The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
In deep meditation, you are required to keep the spine straight for the simple reason that the naadi or the channel of spiritual evolution in the human system flows through the sushumna, which is i...
Simplify your possessions. Try to be as simple as possible, because when it is too complicated, your mind cannot be still and you cannot meditate.
In sattva guna there is a quietness and a tranquility which is not inaction but tranquility in action. That means even if you are doing any activity which of course goes under the Rajoguna category...
All human beings have three gunas, attributes - Sattva, Rajas and Tamo guna. Different people have different proportions of these. Some have one more, some have one less.
In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, yoga is defined as Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha. Chitta means the mind, but when you say vritti it means the mind with both its positive and negative thoughts. If y...
The bliss and the fragrance that you seek is in your heart, inside. If you would only turn around and look within.
Even if we practice sadhana, it all depends on our intentions, our priorities, how serious we are with it and so on. You can do Kriya and have a good healthy life. You can have a good healthy body ...
Ananda is Happiness, bliss, not the bliss that is here today and gone tomorrow, but as the Tantra defines, Anantam Anandam Brahma, unending bliss is Brahman, that which never ends, which has no beg...
Don't identify your Atman with your mind, which gathers things, then loses them, has pain and sorrow. The Atman is Satchidananda, which means it is Sat, Truth, Chit is consciousness and Ananda is ...
Your body, mind, subtle body, comes and goes, birth after birth, but the inner essence which is the Atman always remains the same.
Shraddha is a very difficult word to define in English, as it is a Sanskrit word. . Shraddhā means one-pointed attention, it could mean faith, discriminative thinking, any one of these things, or a...
All enquiry starts when you say, I don't know, I need to find out. The moment you say i know, there is no enquiry, it's all over.