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Watch on YouTube
We recommend that you attend all satsangs on YouTube, where you will be able to make comments and leave questions for Shunyamurti. You will also be able to view any questions left by other retreatants. To watch on YouTube, click the red “Watch on YouTube” button to the top right of each teaching video.
Joining via Zoom
Early-morning meditations, encounter groups, and asana and pranayama classes, are streamed via Zoom. Please click on the blue “Join Here” button to the top right of these videos to enter the Sat Yoga waiting room in Zoom. You will be admitted shortly thereafter and muted upon entry.
Retreat Schedule (In Costa Rica Time)
Friday, May 17
5.30 pm – Opening Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
Saturday, May 18
5.00 am – Morning Meditation via Zoom
11.15 am Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
4.15 pm – Live Pranayama/Breath Exercise Class via Zoom
5.30 pm – Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
Sunday, May 19
5.00 am – Morning Meditation via Zoom
6.45 am – Live Hatha Yoga Class via Zoom
11.15 am – Encounter Group via Zoom
The Practice of Self-Mastery: How to Tame Your Mind
Before one begins the serious practice of self-mastery, one must accurately assess the state of one’s mind and the amount of control you have over it. This will determine the correct approach required. Once the initial attitudinal re-orientations have been made, the will power will flow into the practice and resistance will morph into fascination and delight.
Shunyamurti’s Music Selection:
(Beginning of Satsang)
Shunyamurti reads from:
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi by Sri Munagala Venkataramiah
Secret of the Veda by Sri Aurobindo
Teaching begins at: 55:38
Midday Satsang - 11.15am
Can You Hear the Laughter of the Lord of Love?
The Supreme Intelligence, being all and nothing, expresses the divine unfoldment as contradiction, enigma, and paradox. Our minds must learn to contain the opposites in unity and sameness, as well as multiplicity and difference, in a dance of constant surprise and fascination. Swing high, swing low, sweet chariot of God! Enjoy the Lord’s joke, which we are—and of course we are the jokers as well. The jokers are always wild.
Shunyamurti’s Music Selection:
(Beginning of Satsang)
Pranayama/Breath Exercises - 4.30pm
Evening Satsang - 5.30pm
On the Way to the Seventh Bliss
The variety of pathways of spiritual development is correlated to the various levels of consciousness of seekers of God. For those still identified with the body-ego level of their Being, ceaseless practice of concentration and stillness is required. At the soul level, one must go through the seven levels of Turiya, which is the state beyond waking, dream, and sleep. The ordeal of ego death must be traversed in order to come out on the other side of the Real. In the fourth level, the ego dies completely, and when the seventh level of Bliss becomes constant, the body drops away. Consciousness does not return from its infinite nature into a contracted state. And yet, there are some students whose clarity of understanding, firmness of faith, and power of mind-control, enable them to immediately realize the superposition of the infinite Self and the finite manifestations of ego, soul, and world, and they recognize that no one is in bondage and no one becomes liberated. All there ever was, is, or shall be, is the One Luminous Intelligence always present as I.
Song Performed by Parvati & Hanuman:
- Song performed by Kalyan and Hanuman. Lyrics written by Shunyamurti
Your Passport to Paradise is Still Valid
We have the freedom to choose how we want to live, and whether we prefer the slow gradual process of climbing to higher states of consciousness against fierce internal resistance, or to more quickly ascend through the purgatorial torment of ego death, or to realize without effort that God is already my Self, and that there is nothing to do or to wait for, in order to qualify for total saturation by the Blissful Light of our true nature. Each of us has been issued a passport to Paradise, and we are free to immigrate there at any moment. Is there any reason to linger in a hell realm, or endure being violently churned in the washing machinery of soul purification, when the portal to God Land is open?
Teaching begins at: 48:23
Hatha Yoga/Asanas via Zoom - 6:45am
Encounter - 11.15am
Watching on Rumble
Beginning with this retreat, we will be livestreaming on Rumble instead of YouTube. It works in the same way as YouTube, but you will need to create a Rumble account (or sign in if you already have a Rumble account) if you wish to participate in the chat.
We recommend that you attend all satsangs on Rumble where you will be able to make comments and leave questions for Shunyamurti. You will also be able to view any questions left by other retreatants. To watch on Rumble, click the green “Watch on Rumble” button to the top right of each teaching video.
Joining via Zoom
Early morning meditations, Encounter Groups, and asana and pranayama classes, are streamed via Zoom. Please click on the blue “Join Here” button to the top right of these videos to enter the Sat Yoga waiting room in Zoom. You will be admitted shortly thereafter and muted upon entry.
Retreat Schedule (In Costa Rica Time)
Friday, November 10
5.30 pm – Opening Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
Saturday, November 11
5.00 am – Morning Meditation via Zoom
11.15 am Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
4.30 pm – Live Pranayama/Breath Exercise Class via Zoom
5.30 pm – Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
Sunday, November 12
5.00 am – Morning Meditation via Zoom
6.45 am – Live Hatha Yoga Class via Zoom
11.15 am – Encounter Group via Zoom
