The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If an intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual.The intensity of desire to get out of it is mainly emotional, not intellectu...
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that the mind can be a friend, but the same mind can also be an enemy. Cultivate the friendly side of your mind. And, don’t give too much attention to t...
Music cannot be played if the flute is filled with muck. You have to empty it out. It has to be hollow. You can’t blow through a solid flute. So, all the muck has to go and when it is clean, hand i...
Krishna is also called Navanita Chor – one who steals the butter, which is derived by churning the milk. Hence, churning is essential, without which nothing can come out. And, when the butter come...
Krishna is depicted mostly with a flute in his hand, playing beautiful music. Music penetrates the heart. When you listen to music in rapt attention, you go so deep that you begin to hear the inner...
The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that one of the most important qualities of my bhakta, ...
This is to inform everyone that Ms Yevgeniia Lavrenchuk, a Ukrainian citizen, volunteer with the Bharat Yogavidya Kendra, an initiative of The Satsang Foundation, is no longer associated in anyway ...
Krishna represents love. Love is a comprehensive panacea for all ills. If you really understand the meaning of it – utter selflessness, not love for my own sake but love for Love’s sake – only then...
Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while, seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.
If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...
In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean.
During meditation, it is impossible to control your thoughts and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.