The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
It's only when something difficult happens and when some sorrow strikes that the mind begins to think about higher things. Otherwise, you are always hunky-dory. Nobody thinks.
Universal love is beyond the mind and the brain. When we are so overwhelmed that the mind refuses to work, then you are absorbed in that. This can happen through being so selfless that the self doe...
All the rational framework that we set up is based on the inputs or the data collected through our five senses. Nobody has more than that. These instruments of perception, the panchendriyas are ver...
The most intelligent person very soon discovers the limitations of the intellect. The average intelligent man does not discover it. He is very proud of his intelligence. But a person who is truly i...
These are only two ways by which Bhakti, devotion can happen. It happens spontaneously. You get this overwhelming feeling that the joy is in the Lord and in nothing else or when you are in contact ...
Where one is totally absorbed in That and one knows that any amount of intellectual understanding is not going to help, heart to heart connection is required. This what you call Bhakti and it cann...
If we can even start practicing letting go in daily life, and not simply sit down every day and say Aham Brahmasmi, Tattvam Asi, you are actually moving towards the Truth of Vedanta.
The mind's character is of sticking to the past and not letting go of it. So it practically prevents the present from coming in. And what is the present? The Truth.
When all the vrittis of the mind are completely removed, then what remains is a state that is very clear. You reach the essence of your being, and see the witness that witnesses everything but is n...
Everybody likes to enjoy themselves. But we think that enjoyment comes only from outside. It is within, self-sufficient bliss which is called Satchitananda in the Vedanta.
Sleep is a great equalizer. We feel rejuvenated after a good night's sleep because we are not aware that we exist. Only when I am aware that I exist, do I have the problems. I am bound, I want to b...
Truth is Truth, doesn't matter where it comes from. The appearance of the teacher is not important. What is being taught is more important.