The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
So you see by giving up the miserable little self, one is not lost. On the other hand, the Greater self is gained. How can one become unconscious when the fountainhead of conscious- ness is that ve...
When one becomes aware of the mind which looks for happiness outside, when deep within lies the treasure trove, then and only then does the little self begin to disappear and one becomes more and m...
(It is) in that utter stillness the ‘Truth’ comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have be...
When one understands perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or to allow the mind to settle down….to become still and not caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...
When the mind is absolutely still….when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’….which means every worship has a worshipper and the thing worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought ...
Since ‘It’ is infinite….whatever that you are seeking….it cannot be confined to anything finite’; and therefore, ‘you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is many dimensional...
Even the greatest iconoclastic religions worship something. They do not have an image of God, they have a symbol. If they don’t have a symbol, they have a book. If they don’t have a book, they have...
Surrendering to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind, which is built up of limited inputs, coming through the limited senses. (When) this is ...
Surrendering to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind, which is built up of limited inputs, coming through the limited senses. (When) this is ...
No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception that we have, the five senses, nor even the mind with its imagination, can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. Which is none other than our ...
The experience of happiness is innate. Not in the object that I enjoy. Although the object may be necessary to excite it. Or to bring it out. Therefore, the vedantic theory is that the source of al...
Words are very powerful! If somebody doesn’t know the language, he won’t understand a word, he won’t know what you are saying. The moment he knows the language, he will react according to the meani...