The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
When there is mindfulness inside, it is reflected in mindfulness outside. Or, rather, if you begin to develop mindfulness outside, you also develop mindfulness inside. Both have to go side-by-side ...
Meditation is a word used in English which means many things to many people. If you go back to the Indian sources, the word meditation is actually split into three. There is dharana, there is dhyan...
There is an unconditioned consciousness and bliss which is in all of us in the form of a little spark inside of our being, in the core of our being. The prerequisite for touching that is that you d...
Thought can condition you and make you think that ‘you cannot do something’, and thought can also be conditioned to say, ‘Yes, I can do it!’
A wonderful thing happens once you reach a certain stage in your meditation. Whatever you are doing, anywhere, in any situation, there is a constant stream of inner bliss, independent of anything e...
In bhakti yoga, when japa is to be done, one conceives of a lotus or a flower, or a light in the centre of one’s chest or heart, and then, one invites that form of God that one has selected, to com...
If you notice, even when you sit quietly, the mind ceaselessly chatters. When this chattering ends, there is silence. This silence is not the same silence you feel when there is no sound outside. W...
The attempt to reach out for the Truth is so unlike our reaching out for sensory things. It is actually not a reaching out, but a settling down. This settling down can happen only in total tranquil...
The first thing we have to understand is where we stand at the moment. And when we carefully look at where we stand, we shall soon discover that we labor under a thousand different illusions that k...
The Supreme Truth is not something that can be obtained by acquiring more of what is normally called knowledge.
Like the lotus that grows in water whose leaves and petals remain dry, the yogi derives nourishment from the material world but remains undefiled and untouched by its seductions.
In the search for happiness one encounters many sorrows, many disappointments. Once you turn within and understand that it is right here, then slowly our minds become stabilized. This takes time, a...