The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
At places like Badrinath and Kedarnath, it is not a very good idea to talk; it is the apt time to be spent in meditation and japa. The best Satsang is to do meditation and japa, visit temples or go...
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...
In the Rig Veda, it says ‘Sa Esa Vaisvaanaro Visvarupah’. This is HE, the ‘Vaisvanaara’ fire, assuming every form. HE is the life and fire who arises every day. Now ‘Vaisvanaara’ is supposed to be ...
The real ‘Soma’ is that which the yogi feels when his consciousness ascends to the highest center in the human body. The ‘Soma’ intoxicates you so much that you don’t need to go to a bar ever! Shiv...
The most important point stressed is the first qualification ‘Sarva bhuta hite rataaha’ meaning ‘one who has the welfare of all beings in his heart’. This is the beginning of ‘sadhana’. If you have...
Every human being goes through travails, pain and sadness in life. There is no one who will escape from this. The happiest person, at some point of his life, may have passed through difficult times...
The result of ‘Dharana’ and ‘Dhyana’ is Samadhi’. ‘Samadhi’ is an altered state of consciousness wherein a person who meditates upon whatever he is meditating merges with the object of meditation. ...
A spiritual teacher provides opportunities and situations, either deliberately or as they happen. He teaches you not to run away from these situations, but rather stay in the situation and wait it ...
If we can at sometime voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts in our mind, and open our mind to receiving what’s beyond the three-dimensional world, beyond our ordinary way o...
‘Saburi’ is patience. Patience is required because when everybody is swimming along the stream and allowing oneself to be carried in the same direction, one person in a million is changing directio...
When the sleeping energy, the formidable ‘Kundalini’ is awakened by resorting to the proper means, with the guidance of a proper teacher, it begins to move up the ‘Sushumna’ channel, touching six c...
Dedicate all actions to the Lord. Slowly, the outside disappears and the inner takes over. Whatever happens - good or bad - it is the Lord who does it! And whatever you enjoy, think that it is the ...