The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...
If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...
The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...
From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay togethe...
The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...
The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide because we are largely walking on unexplored territory....
The deity is the media through which you reach the Absolute. The Absolute is not Brahma the creator, but the Para Brahman. The root ‘braha’ means to expand continuously. Something, which is always ...
To understand, while we are OK that we still have to go beyond; that we have to find lasting peace; that we have to find the Real which is the Immortal Self and to understand that THAT is much more...
From the unreal feeling, the unreal understanding, the unreal imagination that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the Reality dawn ...
‘Govinda’ is the Supreme Being; Krishna is also called ‘Govinda’ because he had complete control over the cows with him. Now ‘Go’ also means the senses and one who has complete control over the sen...
The Dhyana sloka in the Bhagvad Gita says: “Sarvo Upanishado Gaavo—all the Upanishads are cows; Dugdha Gopala Nandana—the one milks them is Krishna, the cowherd boy; Partho Vatsaha—Partha or Arjuna...
In the deeper sense of the term, the consciousness, which is the ground from which all the thoughts arise, that is the real you. So to get back there, you have to allow the thoughts to quieten down.