The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Supreme Being is the connecting link between all beings, worlds, and galaxies, passing through them all like a thread holding the beads together in a rosary.
A Kshatriya is a person who has won over his animal instincts – he is called the greatest conqueror.
When we say control your thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to do that and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make thoughts disappear, you are ‘thinking’.
Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. There are sweet ways of speaking the truth.
You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. So in matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to ke...
Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in that One essential state.
If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three-dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...
All things about spiritual matters boil down to your relationships, day to day. We can sit at home and meditate for hours but when we come out and we are still the same, it does not work.
In matters beyond the rational mind, realization takes place only when this mind becomes absolutely still. To find that out, we need a rational mind!
When the mind is open, and when there is a great desire to achieve something then the channels for achieving it are opened.
Let’s say the guide, the teacher, or friend who has crossed to the other side, who has learnt to swim and cross the ocean of samsara, such a teacher who is our true friend, what does he do? He teac...
Once you learn the art of being one-pointed in meditation or in day to day life, you are automatically in a meditative state all the time.