Satsang

"Kabir sngat sadhu ki, katai koti apradh.

Occhi sangat dushta ki, athon pahar upadh.

Santon ki sangati bhali, jyon gandhi ki bas.

Gandhi kuchh deve nahin, to bhi bas subas."

The company of saints wipes out millions of sins. If you stay near a perfume seller you will start to smell of perfume too, even though the perfume seller does not five you anything. Similarly, company of saints makes us pious and pure by eradication all our sins, whereas the company of wicked people makes us miserable and disturbed.

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Satsang

"Kahta hun kahe jat hun, kahun bajaye dhol

Swansa khali jat hai, teen lok ka mol.

Aise mahange mol ka, ek swans jo jay.

Tinahun lok na pat tare, kahe dhoori milay."

I tell you and go on telling you to the beat of a drum that your breaths are being wasted for nothing, whereas each breath is more valuable that the three worlds. So, why are you wasting such costly breath? Without remembrance of the Holy Name of God, our costly breath is being wasted. No one can give us even one breath in exchange for all the money in the universe. Without meditation on the Holy Name, this human body will simply dissolve into dust.

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Earth

Smell is the natural function of the nose. It is dominated by the element of earth. The black bee is fond of fragrance, and its sense of smell dooms it. The bee flits from flower to flower all day, gathering nectar. This bee has the strength to pierce a hole in wood, but gets trapped in the velvet petals of the lotus flower in the evening. It does not pierce the flower due to its attraction and attachment to its fragrance and tenderness. Then at night an elephant comes, breaks the stem of the lotus flower with his trunk, tramples it underfoot and the bee dies.
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Water

The tongue represents the water element and its function is to taste. A fisherman hangs an insect or worm on a fishing hook and lowers it into the water. A fish, who is swimming free in the deep water, gets trapped by the fishing line because it is tempted to eat. The fisherman reels in the fishing line and puts the trapped fish on hot sand. The fish abandons its life force in agonizing pain.
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Fire

The natural function of the eye is to see the colour and shade of the objects. This organ is made from the fire element. for example, insects are very fond of light. Wherever a lamp burns, the gather and get burnt to death by the heat What do the get except a burnt body? In the same way, a man sacrifices his life for physical forms, for beauty.
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Five Elements

This entire creation is made from five elements - fire, air, water, earth and space. The air represents the sound - the ears hear the sound. It carries words whether pleasant or unpleasant and these words can stir up passion and malice. A deer is totally engrossed in listening to music. It totally forgets itself and then it gets captured and chained by the hunter. So a deer who would normally run freely in jungle, is captured due to its attachment with sound and loses its freedom once for all.
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Human Body

Now we have a human body and we can acquire Knowledge, renunciation and devotion to God. Salvation is achieved only in the human life form and in no other species. All saints, sages and Great Divine Souls were born as human beings. A human body may be very good-looking but if it is not used to remember the Holy Name of God, then it is useless. It is not at all appropriate for human beings to remain engrossed, all the time, in worldy enjoyments and attachments. A small mistake can ensnare a person in terrible miseries. A human body is cause for salvation and also for bondage. The person who plunges into devotion to God gets salvation while others, who forget God and engrossed in worldly enjoyments get trapped.
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Transcendental Yoga

Yoga does not only pertain to physical well being but its main objective is to transcend the three states of consciousness which all human beings experience and attain the fourth state of consciousness called the Turiya and Turiyateet i.e. super consciousness. These five states correspond to Siva's activity, that is, His power of action; Siva's Lordship which is His of Knowledge; the third is Siva's power of will; the fourth is His labour which contains all the cycles of creation and destruction and, the fifth is the rest Siva enjoys in His own nature, which is His power of consciousness. The first three states belong to the sphere of trans migratory existence. The fourth and fifth, on the other hand, are higher, supra mundane or transcendental states of consciousness in which the yogi enjoys bliss by penetrating into the universal consciousness of the Self, through which he ultimately becomes liberate (Jivanmukta). The state beyond the fourth is the state of awareness which Paramansiva Himself enjoys when duality has entirely disappeared and everything is realized to be one with consciousness. The fourth is the state of awareness of the yogi who, catching hold of  the pure subjectivity flowing through the lower three states, is still actively elininatiing his sense of duality. While the former is the supreme subject as 'I' consciousness (aham), the latter is the pure awareness of 'I-ness' of the subject which encompasses the lower states, giving them life and joining them together. As such, the fourth state is the reflective awareness of one's own nature shining in all three states at one with them.
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Why is man so unhappy?

Why has he been infected with the disease of materialism? Those who possess material wealth are just as dissatisfied as those who do not. This insatiable mental disease tortures man so much in this age of materialism, yet the leaders and the intelligentsia do not understand this fact.
How can we get peace? When will we be satisfied? When we forget the right path towards life's destination, we will wander endlessly, facing a lot of difficulties, just like a traveler who has lost his way. The same problems are being faced by human beings today as in the past. How can mental tension and unrest be eradicated: Saint Tulsidas says,"Sometimes this mind wants to enjoy sensual pleasures, sometimes it wants to enjoy immense wealth, sometimes it wanders towards seductive beauty, and sometimes, like a deer, it wanders in the solitude of the forest." So he says, 'Think about how to control this mind'.
The infallible technique to bring the mind under control is bestowed by the mercy of the Spiritual Master. Once sugar is mixed with sand, even though you may be as strong as an elephant you will not be able to separate them. But a little ant can separate them easily. The ant has this skill. In the same way, mind is subtle, so until you find that most subtle technique you will not be able to control it. The Master knows this mystery of how to separate the mind from the senses, and unite it with the Holy Word of God.
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