The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
My true self cannot be found by any mode of thought. If it can’t be found by any mode of thought, then how do you find it?
No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...
Every one of us, although we say we are looking for this or that, is looking for philosophy or welfare. What we are really looking for is happiness.
Although some technique has been described in Dhyana yoga, the crux of the matter is one should go within, try to understand and experience the inner self. Then, one comes face to face with the tru...
The Vedantic question is why not go back? That is, retrace our steps and go back to the source or the reservoir of all happiness, which is within us.
The center around which thought orbits is called the ‘mind of the mind’— the witness of all that is happening within.
Nivrutti Marga and Pravartti Marga - Pravratti means the mind is outgoing, also known as extrovert. It operates outside, through the senses. All the experiences of this world are gained through Pra...
Every one of us, although we say we are looking for this or that, is looking for philosophy or welfare. What we are really looking for is happiness.
There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...
One who’s on the spiritual journey should not cry over what he loses. What is lost may be the stepping-stone to the ultimate goal — communion with the Supreme Being.
One of the greatest obstacles to Truth is sloth. Swami Vivekananda realized this and implemented its removal in his own life. He said one couldn’t meditate 24 hours a day; therefore, the next best ...
Look at a river, it furrows through the sand, on both sides there are banks. It builds its own banks. Oh it floods sometimes but that does not mean that you can freeze it and hold it in one place. ...