The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where deep down, you want to come out of circumstances that are limiting your progress. Finding that the mind with its present conditioned capacity is ...
Mantra is a technique and not the goal. When you feel you have entered a deep state and chanting the mantra also takes effort, Stop! But watch out, the mind is very tricky, it may be laziness which...
The highest function of the intellect is to understand its limitations in the spiritual field. This is possible only if you have really good intelligence; good intelligence sharpened by concentrati...
From ancient times, meditation has been defined as one-pointedness, where the mind is not allowed to be scattered or dissipated in different directions. In fact, if you learn the art of being one p...
Does this freedom happen in stages? I would say, It’s like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one’s own self, one’s own mind.
According to Vedanta that feeling of being dependent on what is around you, the feeling that you are bound and that you have to get out of it, is part of the great illusion of the mind called the M...
Remember that in this particular field that is the spiritual journey, sometimes two plus two may be nine, and not four. Because we are entering quantum land where nothing is certain.
Now Vaisvaanara is supposed to be the fire, which is the essence of living beings, the life, the prana, the energy that glows in all human beings, while Visvarupah is the essence of the whole Unive...
When one has reached the Sun – the spiritual Sun that is eternal and fearless – one does not have to come back into this world of sorrow. That is the final goal.
Surya, the life of all creation, the golden one, the all knowing, the goal of all soul-light, the giver of heat, possessing a thousand rays, exists in hundreds of forms, which means there is only O...
You cannot practice freedom because freedom has no design, it has no pattern. It’s absolutely free, unbound, boundless! One cannot ‘practice’ freedom in day to day life.
Sa Esa Vaisvaanaro Visvarupah. This is HE, the Vaisvaanara fire, assuming every form, life and fire that rises everyday, this is declared in the verse of the Rig Veda.