Inner Non-Violent Revolution:
A Free Online Course
on Self-Awareness
–Sahajananda
Join Hridaya’s founder on a journey to discovering who you really are. Over a series of ten talks (satsangs), Sahaja offers wisdom, insights, and practical exercises to guide you in connecting with and living from the Heart.
The word satsang comes from the Sanskrit words sat (“truth”) and sangha (“association”) and refers to “associating with truth,” or “being in the company of the wise.” By being in Sahaja’s company via watching this series of videos, you will be receiving the teachings directly from him, which may help you understand them on a deeper level.
Notes from the satsangs are available below and all of the videos are here.
Satsang Notes
Satsang 1: Solitude, Aloneness, Confusion, Time, Conscious Shocks, and Trust
“Don’t go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don’t bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has
Satsang 2: Being Values, Cultivating Fearlessness, and Increasing Awareness
“Plant So that your own heart Will grow. […] Sing Because this is a food Our starving world Needs. Laugh Because that is
Satsang 3: Self-Awareness and the Undivided Space of the Soul
“Any movement or sound is a profession of faith, as the millstone grinding is explaining how it believes in the river! No metaphor can say
Satsang 4: How Self-Observation Leads to Self-Awareness
“If you want great wealth, and that which lasts forever, wake up! If you want to shine with the love of the Beloved, wake up!
Satsang 5: General Guidelines for Practicing Self-Awareness
“The effect and the purpose of Self-awareness is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
Satsang 6: Psychological Flexibility and Spiritual Centeredness
“There is nothing critical, there is nothing urgent, except Self-awareness.” –Sahajananda
Satsang 7: Spiritual Insight Is More Than Philosophy
“Enjoy your problems.” –Shunryu Suzuki
Satsang 8: Self-Doubt, the Comfort Zone, and Petty Tyrants
“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.” –Buddha
Satsang 9: A Further Exploration of the Art of Self-Awareness
“How wonderful, how marvelous, how perfect, how complete. Everything in existence is just like this.” –Buddha
Satsang 10: The Heart as the Cosmos and What Is Your Idea?
“The tendency towards the Absolute is difficult to realize in a heterogeneous soul—a soul lacking a center… Such a soul is a ‘house divided against
