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
- 471
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
A Question about Warriorship
In response to a student, Shambhavi talks about spiritual warriorship. The most difficult work is dropping our cherished concepts and convictions. While warriorship is often thought of as solo herois…
Spiritual Junk Food vs Spiritual Nourishment
Fantasies about our spiritual life and relationships with teachers block our access to the abundance of spiritual nourishment. How can we stop fantasizing and start receiving real spiritual food? A p…
Bad Day or Good Day
Are you having a bad day or a good day? Shambhavi totally messes with the whole good/bad thing in this funny podcast about perspective and relating to circumstances from a bigger point of view. A pod…
Time, Presence, and Eternity
Why past, present, and future thinking are all distractions. The goal of direct realization sadhana is to become immersed in living, aware presence, not to focus on the present. A podcast from Satsan…
Introduction to Direct Realization
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…
Cultural Appropriation and the Porous Self
Shambhavi talks about cultural appropriation vs. cultural appreciation. Also, how can we understand cultural appropriation from within traditions that experience the self as porous and inclusive of v…
Qualifications of a Student
Shambhavi and the Jaya Kula community engage in a wide-ranging, intimate discussion about the personal qualities that benefit students in direct realization spiritual traditions. A podcast from Satsa…
Hold No View and Nondual Spiritual Bypassing
Shambhavi unpacks the nature of View teachings, the transmission of View, and the Dakini Machig Lapdron's instruction to "hold no View." Other topics in this wide-ranging satsang are the laziness of …
The Binge-Worthy Story of Waking Up
Shambhavi kicks off a week-long retreat with this satsang about being perfect, getting played by God, and the drama of waking up. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
Is Loyalty a Spiritual Thing?
What is loyalty? Does it have a place in spiritual life? In this special edition of Satsang with Shambhavi, students of Jaya Kula engage in a wide-ranging conversation about the nature of loyalty and…
Navigating with Energy
In addition to our physical body, we each have a subtle energy body. How can our energy body help us to move more skillfully in our everyday lives? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
Maya Sat Moha Ananda
Get your Trika geek hat on! Shambhavi explains classical Tantra’s view of the Sanskrit words Maya, Sat, Moha, and Ananda. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
Is Spiritual Practice Dangerous?
A student asks a question about the danger of doing mantra practice. Shambhavi talks about how spiritual practices of any sort might cause problems and about the importance of engaging in your practi…
This is Shaivism
Shambhavi reads from the Shiva Stotravali and offers commentary. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
Measuring the Immeasurable
When we measure ourselves against other people we're like a single-track train moving between shame and pride, pride and shame. Authentic spiritual practice introduces us to the immeasurable. A podca…
The Episodes and Seasons of Sadhana
How is doing spiritual practice like a multi-season, international, overthrow the dictatorship, spy thriller? Binge on waking up! A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi
The Meaning of Matrika
Jaya Kula’s teaching space is called Matrika House. How do the Matrikas—the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet—relate to the View of Trika Shaivism? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
Tantrik Adventures
Shambhavi talks about the adventure of having a Guru, the adventure of being on a direct realization path, and how these prepare you for the constant adventure and surprise of life. A podcast from Sa…
The Meaning of Līlā or Play
Shambhavi riffs on the many meanings of the Sanskrit word līlā and their relationship to Trika cosmology and the fruits of spiritual practice. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi.
The Hothouse of Self-Interest
What do we lose when we are overly concerned with me, myself, and I? How is self-interest an impediment to Self-realization? A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi