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By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.

St Matthew 13:14

The sole aim and purpose of Satsang is transformation, a change from one form to another. As at present all of us are of the world and for the world. We are worldly wise to the extreme. We have taken the world and all that is of the world as the be-all and end-all of human existence. We live and die for the world. All the time we think in terms of the world so much so that the world has come to occupy a foremost place in our heart.

As we think so we become,

is a common adage. One who constantly thinks of the world cannot but be worldly. In spite of being worldly we never had an opportunity to pause and think what this world is? The world is not constantly static. It is ever in a state of perpetual flux. Are not heaven and earth in constant motion? Matter is changing from moment to moment, and so do all the material things. In the midst of the changing panorama of material life, we yet live unchanged as ever before. The flame of life continues to shine in us through all the vicissitudes that come and go for nothing on earth is stable.

The Light of Life is the eternal axis round which everything else revolves. It is the axle of the wheel. The spokes and the discs around, constituting the wheel, remain in shape and work well because of the axle. All the rhythmic motion of the wheel depends on the soundness of the centre, the still centre which is the source of all activity. A skilled wheel-wright therefore pays all his attention to make the centre healthily strong so as to ensure the working of the wheel smooth in spite of the uneven surface of the road on which it has to run.

The life in the world is not a bed of roses. It is strewn all over with thorns and thistles which one cannot avoid with all his wits about him. One may, however, put on strong and sturdy boots to escape the pricks, if he so chooses.

Satsang provides us with a safety-valve whereby we can walk rough-shod over the ups and downs of life on the earth plane. ‘Sat’ is eternally the same. It is the very centre of our being and the Soul of our soul. If one could get any the nearer to the centre, one can ever bask in the glorious sunshine of God.

We have for quite a long time been attending to discourses and Satsangs. It would certainly pay us if we could occasionally make a halt and survey what distance we have traversed on the Path Godwards and to what extent we have benefited. If we fail to find any appreciable change in us, the fault is ours and not of Satsang, for we have not tried to follow what we heard and much less put it into actual practice. We have, therefore, to be the doers of the Word and not the hearers alone, for then alone we will be completely changed and transformed from the life of the flesh to the life of the spirit and walk not in darkness but in the Light of God.