Satsang with Shambhavi

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 r…

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 transmi…

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 hear…

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.

On January 29, 2017, Shambhavi Sarasvati and the Jaya Kula community got together to talk about how we are, or are not using the circumstance of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency as…

We try to escape our real circumstances, both internal and external, in many different ways. But our real circumstance, no matter how painful, is the ground on which we must stand if we want to wake …

We humans plan a lot. We live in a prison of past and future thinking. What is a more relaxed way to answer the question "What Should I do Next?" Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Even if you are a die-hard skeptic, waking up inevitably leads to the getting of devotion. Devotion is baked into Reality. Longing will get you there. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

You must agree to take a bitter medicine if you want to wake up. You must relinquish all the claims of small self and live in unconditional reciprocity with circumstances just the way they are. Satsa…

Sahaja means naturalness, the fruit of direct realization practice. What is naturalness and how can we discover it? This satsang Includes a brief meditation to help you directly experience the natura…

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the three ways that the desire to be saved shows up when we live in Judeo-Christian-Islamic cultures, what Anandamayi Ma has to say about salvation, and how yogis deal…

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on discovering your real nature. You have to look up and look out and forget about yourself. You have to start investigating the reality that you actually live in.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the nature of God, drawing on her own experience and the siddhas of the Trika tradition. "He is a God because he plays without concern for what is to be obtained or rejec…

Shambhavi Sarasvati gives a hilarious satsang about the evolution of yogurt from the 1960s to today and how that relates to the process self-realization and the refinement of taste.

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the different kinds of effort we engage in as we progress in our spiritual practice. The satsang is based on the teachings of Anandamayi Ma.