The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Every soul is potentially divine. To make it manifest is the Science of Yoga
Most of our life is dependent on public opinion. Is it possible to say that, no matter what anybody says, good or bad, I am actually an essence of the Supreme being which is poorna or full by itself?
The whole of life is this movement to filling our emptiness, isn’t it?
The essence of spiritual practice is that you understand and face that you yourself can use your mind to degrade your mind or raise it up. So, what is the greatest raising up of the mind? When, at ...
Anyone who has succeeded in stilling the disturbances of the mind, even the subtle hankerings have been removed, and all the work that person does is for others and not for oneself. If there is suc...
If you work surrendering the fruits of your actions to the Lord, then, such a person is working, but doing detached work. Such a person quickly moves towards the path of meditation because the mind...
What is true Sanyasa? You can wear jeans and still be a true sanyasin. How? If you can work and not worry about the fruits. If your aim is to shift from tamo guna to rajo guna to sattva guna, then,...
According to Sankya, everything in life, material as well of the human mind is made up of three gunas. Sattva, Rajas, Tamas. Every human being has these three in some percentage.
Sanyasa is not for the lazy. A true sanyasin is one who lives in this world and acts without worrying too much about the results of the action.
We all have a set of duties, but to perform those duties not worrying too much about the ultimate result whether it is good or bad. It is nice to think that it should be good, but even if it become...
The actual aim of understanding the Gita is to go beyond all construction, all words, all conditioning until the Supreme Brahman is face to face with you.
The pure teaching of Krishna is beyond words, but Vyasa has no way other than using words. If I don’t use words, how can I talk to you? But also understand that words are limited and there are limi...