The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...
I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It m...
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...
The center at the navel is known as the ‘Manipura Chakra’. When the heat of ‘Kundalini Yoga’ practice emanates from the ‘Manipura Chakra’, then the ‘Kundalini’ rises further up, from solid to liqui...
Kakasaheb Dixit, a close associate of Shirdi Sai Baba, was sitting in meditation and he saw Vittala in a vision. In the noon, when he went for his dear Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba asked him point blan...
This is a very serious question. Is a Guru necessary to attain freedom? Does the Guru induce freedom? If the Guru is inducing freedom, it cannot be freedom. It can only be something similar to free...
So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different...
There is this famous story derived from the couplet of Kabir Das, about the Kasturi Mriga. There is a kind of deer with a little pouch near its tail, in which Kasturi musk is produced. In the breed...
If the world were a complete obstruction to the attainment of spiritual fulfillment, the Supreme Being would not have created the world at all. The very fact that the world exists around us and als...
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.
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...
The most important point stressed is the first qualification ‘Sarva bhuta hite rataaha’ meaning ‘one who has the welfare of all beings in his heart’. This is the beginning of ‘sadhana’. If you have...