The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
We hope that the Walk of Hope, as a single act of good purpose, will catalyse a chain-reaction — leading to a better world and a better tomorrow, writes Sri M. Some time in last January, as the ris...
The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. ...
Surrender to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind, which is built up of limited inputs, coming through the limited senses. When this is fully...
If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...
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When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within and try to find out. Nothing should be allowed to intrude. A great mas...
When Patanjali defines yoga in the yoga sutras, he defines it as ‘yogas chitta vritti nirodha’ which means yoga is the stopping or the stilling of the ‘vrittis’ of the ‘chitta’. ‘Chitta’ means mind...
Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.
Any pleasures of the senses will always have some pain attached to it. The greatest pain is to lose the pleasure that you are enjoying.
Love is the essence of religion; for it’s religion that teaches ethics, concern and compassion for others.
Sri M says, "Namajapa basically helps in calming the mind.People say Namajapa is meaningless, it's just a few words" With continuous Namajapa, the energies of the mind which are going in different ...
When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing means replacing reality with something unreal. Here, in...