The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
‘Let go and rejoice!’ This is not to be mistaken with laziness. One might think, ‘I’m so lazy I can’t do kriya, so let go and rejoice!’ No, that’s not what I mean.
Reaching the spiritual goal is a matter of effort, it is a matter of time and it is a matter of grace.
Grace doesn’t come when you seek grace. It is something that is spontaneous. It is always there. For meditation or doing your practices, you don’t really need grace, you need hard work.
Before we start guiding others we should ourselves know where we stand, where we are, what is to be attained and attain it and then start the guidance.
Don't think of Shunyata as emptiness. It is fullness at its best. It is called emptiness because it is empty of all the ideas of fullness that we have.
The aim of Babaji’s teachings is for you to find your true self.
When you meditate, keep your mind like a flame without any wind, no flickering, protected from all winds, which is steady.
When you go deep in meditation, it's quite common that sometimes negative thoughts, impulses etc which were deep within, which were not visible on the surface but now you see it, they come out. The...
Do not put your thought process in the freezer, use it but understand that what is real transcends thought and you need a sharp intellect to understand this.
The most intelligent person soon realizes the limitations of his or her intellect and that there are many things beyond that.
Visualization can be creative or destructive. So we have to be very careful, which is why the yogis have been told to follow certain ground rules of which one is not to cause injury to others. So k...
Sankalpa, or the capacity to visualize is unique to us. We are sharing it with the higher-level beings who have visualized this universe and when you visualize, it later on becomes a reality.