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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Loneliness and Intimacy Part II
03/10/2017 Duration: 19minWhy do we feel lonely and what can we do to relax attachment to this feeling? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Loneliness and Intimacy Part I
26/09/2017 Duration: 21minWhat causes loneliness and how does it relate to the desire for waking up? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Get Strange
20/09/2017 Duration: 13minDuring the process of waking up, we have to become estranged from our habituated ways of feeling and thinking. Normal has to feel strange! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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How to Work with a Tantrik Teacher
13/09/2017 Duration: 32minHow can practitioners get the most out of a relationship with their teacher? How is working with a Tantrik teacher different? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Kali Yuga Satsang
07/09/2017 Duration: 19minWhat is a Yuga? How does living in the Kali Yuga affect our experience of time? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Freedom and Misery
31/08/2017 Duration: 24minWhat does freedom of expression look like and how do our karmas interrupt our ability to live freely and express ourselves? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Binging on God
23/08/2017 Duration: 14minHow can we use our tendency to fall into routine habit patterns to actually help us on the path to waking up? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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Align with Goodness
09/08/2017 Duration: 18minHow can we connect in a real way with the innate value and goodness in ourselves and everyone? In this politically polarized moment, how can we align with wisdom and relate to circumstances and others in a more skillful way? How can we use our innate sense of value to make decisions? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Wisdom Tools
02/08/2017 Duration: 23minHow can we gain more nuanced insights into our circumstances when we are not yet very realized? Shambhavi riffs on tools for Tantrikas, including astrology and divination. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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What Is Sadhana For?
26/07/2017 Duration: 34minWhat is the purpose spiritual practice and what are we even asking about when we ask that question? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.
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Travelers And The Road To Self-Realization
21/07/2017 Duration: 23minWe are not really on a path, but we enjoy playing the game of being travelers. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.
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Three Impediments To Confidence
13/07/2017 Duration: 21minShambhavi Sarasvati riffs on what stops us from having confidence in ourselves and in God.
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Nine Commitments
07/07/2017 Duration: 47minShambhavi gives a satsang about the personal commitments that guide and organize her teaching and relationships to students. A lively discussion about the nature of commitment in the context of spiritual practice follows.
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Let Wisdom In
28/06/2017 Duration: 22minShambhavi compares the spiritual teacher to the vampire at the door. It's up to you if you want to let the teacher in.
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Generosity
21/06/2017 Duration: 24minShambhavi riffs on the real meaning of generosity and how we can come to embody it.
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Dharmic Relationships
14/06/2017 Duration: 25minWho should you hang out with? What does it mean to bring your relationships onto your spiritual path? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.
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Addiction And Desire
07/06/2017 Duration: 33minAddiction and spiritual longing share the desire to discover something that will relieve us of the burden of small self. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.
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Divine Madness
01/06/2017 Duration: 28minShambhavi Sarasvati riffs on losing your earnestness and your ground as you participate more consciously in the playful, sportive, somewhat mad, display of consciousness and energy we call life.
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Tapas in the USA
26/05/2017 Duration: 19minTapas means "heat," specifically the karma-burning effect that is generated when we do a lot of spiritual practice. Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on what tapas looks like for contemporary people in the U.S.
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Stupid Smarts
17/05/2017 Duration: 27minThis ordinary function that we call intelligence is actually quite dense and stale. Spiritual practice gets us in touch with primordial intelligence which is always fresh and spontaneous. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.