The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Vedantic understanding is that the only reality - absolute reality and not relative reality, is the witness.
Mukti is a state of mind which comes when we begin to understand that we cannot free ourselves temporarily. When we begin to understand that all the influences in the world, major influence being o...
When all the movement of the mind, which is all the time moving and reaching out, ends, then what is left? The seeker and his true essence, which is without any effort. Then the seeker is the sough...
Consciousness is a living entity and your emotions, thought processes, everything is reflected from it. It is the core of your emotions, it is the awareness from which everything starts.
If you have a slate, every time you write on it, you have to rub it off to write anything else: otherwise, if you overwrite, you can neither read it, nor is there any space to do more writing. So, ...
When you are in natural settings, not man-made, it's easier for the mind to be meditative. So, the closer you are with things that are not man made, the mind expands and gets into a meditative state.
If you think that by gathering knowledge one becomes a great wise person, you are absolutely wrong. All knowledge is memory, something in the past. If you are looking for Truth, it is always presen...
The world is a testing point. Therefore we need some periods of solitude to figure out that we have a deep sea of peace and happiness within.
If you say that I depend on God or the Supreme Being and ask for help to fend yourself from the disasters that happen to you and not give up, that is the best way to move forward. Surrender and har...
The ancient teachers said that there is a link between your breathing pattern and your emotional states, and if you change the rhythm or pattern of your breath, you can change your emotional state....
Change has to come from within, it cannot be brought from outside.
When a person has unquestioned faith in his own capacity for achieving a goal, whether spiritual or temporal, he/she is not disturbed by negative thoughts that weaken the will and discourage the sp...