The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Self-realization is to understand oneself and, in the process of understanding oneself, break down innumerable illusions that we have about ourselves.
This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...
The only way to study yourself, the only way to know yourself, the only way to realize yourself, to understand yourself as you are and not as you imagine you are, is by being a part of the society....
So, I am here today, I work hard, I think happiness comes out of a solid bank balance. I have done everything. And then, what happens? Suddenly, destiny takes someone away from me who is most dear ...
Again, in Gita, is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is karma yog...
From my personal experience I would say that since the ‘Truth’, is in the present, an ever living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, memory being a thing of the...
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...
There is an ancient sloka which is chanted before starting various activities. Sahanavavatu – we have chanted it many times, it is interesting to learning meaning of it – sahanaubhunattu sahaviryam...
Dedicate all actions. (then) Slowly, the outside disappears and the inner takes over. Whatever happens – good or bad – that it is the Lord who does! And whatever you enjoy – think that it is the Lo...
Arjuna asks “Among those who worship the unmanifest and those who worship you as the manifest as Krishna, who is a better yogi? Krishna says, does not answer that question directly, he says: “as lo...
I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...
Prasna Upanishad is an Upanishad which questions and does not accept but questions before accepting. And that should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Not believe because somebody said so, but ques...