The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
We think, that with our rational brain, we can solve everything! This is one of the problems faced by man when he reads the scriptures. He feels, that with his intellect, he can explain everything....
Suppose, you have examined and found that there are a lot of things to be improved in yourself. The first step is to try moving in the positive direction; the other step is to do your ‘Sadhana’ ser...
One thing to remember is that the Gita is the first—the most ancient of the scriptures to have examined the question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare that there ...
‘Dharana, dhyana, samadhi’—these are interlinked. Normally, when we say meditation we mean all the three. ‘Dharana’ means the capacity, technique or the practice by which one fixes one’s attention ...
There is nothing to fear, and to live with this understanding is called holistic living. Holistic living is to live with the understanding the blissful Supreme Being pervades the entire universe an...
There’s another faculty that opens, the one that can help to understand things and that’s called the opening of the ‘Heart’. It is not the anatomical heart we are talking about. It is the opening o...
How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita, there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, “Among millions of people, one turns to the spiritual path. Among millio...
It is interesting to note that the ‘bramharandra’— meaning the gateway to Brahman, the Supreme Being—when compared with present-day anatomy coincides with the center of the limbic system, where the...
Your opinions, your perceptions, your ideas, your images, they are all relative. They are not absolute. But certainly, something exists and the sensory organs cannot find that which actually exists.
The state where you remain alone in your true self, enjoying the bliss of your inner being, is called 'severance of connection with pain'. Only, in that state, can one sever one's connection with p...
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...
The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experi...