The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
All things about spiritual matters boil down to your day to day relationships. We can sit at home and meditate for hours but when we come out and (we have not changed for the better) are still the...
When one has reached the Sun, the spiritual Sun that is eternal and fearless, one does not have to come back into this world of sorrow. That is the final goal.
When one has reached the Sun, the spiritual Sun that is eternal and fearless, one does not have to come back into this world of sorrow. That is the final goal.
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 the M...
In ancient India, the young aspirant, brahmachari went to the masters, the Rishis, seeking not wealth, health, or position, but pure and unconditioned freedom. And this pure, unconditioned, unboun...
The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide; because we are largely walking on unexplored territory...
This human body and this human world into which we come are full of sorrow from all sides. Since it is the only vehicle which leads us to moksha, it is very precious.
Thinking itself is ‘mind’. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, it implies that where there is no thought there is no mind, from the ordinary sense of th...
The advantage of meditating early in the morning is that you have not yet started your day, so, the distractions of the day do not exist. Second, that is the only time you are not caught up in anyt...
If we can stay with sorrow – sometimes something may happen. We may blow up with intense sorrow but that blowing up is very good blowing up. Why don’t we blow up all the artificial barriers that we...
Of course, the master tests your patience. Therefore, knock persistently but wait patiently. Then your heart will be filled with supreme bliss and you will work for the good of mankind.
When the artificial barrier disappears, all that remains is the field in which so many thoughts appear and disappear. As I watch the appearing and disappearing of thoughts perfectly aware that I, t...