The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
A mind that has no distractions can have effortless one-pointed attention. When the eye of intuition or the eye of one-pointedness opens, then you can see the light.
We carry so many things in our head. Be simple. Throw off the burdens and be free!
In India, the wandering teacher is called a Parivrajaka - one who continuously walks in search of the truth. Once the truth is found, the teacher must take it door-to-door.
You cannot have a healthy body without a healthy mind. One of the prerequisites of a healthy body is to eat less, and do good exercise.
Nobody can give us illumination; we have to find it ourselves. Just as one who is hungry has to find food for oneself.
Ultimately, you are your own Master. There is no other. A teacher can help you understand this point. If you do, then you are free. My job is to tell you that your teacher is in you.
Surrender means to understand that I am helpless at a certain point and, therefore, I need to relax, let go, be patient and wait. In that waiting, something arrives. The breeze may be from within.
These layers of prejudice close the eyes, ears, and heart. When the wind blows, nothing can enter. So, all the practices we do are meant to open the windows.
Only when the mind has ceased all finding, grasping, and then settled down in that silence, something happens.
The Upanishads say that the Truth is something which is far and yet so near; it moves but it’s faster than any movement, it’s that which is, and not that which was. Every minute, it is new.
Can there be knowledge of that which ‘Is’? When we try to understand this with our conditioned brain, we gain the insight that all things one gathers in one’s head are a memory. And if it is a memo...
If we are looking for something infinite that cannot be captured in words and cannot be defined, then we are starting from ‘I don’t know’.