The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...
Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, binds us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching that says that if you can act kno...
As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...
The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...
So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self, with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to mak...
“Sat-chit-ananda” is a three-syllable word— ‘Sat’, ‘Chitta’ and ‘Ananda’. ‘Sat’ meaning reality, ‘Chitta’ meaning consciousness and ‘Ananda’ means bliss (not ordinary happiness which has an end). T...
The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached by any of our known modes of communication.
The Vedanta asserts that this basic attitude, this basic instinct to unite, comes from the fact that we have separated from Unity and have now become dual. Therefore, there is a built-in instinct t...
Words are very powerful! If somebody doesn’t know the language, they won’t understand a word, they won’t know what you are saying. The moment they know the language, they will react according to th...
You cannot conceive of a mind without thought; so the mind in totality is actually a bundle of thoughts from the past to the present and projecting into the future.
You can sit in a cave for fifteen years, meditate and think you are free of anger, jealousy and everything. But what will you be jealous of in a cave, who will you get angry with ? There is nobody....
This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation. Sitting in a cave, there is no one with whom...