The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Music cannot be played if the flute is filled with muck. You have to empty it out. It has to be hollow. You can’t blow through a solid flute. So, all the muck has to go and when it is clean, hand i...
Krishna is also called Navanita Chor – one who steals the butter, which is derived by churning the milk. Hence, churning is essential, without which nothing can come out. And, when the butter come...
Krishna is depicted mostly with a flute in his hand, playing beautiful music. Music penetrates the heart. When you listen to music in rapt attention, you go so deep that you begin to hear the inner...
The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that one of the most important qualities of my bhakta, ...
Krishna represents love. Love is a comprehensive panacea for all ills. If you really understand the meaning of it – utter selflessness, not love for my own sake but love for Love’s sake – only then...
Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while, seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.
If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...
In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean.
During meditation, it is impossible to control your thoughts and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.
Does freedom happen in stages? I would say, it's like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one's own self, one's own mind.
To enquire about the Absolute, you should have freedom from the very beginning. It doesn't come at the end. If you can enquire in freedom, then you will end up in freedom. If you enquire in bondage...
Nirvana is not a state where you are in a trance all the time. Nirvana is when you are free while you are eating, drinking, talking, but you don't have any pretensions, when you don't have anything...