The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The word 'alone' is made of two words - all and one so you can say 'all one.' There is nothing alone in this universe; everything is interconnected. I may be sitting alone, but there are beautiful ...
According to psychology, there are the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and unconscious mind. According to yogic psychology, there is another thing that is called the superconscious mind, which i...
The aim of Yoga is to come face-to-face with the Truth in the yogic way. The philosophy of yoga says that an ordinary mind, which is always caught up in tensions, ups and downs, achievements and no...
The lotus grows best in muddy water but when it blooms it is pure and clean. Even if you put a drop of water on it, that does not stick but flows down. Live like that in the world; be pure, don't l...
Spiritual Truth or Spiritual Understanding is not an exclusive, hidden 'mumbo jumbo' behind the closed doors. It is as open and as beautiful as the Sun that shines.
All ideas of being trapped and wanting to break free are three-dimensional, built from imperfect data fed by the senses. Solutions begin to appear when one understands even a little bit that there ...
Stillness comes and when it comes, then you are in it. When it goes, nothing can be done about it. To understand that one cannot do anything about it, is humility and worship.
Let us not get caught in forms. There is no difference between form and no-form here. The energy is everywhere, the wind, the earth, the plants, in the growing and becoming of the plant. All this i...
The Ultimate Reality is the real guru. No personality is involved. meditate on the feet of the guru, the padukas. Keep the padukas inside your heart. Then you close your eyes and touch your heart w...
Without deep feeling nobody would even step into spiritual enquiry. Feeling is known in Sanskrit as bhava. Bhava matures as we progress in meditation and on the spiritual path that feeling, that on...
Bhakti, the highest state of bhava, is when you declare that ‘I am completely helpless, so please take over.’ It’s all in God’s hands. We realize that however much we think we can, we are truly hel...
Certain great sufis and bhaktas like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu have said that the bhava is even more important, more valuable and more enjoyable than the fulfilment of the bhava. One story is that Chait...