The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Sometimes it happens spontaneously. You wonder, ‘what have I been doing all these years?’ Sometimes it happens because of kindness and compassion. Sometimes because you see somebody's heart is so l...
For identifying the different layers, no one can give you a ready-made formula. I cannot say ‘you are like this, you are like that’. You know how you are and only you have to find out. A teacher on...
The Upanishads are here to help us find our true self. Find out for yourself. It’s the process of going deeper and deeper into one’s inner layers of consciousness.
Let us usher in, a new year with a new mind, which is less self-centred and thinks more of others. Like nature renews itself and replaces the old with the new. Let us also give place to new aspirat...
As far as the body is concerned the most important thing is that there should be no excesses. In the Gita, Krishna beautifully defines it. He says this yoga is not for him who eats too much or eats...
The first step to self-realisation is to realise that this self as I know it is cluttered and that this clutter needs to be removed.
I see the whole world with my eyes but I can’t see my own eyes. I can’t turn around and look at my own eyes but when I see in the mirror, I know that I have eyes. In the same way That awareness is ...
When Adi Shankara says knowledge, he is talking about that knowledge which cannot be found through the sense organs, that which cannot be processed by the brain.
The awakening and movement of the energy is also an unconditioning of the little self. When it reaches the ‘sahasrara’, the little self is blasted in pieces and there is only the real Self.
Shankara has written a beautiful commentary on the Principal Upanishads, wherein he says, since the ordinary mind cannot reach That, ordinary knowledge is of no use to find the truth. Intelligence ...
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, "Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." Jesus was speaking out of...
Jesus Christ in the Bible said, ‘Every hill shall be brought low and every valley shall be filled’. So when you are in that stage of low, you should think I am a valley now I am going to be filled ...