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Spiritual teachings by Shunyamurti, the founder and director of the Sat Yoga Ashram - a wisdom school, ashram, and the home of a vibrant spiritual community based in Costa Rica. Visit us at satyoga.org
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In this divinely mad satsang, Shunyamurti journeys through his interpretation of the Sanskrit words written in Chapters 14 and 15 of the Ashtavakra Samhita. He clarifies the nuances and idiosyncrasies that are missed by other translators, about becoming established in shunyachitta with an empty and sattvic mind. One must let go of all worries about worldly matters, dissociate from the ego, and have a distaste for objects in order to taste divine presence. The joy of expanding into infinite intelligence, potency, and power is available to all but unimaginable to the ego. The choice is yours. Why not abide in stillness now?
Every ego today suffers from an allergy to Truth and Love. If we receive too large a dose of either, the mind becomes inflamed. To overcome this tendency to inflammation, we are offered a radical remedy: high-intensity spiritual practice that neutralizes all our autoimmune reactions. The ten principles of this training program are guaranteed to boggle your mind and free your heart from the constrictions and defensive shell that have kept love out and kept the mind in a miasma of delusion. The paradoxical nature of these principles will completely depotentiate your ego, giving your soul an immediate taste of the eternal delight of ultimate liberation.
The ego structure today is in what Carl Jung called the puer aeternus complex—an unwillingness to grow up and a rejection of the ongoing rites of passage that God offers the soul to complete the coup de grâce needed to let go of its immature relation to reality and obsolete identity. Shunyamurti reads from Chapter 13 of the Ashtavakra Samhita, which comes as close to the ultimate teaching as is possible in written form. The coup de grâce is to give up acceptance, rejection, and the belief that there is a someone to give those up. The only way out is to get to the central nerve of life energy and raise it to receive the full power of presence.
In this teaching, Shunyamurti explores the paradox at the heart of all authentic traditions: Trika’s Netra Tantra calls for “supreme effort,” while other scriptures insist there is no path and no separate one to realize God. Taking us through concepts from Kabbalah, Ramana Maharshi, and Dzogchen, he reveals the synthesis: you are not the seeker in the story but the unmoving screen of pure, total consciousness on which all worlds appear. When this is realized, effort and non-effort collapse into the natural state of the Self.
This teaching clarifies the three-tiered structure of consciousness: the ego-world, the awakened soul, and the Absolute Sat—the all-containing, changeless presence. Shunyamurti explains how freedom is attained not by improving the ego but by realizing that all levels already coexist within the infinite Self.
This sacred story of giving birth to God can be understood on many levels. The most important for yogis is the level of nonduality, in which the nativity of the God-Self is understood as your own story of realization of your essential nature. This is accomplished through the symbolic replication of the acts of your purified soul, represented by the Virgin Mother (Shakti) bringing to life through divine love the Advent of the uncreated Supreme Self (as Presence in immediacy), and the ecstatic recognition of the Infinite Light pervading the entire cosmos and appearing as the Self of every being. May the grace that grants you the strength to surrender your will to God bring instant rapture and redemption.
In this second reading from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days, Shunyamurti unveils why the modern seeker must pass through Dante’s threshold: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” But hopelessness, as the new Gita reveals, is not despair; it is the moment when the ego finally understands it has no way out . . . and the Self takes over.
Civilization is on the brink, the ego is in despair, and the old maps no longer work. In this satsang, Shunyamurti unveils A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days—a newly received “Song of God” that speaks directly to the modern psyche, cutting through denial, confusion, and nihilism to reveal the inner war of the will. Discover how this new Gita can break open the ego shell, ignite the upper death drive, and attune you to the Fundamental Mind in time for the eschaton.
In this discourse, Shunyamurti reveals the Eightfold Path of the Netra Tantra—a radical understanding of Ashtanga Yoga. Moving beyond the outer practices of posture and breath, this teaching unveils the ascent of the soul through the divine eye of Shiva toward the throne of light, where all identity dissolves into God-Consciousness.
Free your imagination from the prison of the petty ego. You have been framed. Return to your innocence, the silent presence at the center of pure consciousness, free of concepts, images, and narratives. Be saturated with awesome, ecstatic, infinite light, love, and joyous creative intelligence. God is calling us Home.
