The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...
Swami Vivekananda explained it beautifully; he said: “We are hypnotized by the false happiness that the world seems to give us. We have to de-hypnotise ourselves and come back to our senses.”
‘Let go’ does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means, develop the quality of ‘letting go’. Then, there is absolute peace, rejoice!
Our entire life is ‘sadhana’ — how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal. This is ‘sadhana’.
We all are actually ‘pashu’, although we think we are ‘manushya’. Deep down, we are all ‘pashu’ and Shiva is the Lord who presides over us. So, he is called ‘Pashupathi’.
The ultimate ‘ananda’ which is pursued by the yogis is not just sensory enjoyment. Even the ‘ananda’ of enjoying the body, which is full of bliss, that is also a sort of sensory but little subtle. ...
When we speak of our thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control them and make them disappear. The moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.
We are like the ocean and all our thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it. This is our primordial state. This is the gap between thoughts.
If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...
Now, the rishis and yogis who have gone into this subject have said that there is something called the mind, but there is no language to it. There is thought which has no language and that is the c...
Thinking itself is the mind. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, it’s implied where there is no thought there is no mind, in the ordinary sense of the term.
Best ‘satsang’ is to do meditation and ‘japa’, visit temples and holy places. But the mind still asks questions; so we have to try and answer those questions intellectually.