The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
You can’t retire and go and sit in a cave. Where you stay, can you face the battle, anchoring your mind in the essence of That being?
Sadhana of our daily life begins with facing the sorrows that are before us and sorting them out
Peace comes when the mind, even though engaged in action, is not dependent on the result. You cannot do anything without having any aim, or looking for a result but when you do that work, you shoul...
In the Gita, Krishna says one who fixes complete attention on me while he lives in this world, is happy and when he goes also, he is happy, because he knows he is reaching me or in essence the Supr...
When we practice kriya yoga we are trying to balance the Ida and the Pingala and make the prana flow in the main channel called the Sushumna so that gradually the mind is deconditioned and you open...
The Bhagavad Gita is the teaching of the Upanishads and Upanishads teach Brahmavidya, the knowledge or understanding of the Supreme Being.
Yoga shastra is the science by which you can touch That Infinite Being by deconditioning the conditioned thought that has been built into our system from birth, or perhaps even before birth, if you...
If you change the attitude of your mind, there is tremendous energy which can be used for good. We don’t allow that tremendous energy to come, by limiting our mind and allowing it to be distracted....
Through Yoga, you learn how to calm and quiet your mind and how to balance energies in your system. When there is perfect balance and the mind is quiet and calm, one understands the essence of on...
In Chandogya Upanishad, the Rishi asks his son when he returns home after his formal education with another Rishi, ‘Have you found the truth?’ The son says ‘I think I have’. To this the fathe...
The main qualities that develop in one who has taken to spiritual sadhana is that in time, distractions become less when you meditate on your deity or inner self. The person also begins to have b...
When one realizes the impermanence of life and begins to wonder if there is anything permanent at all, the rishis step in and say ‘There is something permanent and That is You. You don’t have to s...