The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, some thing exists and that which actually exists cannot be found by the sensor...
Perception is always relative, it’s comparative. You can only compare. There is no absolute perception.
Blankness is very fearful for us. Because the mind thinks it will lose hold, that we will very soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselves out of it...
It also the reason why Shiva is also called ‘Pashupathi’. Pashu means all the instincts which we have as animals. This is the noose that pulls that animal and makes it do exactly what he wants. Thi...
In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise, that is the real you. So to get back there you have to allow the thoughts to quieten down.
Now, the rishis and the yogis who have gone into this subject practically have said there is something called mind, but there is no language, there is thought which has no language and that is the ...
The moment we begin to glimpse or even understand that we are the ocean and all thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. That is our primordial state. That is the gap between thoughts.
The deity is the media through which you reach the absolute. That absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root braha, which means to expand continuously. Something which is al...
The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, discovers that this whole circus that is going on around him, this whole world that he has built up around him, has suddenly co...
All of us are deities. There is not one who is not. Whether we realize it or not. We are all deities. That is why when you have touched the inner. Even to little bit. Then you can never despise or ...
Bhaja Govinda on one hand means chant the name of Govinda; now bhajan is not only chanting, bhajan also means to completely absorb yourself in something, means both. Why is it called bhajan because...
The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita, says: Sarvo Upanishado gaavo: All the Upanishads are the cows: Dugdha Gopala Nandana: The one milks them is Krishna the cowherd boy: Partho Vatsaha: Partha or ...