The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The sun is a symbol of the Supreme primordial life energy, the ‘Vaisvanaara’, which pervades all objects, protects all objects, and gives life to everything on Earth. The Rishi, also known as the K...
I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...
The central message is that, there is only One Supreme Being and that Supreme Being resides in the hearts of all. He is the ‘Antaryami’ - residing in the heart of all beings. By living a righteous ...
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 ...
When people went to Shirdi Sai baba and said, “These are our problems, please help us”, he would say, ‘Allah Malik Hai” or “Ram, Ram”. So no one had an idea whether he was a Muslim or a Hindu or a ...
By experiencing life through the sorrows, the pleasures, the pains and the happiness, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before touching a level that cannot be called human, but divine.
According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said (who, I think, was one of the latest teachers of ‘Vedanta’ with a genuine experience of it), “When you pursue this 'try...
So, it is in itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. For the limited to understand its limitations, intelligence is required. That’s all. Need not be intellect. When the limit...
If what we think and how we act can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It means, as you go about your life, a pa...
‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’; if this is not permanent, then what is permanent? Or t...
The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached, by any of our known modes of communication.
A spiritual teacher need not necessarily be someone who lives in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. He may be living in your outhouse, your backyard or your kitchen garden. There are hundreds of ...