The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Intellect is essential but intellect has its limitations – it cannot take us to the inner. When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them ...
One thing you must remember. Is that the Gita is the first, the most ancient of the scriptures which have examined this question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare...
What happens is since the mind is always in motion, one cannot clearly see the reflection of one’s true self on it. Like the pool or the pond which has so many ripples on it. Suppose you drop a sto...
The first chapter is Arjuna Vishada Yoga. It begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is a very very important thing to understand. Unless sorrow in some form comes about, one will not turn around an...
‘We’ are saying that the next stage after aesthetics is spiritual evolution. There, you have put things in order; here you have to put your mind in order. You should know where this picture, in the...
My Babaji – my Master – used to say, ‘as long as other people are thinking various things about you, its ok. If you start believing what they are thinking about you, you are lost! You are sunk.’
To understand, while we are OK – that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self – and to understand that ‘that’ is muc...
In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge there, is mentioned as Vidya and has been divided into Para-vidya and Apara-vidya. In Apar vidya are included all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammer...
The Bhagwad Gita, translated literally would mean The Divine Song, Geetam. Indeed from the point of view of the sincere seeker of ‘Truth’, of spiritual fulfillment, it is a song of hope in the mids...
The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as it is said in the Viveka Chudamani and many other ancient texts – the Upanishads, Gita – the first thing to understand is that there is not...
Great literature, sublime poetry, exquisite works of art – they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity which is the culmination and the highest point that love...
Vedanta also says that the real substance of the universe, is the same everywhere. In you and outside you. And that substance cannot even be found by the mind. Then, if it cannot be found by the mi...