The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributaries”. Ramakrishna Paramahansa put it...
When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord to think of nothing other than the Supreme Being, that is Bhakti. The ...
The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself in the love of the Supreme. The great Sufi, Hazrat Shah Niyaz, said: Aql ke madra...
All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives just for a brief vision of the Lord, to hold him tight in their embrace.
What is Bhakti? A love that is completely surrendering, not for our sake but for the one we love. It’s completely selfless - Love! Bhakti! Ishq! It is a known fact in spiritual circles that spiritu...
When a person is on the spiritual journey, he should not cry over what he loses. What he loses may be the stepping-stone to what he is going to gain, which is communion with the Supreme Being. This...
Sri M answers a question on the spiritual practices of Sikhism; if it is necessary to continue the practices daily with respect to the spiritual path. Watch the complete video https://www.youtube.c...
This one-pointed attention to the Supreme Lord, this all-consuming love for the Lord is expressed by the great Sufi, Jalaluddin Rumi in his epic Masnavi. He says, "All else do thou turn out from th...
The mind is evolving, and therefore, many a time, the higher intelligence guides our evolution. I am supposing that we believe there is a higher intelligence. If you don’t, that’s alright. Then the...
Jalaluddin Rumi, the great mystic poet, said, “I was a mineral, I became a plant. From plant, I became an animal; from animal, I became a man; from man, perhaps I shall evolve into angels, or who k...
The video of Sri M's talk at Bern, Switzerland, on 21st March 2017, with tandem German translation in the video. Watch the full talk https://youtu.be/169ChbsZrXM
Man has evolved from an amoeba to this present state. Physically, yes! But are we going to be unscientific and say, this is the end of man’s evolution? But what if man is still evolving in his cons...