Seek Satsang or Good Company

(viii) Seek Satsang or Good Company

If one doesn't seek good company, he will fall in bad company. Therefore always seek satsang or association with the wise, saints, Yogis, Sanyasis and Mahatmas, and practice their precepts in thought, speech and deed. Whenever an evil thought enters your mind, be alert. Leave that place immediately and go to a place of Satsang. The magnetic aura, the spiritual vibrations and the powerful thought currents of saints purify the body and the mind of passionate man. If one doesn't do this, the sexual thoughts will penetrate the body. It is the mind that really does all actions, the determination of mind will be put into action. You will get a downfall. Lamentation after the fall is futile. The water has a natural tendency to flow downwards. Even so mind has a natural tendency to go downwards to sense pleasures. The passionate mind deceives the person and drags him to sense pleasures. It takes you into bad company, which ultimately leads to downfall. Apparently the bad company may seem attractive to you but ......

जिसके पीछे हों गम की कतारें, भूलकर भी उस खुशी से न खेलो |

"Don't indulge in momentary sensual gratifications, for it results ultimately in a number of sorrows and sufferings."

Even if you suffered a great downfall in past life, there is a chance for redemption provided you turn to satsang. The history reveals that many wicked persons have become great persons through Satsang.

Lack of Satsang leads to downfall. Therefore, take a bath in the holy Ganges of satsang. It will burn all ignorance, all thoughts and Sanskaras of passion and evil actions in short time just as a single matchstick burns huge bundles of cotton in few seconds.