Shabad Surat Sangam Foundation
OVERVIEW: SSS Foundation is a charitable organization totally dedicated to spiritual evolvement of human kind. It is neither a profit making organization nor an educational institution and not even follower of any specific religion or sect or a society serving body. The mission aims beyond any boundary set by the educated mind. This foundation has been set to provide a platform for conducting experiments within the human body, the only laboratory to work on spirituality, and disclose the results to general public for their inspiration and motivation. Here we believe that the only way to guide people is to make them realize & experience and for that an example has to be set before them to follow.
Swami Ji firmly believes that nothing happens on its own, a process is involved in every action and if we could understand and control the process then the success is in our hand. This is equally true for physical and spiritual world. That is why he puts emphasis on Kriya Yog i.e. reunion with the ultimate through action.
To understand the mission of this Shabad Surat Sangam Foundation, a little understanding of the meaning of these words is required. These words are quite popular in Punjabi language but having their origin in Sanskrit language.
SHABAD : The literal meaning of this word is, ‘The Word’. Not in the sense of a mere collection of letters forming a unit of language but in the sense of LOGOS.
As suggests the Webster’s Dictionary - reason, thought of as constituting the controlling principle of the universe and as being manifested by speech.
SURAT : The meaning of this word is, ‘Vital Force’. A basic force or principle regarded as the source and cause of life in living organisms.
The idea will be more clear by learning the definition of vitalism suggested by the Webster’s Dictionary - the doctrine that the life in living organisms is caused and sustained by a vital force that is distinct from all physical and chemical forces and that life is, in part, self-determining and self-evolving.
SANGAM : This word stands for ‘Unification’ in literal sense. The suggested meaning by Webster’s Dictionary calls it - the act of unifying or the state of being unified.
Altogether this mission can be read as, Unification of Vital Force in us with the Reason to attain the purpose of life. And the purpose, we believe, is not just knowing the God but to manifest him in this very body, the physical proof for the physical word.
The sole purpose of this mission shall be clear by following words of Swami Ji, mentioned in his book ‘Sadhna Sutra’ - “This is but definite that everybody is looking for ‘ANANDA’ (Eternal Bliss) but there is no place one could buy them. We due to mistake try to find that in material which is nothing but a mirage, an illusion of water in desert. ‘ANANDA’ is our natural state, it is nowhere but within ourselves. As a seed is capable to grow in a complete tree because it has all that’s required to become a tree within itself. But we don’t see that when we look into the seed with physical eyes. Similarly we have the reservoir of bliss, the ‘PARMATMA’ (God), within ourselves. We need to realize him for ourselves by meditation and other similar practices. Any text or preaching learnt is incomplete unless and until practiced and realized for oneself.”
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