Satsang With Shambhavi

Can you self-realize if you don't love science fiction? Shambhavi talks about what has fueled her life-long love love affair with science fiction and how those same longings motivate our spiritual practice.

The heroin of modern-day interpretations of Trika Shaivism is the lure and lulling promise of "sudden enlightenment." So why aren't we all enlightened already? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Right livelihood is a well-known teaching about ethics and earning a living from the Shakyamuni Buddha. Nowadays, people in the U.S. ask "What should I do?" with a desperation that partly derives from our compulsion to achieve. Shambhavi dives deeply into the specific meanings of right livelihood for our times.

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the value of invisibility to spiritual awakening. How can we fly under the radar of our karmic patterns? What do we gain by remaining unseen or still in the midst of provocations to act?

What do Tantrikas actually do? What is unique about direct realization practice? Shambhavi Sarasvati breaks it down.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on kindness, fierce compassion, your natural Shakti and plain old being mean.

Did you ever wonder why people get spiritual names? Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs about how a spiritual name can help you to discover skills and strengths within yourself.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on Anandamayi Ma's teachings about impermanence and the nature of Maya.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the necessity of discontent to waking up and how the play of contentment and discontentment helps to invigorate our spiritual practice.

Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity, is a Mahadeva, or Great God. He has more forms than any other Hindu deity, and his big body spans the realms of animal, human and Deva. For this reason, he is called Lord of the Threshold. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

You can't feel love until you open your heart and give generously. Love doesn't exist without giving. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Community is a nitty gritty field of sadhana. The joys and difficulties of being part of a spiritual community are a zone of circumstances, a gateway, to help us wake-up, to help us discover who we really are. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on giving up cleverness--the Walmart version of primordial intelligence--and entering into the state of natural wonder.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the kinds of anger we experience when we are doing spiritual practice and on the infamous dark night of the soul.

Shambhavi gives a short and sweet talk about the meaning of satsang, why we gather for satsang, and what happens during a satsang at Jaya Kula.

Shambhavi Sarasvati gets to the essence of direct realization spiritual traditions such as Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen in under four minutes. What follows is a free-ranging conversation about transmission, guru and the process of waking up.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the destructive nature of spiritual practice and the process of ripping away the blinders that keep our hearts in darkness.

"The Guru resides in your own heart, but most people are unable to rely firmly on their own Self. So they have to take refuge in an external guru, but in actual fact the guru resides in ones own heart." - Anandamayi Ma. Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about this teaching and her own experience finding Guru. 

In this reading of Chapter 18 of the Bhagavad Gita, Shambhavi Sarasvati breaks down the three types of activity that are available to us in human life.

Emotional reactivity indicates that we are being compelled by karma. How do we gain more freedom from reactivity? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.