The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Can the Truth be found through the mind ? Vedanta says, “Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind ...
Satsang is very important; you become according to the company you keep. If you live with people who talk of the Truth, who do japa, kirtan and bhajan, then you become like them in a short while. I...
Here was a prime example of a manifestation of the Supreme Being, in the form of a poor ‘Fakir’. For all intents and purposes, he appeared as a poor Fakir, and taught the unity of not only Vedanta ...
If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries by Shankara and others, you find that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean this is an instrument for us. Th...
Don’t we look at ourselves and see how we are always occupied with ourselves? Spend some time to look at others, maybe half an hour. When we can look at others, we are progressing in our outlook.
We discussed the meaning of the word Upanishad. It is that which is learnt sitting close to the teacher with complete humility in order to understand the ultimate supreme truth. So the Gita itself ...
It is only when you come to a situation where you are face to face with sorrow that you stop and look at that which is beyond. If you are always happy, if you always get a lollipop to suck—which is...
A coiled snake has been the symbol of Kundalini for hundreds of years. It is so because it is also the symbol of wisdom. It is the symbol that you find on the headdress of pharaohs, for instance, o...
All things spiritual boil down to your relationships in day-to-day life. Otherwise, we can just sit at home and meditate for hours, and be the same person when we come out. It does not work.
In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent. He says, "This world is impermanent because today it’s here and tomorrow it is gone. All...
Great literature, sublime poetry, and exquisite works of art—they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity, which is the culmination and the highest point that l...
Look carefully and observantly at the outside world—the physical world, the substance as we know it—setting aside all other preconceived ideas we have about it. Look at what we think is substance, ...