“Acharya Shunya is a powerful, honest, true-to-life teacher. She speaks from the heart, leads by example, and is not afraid to look into her own life to teach through those savory or unsavory examples. These qualities have always been an important aspect in my search for teachers. To be taught by Acharya Shunya ji is to be in the presence of the Sun. Any remorse, guilt, or fear melts away the ice from the mind when listening to her speak and you begin to understand that darkness can not survive the presence of light; unconsciousness can’t survive in the presence of consciousness. She moves you with her ability to expound the scientific and complicated knowledge of the Shastra (ancient textual knowledge) in accessible and modern ways. She also draws deeply from the accumulated knowledge of her own ancestral lineage. The lessons she gives are not based in “maybes”, she works with students from the ground up so that one can use their own discrimination and experience to see that these Shastras ARE true.”