The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Internal experience cannot be transmitted through repetitiousness. It has to be constantly refreshed from the source. When you have an internal experience for the first time, since it is so marvelo...
The sun shines on all of us. Since it is the truth, you don't have to go into a dark room to figure that out. It shines equally on everyone. For a person sitting in the shade, it may not be falling...
An average person thinks in certain set patterns and he cannot break that pattern. If a man is sitting here and talking, he must be a great teacher. Actually, he may not be. Or, if a man speaks wel...
There are many other things you have to figure out. One is the water. The other is the boat. “Nav karo meri paar” – there is this prevalent imagery of the boat crossing the water - ‘bhavasagara’. S...
“Urdhva-moolam adhah-sakham, asvathaam prahur avyayam, chandamsi yasya parnani, yas tam veda sa veda-vit”. This is about an upside-down ashvatha tree - peepul tree whose roots are high up and branc...
Superficially, most of the Nasiruddin stories are seen as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in teahouses, in caravans, in the inns, in homes and on the radio waves of Asia. But, it is inher...
I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributaries”. Ramakrishna Paramahansa put it...
When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord to think of nothing other than the Supreme Being, that is Bhakti. The ...
The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself in the love of the Supreme. The great Sufi, Hazrat Shah Niyaz, said: Aql ke madra...
All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives just for a brief vision of the Lord, to hold him tight in their embrace.
What is Bhakti? A love that is completely surrendering, not for our sake but for the one we love. It’s completely selfless - Love! Bhakti! Ishq! It is a known fact in spiritual circles that spiritu...
When a person is on the spiritual journey, he should not cry over what he loses. What he loses may be the stepping-stone to what he is going to gain, which is communion with the Supreme Being. This...