The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can study all the scriptures and know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot find the truth.
I may know many things but if I don’t act on them, it makes no sense. Karma Yoga is to act on the knowledge you have received so far so that you grow, evolve and move on to the next step.
If anybody says, “I can awaken your ‘kundalini in six weeks”, run away, because it can’t be done. Nobody knows how long it takes. It’s not possible.
A small good deed, a kind deed done to another human being or another living creature, can wipe out the dirt of negativity that has gathered in your soul and make it free and clear as a mirror to r...
Shakti is active kinetic energy. When the kinetic energy is completely quiet and relaxed and totally silent, then it is Shivam.
Think outside the box. Don’t go solely based on linear logic; use fuzzy logic. Turn things upside down and look, you will see things are quite different.
If your search for the Truth is serious, then the right kind of guidance will come in some way. You have to remain sincere.
What you seek is right within you, but we search for it everywhere but in us. Inside us, there is a beautiful treasure which we tend to miss.
One self is created physically during birth, another self is psychologically created as we grow and both of them interact. So we have a self which we think is the Self but is not the real Self. Thi...
‘Ja ghat prem na sanchare, so ghat jaan smashaan. Jaise khaal Lohar ki Saans let bin praan’. The iron-monger’s bellows also breathe, but if there's no love in one’s heart, there's no point.
Many hundred years ago, the great Kabir Das divulged the secret of implementing a resolution: 'kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab…', meaning 'What you are supposed to do tomorrow, do it today; a...
The secret of visualization – creative thought, is to actually believe and picture it as one wants, as if already there. When the mind is open and when there is the great desire to achieve somethin...