Satsang

(“company of the good”) Quasi-congregational meeting and worship that
was particularly emphasized in devotional (bhakti) religious life as a way to
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Satsang
Women singing hymns at a neighborhood temple during a satsang in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
associate with fellow devotees (bhakta).
The word covers an enormous range of
activities and contexts, from an informal
gathering for singing and conversation
in someone’s home, to highly orchestrated meetings in which a guru may
preach to thousands of devotees, and
anything in between. In all these cases
the importance of satsang lies in the
wholesome religious atmosphere generated by the presence of good people,
which is believed to create beneficial
effects in terms of reinforcing one’s own
good qualities and reforming one’s
faults.