The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called ‘severance of connection with pain’. Only, in that state, can one sever one’s connection with p...
The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called ‘severance of connection with pain’. Only, in that state, can one sever one’s connection with p...
How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...
The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experi...
Don’t carry your anger, hatred and poisonous feelings against others, from one day to the next. When you go to sleep, you should leave it and get up fresh in the morning. And say, “It’s okay. Yeste...
The movement is from the unreal to the Real. For that, as mentioned in the Viveka Chudamani and other ancient texts like the Upanishads and Gita, the first thing to understand is that there is noth...
To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...
All our lives are based upon the understanding that, “I am the body’. The ego, which is the mind, is built-up based on the understanding that ‘I am this body’. But there are many aspects of you, wh...
The aim of the spiritual teaching in ancient India was to discover the unconditional ever-free self in all human beings. To break free from all bondage and all psychological bondage. To realize tha...
Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give them millions of dollars but I don’t thi...
Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...
Have patience in the face of criticism. Even when greatly agitated, try to be patient. Things will take care of themselves. We can never say when the Grace of God comes, so we cannot be impatient. ...