The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The moment you are serious that nothing else is more important to you than finding the Truth; your Guru will come to you. One of the main functions of the Guru is to make you stand on your own feet.
The function of the Guru is to show you a clean mirror and at the right angle so that you can see yourself as you actually are, not what you want to be.
It is very difficult to comprehend the Guru. It is very difficult to understand because the ways of a spiritual teacher, who is connected with the universe are strange and different. Because we lik...
When a teacher gives you instructions, follow those instructions completely. Don't say that 'this I'll follow, this I won't'. Therefore to take a Guru - spiritual teacher, as a guide, is a choice t...
The teaching is more important than the teacher.
Both in the waking state and dream state, there is a witness. That witness is real, it is always seeing, always reacting. Without that witness there can neither be a waking state nor dream state.
What you see of the world is the image of the world presented to us by the five senses from which the data is gathered and so the mind manufactures what you think is real.
Study of the Upanishad is called Veda-anta, because it comes at the last part of the Vedas. It is also called Vedanta because it is said that when it is properly understood, nothing more needs to ...
As Krishna says in the Gita, when the mind becomes sarvatra sama buddhaya, tranquil at all times, and under all circumstances, then the Shruti that is heard immediately has its effect.
Nobody has ever attained the Supreme through sadhana. Sadhana is done to clean the mind. If the Lord wants to enter, you need space. So the mind has to be open.
The grace of the Supreme is such that touching it can happen to anybody at any time. There are no rules or formulations for that.
You can change somebody through love rather than through hatred. Hatred brings fear. Out of fear if you change, when the fear is removed, it's gone. It should come from within.