The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The image one creates may be important in a profession but deep down, you should know that ‘I have put on a form. Actually, I am not this.’ From there, you go deeper and figure out the Inner Self....
There is this spark of the divine in every one of us. There is not a single person who doesn’t have the spark inside. You just need to remove the structure and break away. Sri M's Quotes are now av...
Is fire a symbol of sacrifice? It is! So, if you can all offer all the things that cover your inner essence into the fire, then that is a sacrifice. Every year, we light a symbolic dhuni. It says p...
When we begin to understand that ego is the root of all evil and problems, then we will know how to handle it, how to get rid of it and nip it in the bud. This is not a one-day affair. Sri M's Quot...
Kriya is about how you lead your life and how you practice. It’s not a magic technique. We have to change our lifestyles, our behavior and see how we are going, then practice Kriya. There is no ...
We have many imaginary ideas about ourselves and we project them. We see ourselves as distorted, positive and negative. The function of the teacher is to clean the mirror and show it at...
Nature has this very peculiar habit: when you run behind something, it runs away from you. If you say I am okay whether it happens or not, then it happens. Sri M's Quotes are now available in...
Humility is an inner feeling that I am just nothing. In this vast world that is in constant movement all the time, I am a small particle like a grain of sand in the sea. The great ones know t...
Sound is the beginning of everything. It is from sound that light comes, it is from sound that the entire creation takes place. The sound that we know and can link to the primordial sound is the P...
Patanjali says Yoga is chitta vritti nirodha, so vritti includes thoughts, good vrittis, bad vrittis, positive vrittis, negative ones. What is intended is to be free of all vrittis. Sri...
All the practices in any spiritual school of thought or teaching talk about cleansing. Cleansing means making the mind free of all distractions. Sri M's Quotes are now available ...
What is the Real? The Upanishads say that which is pure existence is real. Anything seen is only because of the observer. When one is free from all conditioning offered by the five senses, then one...