The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If you are deeply inclined spiritually and you want only spiritual development, not any fancy trimmings. You want to find your true self and figure out why we are human beings, what is our true ide...
Devotion is a deep ‘bhava’ feeling that wells up in the heart when one finds one’s limitations and is looking for divinity which is without definitions!
If that Supreme Reality can be turned into devotion for the teacher who expresses that divinity, then the seed is sown, it sprouts, a beautiful tree comes up, it flowers. Then you realize that who ...
The whole of sadhana, the whole of our devotion, bhakti or bhava is the clearing of the rust on the piece of iron. When the rust goes, the iron behaves like a magnet.
You can study the Upanishads, practice yoga, sit and breathe up and down, but if the heart has not melted, nothing has happened.
Music is an intrinsic part of bhava and bhakti, and that music goes beyond all words. You don’t need to know any words.
In the Mundaka Upanishad, the rishis said such learned pandits who have only acquired knowledge from learning and not from within, when they begin to guide, it’s like andhenaiva nīyamānā yathāndhāḥ...
What Vedanta tries to do, in its essence, is attempt to use the intellect and find out the limitations of the intellect.
If we start unveiling our true self, layer by layer, one becomes freer in the sense of detachment to the dualities of life - be it pain or pleasure, success or failure, joy or sorrow.
The ultimate ananda which is the aim of the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ananda of enjoying the kosha of bliss is also sort of sensory but subtle. As we proceed, we come to a quiet...
When you look within and experience the spark of the divine within, even on a small scale, there is peace, quiet and happiness beyond measure within your own heart - the center of consciousness, th...
Moksha means to be totally free, to be completely happy without depending on anything in the outside world and not being caught by any desire.