The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If you have an old building and you want to put up a new structure there, what do you do first? You demolish all that is old and constructed, all that is artificial, so that the new comes up. From...
If we are making spiritual progress, don’t judge by how many visions or kinds of lights one sees. What we have to look at is how one behaves. Have I become less selfish? Has my world narrowed down ...
Nobody can give us illumination; we have to find it ourselves. Just as one who is hungry has to find food for oneself.
The paths are many and the goal is total fullness and completeness. We are all seeking though we may not be spiritually inclined. If even a few people understand this and start living this way, we ...
Sleep is like a mini-death. So, can we get up in the morning fresh and see as if everything is new?
When Buddha said to his monks - ‘Go Forth!’, he didn’t mean to only walk, he also meantgetting out of the stagnant little pool that we have created. Move!
It’s more important to understand the teachings than to worship the teacher. The sacred is always around us and in our hearts.
According to the Buddha, desire is the root of all sorrow and freedom from desire is freedom from sorrow for all mankind.
We have forgotten to sit under trees. In ancient times, all the teachers sat under the tree and taught. The Buddha got his enlightenment under a peepal tree.
The Truth that we seek is almost like no-thing. Which is why the Buddha called it Shunya. When ego becomes zero, then I see that zero. That Nothing is the essence of everything.
Ultimately, you are your own Master. There is no other. A teacher can help you understand this point. If you do, then you are free. My job is to tell you that your teacher is in you.
The Upanishads say that the Truth is something which is far and yet so near; it moves but it’s faster than any movement. It’s that which is, and not that which was. Every minute, it is new.