The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
All knowledge is a memory and a memory is always a thing of the past. It cannot be the present. The present does not require memory, it's there. So, the Truth is that something which cannot be put ...
Every day is a new day. It's not as if you have discovered, and you're finished, and it's gone. Every day there is an unveiling happening and it happens in different ways.
It's good to have somebody who knows, who has travelled, to be careful about the pits one can fall into, to know the highest purpose or goal of the spiritual path or even whether it is just an endl...
There must be some meaning to all the drama that's going on. Some people realise this even while just sitting at a desk, reading or writing. It suddenly clicks! That's because of the maturity of th...
Freedom is not something that you practice; it’s something that you attain. It’s something which is you, yourself. You can’t practice it.
Those who learn how to control and use their energies properly at the right time and the right moment, they attain that stain free world of the Supreme Brahman, where there is no crookedness, false...
If you can put your mind into an idea which you want to achieve, with complete visualization as if it is there - not as you want it but as if it is actually there; if you can do this constantly, so...
The fire of desire catches on to that which you want to become, and the Self leads you to whatever world has been fashioned by you in thought, desired by you and is attained.
According to Vedanta that feeling of being dependent on what is around you, the feeling that you are bound and that you have to get out of it, is part of the great illusion of the mind called Maya.
According to the Buddha, desire is the root of all sorrow and freedom from desire is freedom from sorrow for all mankind.
True consciousness means to go beyond all images – not images that you see around you but the images that we build up in our minds.
Every practitioner of spiritual exercise should keep in mind - when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all tendencies that have been hidden, till now bottled up in your subconscious mind will a...