The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
One of the aspects of ‘let go and rejoice’ is allowing the action to mentally let go if it’s present now.
'Let go' does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means - develop the quality of 'letting go'. Then there is absolute peace - and rejoice!
You are a spark of the Supreme Being! All the happiness and sorrow, and everything that happens, is pervaded by that Supreme Being.
tena tyaktena bhunjitha' Some people have translated as 'give up and rejoice' but I like to translate it as 'let go and rejoice'.
While it is a good thing to cultivate positive thoughts and to keep negative thoughts at bay, from the pure point of spiritual understanding, there is no positive or negative thought. It is all tho...
In alone-ness, there is all happiness, there is no need to depend on anybody
The sacredness, the happiness, the vastness that you seek, the solution for the 'never-ending desires' that you seek sometimes, all this is just there with you, in you.
If Shiva doesn’t do his ‘Tandava nritya’, then the images, shapes, and forms will not shatter and you will never see the reality behind them.
Understand yourself. Everything that you need is in you. There is nothing outside. Be independent and wherever possible, be kind to others.
We think that we are in charge of everything that is happening in this world yet we are not even in charge of anything that is happening in our body.
Sleep is when we are back to our original essence. The inner ‘me’ is there. You’ll say, ‘But I’m not aware of it.’ There we have shed everything, all individuality and we are what we actually are, ...
Once someone has drunk the wine of ‘fanaa’, not complete annihilation, but the annihilation of the ego, the small self, then only the big Self is visible to us.