The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that are hidden in your subconscious mind would surface. This is the poi...
Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts that are not related to the inner come, try to keep them away. There are other thoughts that can take you to the spiritual. For...
‘Prasna Upanishad’ is an Upanishad that questions anything before accepting it. This should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Do not believe because somebody said so, but rather question it to conv...
Nobody can say, “I have Absolute Power.” One can say, “I have touched deep one of the conduits, through which I link myself to the Absolute Power.” As long as one has the physical body, and as long...
If the desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual or any such thing. It could just be an ordinary person but the in...
Dear friends, We are urgently in need of funds for running the Satsang Vidyalayas at Madanapalle. Due to the immediacy of the task and to set an example, Sri M and his wife Smt Sunanda Ali have the...
In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...
If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...
Sri M has kindly consented to visit UAE from 27th February to 3rd March 2017. A retreat has been organised from 27th afternoon to Morning of 2nd March 2017 at Fujairah Rotana Resort, Fujairah, UAE....
The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...
From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay togethe...
The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...