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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Caring for Everyone, the Upsurge of Wisdom, and the Ocean of Sensation
15/03/2023 Duration: 17minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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The Four Aims of Human Life, Spiritual Bypassing, and Diversity
08/03/2023 Duration: 20minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Shambhavi’s Path to Teaching and the Special Circumstance of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
01/03/2023 Duration: 18minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Talking About Gurus and Teachers, and the Wisdom Inherent in Reality
22/02/2023 Duration: 18minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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You Can Slay the Demon of Confusion With Your Own Clarity and Kali and Durga Will Help
15/02/2023 Duration: 16minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Learning to Follow Wisdom and the Futility of Blame
08/02/2023 Duration: 24minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Talking About Death, Dying, and Ancestors
01/02/2023 Duration: 15minStudents ask Shambhavi intimate questions about confronting the death of loved ones and communicating with ancestors. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Why We Follow Precepts and Offer Seva
25/01/2023 Duration: 22minShambhavi gives a lively satsang on nine levels of motivation for offering seva and following precepts. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Darkness and Light, Emptiness and Fullness, and Enjoy Your Enlightenment
18/01/2023 Duration: 22minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Relaxing Karmic Patterns, Mind as an Organ of Curiosity, and Pure Lineage
11/01/2023 Duration: 18minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Enlightenment Is Uneven, and All Prayers Are Answered, but Maybe Not How We Expected Them to Be
05/01/2023 Duration: 18minShambhavi and the Jaya Kula community gather for satsang and get real about all the questions we humans want answered. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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How to remember who you already are, use mantra practice to subtilize your experience, and do your best and let go of the result
28/12/2022 Duration: 25minJoin in the satsang. Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community get real about all the questions we humans want answers to. Intimate, courageous, heartfelt spiritual talk about pretty much everything. So happy you are here! Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Caring, Becoming Fully Human, and the Impermanence of Fate
21/12/2022 Duration: 22minShambhavi talks about caring that has no cause, doing this thing called human more fully, and how the strength of habit patterns is not fate. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Call and Response and the Enjoyment of Reality
14/12/2022 Duration: 19minShambhavi talks about the call and response nature of reality and how enjoyment, not meaningfulness, is our ultimate destination as practitioners. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Seeking Validation, Forming Good Attachments, and Being Discerning about Spiritual Traditions
07/12/2022 Duration: 19minCompulsively seeking validation gets us nowhere. Sadhana helps us to establish new samskaras that lead to freedom. And even spiritual traditions can have their limitations. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Open Your Senses and Quit the Karmic Sideshow
30/11/2022 Duration: 21minSadhana destroys obstacles to our perceptions and reconnects us to our desire for freedom from compulsive karmic patterns. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Where Do View Teachings Come From?
23/11/2022 Duration: 17minShambhavi lays out the Views of three different traditions and talks about the esoteric and ordinary histories of Trika Shaivism. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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The Five Elements, Compassion, and the Cure for Earnestness
16/11/2022 Duration: 18minEarth, water, fire, air, and space are expressive powers. Compassion is part of the fabric of reality. And earnestness is boring. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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Rootlessness and Ruthlessness
09/11/2022 Duration: 16minShambhavi talks about rootlessness, impermanence, and being ruthlessly honest with yourself as the foundation of spiritual practice. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.
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God the Artist, God the Destroyer
02/11/2022 Duration: 22minLord Shiva is the Artist who creates worlds and beings out of a destructive process just like we make art. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Curious to find out more about spiritual life, Trika Shaivism, and Shambhavi? Want to know how you can attend live and livestreamed teachings or get started practicing? Visit jayakula.org for lots more media, teachings in mantra and meditation, and Shambhavi’s full calendar. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram @jayakula. Ask to join the private Jaya Kula News Facebook group where we post the Zoom link for attending Satsang with Shambhavi via livestream. If you’d like to help others find these teachings, please rate and review our podcast. Jaya Kula is a community-supported nonprofit organization. You can make a donation at jayakula.org/giving. Thanks for listening! And much love to you, wherever and however you are.