The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
Sadhana is not merely sitting down and meditating. It also consists of keeping good relations with people around you. To forgive, to forget, to be kind, all this is part of sadhana. Even if done de...
Spiritual flowering is when the mind is growing into the spiritual field, not only staying in the world but going beyond, which means the mind is increasing its ambit, not being limited to one pers...
Bapu is no longer with us physically but his spirit lives in our heart and pervades all humanity. With great humility, I take the dust of Sabarmati where he walked, sat and spun the fabric of Truth...
Charity starts first with charitable thoughts about others. If such charitable thoughts are not there, you can spend a million dollars, there is no charity in it.
When we realize the futility of trying to find It through the brain, then only our heart opens up.
You can never find the Supreme Being with your limited brain. The limited cannot understand the unlimited. If the limited can understand the unlimited then it is not limited. It is also unlimited.
The more purified and kind your heart is, the more you are moving towards the Supreme Reality.
Try to be kind to other people. There is no sadhana better than kindness to people.
Sadhana is a way of removing the impurities, that have gathered around the Self so that the Self shines in its pristine purity and realizes that it is connected to the Supreme being
The root cause for the universe is this Supreme Reality which pervades it. When it finally goes back to its source, we too will return with it. We have come from there and will go back there.
Why do we feel that the whole world is revolving around us? Because when we go down to our essence, to the purest form of our being, there is a spark of the Divine and it is around that the whole ...
True surrender is realizing that no amount of mental acrobatics is going to bring about that stillness and peace that I am looking for. Then I drop it all and sit quietly. This is surrender, from m...