The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The first fortnight of May saw Nepal host a requiem ceremony for the Yala glacier high up in the Langtang mountain of the Himalayas. Glacial melt due to carbon emissions, rising waters, natural dis...
A glimpse of the first 5 months of Year 2025 Walking the fine line between mere charity and overstated altruistic gestures, volunteers of the Satsang Seva Mission (SSM) across the country continue ...
TThe mind is always asking for something, or it is running away from something. These are the two major factors. Either it is attached to something or it is repelled by something. If these two fact...
The Upanishad says, if you want to understand that Supreme reality which pervades everywhere, let go, move from your own centre, expand and let everyone be a part of you.
Yes, it is worth praying for peace and our prayers do influence and bring about peace in the world.
All the dance systems we have in this country can be traced to the Tandava of Shiva also called Nataraja, Lord of dance. Tandava nritya is a dance of destruction, everything is shaken up, but if yo...
The most powerful enemy for a yogi, if one is on the spiritual path, is Kamadeva. Kamadeva need not necessarily mean sensual, physical pleasures. Kama means desire.
When you sit down in meditation, images and thoughts of all kinds will come. The way to do it is to break everything.
We like to think we live in the present. Most of us live in the past because we cling to the images that we have created and others have created for us. So we actually live in the past.
While structures are important for living and other things, constantly being involved in the structures makes the mind also a physical structure. You are no more free, even the thoughts, the expres...
If you have an old building and you want to put up a new structure there, what do you do first? You demolish all that is old and constructed, all that is artificial, so that the new comes up. From...
If we are making spiritual progress, don’t judge by how many visions or kinds of lights one sees. What we have to look at is how one behaves. Have I become less selfish? Has my world narrowed down ...