The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The yogic theory is that the source of all enjoyment, the reservoir of all happiness is within us, the spark of the divine called Sat-Chit-Ananda.
If you have faith in an infinite Supreme Being, put all your heart into what you want to do or achieve.
Reality is not that things don’t exist but may not be in the form or state in which we think they do. That wrong understanding of objects, of anything is called Maya, a misunderstanding. And that ...
Break free from all bondage, all psychological bondage, realize that your true self is ever free and never bound!
When the limited understands its limitations; that is intelligence.
Freedom is our birthright. Our true self, the atman is free; it does not need to be freed from anything. It is free because it is complete, ‘purna’. ‘Purnamadah’ - That completeness is actually ‘y...
When we are infants, we are helpless... We can’t eat, somebody has to feed us. During the end too, when we become old, helpless, and fall sick, again the same thing happens. In between, there is a ...
If one understands that one is not the body but the inner self which is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow.
Our entire life is sadhana – how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal – this is sadhana.
Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts come which are not related to the inner, try to keep them away.
Do your duties but don’t neglect your spiritual journey. Keep up your duties seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are out of it.
True consciousness means to go beyond all images. Not images that you see around you but the images that we build up in our minds. It is because of these images that we get hurt, our ego goes up an...