The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Dharana means to be able to fix your attention on something exclusively without being distracted or disturbed by anything else. This comes through training and only through training, because our mi...
Meditation is a word used in English which means many things to many people. If you go back to the Indian sources, the word meditation is actually split into three. There is dharana, there is dhyan...
When you get up from your daily meditations, thank everything and everybody with utter humility.
Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the ‘Sacred One’ i...
There is no technique to reach the ‘Truth’, for you are yourself the ‘Truth’. There are techniques to still the mind so that it understands the truth that the mind cannot reach the ‘Self ’ and sett...
The ‘Self ’ is ever free, ever blissful. It is and was never bound; therefore, there is no question of making it free. It is always free. It manifests itself as the ‘I’, the consciousness, the ‘I’ ...
If someone promises salvation for all at once, take care; you are about to be hoodwinked. If someone guarantees to lead you to Supreme Bliss in a certain number of days, again, be on guard. No huma...
Sorrows and shortcomings, the cares of this world, are certainly there, but who doesn’t have them? Now you, the traveler on the path, should know that they are lessons for you, and that after each ...
You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games, dons different masks at different times and ends up identifying itself with the ro...
The key principle of the teaching is that we are in our true essence complete and full. It’s because we haven’t recognised this that we are looking for it outside.
The most important function of the Guru is to act as a well-polished mirror so that we see ourselves as we are, with all our imperfections. The teacher reflects what is going on in us. Sometimes t...
Following the teachings is more important than worshipping the Teacher.