The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Stillness comes and when it comes, then you are in it. When it goes, nothing can be done about it. To understand that one cannot do anything about it, is humility and worship.
Let us not get caught in forms. There is no difference between form and no-form here. The energy is everywhere, the wind, the earth, the plants, in the growing and becoming of the plant. All this i...
The Ultimate Reality is the real guru. No personality is involved. meditate on the feet of the guru, the padukas. Keep the padukas inside your heart. Then you close your eyes and touch your heart w...
Without deep feeling nobody would even step into spiritual enquiry. Feeling is known in Sanskrit as bhava. Bhava matures as we progress in meditation and on the spiritual path that feeling, that on...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to invite you to celebrate Maha Shivaratri with Sri M at Madanapalle on 15 Feb 2026. Registrations are open. The tentative duration of the celebrations will be f...
Bhakti, the highest state of bhava, is when you declare that ‘I am completely helpless, so please take over.’ It’s all in God’s hands. We realize that however much we think we can, we are truly hel...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to announce a Public Talk by Sri M in Nagpur on 25th December 2025. Date : 25th December, 2025Time : 5.30 - 7.30 PM IST (Kindly be seated by 5.15 PM IST)Topic : ...
Certain great sufis and bhaktas like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu have said that the bhava is even more important, more valuable and more enjoyable than the fulfilment of the bhava. One story is that Chait...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to announce 3-Day Residential Satsang with Sri M in Jaisalmer, India from 28th February to 3rd March 2026. Date & Timings Check-in: 12 Noon onwards on Saturd...
When a devotee who is totally absorbed in singing the names or the glories of God in whatever form they have selected, the meditation is automatic, because the mind is automatically diverted toward...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to announce 3-Day Residential Satsang with Sri M in Kolkata, West Bengal, India in February 2026. About the Satsang Venue The 3-day Satsang will be held in the o...
In bhakti yoga, when japa is to be done, one conceives of a lotus or a flower, or a light in the centre of one’s chest or heart, and then, one invites that form of God that one has selected, to com...