The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
You can enjoy the whole phenomenon of how hope works, how illusion comes and how it is all one big drama. Vedanta says—we are searching for this drama’s director, who has all these actors lined up,...
One of the greatest illusions that a human has is the hope that everything is everlasting; that, we are going to be like this forever, even in simple things.
The most important thing to understand: one who worships or respects or longs for anything other than the Truth cannot reach the Truth.
Vedanta rejects the myth that reality is external to the human mind and acknowledges consciousness as the source of the entire Cosmos.
We want to be happy; we desire all that brings happiness. The only problem is we think it is going to be permanent. Although life’s experience speaks otherwise, we tend to believe that life is one ...
Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise. Here, you want to come out of the circumstances that limit your progress. But upon finding that the mind with its present conditioned capacity cannot ...
How much ever we may try, the brain is a very limited organism with limited inputs. All that the brain can think of, decide and conclude is from the information that it gets— the inputs. Now the in...
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...
Mantra is a technique and it is not the goal. The goal is the deep state you get in. So when you have gone into the deep state, where even chanting of the mantra is an effort, you will think, ‘let ...
Very often, we tend to mistake ‘tamas’ or ‘tamo guna’ for ‘sattva’. ‘Sattva is goodness, calmness and quietness. ‘Tamo guna’ is laziness and sloth pretending to be good.
Kundalini is considered by the Tantras to be the manifestation of the infinite supreme energy called ‘Parashakthi’ or ‘Bhawani’ in the human being. It’s said to reside in potent form, not active bu...
Actually, if you are a practitioner of yoga or sadhana, your attention becomes very good. You are able to concentrate fully on whatever activity you are doing. If your full concentration is on the ...