The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
All our thought processes are made up of language. Music is something which cuts across all barriers.
Knowing oneself starts with knowing oneself in the midst of people, not alone. In seclusion, I don’t see how I am. We should first know who we are and where we stand. To know thyself means knowing...
Bhakti cannot be cultivated. It either happens, or it does not happen. It’s only with grace, we cannot say anything. We can do puja etc and, all that is fine. When the heart becomes tender, it happ...
The wisest man very soon discovers the limitations of the intellect. The Upanishads declare, yanmanasā na manute yenāhurmano matam, that which even the mind cannot understand, that is the Supreme R...
In para bhakti, all that the devotee asks for is the darshan of the Lord. Even separation sometimes is enjoyed.
Gita is not something to be read as a theoretical text. While you need to do that, it should be looked at as a sadhana, a practice by which you free yourself.
Any approach to the spiritual usually starts when one goes through pain, obstacles to our advancement, when we want something, we don't get it. Then we begin to think, is life just this much or is ...
‘Letting go’ means not being stuck to the dream world that we have created for ourselves, and to be able to let go of it at any instant is not easy. It's a long journey and we go through many obsta...
Yoga simply means the effort and the approach and the path to find the Truth. So sadhana is required.
In very simple words, the meaning of the Gita is found by reversing the word Gita - tagi. Thakur Sri Ramakrishna said, instead of Gita, if you say tagi (Tyagi), that is the essence of the Gita. The...
Bhagavad Gita comes from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata, and it kind of expresses the truths of the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutra in practical, simple, direct terms for you and me to unders...
Those who choose to be happy, whatever be the circumstances, will try and be happy. This is not always possible because we are faced with so many challenges and sometimes we get caught up in the co...