One term at a time · third of the series
सत्सङ्ग satsanga
Good association — the company you keep.
It decides what the mind practices all day.
The words for what your mind is already doing.
Vasana, samskara, viveka — an older psychology named these patterns with a precision English never developed. Fifty of them carry nearly all of the teaching. Four are filmed. The rest arrive as they are made, free.
One word, one film. We will not email you about anything else, and you can stop any time.
Two minutes, and then he says it himself.
The card carries the definition. Swamiji carries the rest — he almost never defines a term outright, he shows you one at work.
2 min 40 sec
Satsanga means all that you do from morning till night.
Sometimes wrong association can start from your own mood.
Sri Swami Jyotirmayananda · The Yoga Vasistha, Lesson 188 · at 24:07
He takes the word out of the meeting hall. Not the scriptural definition, he says, but the practical one, and then he puts the source of a wrong association inside your own mood rather than in the room.
This one decides whether it returns.
Satsanga is not a word to collect. It is the third step of an argument that runs through four terms, and each of the others has its own film.
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वासना vasana
Where the pattern starts.
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वैराग्य vairagya
What loosens its hold.
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सत्सङ्ग satsanga
Good association, the company you keep. It decides what the mind practices all day, and so whether a trace re-forms.You are here
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विवेक viveka
What finally makes the letting go possible.
About seven hundred Sanskrit terms appear across our written study guides, but only about fifty come back again and again. Those fifty are the set, and they are what we are filming.