The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Self includes everyone. Not a single person or a being can be excluded from the big Self when one embraces IT.
There are many kinds of well-being - physical, mind, and spirit. The only shortcut to spiritual well-being is not an easy one - Cut the ego into two.
True intuition - you can call it the opening of the single eye, not physically. The opening, the separating of the curtains comes only when you surrender after understanding that whatever circus yo...
Most intelligent people quickly discover the limitations of the intellect. Then one says now this is not going to work so what can I do? Then some other faculty opens up and that is intuition, true...
The Upanishad says that words cannot express the Truth, no language can and no words can describe it. In absolute silence when there is no formation of words, which means no formation of thought th...
According to the Pistis Sophia every human has to be crucified. It’s a symbolic gesture which means every human has to crucify his base instincts on the cross and the greatest crucifixion is the cu...
Upanishad says - taddure tadvantike – it’s far and it’s so near. It’s far because we think, ‘Oh, it’s so vast’. It’s near, because it is our own essential being.
One of the Upanishads says - yadvachan abhyuditam – that which words cannot describe, that is the true reality. The good news is that it’s also our inner core. It’s not far away that you cannot see...
So a yogi or a saint or a holy man, is somebody who has eyes, who can see, and for them they see that the whole is much bigger than any definitions we have.
Bhakti, Devotion is a great way of looking at and finding the Truth, because in devotion you expect nothing but to have an experience of God.
All the sadhana we do is basically to clear our mind and allow the inner to come forth, to shine forth and the way we live.
The whole process of sadhana is to go within and touch the spark in us - core of our consciousness.