The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Humility means the understanding or the awareness that one doesn’t know; or maybe, there is more to know. This means, the idea that one knows has to be set aside, and that the brain or mind is empt...
We can freeze life for a while but it will break its dam and begin to flow. Life flows like the river. If we realize life is a flow, then that is reality.
If we break our illusions and look at this movement and ever-expanding quality of life, that is Bramhan, the Supreme Reality, we will realize it is part of us and we are a part of it.
On the spiritual journey that one is undertaking for understanding of the higher levels of consciousness, one has to be free of all burdens of the mind. This is where Yoga comes in - to free the m...
From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have created the duties of a human being so that we may stay toge...
Any original discovery, either in the field of the material world or in the field of the spirit, has been made with a great deal of sacrifice. One cannot get something for nothing.
A person whose mind is completely and totally on the path, he will do only what is right and forget about the rest! But it is not so easy. It can come only with spiritual maturity.
One has to constantly be aware of the unreal. As we start realising what is unreal, it begins to dawn on us - could there be something which is real, what we see and what we experience? That is spi...
For spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything - but be free from it.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, 'Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God'. He did not say that they will not see God because they belong to this or that community. He said - '...
We have to watch ourselves carefully. Although we may think that we have advanced, we have to look within and find out where we are going and for that, we require a spiritual guide.
As you have to put energy in your own life in different ways, in the same way, you have to put in your own effort in the spiritual field too, to walk on the path.