The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Moderation in all areas - eating, drinking, sleeping, and also entertainment. But don’t make entertainment your sole aim in life.
If the body has not rested and is not alert, then it cannot meditate. It'll impact the mind. So, keep your body in a state where it's not tortured by lack of sleep or extreme fasting.
Yoga is not a passive state. It is a super-active state wherein there's action in the tranquillity of mind, without agitation.
To begin one’s spiritual journey, the starting mind must be a quiet mind, a tranquil mind. It is a runway from which you can take off.
When Buddha said to his monks - ‘Go Forth!’, he didn’t mean to only walk, he also meant getting out of the stagnant little pool that we have created for ourselves. Move!
Shivaratri is a new beginning as He finishes his dance of destruction. Now, this dance of destruction is a very auspicious thing. The dance of destruction is actually a renewal, where the old is de...
Shivam means consciousness, bliss, and auspiciousness. It is present within us and moving towards That is the spiritual journey.
When Adinath dances his Tandav Nritya, he destroys images. He explodes all the images that we have created and nothing new can come up. Like death, He destroys the old, the stratified, the calcifie...
We all are actually ‘pashus’ although we think we are ‘manushya’, deep down we are all ‘pashus’, and Shiva is the Lord who presides over us, He is called Pashupathi.
The greatest miracle for a great yogi is to guide someone to the Truth. If one person in a million reaches the highest, it's a great miracle.
Even if you touch a tiny part of what's inside - the real, conscious, bliss, Ananda - then you can sail through life because your treasure is within you. This treasure is the source of the entire u...
Don’t go to extremes. If you go to one extreme in this world, you might get thrown to the other. Moderation is the key.