The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
You have a slate and you write on it. Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anyth...
The practice of yoga is the way of finding that happiness which is our true identity. We discover that we are not what we think we are, but something entirely different. Swami Vivekananda explaine...
Babaji used to say, ‘The seeds have been planted, they have been sown but no seed will become a tree and bear fruit in three days, it takes its own time’. So sow the seed, keep the climate clear, ...
Intelligence has to realize that from a point, it’s function is over and allow something else to take over. That instrument of perception that takes over is known as intuition, Jnana Drishti.
The rising of the kundalini therefore is the rising of consciousness from the gross to the subtle, subtler and subtler levels until It reaches the highest stage in the sahasraara chakra and the yog...
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 freedom.
Every practitioner of spiritual exercise should keep in mind -that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that have been hidden in your subconscious mind till now-bottled up...
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can stand on your head. You can study all the scriptures. You can know them by heart. But, unless and until, the quality of mind improves, one cannot fin...
The first thing that happens as one advances in sadhana is that one develops compassion in the heart.
In the Gita, the chapter after Arjuna Vishada Yoga is Sankhya Yoga, the Yoga of knowledge. So, seeing that Arjuna is in sorrow, and observing the miserable state he has gone into, Krishna explains ...
The Bhagavad Gita itself is an upanishad or the essence of all the Upanishads put in simple language, for a layman to understand.
As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.