The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Your question is whether you need a teacher. Yes, you need a teacher. To learn anything, you need a teacher. But the teacher should not become more important than the teaching. There is a danger in...
Whether we are on the path of spiritual progress or not, very often we don’t get what we want. This makes us depressed. One must draw the distinction between what we want and what we need.
What does a human worship most - Desire? Enjoyment? Wealth? These are the things that man worships - pride, prestige, respect, wealth, lust and power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. One need n...
Divine Love is to be understood through ordinary love. If you have a rough idea about ordinary Love, then expand it by a thousand times, you have divine Love—something selfless, utterly selfless an...
The Vedantic question is why not go back ? That is, retrace our steps and go back to the source or the reservoir of all happiness, which is within us.
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 important aim of the Gita is to lead one to the main character in this whole drama of life. This whole ‘kurukshetra’ of life, which is Krishna—the Supreme Being. Krishna, not as the human, not ...
Moksha means to be totally free, to be completely happy without depending on anything in the material world. Moksha is not governed by desire.
The sustainer and creator of the universe is the intelligent energy that pervades this universe. The ‘atman’—the consciousness that we understand—is a spark of that supreme consciousness. We cannot...
The entire teaching of the body of scriptures called ‘Upanishad’ is regarding the kind of knowledge communicated into a mind, which is absolutely silent, absolutely quiet, so that it discovers the ...
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...
A spiritual teacher need not necessarily be someone who lives in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. He may be living in your outhouse, your backyard or your kitchen garden. There are hundreds of ...