The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The rising of the kundalini therefore is the rising of consciousness from the gross to the subtle, subtler and subtler levels until It reaches the highest stage in the sahasraara chakra and the yog...
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 freedom.
Om Sree Gurubhyo Namah, Dear Satsangis, For decades, Sri M has championed a singular vision: living in harmony with Nature. This commitment found powerful expression in October 2023, when thousands...
Every practitioner of spiritual exercise should keep in mind -that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that have been hidden in your subconscious mind till now-bottled up...
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures. You can know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot fin...
The first thing that happens as one advances in sadhana is that one develops compassion in the heart.
In the Gita, the chapter after Arjuna Vishada Yoga is Sankhya Yoga, the Yoga of knowledge. So, seeing that Arjuna is in sorrow, and observing the miserable state he has gone into, Krishna explains ...
The Bhagavad Gita itself is an upanishad or the essence of all the Upanishads put in simple language, for a layman to understand.
As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.
This human body and this human world into which we come are full of sorrow from all sides. Since it is the only vehicle which leads us on to moksha, it is very precious.
You know how powerful words are! So, watch yourself. Be careful of what you say. Ninety percent of the troubles in this world, for us, are caused by not talking responsibly.
Swadhyaya means to do self study and also to study the self. Studying oneself is not simply hearing or reading something; it involves exploring your inner being and finding out how it affects you.