The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...
Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas we have about it. Look at what we think is substance, ...
The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...
The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads, is to realise its limitations. When it has realised its limitations, it just keeps quiet. It knows, “I’m very useful in this, ...
I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...
In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...
I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It m...
Sthithaprajna is a concept in Sankhya Yoga, Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita. A 'Sthithaprajna' is one whose state of mind has become balanced, is steady and unruffled and yet active. Krishna is not ...
One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...
The center at the navel is known as the ‘Manipura Chakra’. When the heat of ‘Kundalini Yoga’ practice emanates from the ‘Manipura Chakra’, then the ‘Kundalini’ rises further up, from solid to liqui...
Kakasaheb Dixit, a close associate of Shirdi Sai Baba, was sitting in meditation and he saw Vittala in a vision. In the noon, when he went for his dear Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba asked him point blan...
This is a very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom, it cannot be freedom. It can only be something similar to free...