The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
One of the symbols that Shiva carries is the ‘paasha’ - a noose. Shiva only throws this noose on those who are ready to accept the noose; it is not thrown at random. Believe me, it is a beautiful n...
Have you opened your window and, by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon, a beautiful night, and for a few seconds, forgot everything except the moon? You did not exist for the time being, those ...
When I’m enjoying something, there is also a hidden element of unhappiness attached to it. This is because I’m afraid that the thing, which I am enjoying, might disappear any moment. If I have comm...
When one is consumed totally and passionately with the desire for Truth and Truth alone, then it naturally means that one worships only the Truth. One does not worship anything else here and, there...
Surrender to the understanding that here is something that cannot be sought and found by the limited mind, which is built up of limited inputs, coming through the limited senses. When this is fully...
When they (the images) fall like nine pins and when you no longer have an image of anything, or when you see that all the images are primarily only an aspect of the Supreme Reality, that they (the ...
My true self cannot be found by any mode of thought. If it can’t be found by any mode of thought, then how do you find it?
No known modes of enquiry, no instruments of perception like the five senses, nor even the mind with its vast imagination can reach that abode of Supreme Reality. It’s none other than our own intim...
Every one of us, although we say we are looking for this or that, is looking for philosophy or welfare. What we are really looking for is happiness.
Although some technique has been described in Dhyana yoga, the crux of the matter is one should go within, try to understand and experience the inner self. Then, one comes face to face with the tru...
The Vedantic question is why not go back? That is, retrace our steps and go back to the source or the reservoir of all happiness, which is within us.
The center around which thought orbits is called the ‘mind of the mind’— the witness of all that is happening within.