The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
A spiritual teacher teaches a person ‘sadhana’ in accordance with that person’s capacity and needs. Everybody cannot practice the same thing. Why? Because nobody is made the same. Some people may b...
Living in this world and experiencing life is the philosopher’s stone that eventually transforms you from base metal to pure gold.
Instead of trying to be free from the beginning, enjoy with the purpose that you want to be free of it ultimately. How does one do that? By dedicating everything to the Supreme Being. Whenever you ...
All our lives are based upon the understanding that, “I am the body’. The ego, which is the mind, is built-up based on the understanding that ‘I am this body’. But there are many aspects of you, wh...
Krishna says that four kinds of people adore the Supreme. The distressed ‘artaha’, the enquirer ‘jigyasu’, the wealth-seeker ‘artha-arthi’, and the knower ‘jnani’.
‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha’ meaning ‘let go and rejoice!’ isn’t about you having to sell everything and go away. This is not the meaning; let go means you let go of the past and look into the present.
No amount of bhajans or kirtans is of any use unless the heart changes. And what’s meant is that the heart begins to look outside oneself, even for half a second.
A teacher should be a polished mirror, so that you see your actual reflection, not a distorted image. If you see your real picture, only then can you change. You think you are all right. I am sayin...
The only true ‘Apara-vidya’, which leads to ‘Vijnana’, is the non-verbal, transcendental experience of the Supreme Truth. It takes place when the mind becomes absolutely still, having discovered th...
Actually, at places like Badrinath and Kedarnath, it is not a very good idea to talk; it is the apt time to be spent in meditation and japa. The best Satsang is to do meditation and japa, visit tem...
Intelligence has to realize that from now on its function is over, that something else has taken over. The instrument of perception that takes over is known as intuition or ‘Jnana Drishti’. You wil...
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.