Jaya Kula is a vibrant nonprofit community of diverse people learning and practicing in the direct realization traditions of Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. Our website is the place where you can learn about our traditions, get TONS of free teachings, and find out about live teachings with our spiritual director, Shambhavi Sarasvati. We would love to connect with you wherever you are.
A twice-monthly gathering for deep diving into texts from the Trika tradition. In 2020 we’ll continue reading Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra and then read the Kashmiri version of the Bhagavad Gita with Abhinavagupta’s commentary. With Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
A twice-monthly gathering for deep diving into texts from the Trika tradition. In 2020 we’ll continue reading Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra and then read the Kashmiri version of the Bhagavad Gita with Abhinavagupta’s commentary. With Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
The New Moon Circle is a closed group of engaged Jaya Kula students who meet to study and practice together. Read More
Satsang and Community Kirtan with Shambhavi. Every Sunday at 3:30pm at locations around the Bay Area. Kids are welcome. Feel free to bring musical instruments. Read More
Shambhavi Sarasvati answers a question from a student: How can we relate to times when our lives seem out of control? A video from Satsang with Shambhavi Watch More
We’ve got your streaming needs covered with the weekly Satsang with Shambhavi podcast and video satsangs, too. New, totally free content is added ridiculously often.
Shambhavi serves up a “recipe” for realizing more thoroughly and maybe a little more quickly than most people want to. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Listen Now
Shambhavi talks about the benefits of continuing to do sadhana even through hard times and illness. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Listen Now
Shambhavi explains the special meanings of the word kula and how kula relates to the method and fruit of our sadhana. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Listen Now
Shambhavi basically rants about the limitations of ordinary love and falling in love. There’s something better. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Listen Now
Practice, a.k.a, sadhana, means doing stuff like meditation and mantra. Shambhavi would love to see you at a live teaching. But until then, here are some ways to get started waking up and discovering what the heck is going on here. (By “here” we mean in human bodies on Earth.)
Shambhavi’s mission is to offer teachings about the nature of the Self and reality that are accessible and immediately usable. She shows us how the principles and practices of direct realization traditions such as Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen apply to the choices we face in our lives every day.
Wanna know what happened that time when the Dalai Lama got married? Or about drugs and spiritual experience? Or gender karma in spiritual communities? Or dive into Shambhavi’s poetry and songs? Yeah you do.
the real nourishment of teaching and the greatest satisfaction is in finding other devotees like oneself, not in being a teacher to many students. ~ Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Find out why one spiritual teacher mostly teaches in person rather than over live stream and how this choice has impacted her community, Jaya Kula. A blog post from Satsang with Shambhavi Read More
Poem about sweet offerings from the mystic cave of the heart by Shambhavi Sarasvati, author of No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up. Read More
Trika Shaivism (also called Shaiva Tantra or Kashmir Shaivism) from North India and Dzogchen from Tibet are nondual, direct realization traditions. They emphasize discovering your real nature and the nature of reality for yourself. Living a profoundly uncontrived life is one way to describe the aim of our practice. Many of us also love the teachings of Anandamayi Ma.
“Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that. Inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!” ~Abhinavagupta
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“To live in the world is to be on the way to Self-realization.” ~Anandamayi Ma
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