The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Liberation is a very difficult word to understand because it has many meanings. To be liberated from the ordinary mode of thinking is the first step in liberation.
Sometimes great teachers say, dump all this intellectual stuff, go directly. What they mean is open the heart instead of the brain. And when they say heart, they are talking about the ultimate, not...
Thought is limited. Good things and mischief all are included in thought. When I say, now I am free of all thought, who is saying that thought? Even that is a thought. So, it's only when one unders...
If you really are calm and composed, nothing will ruffle you. Then you also develop fearlessness. And if you are fearless, then you can achieve and move forward to things which the person who begin...
The brain has to have space. You need to keep it clear. If you don't have an empty vessel, how will you receive? The vessel must be totally shunya, then what is received is purna.
Shunya means no thing. It's not nothing, but it's not a thing that I can define or you can define. It cannot be that "Shunya" is nothing because this whole world is supposed to have come out of it.
Breath is the most important thing in our lives. You can do without a drink, you can do without food, but one minute without breath is impossible. So watch your breath and pay attention to it.
‘If you are the all-knowing supreme being, you know what I need. Please grant me what I need.’ This is the humblest prayer that one can make. Very often what we need in our evolution is perhaps not...
There's only one mind and it is working through different centers. So if there is one mind, if I feel the pain of others, the compassion from me will pass on to that person, and the whole thing beg...
Joy is something that is inside you. You need to just go in and look at yourself in your pure state, which means when your mind is tranquil, calm, when there is no disturbance in your mind, there's...
Jesus said, the foxes have dens and the snakes have holes. The son of man knows not where to lay his head. In the Bhagavad Gita, such a yogi is called aniketa, one who has no home.
If I see inside me a light, it cannot be that I'm peculiar, that only I have the light. The light is in everybody's heart. It may be covered or hiding, but the spark is there.