The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In the Rig Veda, there is a saying, ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti - there is only one Truth but the wise call it by different names.
If you need peace and tranquility and ultimate happiness, what you need to find is the source of it inside us, in our hearts - the core of our being.
Until the mind is at rest, there cannot be peace
All human beings are constantly searching for something, name, fame, position, wealth, everything. And this search goes on and on till we die. My Guru Maheshwarnath Babaji, used to tell me that RIP...
All meditations essentially boil down to how to make the mind free of distractions, how to make it settle down, and finally how to remain in the eye of the storm, be completely free and not be dist...
What we cannot explain, we call a miracle. Usually, miracles happen due to laws of nature that most people don’t know of. All the Yogi does is to tap these laws, so that he/she can operate it.
One of the biggest problems we face when we sit down to meditate is distraction. If we don’t fix a daily schedule, success is not possible. The mind, out of habit, runs in various directions; you s...
Moderation in all areas - eating, drinking, sleeping, and also entertainment. It takes your mind off it’s constant work. But don’t make entertainment your sole aim in life.
Yoga is not a passive state. It is a super-active state wherein there's action in the tranquility of mind, without agitation.
The idea of looking within is to close one's eyes, look into the mind, and see how it's functioning. There are hundreds of thoughts in there. Can I keep observing them with the belief that, one day...
Questions never end. When you figure out that questions are part of the movement of the mind, and everything is still, there is nothing left to ask. This is something that has to happen on its own;...
The study of the mind is a very scientific one. It’s not something which is mumbo-jumbo. We have the instrument to do that and that is the ancient science of Yoga and the ancient science of Vedanta...