The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
A snake has been the symbol of Kundalini for many 100 years. It is also because it is the symbol of wisdom. It is a symbol that you find on the head dress of pharaoh for instance, or in the legends...
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...
Self-realization to me, Kaivalya or Moksha, means not free from something, but realizing that one is always free but has been labouring under the illusion that one is not. Yes, this is the same as ...
A spiritual teacher teaches a person sadhana according to that person’s capacity and according to that person’s needs. Everybody cannot practice the same thing. Why? Because nobody is made the same...
In our ‘Parampara’- the Nath Parampara- the first Guru, the first teacher is supposed to be Adinath and Adinath is none other than Shiva. Shiva and Adinath are indistinguishable. The most important...
At the end of the 18th chapter, Krishna declares now that you have understood everything, relax. Let go and rejoice! Do your things. Carry on. Nothing is going to happen. The roof is not going to f...
When one has discovered one’s true freedom, is it irreversible? I think, the question need not be asked. Once you have realized your freedom, when you have realized that you have ever been free, ho...
Is there unbound freedom? That was the quest of the Upanishads. And the Upanishads said YES, there is such a freedom. They said, they also experienced it I am sure that the true self of the human b...
The theory of tantra is that the sexual energy which you know, for all human beings after food and shelter – is the most enjoyable experience. It is that same energy – the sexual energy – which is ...
According to the tantras, Shiva – the Supreme Being – resides on the Sahasraara Chakra, with his legs let down and touching the brumadhya or the center between the eyebrows. The point at which the ...
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures. You can know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot fin...
To discover that unconditional ever free self in all human beings was the aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India. Break free from all bondage, all psychological bondage, realize that your t...