The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
How does a person grow? Not by owning huge properties and great wealth but by beginning to think that everyone is important and essential.
Sat Chit Ananda! Sat is the reality of everything. Chit is consciousness by which you experience, feel or realize the reality. Ananda is bliss or happiness. Since it's difficult to directly touch S...
What you discover, sans your emotions, is merely a false image of yourself, it’s not you. It’s an emotion-free imitation that's not real. We are full of emotions. Always, keep that channel open.
When emotions come, don’t run away from them. Feel what is happening. Being emotional human beings, we cannot discover ourselves in a ‘dry’ emotionless manner. Only when we experience emotions are ...
Churning is the process of looking within. Looking within is not just sitting with one’s eyes closed. Churning means to watch your mind, to be watchful of your interactions in your everyday life to...
In the process of delving into the mind, there is a lot of churning. When you churn, just like the ancient ‘Samudra Manthan’ (churning of the ocean), the first thing that emerges is poison. Unfortu...
The Upanishads are here to help us find our true self. Find out for yourself. It’s the process of going deeper and deeper into one’s inner layers of consciousness.
In general, we don’t look at ourselves, and we blame others because we are either not prepared or we don’t have the guts to open ourselves up to take a look. We are afraid we might be opening a ‘Pa...
For identifying the different layers, no one can give you a ready-made formula. I cannot say ‘you are like this, you are like that’. How you are, only you know. And you have to find out. What a tea...
Don’t just accept what someone says. The idea is to go within oneself. If one doesn’t go into one’s mind, one cannot comprehend the different layers of the mind, which generally creates all our pro...
Mantras have a built-in vibration. Even if you don’t understand them, they have an impact. Sanskrit is such a language. When one chants it, the mind and the breath get into a rhythm. This will orga...
If you are seeking a spiritual teacher, get rid of the conventional ideas you may have about a teacher, because that prejudice may prevent you from seeing a real teacher.