The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If we start our spiritual journey saying ’I know’, then one doesn’t get to know anything.
We can’t live on our past heritage alone; we must look at the now. The entire spiritual movement, scientific progress, is based on the understanding that ‘I don’t know’.
If I say I know everything, then there is no movement, research, or inquiry. It is what we don’t know that inspires us to seek and move forward.
‘Ja ghat prem na sanchare, so ghat jaan masan (smashaan). Jaise khal Lohar ki Saans let bin praan’. The iron monger’s bellows also breathe, but if there’s no love in one’s heart, there’s no point.
Kabir Das narrates the story of the Kasturi Mriga(Musk Deer), an apt illustration of the human predicament. The poor deer wanders all over, trying to locate the source of the fragrance emanating fr...
Many hundred years ago, the great Kabir Das divulged the secret of implementing a resolution: 'kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab…', meaning 'What you are supposed to do tomorrow, do it today; a...
When we usually say Samadhi, we mean 'Savikalpa samadhi' where there are no vikalpas - where everything is quiet. The next stage of Samadhi is 'Nirvikalpa', where there's nothing left. Beyond that...
When they say 'Maya', what they mean is that it is not permanent. Please make a distinction between permanent and not existing. The whole theory of illusion means what you think will exist forever ...
When the beauty of our true essence is seen within, then everything is complete. This is what we seek, but unfortunately, it's impossible to understand with one's normal state of mind. Yes, there a...
This completeness that we are seeking - which the Upanishad says and many people have found - can't be found outside of one's self. When the mind becomes quiet and settles down having understood th...
When you go to a cave, you don't go alone. You take your mind with you. There are two fellows there, you and your mind, constantly tussling within the cave. When that incessant tussle stops and the...
The whole search for Truth should start with understanding our relationship with nature and how we relate to other human beings, or even animals. It’s not something isolated, we are part of one big...