The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The most important service you can render to a spiritual teacher is to understand and follow the teachings. That’s the best way to give respect to the teacher.
Human mind is hypnotized into a trance-like state by beliefs, by situations, and by the attractions of the outside world. Waking up from it to make the mind multidimensional is the process of de-hy...
Who Am I? Where do I come from? Is this drama all that exists in this world or there is something more? When one wants to find out one’s true individuality, that’s one kind of approach to meditation
A human being should think of himself as part of this entire universe and not a separate isolated thing. This is a vast network and the consciousness is not confined to one center. It’s actually al...
Whenever a Satya Kama—one who searches for nothing but the Truth, sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind unbiased and open, ready to receive what is given, the teaching or learning involv...
If you don’t watch where you go in your outer life, if you don’t know what you are doing, and if you are not aware of your actions and reactions that you have on others in this world, then it’s alm...
When you say Guru, it means a teacher in all ways; could be a small child who teaches you innocence of childhood, it could be a philosophical teacher who teaches you the Upanishads, they are all Gu...
The mind is always moving up and down. Sometimes here, sometimes there. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad. It is like a roller-coaster ride. Yoga is to balance this movement of the mind and make it qu...
All methods of meditation and spiritual disciplines are meant to turn your mind within, make it tranquil, peaceful, and kinder. When you touch that joy which is within, you can lead a joyous life.
Every failure is a stepping stone. When you fail, it’s a great opportunity given to see ‘why did I fail’.
Don’t ever get yourself discouraged by any circumstances. Move ahead and you will overcome it.
In this circus of life that we go through, the peace, happiness, completeness, and the stillness we seek lie within us. That ‘inner essence’, which is purna, is in everyone of us.