Insights, teachings, and stories from The Satsang Foundation
Sri M answers a question : "Can you tell us about the different types of Gayatri, the one usually chanted being called 'Surya Gayatri'? Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCcS69ptyOI
The sun shines on all of us. Since it is the truth, you don't have to go into a dark room to figure that out. It shines equally on everyone. For a person sitting in the shade, it may not be falling...
Signed copies of 'The Journey Continues' by Sri M will be available for sale without any additional cost at the book counters in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, on 22. 4. 2017. The books will be kept for s...
An average person thinks in certain set patterns and he cannot break that pattern. If a man is sitting here and talking, he must be a great teacher. Actually, he may not be. Or, if a man speaks wel...
There are many other things you have to figure out. One is the water. The other is the boat. “Nav karo meri paar” – there is this prevalent imagery of the boat crossing the water - ‘bhavasagara’. S...
“Urdhva-moolam adhah-sakham, asvathaam prahur avyayam, chandamsi yasya parnani, yas tam veda sa veda-vit”. This is about an upside-down ashvatha tree - peepul tree whose roots are high up and branc...
Superficially, most of the Nasiruddin stories are seen as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in teahouses, in caravans, in the inns, in homes and on the radio waves of Asia. But, it is inher...
Sri M answers the question : Is it necessary to practice the rituals of the Sandhyavandana before chanting the Gayatri mantra? Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVVDVMljg4
I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributaries”. Ramakrishna Paramahansa put it...
When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord to think of nothing other than the Supreme Being, that is Bhakti. The ...
The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself in the love of the Supreme. The great Sufi, Hazrat Shah Niyaz, said: Aql ke madra...
All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives just for a brief vision of the Lord, to hold him tight in their embrace.