The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
I personally don’t think giving up the world completely, shaving your head to renounce the world and walking away is the right way in progressing on the spiritual path. There have been examples of ...
At places like Badri and Kedar, it is best to spend time in meditation and japa. The best Satsang is to do meditation and japa, visit temples or go to holy places. It’s not a very good idea to spea...
It is possible for someone to lead a life like a normal human being in the material world and at the same time keep the spiritual aspirations intact, and work in a way as to attain the aim of spiri...
It is possible to live in this world and reach one’s spiritual fulfillment at the same time, provided, we know the rules and regulations and the traffic signals to watch out for; where we can overs...
In spiritual matters, you start with the understanding that there is something beyond the ordinary mind. And it cannot be known through study. Soaking in the atmosphere in places where the rishis h...
The result of dharana and dhyana is samadhi. Samadhi is an altered state of consciousness wherein a person who meditates upon whatever he is meditating upon, merges with the object of meditation. T...
If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Lord would not have created it at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and also in us ...
Samadhi is when you are meditating upon the Supreme Being and there is no individual meditator but only the Supreme Being. In the sankhya parlance, the atman merges with the paramatman. In Vedantic...
The Lord says, ‘If it is difficult for you to serve and purify yourself to the state of attaining the capacity to meditate, simply surrender yourself to me. Your mind is automatically controlled. G...
We are all in some activity or the other, nobody can remain without doing anything; The Lord says, ‘Dedicate that to me. Think that I am the agent and I am the enjoyer’. Gradually you will get puri...
‘Yogo bhoga yatey‘– yoga through bhoga. Again this is not a license for bhoga, bhoga means enjoyment. What the rishis meant was while you enjoy, realize that the enjoyment is not coming from that o...
Instead of trying to be free from the beginning, enjoy with the purpose that you want to be free of it ultimately. How does one do this, by dedicating everything to the Supreme Being. Whenever you ...