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.
Satsang and Community Kirtan with Shambhavi in the East Bay. Every Wednesday at 6:30pm, every Sunday at 3:30pm, and some Saturdays at 3:30pm. Kids are welcome. Feel free to bring musical instruments. Read More
Satsang and Community Kirtan with Shambhavi in the East Bay. Every Wednesday at 6:30pm, every Sunday at 3:30pm, and some Saturdays at 3:30pm. Kids are welcome. Feel free to bring musical instruments. Read More
Satsang and Community Kirtan with Shambhavi in the East Bay. Every Wednesday at 6:30pm, every Sunday at 3:30pm, and some Saturdays at 3:30pm. Kids are welcome. Feel free to bring musical instruments. Read More
November 3! Join Jaya Kula and friends for an all-day, livestreamed election day extravaganza! Let’s worship, share, hold each others’ hands (virtually), sing, chant, heal, and drink chai. Read More
Shambhavi Sarasvati gives satsang on offering sweetness to the Lord and following a felt sense of goodness and sweetness as the ultimate compass on life’s path. 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 answers a question about existential dread and the pandemic. A podcast from Satsang with Shambhavi Listen Now
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 Listen Now
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 Shambhavi Listen Now
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 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.
What is at stake when we use words such as “classics,” “classical,” and “authentic” to describe a text, a spiritual tradition, teachings, or our own practices as students and teachers? A blog post from Satsang with Shambhavi Read More
Dohas are spontaneous songs of spiritual experience, celebration, and prayer. That is You Lord is a doha from Shambhavi Sarasvati. Mp3 and lyrics included. Read More
Dohas are spontaneous songs of spiritual experience, celebration, and prayer. Eternal Spring is a doha from Shambhavi Sarasvati. Mp3 and lyrics included. 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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