Deborah Roether Fallon
Profile
About
Jai Maa Friends!
One word can change everything. That is what happened to me. I was listening to an interview on Sounds True. Tami Simon, the host was interviewing an author, Archarya Shunya, the first woman in her thousand-year-old lineage of spiritual teachers, about her new book, Sovereign Self. The word “Sovereign” rang out loud and clear within me, and my entire being was reverberating and filled with light. I immediately bought the book and dove in head first to an extraordinary invitation to wake up from sleepwalking and own my life’s purpose. Bring it on! Sign me up! After exploring dozens of paths of spirituality with as many spiritual teachers, finding Archarya Shunya was a blessing and an answer to an prayer.
Archarya Shunya’s teachings are like the ultimate handbook for the ordinary human personality. There are lessons, mantras and messages which are pointers on how to guide our struggle through the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart and achieve self-mastery.
It is heard multiple times, in sangha, in discussions, in our shared stories on the community forum. Over and over again- it is our sorrows and delusions that are the source of the cycles of birth and death. So, what do we do? And there it is, in the very next lesson, Archarya Shunya delivers a new teaching which brings home the sledgehammer and begins smashing to smithereens a cascade of misperceptions, sweeping out a false belief here and there, dusting off the lies I keep telling myself, and replacing it all with an inner smile of confidence that I’m on the path, that there is a way out of the mire of endless birth and death cycles.
Ishvara, essential and timeless, in any circumstance, holds the key to the locked cell in the outer world that I repeatedly put myself in. It’s amazing how familiar it all feels. How many eons have I synced myself to delusion? I feel that I have arrived home with these teachings bringing a focus to this devotees’ love for and inspiration from this inspiring community.