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Talk 1 of a 4 day lecture series by Ma Gurupriya ji during 2018 Jamshedpur Jnana Yajna .

Date: 18 February 2018
Venue: CIRD, Jamshedpur

In this Satsang, Ma motivates the listeners to understand spiritual pursuit in totality and strive for unaffectedness, freedom, and fearlessness. She shows us how we can attain the state of freedom—freedom from all shackles of the mind and intelligence.

The aim of spiritual pursuit is unquestionably to transform and purify our minds and to attain the soul dimension and attain freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom from our own traits, our own desires and expectations, which bring us misery and torment. They are the factors which bind us and we need to be free of them. Spiritual pursuit enables us to become fearless, unaffected and to remain afloat in all worldly situations. 

Quoting verses from Srimad Bhagavatam, Ashtavakra Samhita, and Bhagavad Gita, Ma explains how Pareekshit, King Janaka and Arjuna attained this state of freedom and fearlessness by listening to and absorbing the spiritual truths. The sole aim of scriptures is to lead one to introspection, enquiry and finally realization.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
10:23 - विहाय कामान्य: सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति…Bhagavad Gita 2.71
12:25 - दु:खेष्वनुद्विग्नमना: सुखेषु..Bhagavad Gita 2.56
30:08 - कथं ज्ञानमवाप्नोति कथं... Ashtavakra Samhita 1.1
36:43 - मुक्तिमिच्छसि चेत्तात.. Ashtavakra Samhita 1.2
57:18 - यच्छ्रोतव्यमथो जप्यं... Srimad Bhagavatam 1.19.38
1:01:41 - वरीयानेष ते प्रश्न:... Srimad Bhagavatam 2.1.1
1:03:12 - को नाम बन्धः कथमेष... Vivekachudamani 49

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