The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Perhaps the only way to get the mind free from the trappings of the material world is to live in the midst of it, get guidance from the teacher, and come to terms with the world so that one may tra...
The Guru teaches you how to reach this freedom, how to swim towards it, how to enjoy it, how to discover this ocean within you, that the ocean is you. But you don’t know it.
Break free from all bondage, realize that your true self is ever free and never bound! This was the clarion call of the great and ancient Upanishadic teaching - Moksha, Moksha, Moksha!
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures. You can know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot fin...
Be a bhakta - devotee more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana - wisdom will dawn.
As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.
I can physically run away from my situation. But my mind follows me, wherever I go. I can’t change that. So the teaching of the Gita is, don’t run away because you carry your mind with you. Stay wh...
When the limited understands its limitations and then says this is not the way to find it, it becomes quiet. It is only then, there is hope that the other will make itself known.
What you seek spiritually is right there inside you and we search for it everywhere. The truth is that, in us, in our hearts, there is a beautiful treasure that we always miss.
It is by itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. When the limited understands its limitations; that is intelligence.
You cannot practice freedom because freedom has no design, it has no pattern. It’s absolutely free, unbound, and boundless! One cannot ‘practice’ freedom in day-to-day life.
Those who have transcended the external rites of religion, they should begin to look within to find the true essence. Without the true essence, some time or the other, the external world will colla...