Acharya Shunya: The Five Phases of the Vedic Afterlife Journey | Part 2

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the second half of Acharya Shunya's talk, she shares her personal journey from tradition to transformation, offering practical tools and Vedic insights to help us embrace our greater purpose here.

Through her personal experiences, practical guidance, and teachings from her lineage, Acharya Shunya offers us a roadmap to awakening and living a more meaningful, empowered life.

Note: This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	The Sounds True Podcast Network.
0:04.5	And now, part two of my interview with Acharya Shania.
0:12.0	I know now that death is not the end, and that no matter how confused or how lost we have been, this whole cosmos is here to support us.
0:29.6	Welcome friends to this special Sounds True series where we're exploring the case for reincarnation and the gap between lives. Once more.
0:42.3	In this episode, my guest is Acharya Shunya. Born in India, Acharya Shunya is the first female leader
0:53.3	of a 2,000-year-old Vedic lineage.
0:57.0	She's a best-selling author on a mission to restore the sacred fire of yoga in modern times,
1:07.0	with its full power and authority.
1:12.2	She is the author of several books and audiobooks, which sounds true, including
1:18.5	Roar like a goddess and sovereign self in which she draws on the wisdom of the Vedas,
1:26.5	Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita.
1:29.4	Stay with us.
1:42.4	Why would if I had been living in a higher loka, why would I come to Earth?
1:49.5	Yes. So this is interesting, and the scriptures go on and on about it. The Vedas go on and on about it.
1:56.8	Apparently, it is connected to the law of karma.
2:01.9	We go on a higher loka.
2:04.3	We don't come back from the satay loka, the brahmal, very high lokas.
2:09.9	We don't come back.
2:11.1	But there are some other in-between lokas.
2:14.0	Like, there is no permanent heaven.
2:21.7	There may be like Pitra loka, Indra loka, there are some other lokas. I'm just taking their name. If we have done a lot of good karma, but we have not
2:27.8	achieved moksha, we have not achieved nirvana. We have only done really great deeds and we've been
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