The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Walk of Hope 2015-16 enters Madikeri on March 11, 2015, and with March 12, 2015 being the day of rest for the Walkers of Hope, there is a public reception organised at the Town Hall, Kodagu on ...
So, you see, by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater Self is gained. How can one become unconscious when the fountainhead of consciousness is that ve...
The Walk of Hope 2015-16 enters Karnataka on March 7, 2015 at Kodagu, from Kasaragode, Kerala. The Co-ordination Team of Karnataka has put together an extensive itinerary filled with activities and...
Every one of us, although we say we are looking for this or that, is looking for philosophy or welfare. What we are really looking for is happiness.
There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...
As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...
So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self, with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to mak...
The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...
"Sat-chit-ananda" is a three-syllable word— ‘Sat’, ‘Chitta’ and ‘Ananda’. ‘Sat’ meaning reality, ‘Chitta’ meaning consciousness and ‘Ananda’ means bliss (not ordinary happiness which has an end). T...
The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached by any of our known modes of communication.
You cannot conceive of a mind without thought; so the mind in totality is actually a bundle of thoughts from the past to the present and projecting into the future.
The Vedanta asserts that this basic attitude, this basic instinct to unite, comes from the fact that we have separated from Unity and have now become dual. Therefore, there is a built-in instinct t...