The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Ganesha represents the actual beginning of transcendence of consciousness from the gross to subtle.
Vigneshwara is the one who removes all obstacles from you.
Ganesha is a symbol of that real aspirant, sincere aspirant who knows that there is no point in going all over the world searching for happiness, you need to just go around the Shivam, Chidananda R...
The modakam is which the mooshak is eyeing all the time. Modakam is sweet and also means full satisfaction. It is the fruit of wisdom of the understanding of the Brahman; eat it and you are caugh...
You cannot catch consciousness. It's necessary to meditate to bring the mind to that state where it can at least recognize that there is something beyond it. That can happen only when the mind can ...
The pasha in Ganesha’s hand is the noose with which divinity, if it lays its eyes on someone and wants that person to be attracted to itself. Without that noose no one can be pulled towards Divini...
Consciousness, according to the Upanishads and according to what we know, is that which can neither be heard nor smelled, not tasted, not seen. So none of these things are going to be of any help. ...
In one hand of Ganesha, you will find a pasha, noose, and the other holds an ankusha, means a goad, used to poke, to make people do the work. In the elephant’s case, it is used to poke the finger s...
You cannot think of the soul without consciousness. But consciousness can think without the soul. Because there can be consciousness without even an entity called the soul.
We human beings have one unique capacity of being aware that we have consciousness through thought or meditation, but first, the mind has to be stilled. When the mind is still, then something else ...
In India, we start all our activities by invoking Lord Ganesha, who has a form, shape, and a symbol, but in spite of all the symbols, the scriptures refer to Ganesha in the Ganesha Stavam as : Ajam...
Gita is not something to be read as a theoretical text. While you need to do that, it basically should be looked at as a sadhana, a practice by which you free yourself.