The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If you look closely, all through our lives, we go through periods of bondage and periods of freedom. But when we say Mukti from the spiritual point of view, it means ultimate freedom.
Freedom is Mukti, Vedantins call it Moksha, Yogis call it Kaivalya, Buddhists call it Nirvana and the Sufis call it Fana fil Haq, which means everything is finished except the Truth.
The practice of Yoga or any sadhana is how to open these windows and doors, so that you can get a glimpse of what the all-pervading Brahman, reality is. This is the whole scope of the practice of Y...
Yoga Shastra is necessary. Gita has 18 chapters, each chapter is called a Yoga. It need not necessarily mean the Yoga that you practice, the Yoga of Ashtangas. It could mean any approach to underst...
In the present circumstances of your capacity of your brain, it is not possible to understand Brahma Vidya. So, you need to prepare your mind now to understand the concept of Brahma Vidya and at so...
Jesus Christ in the Bible said, ‘Every hill shall be brought low and every valley shall be filled’. So when you are in that stage of low, you should think I am a valley now I am going to be filled...
Sadhana is the way to Liberation. In certain schools of philosophy, it's called Moksha and in some, it's called Nirvana. In the Yoga Sutras and in Sankhya, it's called Kaivalya. Kaivalya is derived...
The 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita titled Purushottama Yoga, is a sublime masterpiece of spiritual philosophy. Lord Krishna, the eternal teacher, in this relatively short chapter, reveals ...
Sagarmitra Abhiyaan: Dr. Vinod Bodhankar’s tryst with ocean-yoga Through this third article in our series of inspirational stories of pioneers and environmental stalwarts, we invite you to dive int...
People usually think spiritual realisation is for free. This is not true. ‘He who giveth, shall receive’. By giveth, it does not mean giving money to somebody. It is more than that. There is nothi...
In Ayurveda, life is deeply interconnected with the forces of nature, especially time (Kala), which governs creation, sustenance, and dissolution. These principles are embodied in the concept of "N...
Does freedom happen in stages? I would say, It’s like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one’s own self, one’s own mind.