The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If you need to go deeper into your mind and understand the essence of your consciousness, then your mindfulness should be all the time.
Ultimately, you are your own master. There is no other one. A teacher can help you understand that you are your own teacher. If you understand that then you are free.
Even if you don't have belief in a kind of a Supreme God, especially the thundering variety, you can still progress in yoga and find the essence of consciousness
That infinite consciousness which we're trying to explore and that is nowhere to be sought except in oneself because that’s one's true Id and not the body or the mind or any of those other things.
To look at yourself first to find out how you are in the midst of circumstances, I think is the beginning of knowing yourself.
It’s only in this world when you meet somebody, when you talk to people, how you behave, what you do that you figure out where you are, otherwise you can’t figure out, you cannot figure this out in...
‘Sangachchadhwam, samvadadhwam samvo manamsi janatam’ which means may we walk together, may we study together with our minds put together, may we understand.
If you can be mindful of your thoughts, of your actions, of your meditation, of your breath, and so on, that is called mindfulness – a total mindfulness as you go along with life.
Peace is a state of mind that comes from inside, if I am not peaceful with myself I cannot be at peace anywhere.
One of the ways of transcending the ordinary mind and understanding that All-pervading consciousness is through silencing the noisy mind, which chatters from the time we are born till the time we die.
A belief that perhaps there is something greater, the world cannot be just this limited and conditioned thing that I see with my eyes - That is the beginning of expanding to newer horizons, higher ...
Many things that we see in the world through our five senses actually limit the unlimited and give us a very conditioned and limited picture.