The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Upanishadic way of exploring consciousness is through concrete examples, symbols and tangible things, with which you can kind of understand the intangible and having theoretically understood ab...
The inner essence does not end with the end of the physical body. It remains forever in its own essential bliss.
When the ‘little ego,’ the ‘little I’ is done with and becomes still, then the ‘greater I’ manifests itself.
To understand ignorance means to understand the implications of the meaning of ignorance. And when you have understood that, you are free of death. When you have understood that the Supreme Being w...
You cannot be free of something until you have understood it.
Jnana is a very important aspect. Education is not about getting degrees and just getting marks and good jobs. It’s actually to help to flower the mind.
Atma Sakshatkara is rather difficult to define. It’s an unending process and the starting point is when you actually understand that you are not this body.
In life, every action has to have a reaction. It has to go according to the karmic movement.
Mantra Japa is meant primarily for the mind and that which is beyond the mind. Because only when the mind becomes completely free of its distractions, then only it gets the tarmac to go to higher l...
Asanas and pranayama help to bring changes in you so that not only you are physically healthy, but also your mind becomes calm.
In meditation, the more you go towards that which is nothing, because we cannot define it, the more things happen. We are going towards the ultimate, ‘Shunya’, which doesn’t mean nothing. It means ...
The moment I begin to say that I have reached the Truth, I have actually not reached the truth. Because when there is the Truth, I am not there.