Wisdom Teachings - Sat Yoga, Costa Rica

Welcome to the be-dead-while-alive-stream, brought to you from the misty mountains of Costa Rica, from the Sat Yoga Ashram. Welcome to all of those who are attending the satsang online. We’re in the midst of our annual rainy season retreat here at the ashram, and we’ve been in relative silence for the last couple of weeks and with intense classes and meditations. So I’m sure that those who are here in this local space as well as those listening online will have interesting questions—no doubt profound questions about your own journey to Self-Realization. But actually, the whole process and the whole understanding is extremely simple, and really does not need to give rise to any questions—it should actually put all questions to an end. I think the ancient metaphor that’s most useful is simply that of the drop of rainwater that returns to the ocean. Perhaps a little more accurate would be a bubble of foam on a wave on the ocean, and when that ego bubble pops, there is only the ocean. And there was never anythi

Question: The idea of a spiritual revolution is one that’s gaining traction, and the next retreat here in December is about that, it’s called “Advanced Training for Spiritual Revolutionaries”. So, my question is: what really is a spiritual revolutionary, and how will a spiritual revolution differ from the old revolutions that have come and gone and failed, whether political or pseudo-spiritual?

Shunyamurti explains the teachings that cannot be taught as well as how the world is unreal.

Shunyamurti reads again from the Padamalai, specifically focusing on Ramana's view on hatha yoga and its shortcomings, proposing instead atma vichara rather than trying to make effort to control the mind, which is always an effort of the mind itself.

Shunyamurti explains that yoga was developed as an attempt to return to the primordial state (since the beginning of Dwapar Yuga), but that it has devolved into a set of exercises, and discusses Ashtanga Yoga, which was not the original yoga and was based on the Sankhya philosophy, explaining the eight limbs (the Yamas/Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, Samyama) and going over them in detail, and explaining how they represent different phases of the spiritual path.

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Shunyamurti reveals that the difficulty of meditation is that you think you know who you are, but that the key discovery of the ancient sages was that consciousness is impersonal and only learns to act like a person, identifying with the body, with demands of the parents, with patterns that become rigid, with a superego that makes it feel guilty and that it lives in a moral universe, and that if one wants one's "criminal record" wiped clean, then one more dissolve into the impersonal Absolute, which will manifest as love without desire.

Shunyamurti reveals that the Nataraj is a fairly recent statue that comes from the Chola dynasty, that before the only representation of Shiva that was allowed was the Shiva Lingam, and that Shiva is the Zero Point that is the fire/flame/agni, and elucidates more of the symbolism of the Nataraj, going through each aspect in detail

Shunyamurti reveals that the function of the Sat Yogi is to unify heaven and hell through the superior coherence of heavenly consciousness and the willingness to travel alone through the valley of the shadow of death, and that through this journey the gift of the wish-fulfilling jewel is given, which is what can bring about transformation to the entire holographic field.

Shunyamurti analyzes the meaning of Buddha's awakening, the importance of freeing one's intelligence from sentimentality, and the seven obstacles to magic, among many other topics in this teaching from our September 2019 retreat, "The Basis of White Magic".

Shunyamurti speaks about white magic, as well as the history of magic, and how it relates to the spiritual path.

Shunyamurti explains "Aham Aham", the process of the conditioned "I" coming to know the true "I", as well as the difference between classical Advaita and neo-Advaita.

Shunyamurti reveals that the word in Sanskrit to describe Liberation is "advaita" ("not two"), and that the yogi empties himself/herself out (kenosis), which leads to fullness, he also speaks of Ayurveda, of God becoming the mineral kingdom as well as the biological, and that the Ayurveda doctors see God in the mineral world.

Join us for a full Satsang with Shunyamurti, filled with a Q&A from residents and visitors at the Sat Yoga Ashram!

Shunyamurti speaks of the vital needs that we have, how we attempt to cope with them when they are not met, and the relationship among all of them in this revealing teaching.

Shunyamurti speaks about bringing love, beauty, and life back to the planet while reuniting the planetary tribe of humanity.

In this guided meditation, Shunyamurti invites us to enter the portal to the Absolute where the words, the music, and the silence are one. This masterwork of magical trance inductive multidimensional yantra will take you on a sound journey deep into the source of the silence that is your Self, the blissful realization that silence is the source of beauty and that sound borrows its beauty from the silence.

 Question: What is white magic?

Shunyamurti explains that one can speak Truth directly or vis-a-vis the illusion, but the latter ratifies the illusion, which is false, and that one must simply let go of ignorance, but this creates a catch-22 (letting go of illusion in order to think clearly so that one can let go of illusion), and one takes the illusion too seriously to want to let go of it, and he then speaks about the states of dreaming and deep sleep, specifically why one creates a dream and the function of the dream, how one creates a world that resists one's control so that one can believe that it is real and not have to face that it is an illusion, but that liberation requires a radical letting go of a belief in the world so that one can reach Sat Chit Ananda.

In this teachings, Shunyamurti speaks about upgrading your system to Cosmic Consciousness and the new world to be created.