Wisdom Teachings - Sat Yoga, Costa Rica

Shunyamurti reveals the urgent relevance of the Bhagavad Gita for our own time of spiritual emergency. The Gita’s battle is not about outer enemies but about the soul’s fight against the ego and its false belief in good and evil. Krishna’s instruction to Arjuna—to see pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same—is the key to individuation: the union of the individual self with the Supreme Self. Shunyamurti explains why this teaching is harder for the postmodern ego to grasp, how our culture has lost the way, and why only radical surrender to God-consciousness can bring freedom from despair, guilt, and nihilism. This teaching is both a warning and an invitation: to put the ego into the fire of truth and awaken to the indestructible Self.

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.

In this satsang, Shunyamurti reflects on why the profound truths of the Ashtavakra Gita so often fail to penetrate the postmodern ego, which forms prematurely as a defense against fear, pain, and abandonment. Drawing on the Sat Yoga Chakra Map, he explains how the first three assemblage points entangle us in security needs, desire, and power struggles—and how the ego’s confusion of love with desire keeps us bound in suffering.

After exploring the deep insights in the teaching of the Ashtavakra Gita regarding the way to shift from ego-mind to the infinite intelligence of the Self, Shunyamurti adds another level of subtlety to the method. He explains how the energy of our fundamental nature is converted into information that appears as a holographic continuum of experience. When that information is converted back into the light of pure consciousness, the transcendent Self is realized.

In this special Q&A compilation, Shunyamurti responds to seekers’ heartfelt questions on guilt, shame, dreams, AI, Self-realization, and the paradox of suffering and joy. Each answer reveals how the ego sustains bondage through self-judgment, attachment, and fear, while pointing us back to the freedom of our divine nature. We are sharing this teaching in the lead-up to our online retreat, Live Free of Anxiety (September 5-7, 2025). Join us for this weekend intensive with Shunyamurti and experience the joy of having your own deepest questions answered live. 

In this teaching, Shunyamurti reveals the hidden structure of consciousness that unfolds in nanoseconds between every two thoughts. He maps seven micro moments—from the instant of naked presence to the reinstallation of ego identity—showing how awareness of these stages gives you the power to shift your trajectory in real time. In the “between,” where thought has not yet fixed who you are or how you see the world, lies your greatest freedom. By remaining in pure presence, you open the door to Infinite Intelligence, creative genius, and your true nature.

In this urgent satsang, Shunyamurti shares that he received the message that we are at the moment depicted in the Bhagavad Gita, when Arjuna understands and accepts that he must fight the battle he dreads, knowing it will destroy civilization. Reflecting on the aftermath of the failed Putin–Trump summit in Alaska, in the context of the imminent collapse of Western hegemony, and the fractal nature of reality—meaning that all of us face such a situation in our own lives as well— Shunya explains that the only solution is taking refuge with God. The grace of the Supreme Self alone will enable us to face fearlessly the events to come. Our spiritual duty is to radiate the salvific light of truth, peace, and divine love to all souls in our dying world.

As Putin and Trump meet in a tense moment of global brinkmanship, Shunyamurti offers a teaching on how to remain unshaken in the face of uncertainty. Drawing from the Ashtavakra Samhita, he explains how to free yourself from anxiety, transcend identification with body and ego, and abide in the constant presence of pure awareness. In a collapsing world, this is the timeless path to inner freedom — beyond fear, beyond reaction, and beyond the reach of external events.

The soul must understand the nature of its bondages. Your power will remain limited and your happiness elusive until you overcome these ten forms of psychological dis-ease that the ego is prone to suffering. Sat Yoga is a path to freedom.

We are living near the end of this age, and our responsibility is to prepare our souls to create a more beautiful, peaceful, awakened culture in the age to come. This requires us to attune to our true essential nature as pure spirit, and to let go of all tendencies of self-deception. This comes down to letting go of the false self entirely. We must open our hearts and minds to our infinite and eternal consciousness. This is the aim of an authentic spiritual path.

The reading of chapter two of the Ashtavakra Samhita is the basis of this teaching on the joy of Self-Realization. Sustained joy is not possible for the ego, since it projects its own shadow on the world and suffers as a result. But, when it is understood that one is Pure Consciousness—that all is the One Infinite Intelligence and that the world is only a reflection of the Self at play—then divine beauty is directly perceived, unconditional love is felt, and perfection is recognized.

What is Sat Yoga, truly? In this electrifying teaching, Shunyamurti returns us to the original foundation of all true yogic paths: the complete and instantaneous renunciation of the ego through the love of the infinite Self. This is not a path of gradualism or compromise. It is a radical return to the Real, beyond all illusion, trauma, fear, or thought. True liberation comes not with time, but with unwavering determination, tapas, and surrender. This is the final frontier—the rite of passage into God-consciousness. And the gate is gateless, because you are already That.

It is easy to understand why the ego mind has no freedom. Neither does it have originality or courage, nor even the ability to love, in the real sense of that word. The secret to leading a fulfilling life is simple: your soul must awaken and extract itself from the limitations of the ego straitjacket. Once free, the soul can easily transform its personal identity to accurately reflect its divine nature of limitless potency. This is the goal of the spiritual quest.

There comes a moment in the life of every sincere seeker of ultimate Truth when the veil of illusion finally falls away. But it requires a lot of preparation. One needs uncommon sense to reason through the barrier of the unreal, and a willingness to dialectically negate one's own desire for the Real when that becomes the new barrier. Then, even that negation must be negated by the immolation of the last trace of a tendency of the mind to produce an egocentric thought.

By entering this war, the US is accelerating toward direct conflict with opposing great powers. Gog and Magog may soon enact the prophesied battle of Armageddon. What better time to attain divinization? The secret of receiving the grace of the Rapture is to surrender to the Presence of the Transcendent Absolute God-Self by simply letting go of all else.

The war in west Asia is a reflection of the war in consciousness that is being played out in every fractal of the whole of the cosmic manifestation. It is the same war that is commemorated in the Bhagavad Gita. The secret instruction to gain victory for the soul over the demonic ego is most clearly delivered in an ancient text called the Ashtavakra Samhita. There are eight major curves on the road to divine liberation. We must steer the mind accurately around each curvature of conscious space.

The world has gone mad. Every kind of war is breaking out, at every level of social organization and individual ego structure. Yet, there is divine order hidden in this utter chaos. It is our spiritual duty to emanate peace and divine love and, amid the exploding bombs, to deliver the healing balm of the Presence of God.

We are at the historic moment of showdown at every fractal level of the holographic motion picture show. To win the duel with the ego, the soul must be willing to surrender to the Real Self. But certain preparations must be made to disempower the ego. If one knows the stages of the path, it is easier to navigate through the narrow passage to Freedom.