The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The real Shivam is your inner being, your antar atma. First the mind has to be freed so that the mind begins to understand that the happiness that we seek for in this world is within.
The aim of yoga is Kaivalya, freedom from all bondage. As long as there is bondage, there is no happiness to be found.
The best way to control a wayward mind is an occasional fast. The yogi, a practitioner of spiritual exercises, needs to moderate all his activities in order to be able to progress in his endeavour....
Every little thing is full of joy. The dew drop you find on the grass in the morning, the breeze that blows in quietly bringing in the perfume of the jasmine, the smell of the earth after the first...
TThe mind is always asking for something, or it is running away from something. These are the two major factors. Either it is attached to something or it is repelled by something. If these two fact...
The Upanishad says, if you want to understand that Supreme reality which pervades everywhere, let go, move from your own centre, expand and let everyone be a part of you.
Yes, it is worth praying for peace and our prayers do influence and bring about peace in the world.
All the dance systems we have in this country can be traced to the Tandava of Shiva also called Nataraja, Lord of dance. Tandava nritya is a dance of destruction, everything is shaken up, but if yo...
The most powerful enemy for a yogi, if one is on the spiritual path, is Kamadeva. Kamadeva need not necessarily mean sensual, physical pleasures. Kama means desire.
When you sit down in meditation, images and thoughts of all kinds will come. The way to do it is to break everything.
We like to think we live in the present. Most of us live in the past because we cling to the images that we have created and others have created for us. So we actually live in the past.
While structures are important for living and other things, constantly being involved in the structures makes the mind also a physical structure. You are no more free, even the thoughts, the expres...