The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In your relationship with the teacher, please be frank, truthful and clear. Don't try to bluff, because it does not work.
In the pilgrimage of life, stick to the truth as far as possible.
When you go on a pilgrimage, reflect on the matter that our everyday life too is a pilgrimage.
“Sarva bhuta hite rataha” – One who has the welfare of all beings in his heart. That is the beginning of sadhana because if you have the welfare of all beings in your heart and the understanding th...
Imagination, like Einstein said, is sometimes more important than knowledge.
Shraddha has several meanings but one of the meanings is complete attention, total one-pointed attention.
The center and core of our consciousness is not exclusive to anybody. Everyone possesses it; it is only that they do not know it yet. The process of finding it is called Sādhanā.
After midnight, a new day begins. Shiva finishes his dance of destruction, the Tandava Nritya. This dance of destruction is actually a very auspicious thing. It is not as terrible as it appears. It...
"Chidananda roopam, shivoham shivoham", it means that Supreme reality, whose spark is inside me, is Supreme auspiciousness. I am of the real form of Shiva, an auspicious all-pervading reality. Shiv...
The auspiciousness that we seek, the Shivam that we seek, is to be sought inward. And the destruction that takes place is our connection to the outward. This is the dance of Shiva.
When we move towards what is, and not what is to be or what was before, that is called Shivam. Auspiciousness. The centre of everything, from where the whole dance of creation begins and ends.
Shiva is beyond desire, beyond even the impulse of desire. When Shiva opens his third eye, his eyes are closed to the outside world and open to the inner world of love, compassion, goodness and sel...