Acharya Shunya: Sovereign Self

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Acharya Shunya is a classically trained master of Ayurveda and an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and scholar of Advaita nondual wisdom. The first female leader of a 2,000-year-old Indian spiritual lineage, she has dedicated her life to the dissemination of Vedic knowledge for the spiritual uplifting of all beings. With Sounds True, Acharya Shunya has written a book titled Sovereign Self: Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom with the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Acharya Shunya explore our spiritual journey from feeling afraid to feeling powerful, from bondage to sovereignty. Offering unique perspectives that come from being both a woman and a householder, as well as the spiritual leader of her lineage, Acharya Shunya describes the boundless essence of spirit we all have within, the importance of breaking free from the cultural limitations that prevent us from remembering our true spiritual freedom, and how Vedic wisdom provides us with a timeless guided journey to spiritual sovereignty. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:05.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:13.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:24.5	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools, such as mindfulness,
0:31.6	emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.8	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools
0:46.2	to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing
0:53.4	countries. If you'd like to learn more or feel
0:56.6	inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:07.6	You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Acharya Shunya.
1:13.2	Acharya Shunya is a classically trained master of Ayurveda and an award-winning
1:19.5	an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and scholar of Edwaita Nandul Wisdom.
1:25.8	She's the first female lead of a 2,000-year-old Indian spiritual
1:32.2	lineage, and she's dedicated her life to the dissemination of Vedid knowledge for the spiritual
1:39.3	uplifting of all beings. Which sounds true, Acharya Shunya has written a new book. It's called
1:47.2	Sovereign Self. Claim your joy and freedom with the empowering wisdom of the Vedas,
1:54.5	Upanishads, and the Bhagabha Gita. I have to tell you, sitting down with this book, Sovereign Self, it felt to me like an explosion inside of myself as I was reading of the boundless power and potential that we each have.
2:18.0	I'm so excited for you to hear directly about sovereign self from Acharya Shunya.
2:28.3	Shunya, I had the great joy of interviewing you for insights at the edge several years ago when Sounds
2:36.8	True released your book Iyerveda Lifestyle Wisdom. And towards the end of our conversation,
2:43.2	we started talking about, well, really you started sharing about the infinite mind. And at that moment, I knew that you had in you a book
2:54.2	about this infinite mind. I had no idea that several years later, you would write a book
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tami Simon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tami Simon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.