The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
If you have a slate, every time you write on it, you have to rub it off to write anything else: otherwise, if you overwrite, you can neither read it, nor is there any space to do more writing. So, ...
All of us are deities. There is not one who is not, whether we realize it or not. This is why when you have touched the inner realm, even a little bit, you can never despise or consider anybody lower.
Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that are hidden in your subconscious mind would surface. This is the poi...
I may know many things but if I don’t act upon this knowledge, it makes no sense either to me, or to others. So the next chapter in Bhagwad Gita (after Sankhya Yoga, the yoga of knowledge) is Karma...
For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated to anything but to be free from it all. Nobody becomes...
The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’ which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah (no end) is Brahman’. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the wh...
There is an ancient ‘shloka’ which is chanted before starting various activities. It is interesting to learn the meaning of ‘sahanaubhunakthu, sahaviryam karavavivahe. Tejasvi naavinavaditam astu, ...
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...
If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...
So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because other people are thinking about something else in the vicinity. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different...
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...
‘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...