great hero 
  • The one who is great in all facets of heroism
  • When we strive to do this, we feel confidence, secure and serene (quiet)
  • Confidence comes from integrated personality and confidence on purpose
• 4th Chaupai – Self-care
  • Wealth of the body and mind
  • Body and mind are your inner wealth
  • Tune into them, care for them and listen to them
  • A lot of times, listening to our body and mind is external (look good, feel good)
  • Inner glow – not superficial but deep
  • When you know what to do but don’t – that’s when we feel most insecure and disintegrated
• 5th Chaupai – Remember Shree Hanumana’s greatness so we may succeed
  • Carrying the flag of joy – Joy is our ultimate goal and purpose
  • When our standard for joy is external, it will never be enough
  • You feel like you have arrived but you cannot feel rested – it is always relative so it will never be enough
• 6th Chaupai – Remember Humility
  • Shree Hanumanji’s parents are the most epic
    • Shivji – Transformative
    • Vayu – Virtuous
    • Kesari – Fearless
  • Shree Hanumanji’s parents are our divine parents
  • Invoke the grace of divinity in our own lives
  • You are constantly supported by divinity, so we can act with confidence while maintaining humility
• 7th Chaupai – Strive and Serve
  • Shree Hanumana is full of knowledge – practice that knowledge 
  • The more you do, the more you will come to do and realize you can do
  • Say yes to more responsibilities and understand they are your sadhna – it helps you evolve
  • Service is the highest form of worship and self-development
  • Train to like what you do because it helps remove your likes and dislikes
  • When one transcends their like and dislikes, we find quietude in any context 
• 8th Chaupai – Listening
  • Shree Hanumana is always joyously listening to the stories or Lord Rama
  • His priority is knowing joy, serving joy, spreading joy – constantly being around Joy
  • Revolve around those that are clear about their priorities
  • Hold onto Hanumana/Satsanga
  • The desire to prioritize this more will deepen
  • Symbolized by Shree Rama, Shree Lakshmana and Mata Sita living in Shree Hanumana’s heart
• 9th Chaupai – Acceptance and adaptation
  • Culmination of all of this preparation 
  • Shree Hanumana shows us – no matter the responsibility, big or small, adapt to the responsibility, with complete joy and dedication
  • Constant ability to accept the present moment/circumstances and context is indicative to the depth at which knowledge is internalized
  • Measure of knowledge is selflessness and humility – knowledge is useless if it is not supporting our peace and building on our Joy

RAW: Find a quiet moment this week and think about who you were when you first started this class/Satsanga and who you are today. Write down a word that describes who you were that day and one word that describes who you are today.

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Detailed Notes

Money was valued when Sumanji was growing up because it allowed his family to look after what was functional
Happiness is also related to the security that money brings. Many of us grow up thinking that to be happy is to have some level of financial security.

We don’t need to look after the functional from a survival perspective. Because of our privilege, we get to think about deeper things, and we get to ask more questions about life:

• What is happiness?
• What is my place in the world?
• What is my purpose?

Sumanji’s exploration brought him to Advaita Vedanta, or the science of happiness. Within a year of being exposed to Chinmaya Mission, he never looked back. He continues to be a student and shares the message of independent joy as often as possible

Content for this year – we will study the second half of the Hanuman Chalisa! We will start by reviewing the content from last year:

Question: What is the hallmark of a sincere seeker?
Answer: Humility & Selflessness

• Humility -> feels like less deservership
• Selflessness -> Being more giving, with time, effort, and resources

With Self Development, the path and the goal are the same. When we practice this – we stop looking at others and look in the mirror. Make this journey personal, otherwise nothing will change. I we don’t personalize what we are learning in satsang, then we don’t adapt to the challenges around us -> Leading to complaining, criticizing, crying (suffering) — the 3 C’s.

In Secular Science, knowledge is measured by information. In sacred science, knowledge is measured by transformation. We know that we are growing when we feel lighter! An expression of lightness is when we laugh more 🙂

From the Ramayana – we learn Humility
From the Bhagavatam – we learn Surrender.

The greatest act of our free will is to surrender it! There is no life lived, there is only life.
Sanatana Dharma means perpetual self-development. There are only 2 aspects — sadhana (the means) and moksha (the goal). When our goal is to be independent, to be joy – we will see all of life as opportunities to attain this goal.

Humility & Selflessness are means to purification – embracing discomfort, developing virtues, lessening likes and dislikes.
How can we do this? By associating!
As we associate -> so we think -> so we develop -> so we become.

Live by the 3 Ps in life (ascending order)

• People -> They come and go (ephemeral)
• Purpose -> To share Advaita Vedanta (generational)
• Presence -> Independent joy (eternal) (the highest aspiration)

3 Gunas (Ascending Order)

• Tamasik karma -> Lazy actions focused on the individual
• Rajasik karma -> Busy action focused on oneself and family
• Saatvik karma -> Peaceful and present actions focused on being selfless towards society and humanity 

Hold on to Sri Hanuman by learning through Him to reach Bhagvan Rama if we are willing to hold on. Holding on means showing up

Prioritize yourself, prioritize your happiness!

RAW for this week: Open your bag, wallet, notes app, and remove one item you rarely use. What belief about control or support was in that item for you?