The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
When the spark of individual consciousness merges with the universal, individuality is there but it is not a limited one. It is an individuality of universal consciousness. At no point does one bec...
The sustainer and creator of the universe is the intelligent energy that permeates this universe. The ‘atman’, the consciousness that we understand, is a spark of that supreme consciousness. We can...
Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work. But we believe that ultimately one would get the sense of equality only when there is a spir...
When I wake up in the morning – the first thing that I recognise is that I exist. And then the world exists –I see everything around. But that first feeling that ‘I am’ –that awareness that ‘I am c...
We say 'God created man in his own image'. Our idea is that, 'Man creates God in his own image.' For example – When you say ‘divine justice’, you automatically postulate a judge.
Swami Vivekananda said, 'All the Gods that you see are only pictures created by people who don’t know, who have not seen them. But there are living Gods, human beings we can see face-to-face.' Serv...
Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work. But we believe that ultimately one would get the sense of equality only when there is a spir...
Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give a teacher millions of dollars. I don’t t...
Through the practice of mysticism, whether it is Sufi, Yogic or Buddhist one, can awaken the centers that become active when you are in deep meditation. Only when these centers are awakened is ther...
The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers thatyoga and Vedanta have talke...
Experiencing life through the sorrows and the pleasures, the pains and the happiness that the body and the mind go through, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before it touches a level th...
When the mind becomes quiet and silent, the aim of all forms of meditation – one comes face-to-face with one’s consciousness. This is a part of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religi...