The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Very often, we tend to mistake tamas – tamo guna – for sattva. Sattva is goodness and calmness and quietness. Tamo guna is not goodness and calmness and quietness but laziness, sloth and pretending...
Vaisvaanara is the Lord who has all forms, the golden one, the Sun, the all knowing, the goal of all soul-light, the giver of heat possessing thousands of rays existing in hundreds of forms. Thus r...
Imagination or Visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and make reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create fro...
Even in the smallest of selves bound by chains, a human being experiences true freedom for he or she realizes that one has never been bound. This is the immortal great message of the Upanishads.
The rising of the kundalini therefore is the rising of consciousness from the gross to the subtle, subtler and subtler levels until It reaches the highest stage in the sahasraara chakra and the yog...
Reality is not that things don’t exist but they don’t exist in the form or state in which we think they do. That wrong understanding of objects, of anything is called Maya, a misunderstanding. And ...
This is a very, very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom, it cannot be freedom. It can only be something similar t...
I do not say that humans are born with intrinsic freedom. I say that the true self of every human being is eternally free; and when I say eternally free, it’s free even before birth. At birth, it i...
I’m trying to draw a line between intelligence and intellect. Intellectual is gathering more and more information. Intelligence is to do with understanding. Intellectuals are those who gather knowl...
Philosophically, Buddha for instance, talked about freedom from sorrow for all mankind which he defined as nirvana which is another word for moksha. According to the Buddha, desire is the root of a...
I can know many things but if I don’t act on it then it makes no sense either to me, or to others. So the third chapter (after Sankhya Yoga, the yoga of knowledge), is Karmya Yoga which is, to act ...
Practice austerity, chastity and stick to the truth. Be chaste, be pure and have faith that the answer will come after you have lived thus. So, that is the preliminary preparation for the understan...