Remove the ankle weights of the ego, tear open every Velcro of attachment, and let the primal wound be healed in the stillness of the Heart. Choose the upper death drive now: dissolve the false “I” into the ocean of pure Awareness, and let love strike the xylophone of the chakras until wisdom resounds and freedom becomes your only law. Then transmit that vibration to a world at the end of its story.
As the structures of the old world dissolve and every illusion collapses into paradox, this teaching unveils the ultimate realization: all that appears is but light projected upon the screen of consciousness. Through vivid metaphors and crystalline insight, the teaching reveals the nested structure of reality—from the ego’s flickering dream to the infinite intelligence that projects it—and the supreme freedom of awakening from identification with the character in the movie of life. Shunyamurti reads chapter eight ("The Yoga of Nonduality”) from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days: Here, every paradox resolves itself. Every world arises and dissolves within the eternal Self. Nothing is to be achieved, yet everything is realized.
The precarious situation the world is now in at every fractal level, from the macro social political level to the micro-emotional, can be considered similar to that of Zugzwang, a position in the game of chess where one must make a move, but every option loses. In this timely and urgent teaching, Shunyamurti reveals that this deadlock is of a divine nature, acting as the final catalyst for the soul to choose to awaken from the illusion of the burden and control of a fictional ego character and return home to the stillness of the Self.
Before one begins the serious practice of self-mastery, one must accurately assess the state of one’s mind and the amount of control one has over it. This will determine the correct approach required. Once the initial attitudinal re-orientations have been made, will power will flow into the practice and resistance will morph into fascination and delight.
As socio-political tensions rise, natural disasters escalate and the world collapses into its dénouement of history. Many countries, if not already at war, are preparing their citizens for war—to be at ground zero. In other words, they are preparing for death. But what is of greatest importance in this moment is to be spiritually prepared for death. Shunyamurti offers some questions for us to ask ourselves in order to process our honesty and intent and in order to directly confront this imminent inevitability. Am I aligned with the will of God? Have I fulfilled the mission I was sent here to achieve—my responsibility to love and serve the light? Ultimately, this alignment can be felt only in the heart and results in a dead mind, an ascension to the fundamental Source of mind for whom all that appears is an illusion. To prepare for death is to prepare for eternal life, to disappear as who one thought one was.
The One Self is pure, free, absolute Consciousness—beyond all contexts, paradigms, and frames of reference. Language and thought cannot grasp the unknowable Power that abides as the Self of all beings and pervades the entire cosmos, ordaining all that unfolds in the holographic dream field. This Supreme Presence is intolerable to the ego mind because nonduality is like an acid that will quickly break down the ego complex, dissolve it, and absorb it back into the Self. This is why vampires hide from the Light and cannot stand the sight of a cross. The ego is a vampire feeding on the life blood and energy of the bodily vehicle and the soul within. To be successful, the spiritual process of liberation from ego requires perceiving and overcoming the snare of thought constructs and mental chatter.
Shunyamurti reveals why the Bhagavad Gita is a time-released teaching—a terma designed for this very moment at the end of Kali Yuga. We are all Arjuna now, standing on the battlefield of the soul, faced with the choice: surrender the reins to God or remain trapped in the ego’s illusions. In this powerful satsang, Shunyamurti explains Krishna’s first instructions to Arjuna: do not mourn, endure all conditions, discover the indestructible Self, and fight the only battle that matters—the inner war against ignorance and ego.
The human ego in its current models is a fragmented and internally conflicted operating system. This condition creates affective and cognitive deadlocks, repetitive self-sabotage, delusional projections, and stunted capacity to function as a responsible adult. Spiritual practice must focus on the integration and resolution of contradictory attitudes and drives. Once accomplished, your consciousness can expand to higher levels of intelligence and creative power that can blossom into total freedom and fulfillment.
According to the Jewish tradition, we are in the High Holy Days. According to the news, we are in the lowest unholy days. Both are true. As global tensions escalate, this paradox points directly to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita: The war to be concerned with is the inner battle between your ego and your soul. The Gita has inspired much of modern Western philosophy—from Schopenhauer and Hegel to Nietzsche and beyond—yet none of those thinkers got the real message being transmitted. Accurate understanding of the Gita’s profound instructions is essential now for physical survival in this time of tribulation and, more importantly, for spiritual salvation.
In this teaching, Shunyamurti reveals the 10 major defenses the ego uses to escape anxiety. These strategies may seem to offer relief, but ultimately they deepen suffering and block the path to liberation. True freedom comes only when we courageously face anxiety at its root and discover the Self that is beyond fear.
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