What is Enlightenment
Pain is the Other Side of Love
Make a Commitment to Truth
The Real Connection Is Love
Knowing Yourself without Name and Form
Let Love Come In
It’s Okay to Be ‘a Mess’
Satyananda answers a question from someone who says that they have been feeling depressed and feeling fear, anxiety, and shame. They say that they see other people looking happy and fine, but they feel like a mess. They have felt this way for a long time and don’t want to feel like this.
This That We Love
We are here to discover that which has always been naturally present in all of us. It was always there. Nobody gave it to us. If it appears lost it can be pointed to. We are here to discover something that is extremely obvious but very slippery to the mind. The beauty of this discovery […]
You Are Presence Itself
You cannot think about things in the present. You can only think about things in the future or in the past. This is the way consciousness operates. It doesn’t matter, that’s the way it operates. It thinks in the future and you are witnessing that. You’re able to witness your activity and in the place […]
Freedom, Liberation, and Beauty
Satyananda answers a question about the different experiences and feelings that come up for people during Satsang, and talks about what attitude to have to those and the nature of the exploration that takes place in Satsang. He talks about consciousness being aware of itself.. and about freedom in that awareness. He talks about identification with the body, liberation of the mind and the nature of beauty… all in an extraordinary exposition on what happens in Satsang.