Modesty and Humility in the Kali Yuga
August 12 2018
What do modesty and humility have to do with direct realization spiritual practice? Shambhavi shares what she’s learned through her own sadhana. A blog post from Satsang with Shambhavi Read More
A Message about Pride
July 31 2016
For everyone who has been given an opportunity, however small, to help others wake up and discover their divine nature. . . Recently I had a conversation with a student who is creative, intelligent, devotional and has a natural desire to be of benefit to others. Despite all of this, nearly every moment of this student’s life is a struggle with competitiveness… Read More
The Amerika Virus
May 1 2016
There’s a virulent virus that has spread throughout the U.S. It makes you sick, but it can also earn you more money and enhance your social status. It makes you unhappy, but if you don’t have it, people think you’re weird. Long ago, the virus was identified by wise seers from India and Tibet. They named it… Read More
American Mahatma vs. the Greatness Virus
August 8 2014
Here in the U.S., we suffer from a terrible virus. We catch it at a young age and most of us virusdie with it running rampant in our systems after a lifetime of uncontrolled replication. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp Around the Realms: Hell Realm
March 19 2014
Hell realm karmic vision is intensely painful, all-encompassing and full of anger. Life itself, including other people, is experienced as torturing. The best weapon against hell realm is a sense of humor. Unfortunately, a sense of humor is hard to come by when a person is trapped in hell realm visions. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp Around the Realms: Hungry Ghost
February 10 2014
Such deep mourning about the experience of lack of generosity toward you can only arise when you actually know something about generosity. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp Around the Realms: Animal Realm
February 6 2014
Within this seemingly unstable situation hides a wisdom seed—the understanding of the impermanence of the small self and our fundamental continuity with all life. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp Around the Realms: Human Realm
January 7 2014
What we fear or long for most is precisely that about which we have the possibility to develop deep insight. The fear of life’s vastness that characterizes human realm, blossoms with the nourishment of sadhana into a profound confidence in vidya shakti, or the natural wisdom of embodied life. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp around the Realms: Titan Realm
December 3 2013
The relaxation of Titan realm karma leads to great equanimity in the face of life’s ups and downs. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
Romp Around the Realms: God Realm
November 16 2013
God realm fixation masks a deep intuition about the inevitability of pain and death. This intuition is the source of one’s exaggerated fear. If you can integrate with this intuition, you will discover a wellspring of compassion. Compassion is the wisdom seed of god realm. By Shambhavi Sarasvati Read More
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