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Satsang: The Company You Keep

When you keep an iron nail next to a magnet, after some time, the nail starts exhibiting magnetism. If you pour hot water on ice, after some time the ice melts and the water becomes cold. Mythology speaks of Parasmani, the magical stone, the touch of which changes everything to gold.  A rotten fruit causes all other fruits in the basket to rot. The case of human beings is no different. An English proverb says that a man is known by the company he keeps. When two people spend a lot of time together, after some time they start becoming like each other. This happens because in every interaction that we have – with a person, animal, plant or thing -- there occurs an exchange of prana, breath. In the realm of ether and to a clairvoyant eye, this is visible as change in colour of the aura – yellow interacts with blue to become green; the same yellow when it interacts with black, becomes brown.  That is why our ancestors emphasised the importan...