Synopsis
Join Shambhavi Sarasvati for a weekly exploration of self-realization, death, love, devotion and waking up while living in a messy world. Satsang is an ancient spiritual practice from India. It means "being in Reality together." During satsang, people gather with a teacher to learn, ask questions, find community, chant and sing. Shambhavi Sarasvati gives satsang every Sunday in Portland, Maine. The dharma talks offered here are recordings of the live satsang. Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit organization with centers in Portland, Maine and Portland, Oregon. Her training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism from Kashmir and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. She is a householder sannyasini and a devotee of Anandamayi Ma. Visit jayakula.org for her full teaching schedule and more information.Shambhavi's books include Tantra: the Play of Awakening (2012), Pilgrims to Opennness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life (2009), Returning (2015), and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up (2016). All of Shambhavi's books are available on Amazon.
Episodes
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Families and Spiritual Life
21/02/2018 Duration: 25minHow can we expand our limited and narrow idea of what family is and love more people? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Death Must Die
14/02/2018 Duration: 19minShambhavi riffs on the destructive nature of spiritual practice and on death and immortality. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Dharma Karma Artha Moksha
06/02/2018 Duration: 34minShambhavi unpacks the four traditional aims of a human life from the perspective of nondual Tantra. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Struggling for Recognition
30/01/2018 Duration: 15minWhat would it feel like if we just stopped seeking recognition? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Friendship and Struggle
23/01/2018 Duration: 19minWhat is friendship? How can it help us to wake up? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Tantra is Embodied Cosmology
16/01/2018 Duration: 23minWhy is practicing Tantra more akin to scientific exploration than it is to religion? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Pride and Pre-approval
09/01/2018 Duration: 20minWhat is pride and how does it function? How can we stop struggling? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Nothing Spiritual
03/01/2018 Duration: 18minShambhavi riffs on why there is no difference between the material and the spiritual. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Karma Inside Out
26/12/2017 Duration: 20minWhat is karma and how can we work with it? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Debt and Karma
20/12/2017 Duration: 17minWhat is debt and how does it relate to karma? How can we avoid incurring more debt and entanglement? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Boredom, Disenchantment, and Failure
12/12/2017 Duration: 16minWhy are feelings of boredom, disenchantment, and failure useful for spiritual practitioners? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Patience and Letting Go
06/12/2017 Duration: 20minHaving an authentic spiritual life requires that we surrender our high expectations and develop patience. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Get Right Back Up
28/11/2017 Duration: 08minWhen we want to be of benefit to other people, we should expect obstacles and learn to skillfully adapt. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Fear and Fearlessness
22/11/2017 Duration: 26minWe often hear that we need to own impermanence. But we also need to learn how to take refuge in the eternal. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Get a Spiritual Address
14/11/2017 Duration: 33minShambhavi lays out some ways that spiritual practitioners can elicit a bigger response from Wisdom. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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No Mission Sadhana
08/11/2017 Duration: 19minWhat are we actually doing when we do spiritual practice? Where are we headed? Should we care? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Sneaky, Tricky, Clever
31/10/2017 Duration: 15minShambhavi breaks down three habit patterns that cause us to disassociate from our innate goodness and lose intimacy with other people. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Serve Your Gifts
24/10/2017 Duration: 17minThe real question is not “What can I be?” but “What can I give?” How can I serve others with my gifts? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Kindness for Reals
17/10/2017 Duration: 18minShambhavi gives us the lowdown on kindness, the greatest spiritual power. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Loneliness and Self-expression
10/10/2017 Duration: 22minKarma limits our ability to self-express, which leads to loneliness. How can we learn to be more self-expressive?