The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
What is love really, in that sense of the term? It is separation. When your beloved is with you, then what is love? When your beloved is not there, and the mind pines with longing, it is called lov...
Everybody says, ‘I have surrendered.’ Nobody has truly surrendered. To surrender, really, is not easy. If I surrender, it means to firstly consider what am I surrendering to? Who am I surrendering ...
First, I must say, ‘I cannot understand’. Then, what happens here is the same thing comes into the picture – that ‘stillness’, that ‘emptiness’ – because I am not doing anything; because I have giv...
All the knowledge I have gathered is confined to my mind and my brain, which can conk off at any time. You know it. One part of the brain malfunctions and one function is immediately impaired. I do...
When we go to a temple, we see the image there. I go down there, and I worship. I bow my head down and I fall flat worshipping. After that, I come out. What do I do next? I see a human being – a go...
When Jesus said, ‘Empty yourself’, I think what he meant was that we are mentally constipated. It is all the stuff that is ingested and is not being expelled. So, what he meant to say is, ‘Take it ...
For most of us, when we sit down and try to meditate, the mind wanders mainly because we are attracted to something or we are repulsed by something. If this had been settled in some way by understa...
The ‘emptiness’ that I mean is the stillness which comes when the mind is not distracted, when there is no distraction of running up and down and going here and there.
‘Emptying myself’ means to meet people, to see people, to react to situations every day in life situations without the heavy load of prejudices. This is what emptying means. And, also, to continue ...
As I meet and interact with people, can I meet and interact without my prejudices? Without all that notions I have filled about people, plus and minus both? Can I meet them at par, on equal terms? ...
To ‘empty yourself’ is not a conscious process and it is not even an unconscious process. ‘Empty yourself’ simply means to understand that concept. It is not a process. It is not as if I can sit do...
When we say ‘empty yourself,’ it could also mean ‘empty yourself of your prejudices.’ Empty yourself of all the ideas that have been put into your brain; of all the things that you instantly dislik...