The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Buddhists say, ‘One who has walked across’ - paraa gati – ‘one who has gone beyond’, such a person is called ‘Bodhi’, one who has the ‘bodh’. ‘Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā’ - ‘M...
Good and evil, famous and notorious, darkness and light, positive and negative, all are in the Supreme Being and yet in its essential essence the Supreme Godhead is not affected by the opposites.
The only true Apara-vidya, which leads to Vijnana, is the non-verbal transcendental experience of the Supreme Truth. It takes place when the mind becomes absolutely still, having discovered the us...
When we say control your thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make thoughts disappear, you are thinking.
When dharana becomes effortless and quiet, it naturally goes into dhyana. In that dhyana state even ‘I’ does not exist.
Supreme Brahman is present everywhere not in any particular place.
Because our puny little brains cannot understand the plan of life. We think our plan is the best plan. Well, it is not or it may not be.
It’s only when the mind settles down that the inner being manifests.
When one goes within and touches That, one realizes that the outer is not different from the inner.
The highest experience of the yogis is when Shiva is experienced as one's own inner being. chidananda roopah shivoham shivoham - I am of the nature of chit, consciousness and Ananda, bliss. I am Sh...
The coming together, union of Shiva and Parvati is celebrated as Shivaratri. During the dance of Shiva, Tandava Nritya with the Damaru, there is no other sound except the sound of the Damaru. Yogis...
Om Namah Shivaya is one of the great Maha Mantras, described in the Agamas, Upanishads, Puranas, Shiva Samhita. Om means the Supreme Being beyond the grasp of the senses. Namah Shivaya means I bow ...