The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Knowing begins with not knowing. If you know already, then you cannot learn. Everybody is quick to say, I know. The fact is, when you say you know, then you are not learning anymore. Your mind has ...
If you choose the spiritual path you should understand that it is not an easy path and therefore you need to put all your attention on it. If you take it as a hobby, it won't work. Therefore make i...
Gita is not something to be read as a theoretical text. While you need to do that, it basically should be looked at as a sadhana, a practice by which you free yourself.
The happiness that you seek is inside each one of us. If we can focus on that, then we have found the way to Mukti, freedom. Is it easy? It is not difficult. Is it difficult? No, it is easy. Why? B...
If we figure out that freedom, Mukti that we seek is nowhere to be searched but deep within us, when this is found, then we are free.
Sit quietly and look within. Thoughts of course will come and go. Don't bother. Sit. Any thought that comes, cut it with your own thought.
The Bhagavad Gita comes from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. It expresses the truths of the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutra in practical, simple, direct terms for us to understand. This is th...
For the mind to attain peace, you don't have to go anywhere. Short periods of solitude are very good. Then when you come back you carry a little bit of peace back to your work and gradually you bec...
Yoga is the removal of all the distractions and the opposite thoughts and tensions of the mind.
Desire is the root of all sorrow. Nirvana is freedom from sorrow for all mankind. This means unless one is free of desire, one cannot have Nirvana, which is the Buddhist terminology for mukti.
If you want to do something which you really love to do, you have to find time.
We are always trying to become complete and better, but we never do because if we did, we wouldn't try anymore. I am not saying you shouldn't try, just realise that this Poornata comes when the min...