A scintillating and inspiring event organised during USA Jnana Yajna 2025.
Art of Being Human, is a session were Poojya Swamiji , Ma and Nutan Swamiji leads us in three unique but symbiotic methods, to help us flower as a real human being. Far from religious concepts, this session opens up a new horizon for the whole of humanity for a better world!

Date: 09 June 2025
Venue: Fairfield Inn 15011, Newport Ave, Tustin CA 92780

The focus of this special Satsang is the fundamental question: How does one become a good human being? Swamiji explains that the mind and intelligence must be refined. To live as an ideal human, one must cultivate essential virtues like non-hurting, truthfulness, cleanliness, integrity, and sensory moderation. Abandoning thoughts of ‘me’ and ‘mine’, one must have a societal, and global dimension. Love, sympathy, and sacrifice towards fellow beings must be imbibed.

Having attained the rare human birth, one should use the intelligence and contemplate upon the Supreme Truth--the non-dual knowledge. To live as a good human, the mind must cultivate noble virtues and the intelligence must acquire knowledge. This will make a human expansive and universal.

Ma emphasizes that cultivation of noble qualities is essential to be a good human. One should understand the purpose of human life--knowing one’s own real identity. For this, introspection and self-assessment are indispensable. Remaining in the impermanent, changeful body, one must look for the changeless self.

Nutan Swamiji highlights that the purpose of human life is to know our own immortality. It is for each seeker to experiment on his own inner personality and realize the Self, which is the same in all beings. In that lies the solution to all problems of individual as well as societal life. The thumb rule to live life is to look within and always steer the mind to expansiveness, and not selfishness. Through Satsang, listening to scriptures, one interacts with the Soul qualities. By repeated interaction with these concepts, we realize our real identity. This is the art of living, where one gets the joy of winning over the lower tendencies every moment.

Shlokas that Chanted in the Satsang:
19:11 - आहार-निद्रा-भय-मैथुनानि ...Hitopadesha 25
22:42 - अहिंसा सत्यमस्तेयं शौचमिन्द्रियनिग्रहः... Manu smriti 10.63
23:53 - श्रूयतां धर्म-सर्वस्वं श्रुत्वा चैवावधार्यताम् ...Panchatantra 3.104
25:03 - अयमेवाहं इत्यस्मिन् संकोचे विलयं गते...Yogavasishtha
28:45 - पूर्णे मनसि संपूर्णं जगत्सर्वं सुधाद्रवैः .... Yogavasishtha 5.21.14
30:16 - य एव यत्नः क्रियते बाह्यार्थोपार्जने जनैः ...Yogavasishtha 5.12.26
31:51 - अहं सर्वेषु भूतेषु भूतात्मावस्थित: सदा ... Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.21
33:37 - अहमुच्चावचैर्द्रव्यै: क्रिययोत्पन्नयानघे...Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.24
34:59 - अर्चादावर्चयेत्तावदीश्वरं मां स्वकर्मकृत्...Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.25
35:40 - यो मां सर्वेषु भूतेषु सन्तमात्मानमीश्वरम्...Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.22
36:40 - हरि: सर्वेषु भूतेषु भगवानास्त ईश्वर: ...Srimad Bhagavatam 7.7.32
38:45 - वदन्ति तत्तत्त्वविदस्तत्त्वं यज्ज्ञानमद्वयम् ...Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.11
55:15 - मनसि वचसि काये पुण्यपीयूषपूर्णा... Nītiśatakam 79
57:32 - वाञ्छा सज्जन संगमे परगुणे प्रीतिर्गुरौ नम्रता....Subhashitam
1:07:18 - शृण्वन्तु बिश्वे अमृतस्य पुत्रा: .....Shvetashvatara Upanishad 2.5
1:22:04 - विद्या ददाति विनयम्...Subhashitam
1:31:05 - सत्यं ब्रूयात् प्रियं ब्रूयान्न ब्रूयात् सत्यमप्रियम्... Manusmriti 4.138

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