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Synopsis
Claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of yoga's ancient spiritual texts
What would it be like to have complete sovereignty within your own life? To feel confidently aligned with the power of your true Self? The beloved texts at the heart of yoga offer us timeless pathways to this experience, yet without years of formal study, accessing the depths of their wisdom can seem overwhelming. In Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya demystifies yoga's most influential texts: the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita, making their profound teachings both accessible and immediately practical for modern seekers.
The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of Vedic spiritual teachers and the first to teach in the West, Shunya has a personal and authentic understanding of these classic scriptures. With Sovereign Self, she shares a comprehensive guide to their essential teachings, expertly adapting their wisdom and spiritual practices for Western students. Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you align with your greater Self--the Self that is always present, all-powerful, ever-joyful, and completely sovereign.
Synopsis
Unshackle your mind and claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of ancient yoga.
Perhaps no spiritual texts have more rigorously investigated our path to liberation as the Vedas a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses that includes the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. Collectively written by yoga's Vedic seers--hundreds of enlightened men and women from ancient India--these timeless texts have given rise to several world religions and influenced Western thinkers from Emerson to Ram Dass.
With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to these profound teachings. The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of spiritual teachers, Shunya provides a rare opportunity to receive these authentic teachings from a genuine Vedic master--one with a distinctly down-to-earth flavor who never lets us forget that our humanity is to be embodied and enjoyed.
Throughout Sovereign Self, Shunya adeptly guides us through the core concepts and practices of the Vedas, demystifying and contextualizing sacred concepts for modern life. In this masterful guide, you'll explore:
- The transcendent Self vs. the ego--how we create our own prisons of afflictive thoughts and desires, and how we break free
- Clear advice for avoiding countless obstacles on the path to liberation--from spiritual bypassing to the true meaning of guru
- Key Sanskrit words and verses, elucidated through Shunya's original translations
- Core concepts from the yoga tradition--yamas and niyamas, cultivating a sattvic mind, the four human desires, how to manage your thoughts, and more
- Original meditations and contemplative practices taken directly from Shunya's 2000-year-old lineage
- A wealth of reflections and practical tips for integrating the wisdom of the Vedas into ordinary life
- How to wake up from being a "sleepwalker" and find authentic freedom, everlasting joy, and unshakable sovereignty
Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you awaken and recognize your potential to be joyful, resourceful, abundant, limitlessly expansive, and sovereign.
Synopsis
Unshackle your mind and claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of ancient yoga
There's a reason that the Vedas, a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses from ancient India, have given rise to several world religions and influenced Western thinkers from Emerson to Ram Dass--they provide us with a uniquely accessible and effective path to liberation and sovereignty.
With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to the wisdom of these classic texts so that each of us may emancipate ourselves from restrictive belief systems and discover our true nature--that which is always whole, joyful, and free.
As the first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of spiritual teachers, Shunya provides a rare opportunity to receive these authentic teachings from a genuine Vedic master--one with a distinctly down-to-earth, feminine flavor who never lets us forget that our humanity is to be embodied and enjoyed.
Throughout Sovereign Self, Shunya adeptly guides us through the core concepts and practices of the Vedas, demystifying and contextualizing sacred concepts for modern life. In this masterful guide, you'll explore:
- Beginning the journey to radical self-acceptance--recognize your innate worth and wholeness
- How we create our own prisons of shame, compulsion, blame, and obsession--and how you can begin to break free
- Learning to embody personal autonomy in your life and relationships
- Clear advice from a Vedic master for avoiding countless obstacles on the path to liberation--from spiritual bypassing to the true meaning of guru
- Original meditations and contemplative practices taken directly from Shunya's 2000-year-old lineage
- How to wake up from being a "sleepwalker" and find authentic freedom, everlasting joy, and unshakable sovereignty
Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you awaken and recognize your potential to be joyful, resourceful, abundant, limitlessly expansive, and sovereign.