The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
A small good deed, a kind deed done to another human being or another living creature, can wipe out the dirt of negativity that has gathered in your soul and make it free and clear as a mirror to r...
Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras, while discussing the question - How does one make the mind one-pointed, free from agitation, says there is only one way. There are no short cuts. Nirantara deergha ka...
Write down your goal – WRITE IT DOWN. Every night, before you go to sleep, take the slip, read it as many times as you can. Repeat it like a mantra. Put it under your pillow and go to sleep. Belie...
Let go and rejoice – let none of your hurts and negativities stick to you. Throw them away – let go of them. Then, be free and rejoice in the bliss of the tranquil mind which is at the core of your...
‘Let go’ doesn’t mean – give up. Throw everything and run away to the cave! That’s not what it means! Let go of all the unpleasant memories, the hurts, the wounds, the bitterness that's in your mi...
The resolution has to be specific. If you resolve to be happy, have happiness as your aim – and, get ready to sacrifice everything else for happiness. Happiness is not attained by acquiring and ga...
Choose your goal carefully. Do that this New Year – may you have all success! Choose your goal – don’t have too many goals – three or four goals do not work. Have one goal and stick to it.
The secret of implementing a resolution is as the great Kabir Das said many hundred years ago:'kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab…', which means 'What you are supposed to do tomorrow, do it toda...
Wish you a happy New Year! May you turn a new leaf and become a valuable, positive, happy, tranquil and energetic human being – stand proud as the great warrior of truth and happiness, ready to str...
One thing that can be done is to sit down on New Year’s eve, take a piece of paper, and note down point-by-point – the characteristics and habits we find in ourselves that are negative and need to ...
The student or the listener must realize there are things to be learnt, of which he knows little and say: ‘Let me listen to somebody who seems to know’. This attitude curtails the egotistic feeling...
In this journey of understanding higher levels of consciousness, one has to be free of all burdens of the mind. This is where yoga comes in – to free the mind from the burdens.