Satsang with Shambhavi
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 gives satsang in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere. The dharma talks offered here are recordings of the live satsang.
Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit organization. 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 The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism (2018), Tantra: the Play of Awakening (2012), Pilgrims to Openness: 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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 472
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Introduction to Direct Realization — WHAT IS SADHANA? Ep 1 [Rebroadcast]
Shambhavi serves up the basics of direct realization practice. Topics include the experience of satsang, the meaning of direct realization, the role of transmission, and the nature of the teacher stu…
Total Honesty
Padmasambhava told his principle disciple Yeshe Tsogyal not to fabricate even so much as an atom. Shambhavi talks about how fabrication, exaggeration, and lies block our spiritual life and hurt our h…
Open Your Heart — Feeling Goodness Ep 4 [Rebroadcast]
Shambhavi riffs on the fundamental work of opening your heart to others, the possibilities that arise when the heart is free and how feeling bad about yourself is not spiritual work. A podcast from S…
Feeling Goodness for Reals — Feeling Goodness Ep 3 [Rebroadcast]
Welcome to the Feeling Goodness mini-series from Satsang with Shambhavi. We’re rebroadcasting four Satsang with Shambhavi episodes about love, auspiciousness, goodness, and heart. We hope you enjoy!
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Everything Is Auspiciousness — Feeling Goodness Ep 2 [Rebroadcast]
Shambhavi riffs on failure and success and how every circumstance presents us with an opportunity to discover our real nature and wake up. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
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What Is Love? — Feeling Goodness Ep 1 [Rebroadcast]
You can’t feel love until you open your heart and give generously. Love doesn’t exist without giving. Trying to get love from others paradoxically prevents you from feeling love. A podcast from Satsa…
Working with Chronic Pain and Illness
Shambhavi shares Anandamayi Ma’s advice for working with illness. She talks about her own illnesses and how to bring chronic illness and pain onto the path. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Grace Is Unearned
God’s grace showers without restraint on everyone and everything at all times. You don’t have to deserve it. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Interdependency Is Always a Thing
Shambhavi talks about our culture of shaming people who need help or ask for help. Where does this attitude come from? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Diversity Is Both Bondage and Liberation
Shambhavi explains the core View of the nature of diversity and our relationships to it based on a teaching of Abhinavagupta. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Trees and Rivers to the Sky
Shambhavi shares about her experiences of trees as rivers and rivers in the U.S. and India as recyclers of karma. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Preferences and Practical Wisdom
Shambhavi talks about karmic conditioning, accessing our natural wisdom, and the old prescription that we should have no preferences if we're “spiritual.” A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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COVID and Eternity
Shambhavi answers a question about existential dread and the Pandemic. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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What Should We Do?—the Pandemic Version
Many of us want to know how we can contribute positively in our current circumstances. Shambhavi breaks it down. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Playfulness, Fear, and Parenting—the Pandemic Version
Shambhavi talks about how the shelter-in-place can cause stagnation in our subtle channels, how fear can wake us up, and how to talk to children about the pandemic. A podcast from Satsang with Shambh…
Missionaries and Marketeers
A student asks Shambhavi to talk about humility. Lack of humility is the hallmark of U.S. culture. Shambhavi invites us to lay down the struggle to measure up and achieve. A Podcast from Satsang with…
Contrivance and Contrived Naturalness
Contriving a personality, contriving a spiritual persona, or simply trying to appear as you wish to be seen or how you believe others want you to appear are all obstacles to authentic spiritual life.…
Krishna's Mocking Smile
Krishna’s response to wrongdoing in the Mahabharata demonstrates a radical distinction between Hinduism and the Abrahamic traditions. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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Judgment, Justice, and Kindness
Shambhavi riffs on the distinction between judgment and discernment and between justice and the full expression of a kindness that supersedes the need for justice. A podcast from Satsang with Shambha…
What Is Presence?
Shambhavi riffs on the distinction between being present and being immersed in living presence. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
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