Name: Do I Need A Guru? by Satsang with Shambhavi
Duration: 26 min 11 s
Description: "The Guru resides in your own heart, but most people are unable to rely firmly on their own Self. So they have to take refuge in an external guru, but in actual fact the guru resides in ones own heart." - Anandamayi Ma. Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about this teaching and her own experience finding Guru.

The musical version of the book Music Class Today by David Weinstone and Vin Vogel.

David Weinstone Music Class Today

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs about the profound meaning of appreciation and how appreciation is the attitude at the heart of divinity and the basis of of all dharmic relating.

Dharmic Relating And Appreciation

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs about the different kinds of prostrations, their importance for practitioners and about Anandamayi Ma's instructions for doing pranam.

How to Pranam According to Anandamayi Ma

Dennis Southward on finding someone "looking in the same direction" ,and on his time in prison in the late 1960s.

Dennis Southward: I Can Relate to This

"The Guru resides in your own heart, but most people are unable to rely firmly on their own Self. So they have to take refuge in an external guru, but in actual fact the guru resides in ones own heart." - Anandamayi Ma. Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about this teaching and her own experience finding Guru.&nbsp;

Do I Need A Guru?

Satsang is an ancient spiritual practice from India. It means "being in Reality together." During satsang, people gather with a teacher to learn, ask questions, find community, chant and sing. Shambhavi Sarasvati gives satsang every week. The dharma talks offered here are excerpts from the satsangs.  

Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit organization with headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Her training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism from Kashmir and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. She is a householder sannyasini and a devotee of Anandamayi Ma. Visit jayakula.org for her full teaching schedule and more information.

Shambhavi's books include The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism; Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits; The Play of Awakening: Adventures in Direct Realization Tantra; Pilgrims to Openness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life; and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up. Shambhavi's books are available on Amazon.com.

Do I Need A Guru?

Satsang with Shambhavi

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