The Satsang Foundation

You can sit in a cave for fifteen years, meditate and think you are free of anger, jealousy and everything. But what will you be jealous of in a cave, who will you get angry with ?

This (examination to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind—that is ‘to know your Self’—in isolation.

One has to carefully and vigilantly watch one’s self as one actually is, before proceeding to explore the possibilities of finding the Truth.

Your question is whether you need a teacher. Yes, you need a teacher. To learn anything, you need a teacher.

Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed:

I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins.

An old proverb says: Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto your own understanding.