The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Fixing the attention – one pointed attention either on an idea, an object, on a sound, on a thought or even an idol but one pointed with no other thought intruding is called dharana.
Human becomes divine, man becomes superman and the ordinary is transformed to the extraordinary by the magic touch of the supreme energy. When the atman merges with the supreme paramatman, when fin...
The Soundarya Lahiri, the Lalita Sahasranama and other tantric texts contain certain bijaksharas or seed sounds that actually have no meaning by themselves but are vibrations that awaken the Kundal...
Each of the chakras starting from the mooladhara to the sahasraara have their associated sounds known as the bijaksharas – seed sounds. When the yogi fixes his attention on a chakra and continuousl...
The Bhagavat says that wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status and knowledge – especially knowledge, that is automatically a manifestation of the Supreme Bein...
Don’t carry your anger and hatred, stupidity and poisonous feelings against others from one day to the next. When we go to sleep, can we leave it there and get up fresh in the morning and say, ‘Tha...
Pranayama – usually when we say pranayama people think it has something to do with either slow or fast breathing or something to do with the breath. Actually the word pranayama means the knowledge ...
You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anything...
The agni tattva, vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically it is the digestive fire. It is the fire, the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. Agni ye sw...
Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. Speak the truth; More than speaking the truth, think the truth. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. Ther...
Krishna says that if you would only fix your attention on ‘me’; He speaks not as a human being but as the manifestation of the Supreme Being. ‘If you fix your attention on me with complete faith an...
Let Go! The Upanishads have a beautiful saying “Tena tyaktena bhunjitha” – Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, we have ideas of accumulating things. Here it is a completely reverse p...