The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Consciousness is That from which thought arises but it is usually haphazard. When we practise with discipline, go deep within and find the source from which the thought arises, then the thought is ...
Bhajan is not just chanting or singing. It means to completely absorb yourself in the Inner. It is actually a spiritual version of bhojan for the physical body. So it is a bhojan for the mind.
If you really look at yourself very carefully, you see the dramas we go through in life. We just have to examine ourselves. A stage will come when we are able to distinguish between the drama and t...
Please don't think that sadhana is confined to sitting down and meditating only. Our whole life is sadhana - how we approach it, how we manage it, how we move towards our goal.
Love is the essence of evolution. Hate and violence can put a stop to the process of evolution of any kind.
The evolved human being is not judged by the number of cars he owns or the dollars in his bank balance. The hallmark of an evolved being is the quality of his heart - love, understanding and a st...
The moment we begin to glimpse or understand that we are the ocean and all thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it, we realize That is our primordial state.
We manage to keep ourselves occupied all the time, looking for more and more gratification, collecting things and trying to ‘become’. This is not just my thought, since this is also what the script...
Everything is constantly changing and moving. Perhaps, the only thing that does not change is change and it is like a river, a flow.
A true Buddhist need not belong to a sect, need not wear different clothes. By looking inwards into his own self and discarding it layer by layer, can reach the essence of awareness or Prajnya wh...
Nirvana is freedom from sorrow for all mankind and all sorrow comes from the basic illusion that we are the minds as separate entities. When one realizes that separate existence of the ego is itse...
Vedanta says, Our opinions, perceptions, ideas and our images are all relative; they are not absolute. But, certainly something exists and the sensory organs cannot find That which actually exists.