The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...
Moksha means to be totally free. To be completely happy, without depending on anything in the outside world. It is ‘moksha’—not being ensnared by any desire. Therefore, the natural corollary to it ...
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 ...
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....
Upanishad is made up of ‘Upa’, ‘Ni’ and ‘Shad’. ‘Upa’ means to move closer, it also means to sit close and listen to what is being said, not just in the physical sense. It means the mind moves clos...
The limbic system is what takes care of our feelings. If the limbic system didn’t work, we would have no emotions. Therefore, in the process of raising or awakening of the ‘Kundalini’, emotion play...
The path that has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow, not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting t...
When the mind is absolutely still, when it is no longer engaged in what we call ‘worship’—where every worship has a worshipper and the worshipped, or the thinker and the thing thought of—when the o...
Vedanta is not intellectual acrobatics. You can study all the scriptures and know them by heart. But, unless the quality of mind improves, one cannot find the truth. And how does the quality improv...
Even the greatest iconoclastic religions worship something. They do not have an image of God but they do have a symbol. If they don’t have a symbol, they have a book. If they don’t have a book, the...
There is this great Buddhist Mahayana chant that says, “At some point or the other, in our endless cycle of rebirths, every individual on this earth must have been our mother! Therefore, I bow befo...
Love is a many-splendoured entity. Physical love or spiritual love has the same source, although it manifests in different degrees. You cut across all barriers. Who cares for personal consequences?...