Sovereign Self

Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom with the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita

De: Acharya Shunya

Narrado por: Acharya Shunya

Unshackle your mind and claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of ancient yoga.

There’s a reason that the Vedas, a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses from ancient India, have given rise to several world religions and influenced Western thinkers from Emerson to Ram Dass: they provide us with an accessible and effective path to liberation. With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to the wisdom of these classic texts so that each of us may emancipate ourselves from restrictive belief systems and discover our true nature—that which is always whole, joyful, and free.

As the first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line, Shunya provides a rare opportunity to receive these authentic teachings from a genuine Vedic master—one with a distinctly down-to-earth, feminine flavor who never lets us forget that our humanity is to be embodied and enjoyed.

Throughout Sovereign Self, Shunya adeptly guides us through the core concepts and practices of the Vedas, demystifying and contextualizing sacred concepts for modern life. Here you’ll explore:

• Beginning the journey to radical self-acceptance—recognize your innate worth and wholeness• How we create our own prisons of shame, compulsion, blame, and obsession—and how you can begin to break free

• Learning to embody personal autonomy in your life and relationships• Clear advice from a Vedic master for avoiding countless obstacles on the path to liberation—from spiritual bypassing to the true meaning of “guru”

• Original meditations and contemplative practices taken directly from Shunya’s 2,000-year-old lineage• How to wake up from being a “sleepwalker” and find authentic freedom

• Audiobook Exclusive: The Atmabodha Dhyanam meditation—a 28-minute guided session

Read by the author, this more-than-unabridged audiobook is filled with extemporaneous moments of insight and illumination from Shunya. Here is an essential guide to help you awaken your potential to be joyful, resourceful, abundant, limitlessly expansive, and sovereign.

©2020 Acharya Shunya (P)2023 Sounds True

Reseñas de la Crítica

“With warmth, clarity, wisdom, engaging boldness, and unswerving dedication, Acharya Shunya guides the reader through the mind’s maze of maya-illusion straight to the liberating goal of Self-knowledge. This book is soul medicine—read it carefully, study it deeply, apply the practices, and discover its life-transforming promise for yourself. It is a modern treasure trove of Vedic wisdom so necessary and relevant for our times.” —Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment and author of The Jewel of Abundance

“Sovereign Self is a beautifully written and masterful guidebook that eloquently shows us how to recognize and embody our essential wholeness amidst our everyday life. Profound and practical, this seminal work reveals in-depth yogic wisdom teachings and practices we can easily engage to attain our full potential as authentic human beings. Acharya Shunya articulately and persuasively elucidates the timeless teachings that enable us to achieve the fullness of our human capacity. A must-read!” —Richard Miller, PhD, author of iRest Meditation, Yoga Nidra, and The iRest Program for Healing PTSD

“The essence of yoga is Self-knowledge, the realization of our true nature as pure consciousness. Acharya Shunya has shared that core Vedic teaching in a clear and understandable presentation that is accessible to all, reminding us of our real identity, eternal purpose, and the ultimate source of our healing: happiness and harmony.” —David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), DLitt, Padma Bhushan recipient, author of The Yoga of Consciousness, and director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies

Masterful Vedic Transmission

This book is a profoundly powerful transmission of authentic Vedic teaching from a true master Acharya Shunya. I had the great gift of an opportunity to experience Acharya in person at a recent love. Serve remember retreat, and was absolutely moved in the deepest way by her sincerity, compassion, integrity, and down to earth approachability.

Whether novice or adept in the Vedic path, These ancient and timeless teachings are brought forward with with pristine clarity and practical gold on every page. The progression of one’s own ego purification process is exceedingly detailed with practical steps to guide one through the rigorous trials of emotional and mental regulation with a rich bounty of contemplative, insights to work with every day. I also found it to be exceedingly comforting to listen to the transmission in Shunya’‘s own voice, which holds a subtle but potent frequency of genuine care and authentic wisdom. For one who is resolved to awaken into the essential truth of your nature, this is an instrumental and complete text and teaching that can support that evolution of personal growth in a deeply virtuous and sustainable way. I am so grateful to have found this teacher and her works and will continue to be devoted to learning from her wisdom for many years to come.

Lovely, helpful

This is an extremely approachable and expansive intro to the vedas. Also her voice is lovely, easy listening for sure~