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.

A divine process is underway, whether an individual recognizes it or not. All that happens is the will of the Infinite Intelligence that is unfolding the cosmic drama. Evil energies are now in the process of destroying themselves, creating conditions for a renaissance of the highest potencies of God-consciousness to emerge and bring a new world into being. All who love God will soon feel their kundalini rising rapidly toward infinity.

Once you have broken through the illusion of egocentric perception and recognized the personal identity as fictional, there is no going back to ignorance. Even though the illusory ego will try to fill you with dread as it disintegrates in the full light of Infinite Consciousness, once the traces of ego identity have all been annihilated, the inconceivable power and scope of the Self will be realized as all there ever was or will be.

The metaphor of plasma brings clarity as to the higher powers of the mind. Once the alchemical process of kundalini cultivation is underway, the energy of consciousness can be modulated to higher frequencies that will come to vibrate through the body and the morphogenic space. This revisioning of the meaning of yoga makes the transcendent heights of Total Presence more immediately accessible.

Every ego has been framed. Even knowing that though, it continues its self-framing regardless of the suffering that it causes to itself. The ego prefers a dysfunctional identity to none at all. Every authentic spiritual tradition tries to offer a way out, but very few egos are interested.

The unfolding drama in the unreal world is but the rebirth pangs of Cosmic Self-realization. The Eternal Light of God is washing away the last traces of the manifest mandala of divine human history and those of every world system—simply by dissolving the stain of emotionality that hides the Bliss of the Real. Recorded May 7, 2025

The world situation is dire. The US economy is in its death throes. Europe is also coming apart. Store shelves will soon be empty. War is threatened or has already erupted in every region. And the same is happening in the microcosm of nearly every ego. Chaos is accelerating to final destruction. Yet this is a blessing, a merciful quick end to a dying world. The Light of God is becoming more palpable as well, at least to those souls who have faith in and love for the Supreme Lord. We have the inherent right to choose redemption while still alive. Grace is given to all whose hearts are open.

What kind of world are we in? Could it be a fiction? How would that affect your ego’s crucifixion? And if the world is suddenly perceived as filled with zombies, how does the heart react? Does ego death seem more appealing? If so, we have a formula to help you disappear.

The role of narcolepsy—or we could call it “sleeping avatar” syndrome—in the life of Sri Ramana and (more generally) in the attainment of samadhi, is explored in this off-the-cuff digression. We also gain insight into the ways that destiny is inscribed in the prologue to our personal stories.