The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
There is only one mind. If I change one part of the mind, it has to affect the other part of the mind. So the change has to begin with me.
Jealousy, anger, fear, affection - these emotions may be different for different people, but the common factor is that we all have it. Spend time on growing yourself, instead of being jealous.
A good student becomes a good teacher. And a good teacher is one who knows or who understands that the students also know something which he/she may not know.
Dialogue is when you and I decide, here is a problem, let's attempt together to find out. The other is an argument.
Don't consider yourself to be limited to individuals. Your potential is unlimited. If you somehow find out the mechanism to touch the unlimited, use it for the entire universe. May everybody be hap...
Shanti starts from the mind of the individual, from the heart of the matter. If our minds and hearts are at peace, then we can talk about peace, bring about peace, we can get people together. As lo...
While you have to look after your body to keep it in shape physically and mentally, you should have this understanding that one day this is going to go. So, let me also keep my eye on something whi...
Going within means for some time to stop all external movements and retire, into yourself.
Is there something which cannot be changed, which is not a dream, which is real, which I need not worry about it going away from me, something which is in essence my own essence? When I have found ...
Divinity exists in every human being. There is nowhere it does not. On the ultimate side it is ‘Ishavasyam idam sarvam,’ it pervades everywhere, but where we can be conscious of it is, in our hearts.
The best principle of cleanliness is not to dirty your mind with bad thoughts about others. In every human being's heart, there is a divine spark. Therefore, we are all equal in that way. We are al...
If you have to learn from the teacher, you cannot go to the teacher and say, hey I am right. It doesn't work. You have to go with an open mind saying, ‘let me understand, please can you make me und...