The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
One of the great obstacles, impurities to Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda realized it, and implemented it. He said, ‘you fellows cannot meditate 24 hours a day, therefore work’. It prevents you f...
One of the greatest obstacles to meditation is sleep. And without overcoming the desire to sleep, nobody can attain the high goal of turiya. It is not possible. If you are a sadhaka, you have to fi...
It is very important that if you have been given a sadhana, practice it with complete attention, without missing a single day and minute of the time which you have been given. Otherwise, it just wi...
When a person enters into the spiritual journey, through practice, he will be faced with greater temptations than the ordinary person.
You cannot expect to find the Universal Truth and speak lies 24 hours a day. Then you are under an illusion. You may think that you have found the Truth, but it may not be the Truth. Because, if yo...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to announce two upcoming 3-Day Residential Satsangs with Sri M at two locations in India. Kindly find the details below: Satsang with Sri M at The Peepal Grove S...
The ultimate aim of spiritual fulfillment is to find the Truth - Satya. To reach the Truth, you have to start with being truthful, practically, in day-to-day life. You cannot imagine that you are f...
The mind has various levels of impurities and agitations. As long as these last, they are like curtains, which very subtly veil or cover the Truth. You are not searching for something outside yours...
A retreat is meant for implementation. By implementation I mean the practice of sadhana and the other is the practice of certain principles that are conducive to the practice of sadhana.
Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the 'Sacred One' i...
One of the greatest qualities of human beings is the quality of love because there is no logic to it. For love people do things which are unimaginable. It is a feeling, a compulsive feeling. It is ...
As long as there is a division between the seer and the seen, there is duality. The real seer, after having understood the Brahman, has nothing to see, because the seer itself is what is in the seen.