The Satsang Journal
Teachings, field notes and stories of service from across The Satsang Foundation.
The Upanishads say that the most important thing is to find your true self. And ‘finding out for yourself’ is the process of going deeper and deeper into your own layers of Consciousness. Sri M's ...
When I say I want moksha, I think of moksha like an object, a pile of gold which I desire. The normal mode of acquiring it is that gold is there and I move towards it. What if what I am looking fo...
All ideas of being trapped and wanting to break free are built in these three-dimensional ideas from imperfect data fed through the senses. Solutions begin to appear even a little bit when one und...
From the point of view of the Upanishads, the ancient science of inner understanding, it begins from the universal and goes down to the particular. In physics and our Earth sciences, we start from ...
In the Vedas and the Upanishads, most of the things which the rishis describe are intuitive. They go beyond ordinary understanding. Sri M's Quotes are now available in regional languages as well. T...
When it comes to how to make the mind one pointed and free it from agitations that constantly assail it, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali say there is only one way - ‘Nairantarya deergha kaale abhya...
The great Kabir Das said many hundred years ago, ‘kal karey so aaj kar, aaj karey so ab’, meaning ‘What you are to do tomorrow, do it today, and what you should do today, do it right now!!’ Postpo...
‘Let go’ doesn’t mean ‘give up’. It means, let go of all unpleasant memories, the hurts, the wounds, the bitterness that are in your mind – let it all go. Sri M's Quotes are now available in regio...
Happiness is not attained by acquiring and gathering. It is attained by being good and ‘Letting Go!’ There is a great saying in the Ishavasya Upanishad “tyena tyaktena bhunjita…” meaning, ‘Let go a...
It’s time to take a step forward once more for the New Year is at hand. One can move from ‘the past’ to ‘the present’ and turn over a new leaf in one’s life. Change completely if required and have ...
On New Year’s eve, take a piece of paper and note down point by point, the habits that we find in ourselves which are negative and need to be overcome. Note them down and, as you wake up to a new d...
The straight and narrow path, so difficult to walk on, is what the Upanishads call shurasya dhara, walking on the edge of a razor! And yet, it’s only facing this and leading life dangerously that o...