The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Now, from the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay to...
However much we may try …because the brain is a very limited organism and we get limited inputs. All that the brain can think of and decide and conclude is from the information that it gets – the i...
We have not changed. You see – the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. That’s what intellectual life has taken us to. There are other good things – we have found medicines for dise...
How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, ‘Among millions of people one turns to the spiritual path. Among millions...
According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said….who was, I think, one of the latest contemporary teachers of Vedanta who had the experience of it. He said that when y...
The path which has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow – not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting...
For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything – but be free from it. As far as spiritual...
When I am clear, when I have not a single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing automatically means replacing reality with something...
The few who with their great devotion and good deeds who become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion, and with their purifie...
If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries of Shankara and others, you find what they are trying to say is that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean a...
If you think of one thought at a time, when one thought is gone, before the other comes, there is something. If it is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else is the consciousn...
‘From the unreal feeling or from the unreal understanding or unreal imagination, that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the realit...