The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
A teacher should be a polished mirror – so that when you look you see your actual reflection, not some kind of a distorted image. If you see your real picture then only one can change- when one doe...
Whenever, a sincere student, a Satya Kama, one who searches for nothing but the Truth, sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind open and unprejudiced ready to receive that which is given, t...
The Upanishads go further: ‘nothing that you worship here is the ‘Supreme Being’! This is what the Keno Upanishad says: Yen manasa na manuta yena ahur mano matan tadeva Brahma twam viddhi nedam yad...
When the mind has almost ceased to move, when the mind remains in its original state of no action and no movement, absolutely still, then, something takes place, which we may call the understanding...
The moment I go deep into that, my capacity to break the bonds of what has been given to me from the past expands. I learn to break the fetters one by one. When I have gone deeper and deeper into t...
Your question, whether you need a teacher ? Yes. You would need a teacher. For anything you need a teacher. But the teacher should not become more important than the teaching. That is the danger al...
First practice kindness. Even if it is an imitation, it doesn’t matter. Imitating a practitioner of kindness is always better than a fellow who is cruel. Practice kindness to all living beings, as ...
One of the great obstacles, impurities to Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda realized it, and implemented it. He said – you fellows cannot meditate 24 hours a day, therefore work. It prevents you fr...
Spiritual practice is not something diverse from our day to day life. Not as if I can do whatever I like in my life, and then sit down one day, everyday in the morning and visualize the light comin...
Now beginning to do your sadhana seriously – I am trying to stress this – is two things. One is, actually sitting down and doing your sadhana; the other is, examine your life and see how you behave...
We have to change, there is no other way. We can’t remain the same – if we remain the same – sixteen years of meditation will be no use. Any amount of japa will be of no use. No amount of bhajans o...
Deep down in my mind, is it possible for me, to treat every one, as the same? Afterall, they are the same human beings. With the same desires. With the same jealousies. With the same hatreds. With ...