The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Bhagavad Gita has everything. How one has to work in the world, how to lead one's day-to-day life, how to meditate, how to be devoted, everything! It has everything!!
Nobody can say ‘I have Absolute Power’. One can say, ‘I have gone deep and touched one of the conduits of That Absolute Power.’ As long as we have the physical body and we identify ourselves with t...
The Energy and the Power that is manifested all over the world, right from the energy that you see in a tiny amoeba that moves, gets its food and eats it – all is Power. Now, power generates power ...
Krishna represents love, thus love is a comprehensive panacea for all ills. If you really understand the meaning of it – utter selflessness, not love for my own sake but love for Love’s sake – only...
Krishna is depicted mostly with a flute in his hand, playing beautiful music. Music penetrates the heart. It has nothing to do with the logical mind. When you listen to music in rapt attention, you...
Don’t run away from the battle. Stay there. You cannot run anywhere. So, stay on and fight it out – but with love, affection, and understanding.
The search for happiness continues. If drinking a cup of tea gives us a little happiness – then drinking it keeps us satisfied for a while. But tomorrow, we have to drink tea again to become happy!
When we are faced with situations, we prefer to run away from them and not meet them. Stay where you are, face your situations – how do you react with others, how do others react to you.
Examine yourself in the morning when you wake up and in the evening before you go to sleep. And see – have I changed or am I the same or worse? Am I still angry when somebody else is happy?
No amount of bhajans or kirtans is of any use unless the heart changes, unless the heart starts to look outside oneself. If we can spend even half an hour for others, then we are moving forward.
Living in this world and experiencing life, I would say is the philosopher’s stone, which eventually can purify you from base metal to pure gold.
That Energy, That Power, That Absolute Being – which is the power in manifestation – is always Complete, and anything that is incomplete is not That. In the psychological sense – unlike individual ...