The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The word Guru has two syllables, Gu and Ru. Gu is Guhya, hidden, dark, darkness and Ru is a short form of Rudra, the destroyer of darkness. So Guru means one who destroys the darkness. When you say...
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to invite you to join the live streaming of Guru Purnima celebrations with Sri M from under the peepal tree in Madanapalle, India on 21 July 2024, 11.00 am IST o...
Merely by taking flowers and gifts to a Guru, one should not suppose that one is moving towards one's spiritual goal. That can happen only when teachings are followed and one remains with the teach...
The moment you are serious that nothing else is more important to you than finding the Truth; your Guru will come to you. One of the main functions of the Guru is to make you stand on your own feet.
The function of the Guru is to show you a clean mirror and at the right angle so that you can see yourself as you actually are, not what you want to be.
The Satsang Foundation is delighted to invite you to join the online streaming of the Prana Pratishtha (consecration ceremony) of Sri Guru Mahavatar Babaji Temple by Sri M from Madanapalle, India o...
It is very difficult to comprehend the Guru. It is very difficult to understand because the ways of a spiritual teacher, who is connected with the universe are strange and different. Because we lik...
When a teacher gives you instructions, follow those instructions completely. Don't say that 'this I'll follow, this I won't'. Therefore to take a Guru - spiritual teacher, as a guide, is a choice t...
The teaching is more important than the teacher.
Both in the waking state and dream state, there is a witness. That witness is real, it is always seeing, always reacting. Without that witness there can neither be a waking state nor dream state.
What you see of the world is the image of the world presented to us by the five senses from which the data is gathered and so the mind manufactures what you think is real.
Study of the Upanishad is called Veda-anta, because it comes at the last part of the Vedas. It is also called Vedanta because it is said that when it is properly understood, nothing more needs to ...