The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The days are gone when people had to go sit in caves far away in the jungle for spiritual understanding and realization.
The Yogi believes that the human body and mind are intimately linked, especially the brain, which in yogic texts is called the Sahasrara.
Whatever you do, you need to have a daily schedule. If you don’t, success is not possible because our minds have had a free run in various directions for all our lives. We need to retrieve and brin...
People may think the Bhagavad Gita is merely philosophical talk. It’s not. It’s the most practical teaching which, apart from conveying the philosophy of life, also teaches one how to act, how to p...
The practice of Kriya is to make the mind calm, sensitive, and free of distraction so that the divine is reflected in the ripple-less mirror of the mind, for real and not theoretically.
Kriya is a way to bring out the truth by practice – the truth that in the core of everyone’s consciousness, there is a spark of the divine.
The aim of Kriya is how to make the mind that’s constantly engaged in the outside world go within and see.
What is the need for Kriya? Kriya simply means - a technique, a method. A step-by-step way or method by which one learns to separate the mind from its distractions. Patanjali describes it as ‘Chitt...
According to the Upanishads, the person who is most intelligent will discover the limitations of one’s intellect.
What is cancer? Simply put, it is when a group of cells forget how to stop multiplying. Our lives also become quite cancerous, as desires never end. But if that drive is channelized towards spiritu...
Money is not everything. It can buy many things, but it cannot buy happiness or fulfillment.
The key principle of the teaching is that we are in our true essence complete and full. It’s because we haven’t recognized this that we are looking for it outside.