The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
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This life is a battlefield. Various forces, good and bad, are present and always opposing each other. In this battle of life, can we also touch the essence of our being and be spiritual? There’s no...
We now need to look at how we can live in this world, which is quite nice. Living in this world, is it possible to be spiritual? If we don’t think of that, then there’s no point being spiritual.
The days are gone when people had to go sit in caves far away in the jungle for spiritual understanding and realization.
The Yogi believes that the human body and mind are intimately linked, especially the brain, which in yogic texts is called the Sahasrara.
Whatever you do, you need to have a daily schedule. If you don’t, success is not possible because our minds have had a free run in various directions for all our lives. We need to retrieve and brin...
People may think the Bhagavad Gita is merely philosophical talk. It’s not. It’s the most practical teaching which, apart from conveying the philosophy of life, also teaches one how to act, how to p...
The practice of Kriya is to make the mind calm, sensitive, and free of distraction so that the divine is reflected in the ripple-less mirror of the mind, for real and not theoretically.
Sri M - 'Launch of his new book - On Meditation' after which he is interviewed by Ms.Rupa Pai in Bangalore on the 26th of July 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW4QcFo6HEY
Kriya is a way to bring out the truth by practice – the truth that in the core of everyone’s consciousness, there is a spark of the divine.
The aim of Kriya is how to make the mind that’s constantly engaged in the outside world go within and see.
What is the need for Kriya? Kriya simply means - a technique, a method. A step-by-step way or method by which one learns to separate the mind from its distractions. Patanjali describes it as ‘Chitt...