The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
You should be able to control your senses. You should learn to cultivate tranquility and balance of mind in the midst of circumstances, whether good or bad; and above all, have the welfare of all l...
The Walk of Hope 2015-16, led by Sri M enters Gujarat, the fifth in the eleven states of its planned itinerary, on 8 August 2015 at Sutharpada, Gujarat. The padayatra would have completed over 300...
"While the Gayatri Mantra is addressed to the visible sun, internally it is also directed at the absolute reality of which we are all sparks," says Sri M in this insightful talk on the Gayatri mant...
The world is such a funny place. You try to go behind something and it always runs away from you; you leave it and it tries to follow you! Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for ‘Tapasya’ and Menak...
The message Shirdi Sai Baba wanted to convey was the total unity of all religions. So, he did a very strange thing. While living in a broken mosque, he had this everyday ritual of lighting a lamp o...
The 7,500 km Kanyakumari-Kashmir pan-India padayatra spreading the message of social harmony and peace has concluded its Maharashtra leg with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis praising the endeavour...
We can go away anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. According to the Gita and also people who have walked this path, the only solution is to face it. Examine it. L...
Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. Ask yourself – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?
Whatever be the situations, look at them carefully and try to work out how best you can handle them. To handle them, ‘Sadhana’ is a very important part of your daily life. Without it, you cannot ha...
Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; more than speaking the truth, think the truth. It does not mean that when you speak the truth, you have to be blunt; there...
Sri M speaks on An Experience called Friendship in the Bodhivriksha ( Kannada edition of Times of India's Speaking Tree ), from its various perspectives, and the universal bonds that form its etern...
Let Go! Upanishads have a beautiful saying ‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha.’ Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, our idea is that we have to gather things together. Here it is a completely ...