What Are Angels a Manifestation Of?

What is the true spiritual meaning of Halloween? In this classic teaching recorded in 2018, Shunyamurti explores the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain as a symbolic passage through darkness and death into divine rebirth. Drawing on the Tree of Life, heroic myths, and the spiritual significance of sacrifice, he explains why the ego is the ultimate obstacle to humanity's return to divine consciousness, and why every new Golden Age must begin with the death of the old.

Note: Shunyamurti did not complete his explanation of why the Gaelic holiday pronounced Sahwen is spelled Samhain. The original settlers were Aryan speakers of early Sanskrit, and the holy day was a coming together of the living and the spirits of their dead ancestors, who were the gods of earlier yugas. The idea of coming together was expressed as a sangham, which could also be written as samhan. Thus, the Sanskrit root was preserved, though the spoken language evolved.

In this satsang, Shunyamurti exposes atheism not merely as disbelief in God but as disbelief in one’s own true Self. The soul’s suffering begins when consciousness becomes trapped in the ego’s narratives of lack, fear, abandonment, and separation. Cut off from divine love, the heart closes, the mind becomes restless, and life turns into an endless search for fulfillment in things that can never satisfy. Drawing on the symbolism of the sacred cow, the power of Shakti, and the highest teachings of nonduality, Shunyamurti explains how grace gradually dissolves the false self and restores the soul to its natural state of peace and wholeness. Through three approaches—the Hard Style of willpower, the Soft Style of surrender, and the Supreme Style of recognizing that all is God—he shows that liberation comes not from improving the ego but from awakening to the changeless presence of the Self.

We celebrate Easter from the perspective of the sages of the docetic version of Christianity. This leads to the recognition that the whole world is a holographic projection—none of us is really here. The Self transmits the holographic image of a body; and consciousness mistakenly identifies with that form, rather than with the Light and Intelligence projecting all forms in a motion picture epic of Divine Authorship. That epic is rendered into animation by the Goddess and destined to reach its climax with Revelation, Rapture, and Redemption.

This sacred story of giving birth to God can be understood on many levels. The most important for yogis is the level of nonduality, in which the nativity of the God-Self is understood as your own story of realization of your essential nature. This is accomplished through the symbolic replication of the acts of your purified soul, represented by the Virgin Mother (Shakti) bringing to life through divine love the Advent of the uncreated Supreme Self (as Presence in immediacy), and the ecstatic recognition of the Infinite Light pervading the entire cosmos and appearing as the Self of every being. May the grace that grants you the strength to surrender your will to God bring instant rapture and redemption.

"In this second reading from A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days, Shunyamurti unveils why the modern seeker must pass through Dante’s threshold: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” But hopelessness, as the new Gita reveals, is not despair; it is the moment when the ego finally understands it has no way out . . . and the Self takes over.

Shunyamurti’s latest book, A Bhagavad Gita for the Final Days, is now available on Amazon and the Sat Yoga store. Download a free sample of the book here."