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SATSANG
APART FROM RITUALS The "Science of Soul" is just like any other science, but more
exact, more natural, more lasting, and the oldest of all the sciences. It is
the Science of Realized Truth directly connected with the soul in man, and
should therefore be kept distinct and apart from rites and rituals, forms and
ceremonials; the performance or observance of which keeps one tied down to the
plane of the senses, and as such must be strictly eschewed. Our discourses and
talks in Satsang should be confined only to explaining the Science itself in
lucid terms, without any outer embellishment like lighting of candles, burning
of incense, offering of flowers, tinkling of bells, exhibiting photographs and
the like. Even though these may appear innocent and harmless in themselves, yet
the seekers after Truth are likely to go astray by such symbolisms and forms,
and may get entangled and lost.
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