The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Serve others but remember while doing so to be thankful to them for providing you with the opportunity to serve them and thereby speeding up your spiritual progress. It is you who should be thankf...
No one can meditate or remain engaged in devotional activities for 24 hours a day. There may be exceptions but we are talking of the general run of mankind. Therefore, find some time when you are e...
Don’t forget that the aim is union with the Divine, or as some others might put it, ‘sieving the ore to discover pure gold’.
Sing and dance to your heart’s content. Absorb yourself in devotional music and let it carry you to higher states of consciousness. Once you taste the wine of devotion, you’ll never want to touch l...
As far as intoxicants are concerned, one doesn’t have to be extraordinarily intelligent to understand why one is advised to abstain from them. Anything that makes one unbalanced and lose one’s sens...
A spiritual life is not incompatible with worldly existence. A properly lived life in the world is conducive to meditation. This is especially true, if you are also inclined to practise asanas, pra...
While rituals and ceremonies may be dispensed with if found unnecessary and cumbersome, yamas and niyamas, the rules of conduct have to be studied carefully and adopted as far as possible, because,...
Lead a simple, transparent life full of peace and tranquillity. The small inconveniences you may feel are nothing compared to what you gain.
Don’t mistake the technique for the goal. Go on meditating deeper and deeper until the mind is stripped bare and you find your own dear ‘Self ’, the radiant, unpolluted, indestructible, pure ...
A tension-free mind can think more clearly and without confusion. As you continue to meditate, you’ll see that your thought processes begin to get into efficient mode.
When you get up from your daily meditations, thank everything and everybody with utter humility.
Thoughts are like ripples that disturb the calm surface of the mind and distort the reflections. When they disappear, the surface becomes clean, and the undistorted reflection of the ‘Sacred One’ i...