The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Bhagawat Gita, in my view is a classic text on not only in some way on managing the human mind but also on how to study the mind.
Management is nothing to do with material, it is do with your minds. If you can do that, you can manage the world. If you can manage your mind, you can mind the other person’s mind provided there a...
Having gone through this for many years, having seen my mind and its layers and different potentialities for many years, I would say that the mind has infinite potential, it is not finite. For that...
Mindfulness is to watch your mind, be mindful of your mind while you are in the outside world, relating to others, reacting to what others say. It is to understand your mind as it is, not what you ...
If we think of a state of mind which is so quiet where there is no conflict, no distraction which is the aim of yoga, then you see there is something which is beyond the ordinary mind.
Who is managing the mind? The mind itself is managing the mind. There’s no external entity managing it over there.
What is the mind? The mind is made up of the movement of thought waves. You cannot conceive a mind without thought.
The ‘sukshma sharira’ - subtle body is much more beautiful, finer than the ‘sthula sharira’, gross body which you have.
Whatever potentialities that you have, whatever karmas that you performed, whatever likes and dislikes you have, most people don’t end their likes and dislikes by the time they die. It’s still ther...
The Gita says it beautifully saying, when the soul leaves the body and goes off carrying the seeds of it’s karmas like the wind carrying the fragrance of the flowers, you can’t see it, but it is th...
If you advance in your sadhana, you will come to a point where you will actually know that you are not this body.
The best thing would be to move forward in spiritual training or sadhana till we are in a position to see if we are something other than the body. If we are other than the body, then surely somewhe...