The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me and what belongs to me cannot be I. This is not I. Now it is I, n...
Arjuna attempted to run away from sorrow and hide. Krishna said, “Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it. Understand its reason. If you understand the reason, then you can be free of it for...
Again, in the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is...
In sleep, you are not even aware of your own existence. If you are not aware of your own existence, then where is your problem? The world may turn upside down but you don’t care. That’s why everybo...
We have not changed. You see, the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. This is what intellectual life has taken us to. We have found medicines for diseases; but we haven’t found med...
Those who have transcended the external rites of religion should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other, the e...
In the Mundaka Upanishad, knowledge is mentioned as ‘vidya’ and has been divided into ‘Para-vidya’ and ‘Apara-vidya’. In ‘Apara vidya’, all the Vedas and Ved-angas like astronomy, grammar and so on...
We are either full of our own thoughts or our own prejudices. We are full of what others have taught us or what has been crammed into our brain. There is no space, it is filled to the brim.And if y...
Most of the time, we spend all our energies on worrying about the failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies, we could move forward and look to fresher avenues. A mind that...
One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...
To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, “Who am I?” have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the little...
As one advances in ‘sadhana’, the primary thing one develops is compassion. There are people who do not even believe in God but they feel for others so much that they are ready to sacrifice their l...