The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Dependence of the Guru alone could be an obstacle and one has to be very careful about. A genuine teacher never wants you to be dependent on him.
Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...
Be a bhakta more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana will dawn.
The root of sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anythi...
Bhajans, kirtan , going to places where people worship and going on pilgrimages lead you to the stimulation of the emotional parts of your minds, for opening up centers that you can experience.
Can our ‘sundown’ be the name of God? Can we listen to that music which moves our hearts and opens the doors to extra sensory perceptions? I am not talking about powers. There are centers in the hu...
Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best. Along with that you should also take care of other aspects of life, little disciplines that one should follow. The most important root discipline f...
The Divine can never sleep. In the Quran, there is a beautiful verse – ‘He’ is called ‘the Sleepless One’ because if he falls asleep, the whole world will collapse.
How can our brain be absolutely quiet? Only when there are no distractions whatsoever, no contradictions pulling on either side. When the brain is absolutely calm, then there is something which is ...
When the mind is absolutely quiet and tranquil, it becomes the tarmac from which you can take off to regions which are outside of our ordinary brain.
Dependence of the Guru alone could be an obstacle and one has to be very careful about. A genuine teacher never wants you to be dependent on him. Ramana Maharshi is a great example. He did not want...
The science of yoga is that which can deliberately change your brain’s chemical composition. Once it has changed, you can probably explore and go beyond it. It's to free yourself from the limitatio...