Living Wisdom Sangha
With Acharya Shunya
Teacher of Advaita Vedanta
and the Vedic Tisdom
Fourth Saturdays | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
Beginning May 2026
Open to All
A monthly public gathering where Vedic wisdom is applied to real-world tensions in modern life.
Clarity for the mind.
Steadiness for the heart and action.
May 23 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
How to Love Without Losing Yourself
Relationship Through the Lens of Dharma and Inner Maturity
Relationships reveal where our understanding has not yet matured. We long for closeness, yet fear losing ourselves. We seek harmony, yet repeat patterns of expectation and disappointment.
Drawing from the Bhagavad Gita and the living Vedic tradition, this gathering examines relationship as a field of dharma. What is love when it is not possession? What is responsibility without control? Where does dignity arise?
Through the path of Bhakti and Karma Yoga, we explore how connection becomes a means of inner growth rather than entanglement.
In this session, you will:
• Understand the difference between attachment and love
• Recognize recurring relational patterns as part of karma
• Clarify the role of personal responsibility in karmic partnerships
• Reflect on how a relationship can mature the ego rather than inflate or injure it
This is not advice about the other.
It is an inquiry into the one who loves.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
June 27 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
When the Mind Will Not Rest
Self-Knowledge and the Discipline of Inner Stillness
Many of us live with constant inner movement. Thoughts replay. Futures are rehearsed. Conversations linger long after they end. Even when circumstances improve, the mind continues its activity.
The Vedic tradition does not ask us to fight the mind. It asks us to understand it.
Are we the stream of thoughts?
Or are we the awareness in which thoughts arise and dissolve?
Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of Advaita, this gathering explores the mind as an instrument. When the mind is mistaken for the Self, agitation feels personal and urgent. When it is understood clearly, steadiness becomes possible.
In this session, you will:
• Distinguish awareness from mental movement
• Understand why identification strengthens restlessness
• Explore the discipline that steadies attention without force
• Enter guided inquiry into the difference between mind and Self
Silence is not the absence of thought.
It is clarity about what you truly are.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
July 25 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
Why Do I Feel Like a Fraud?
Impostor Syndrome and the Swing of the Ego
Most of us carry a quiet fear of being exposed. Praise feels uncomfortable. Success feels temporary. There is a lingering sense of not quite being solid.
In the Vedic worldview, when identity is unclear, the ego moves in two directions. It becomes very big: seeking superiority, recognition, and control. Or it becomes very small, shrinking, doubting, and withdrawing.
Both movements arise from the same confusion.
When we mistake our roles, talents, or achievements for who we are, insecurity is inevitable. No amount of praise can stabilize a mistaken identity. No amount of humility can dissolve it.
This gathering looks directly at the structure of the ego and the deeper Self that does not expand or contract.
In this session, you will:
• Recognize the subtle swing between inflation and self-doubt
• Understand why both superiority and inadequacy arise from the same root
• Distinguish between personality and the deeper Self
• Reflect on a steadiness that does not depend on comparison
You do not have to become bigger.
You do not have to become smaller.
You have to become clear.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
August 22 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
Whose Life Are You Living?
Dharma, Expectation, and the Courage to Stand in Your Own Role
At some point, a person pauses and wonders:
Did I choose this life or did I simply step into what was available, acceptable, or expected?
The career makes sense. The responsibilities are honorable. The path is respectable. And yet, something feels unexamined.
In the Vedic vision, this question is not about reinvention. It is about dharma. When we do not consciously examine what shapes our decisions, we call it duty. When we see clearly, we begin to discern what is truly ours to uphold.
Borrowed ambition can look like success. Inherited expectations can feel like obligation. But dharma is neither imitation nor rebellion. It is the alignment between one’s nature, capacity, and responsibility.
In this session, you will:
• Recognize the difference between expectation and alignment
• Understand how comparison quietly distorts decision-making
• Reflect on where you may be living reactively rather than deliberately
• Explore the steadiness that comes from standing in your own role
Dharma is not about creating a new identity.
It is about living honestly within the one that is yours.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
September 26 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
You Built the Life They Said You Should Want
Now What?
Education. Stability. Success. A good reputation. By many measures, life is working.
And yet there is a quiet restlessness. A sense that something essential has not been addressed. Not failure, but incompleteness.
The Vedic tradition does not dismiss achievement. It asks a deeper question: What have you been aiming at? And were all the aims of life considered?
Human life, in the Vedic vision, is shaped by four pursuits, not only success and pleasure, but also alignment and inner freedom. When one aim dominates ,and the others are neglected, imbalance follows.
This gathering examines what happens when outer accomplishment matures into inner questioning.
In this session, you will:
• Reflect on the difference between success and fulfillment
• Understand how imbalance among life’s aims creates restlessness
• Examine where achievement may have replaced deeper inquiry
• Explore how alignment and freedom can re-enter a well-built life
Completion does not come from adding more.
It comes from reordering what you seek.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
October 24 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
Sacred Boundaries
Durga, Inner Authority, and the Strength That Protects
Many people struggle with boundaries. They say yes when they mean no. They tolerate what diminishes them. They confuse kindness with compliance, and silence with peace.
Yet boundaries are not primarily outer lines drawn against others. They are inner clarity about what is aligned and what is not.
In the Vedic vision, true strength does not arise from ego. It arises from Self-knowledge. Ego strength seeks dominance or approval. Self-rooted strength protects what is sacred without hostility.
Durga is not merely a mythic figure. She represents Shakti — the fierce, discerning intelligence that cuts through confusion and restores order. Her power is not aggression. It is clarity guided by dharma.
When boundaries are unclear, resentment grows quietly. When strength is reactive, it becomes anger. But when Shakti is aligned with the Self, firmness carries compassion. One can say no without hatred. One can stand steady without becoming hard.
This gathering examines boundaries as an expression of inner alignment — not control, not defense, not withdrawal but the power to remain truthful in relationship.
In this session, you will:
• Distinguish ego-based control from Self-rooted strength
• Understand why resentment signals inner boundary confusion
• Explore Durga as the inner force that protects clarity
• Reflect on how to uphold dharma without aggression
Boundaries are not walls.
They are expressions of inner order.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327
November 28 | 8:00–9:00 AM PT
When Control Is Not Enough
Surrender, Devotion, and the Intelligence of Letting Go
There comes a point when effort no longer resolves what we are facing. A relationship cannot be forced. A body does not obey. A future refuses to unfold according to plan.
Many intelligent, disciplined people reach a quiet exhaustion, not because they are weak, but because control has reached its limit.
The Vedic tradition does not respond to this moment with despair. It introduces a different movement: surrender.
Not resignation. Not passivity. But intelligent devotion — the recognition that not everything is governed by personal will.
Through the lens of Bhakti and Karma Yoga, this gathering explores the shift from control to offering. What changes when action is no longer driven by anxiety? What matures when we acknowledge what is not ours to manage?
In this session, you will:
• Understand the difference between surrender and defeat
• Recognize where control masks fear
• Explore devotion as strength rather than dependency
• Reflect on offering action without clinging to outcome
Gratitude does not arise from possession.
It arises from humility before what is given.
The session opens 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Meeting ID: 842 6355 6028
Passcode: 485327