[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fairfield, Iowa Meditator Satsanga

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the 
academics ("scholastics," or "schoolmen") of medieval universities in Europe 
from about 1100 to 1700, and a program of employing that method in articulating 
and defending dogma in an increasingly pluralistic context. 

 “The more critical  reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes.. 
Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its 
dominion, the individual is pauperized.” -Carl Gustav Jung
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

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 By doing satsaïga, discrimination arises, awakening one to what is
 proper and improper, merit and sin, adharma and duty. That is why one who
 does satsaïga is saved from adharma and engages himself in dharma. Saved
 from sin, he will carry out meritorious activities. Established doctrines
 (siddhànta), dharmeõa pàpamanuda[n]ti, that by practicing dharma, sin is
 destroyed. Similarly, satsaïga also destroys sin.
 

 By listening to discussions about Bhagavàn, sitting in satsaïga, the
 internal sorrow and anxiety which naturally scorch the human heart are cleansed
 and pacified, and the inner organ will naturally become peaceful.
 

 Through satsaïga the human being turns towards the omnipotent, allcapable
 Bhagavàn. One who is ever turned towards Bhagavàn will have no lack
 of anything in the world. All his sorrow and misery will be destroyed. In this
 way, by association with saints, all sins, misery, and poverty will be totally
 eliminated.
 

 May there always be auspiciousness (śubham astu nityam).
 

 -Brahmananda Saraswati