Jai Maa dear community💜 I have a reflection and a question.

A month or so ago I started listening to Shunyaji's Whispers From The Eternal podcast recordings every morning while doing a bit of asana and I've been wanting to share how helpful it has been. For a long time I've had a practice of doing a bit of yoga in the mornings but my mind generally tended to wander all over the place through my poses and I often procrastinated a lot before getting onto my mat. Adding the recordings to my practice has been transformative. This daily recentering has really changed the experience of my days and when I feel myself feeling hesitant to pull out my mat I remember that I can look forward to hearing Shunyaji's insights, the light of her words, which reveal something different to me no matter how many times I listen to…

In her latest talk on karma yoga (#12 in series), Shunyaji mentions Sarasvati blooming in us. Through our prayers and intentions, may our outer and inner speech and song blossom freely.

Poem to Sarasvati

Hrim! Daughter of the mind of Brahma

Arisen from the great lake of enjoyment,

With your face as pure and white as the moon –

Goddess Sarasvati, to you I offer homage and praise!

Receiving Shunya ji's teachings on 'How to be Happy' feels very timely for me! Yesterday's session was very powerful and transformative for me especially in terms of how we define happiness and how that happiness was never outside even if our mind creates the understanding that happiness is always associated with a object, person, event outside of us. This definition and Sadhvi Ishani's teachings yesterday night was very liberating for me! It does feel like suddenly the door to the cage is open and I am like that curious bird who knows that the door is not needed anymore to feel safe, and I am ready to peak out from the cage to explore something more expansive and more aligned! It is a liberating! Thank you Shunya ji and Sadhvis for these valuable teachings!❣️

Jai Maa community!

Tonight's class was very important to me because I'm new in the last few months and did not know the "how to" of the contemplation that is talked about.

I really appreciated Sadhvi Ishani walking us through how to contemplate. I learned that it's not about forceful thinking, but rather about sitting with a sort of openness to see what emerges in the mind, with the question keeping the mind on track.

Thank you Sadhvi Ishani --- this sample practice really helped me to understand what manunam is and how to do it.

Jai Maa everyone - as always the shares were very helpful. Thank you to Shunyaji, the teaching was very clarifying.

Jai Maa,

Acharya Shunya sends her a heartfelt share about her Karma Yoga duties while in India. She also shares a plan to pause the Karma Yoga Series sessions for a few weeks. You can hear her message in this audio recording:

Note that we will be taking a pause in the Karma Yoga curriculum for the next couple of weeks and sit together with her recorded satsangas on "How To Be Happy". In these sessions, we will take a scholarly and experiential look at the Vedantic concept of happiness and how we can tap into an everlasting source of it.

These sessions will happen during the normally scheduled Karma Yoga session timings.

See the All Sessions & Zoom Links page and Calendar for the updated session information.

Jai Maa all,

I listened to a 2-part interview Tami Simon had with Shunyaji on Sounds True: Insights at the Edge. The interview was on reincarnation, from the Vedic perspective on the souls journey after this life. Shunyaji spoke on the higher lokas; which contain in-between lokas where we take benefit of the good karmas we have. She spoke on karma yoga, moksha, and emphasized how our last thoughts are important as we go through this journey. I found Tami's questions to be so helpful and Shunyaji's answers filled with wisdom and love. I recommend to all here to take a listen, I felt I was listening to a master class from our teacher. I re-listened again the next day.

Jai Maa ! All are welcome to join us as we continue to share our contemplations on the many gifts and blessings we receive from our Teacher Acharya Shunya.

How does it feel to live in a world of Sacred Companions ( Devas) while remaining centred in Karma Yogic sacred giving ?

💫 Please bring your reflections and questions to share 💫

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83688609152?pwd=AUbgZiAJaVhAQ3edGCRgUXLvkA7XHk.1

Meeting ID: 836 8860 9152

Passcode: 617341

Jai Maa,

The recording of another valuable and deep session with Sadhvi Aparna in the Sadhaka Sadhana series is now available on the playlist.

You can find the recording playlist on the All Sessions page, as well as right here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDR12noB1WYc5-7S2JYugFwSCNOVdW9WF&si=1gQCCaGqdrE4BLuX

The next live session in this series will be next week on Thursday, September 18th at 7am Pacific Time.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85050129698?pwd=ak8bcLg9kqcO7h193iaT1XIU6aTxUe.1 

Jai Maa everyone,

We have a beautiful new post on our blog site by our dear member Deborah. This post is about Deborah's experience on how the intensity and depth of her listening to the teachings have changed over time as she allowed more and more silence into her life, to the point where this practice transformed into a devotion to silence and stillness.

Deborah shares;"What I discovered through this deep listening was that the substratum of listening was silence, that holds everything, the connective tissue of all life."

If you want to read more on how silence connects us all, in the depths of our inner territory, please visit this link. https://www.acharyashunya.com/post/the-devotion-to-silence

There are many more beautiful reads on our community blog site. Check them out when you have time and if you ever feel inspired to share your contemplations in the form of a blog post, based on Acharya…