The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The confluence—the sangam of the Varuna river and the Asi rivers — is known as the holy city of Varanasi. The rivers are symbolic of the ‘ida’ and ‘pingala’ meeting at the ‘brumadhya’ or the ‘ajna ...
You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes! The problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.
In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...
Swami Vivekananda explained it beautifully; he said: “We are hypnotized by the false happiness that the world seems to give us. We have to de-hypnotise ourselves and come back to our senses.”
‘Let go’ does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means, develop the quality of ‘letting go’. Then, there is absolute peace, rejoice!
Our entire life is ‘sadhana’ — how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal. This is ‘sadhana’.
The Manav Ekta Mission is organising a Essay & Poster Competition for students belonging to schools & colleges in the Delhi / NCR region. The competition is being conducted in conjunction w...
We all are actually ‘pashu’, although we think we are ‘manushya’. Deep down, we are all ‘pashu’ and Shiva is the Lord who presides over us. So, he is called ‘Pashupathi’.
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. ...
When we speak of our thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control them and make them disappear. The moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.
We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state. This is the gap between thoughts.
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...