Awakened Heart with Satyaa & Pari

How can it be that couples who have been together for years or even decades are very familiar with each other's habits and preferences, yet still don't know each other in a positive sense? They meet in each other in a way where every moment is new and fresh, as if they see each other for the first time. In this episode, Satyaa & Pari explain what is meant by the statement “You never know your partner” and also share openly and warmly what they appreciate about each other.

In this episode, Satyaa talks about the time after Papaji left his body and how a group from the community went to Thiruvannamalai. Intuitively, she knew that with the grace of Mount Arunchala, she felt she no longer needed to seek, and that a new phase of her life was beginning. For her, it was clear that seeking truth was not a lifestyle, but rather complete surrender. This is a loving insight into Satyaa's personal journey of searching for truth.

How much do we project onto a master, and how much should we devote ourselves to what we are seeking? What happens when we allow ourselves to be guided without becoming dependent? And how does the ego become humble, so that we think we are doing everything and following no one, and at the same time we do everything our master asks of us because we feel so much trust and love? This is a beautiful episode about the relationship between a master and the disciple, about love, devotion and trust, realising that in the end everything is one.

Today, there is a wide variety of different types of yoga, and in this episode, Satyaa talks about how she came to Kundalini Yoga, which dates back to Yogi Bhajan and has its roots in the Sikh tradition. This form of yoga has a very dynamic and energetic character, but she also addresses what yoga is really about, using Anandamaya Ma as an example, who practiced yoga intuitively without ever having learned it.

In this episode, Satyaa and Pari share the deeper meaning of their names and also give personal insights into when they received them and what impact that had. In a loving way, they also show the connection that is created through receive a name with the respective lineage and how a spiritual name can help us to go beyond such a name.

Music is a powerful healing tool and Satyaa & Pari just share who they are trough music. In this episode, Satyaa gives us some insights while she sings. For her, singing is also something very personal, but she trusts that everyone who feels touched by it shares the devotion to the divine. We also get to hear a great preview of a new song: Satyam Gnayam Anatam Brahman.

The first time when Satyaa went to Puna, there was a trance dance, and she was in complete bliss for weeks. She was dancing things which she has never danced before and from her point of view, everybody has the same ability to dance like this. But we have grown up with the concept of right and wrong with the result to hesitate to express ourselves completely. In this episode Satyaa sheds light on how to overcome such a hesitation without forcing anything. Everybody has its own unique path to walk and when this loves comes to us, it is a gift.

Are we ready to let go of all our concepts and practices that we believe we need to have to reach our goal? When we look at Satsang and singing Mantras, is there really a distinction? Although Satsang is musicless and music is Satsangless, they are actually the same. In this episode Satyaa and Pari share how everything has started. They had a sincere and deep desire to share their devotion for love and truth. Nevertheless, Pari initially resisted providing Satsangs. Find out why he avoided it.

Meeting this mountain of presence, of love, of conscious being was overwhelming for Pari when he met Papaji the first time. Instinctively he knew that he will not survive this. In this episode, Satyaa and Pari take us to Lucknow and share their first time with Papaji, who lived freedom and love in the day-to-day life and that was just one gift of this beautiful being.

The younger generation in particular is confronted with a flood of information and new technologies that have an impact on how we interact with others, but also with ourselves. What could we say to a 14-year-old girl to encourage her to be herself? Satyaa has a very powerful message to share and shows us how to make peace with our own imperfections.

Mantras have the power to make our mind quiet. For example Mantras from the Kundalini tradition have a certain depth and are connected to some Masters, but there is no recipe because everyone has to make their own experiences. In this episode Satyaa shares about her intention to sing Mantras and why she loves to express her love and devotion in the form of music.

Spirituality can be seen as something very intimate and yet it may has happened to one or the other to want to convince others because we believe that it would be best for others too. How do we integrate the diamonds of love and truth, especially when we meet people who have different views? Papaji once said 'Don't share diamonds with pigs', but what does it actually mean? We are all free and living Buddha's, but who are we to convince others to see that? We are not the Lord of time to decide when someone has to be open for these diamonds. In this episode, Satyaa and Pari share how they live and share these diamonds with others without missionizing.

Assuming we are with someone, are we still alone? In this episode, we shed light on the commitment to love and truth that Satyaa and Pari make to each other every day. This is beyond the ordinary commitment being in a relationship as it is the love for the third partner that brought them together. It is an invitation to enhance each other to devote our loving attention to what always is, and they also reveal the secret of how to be together in a fulfilling way.

When Satyaa was in Pune she danced a lot, but also Papaji loved to see her dancing. Once he told her ‘Only the one can dance who has no fear’. It was and still is a beautiful way to express all the emotions, which arise and to see how fast an emotion can change if we do not reject them. In this episode we explore the power of dancing, but also what Satyaa would do in case she would have the chance to meet Papaji again in person.

For many spiritual seekers it is essential at one point to meet a master. But how to find one? Often it is not obvious or immediately visible, and yet life gives us unmistakable signs, as it did for Satyaa when she heard about Papaji from three different sources in one day. In this episode, Satyaa and Pari share how Papaji entered their lives and how it was, without any doubt, clear from the beginning that this man knows.

At the beginning it could be possible not to see the luck when we have the chance to be with a master. In addition to the loving care of a master, meeting someone like this could also be direct and confrontational, which serves to let go of one's own concepts and ideas of how something should be. Also, Pari felt at the time when he stayed with Papaji immediately the sweet connectedness with him till the point where Pari realized that also this connectedness is a source of pain. Recognizing these self-made concepts and ideas is perhaps even one of the greatest blessings we can receive from meeting masters, because we already are.

In this episode, Satyaa and Pari give some insights into the time spent with Papaji as their beloved master, living in his grace and walking the path of the pathless to this today. The beauty of being with a being like Papaji is that everyone gets exactly what they need according to their own development. Although it was probably easy to overlook his enlightenment because of his ordinary way of life, every glance, every step, every moment was a teaching. The paradox of it that there was no teaching and Papaji destroyed the concept of a master being someone special or separate from us.

This episode with Satyaa is a dedication to trust the moment and follow our intuition. We are living indeed in a time that is more uncertain what we have been used to be. At the same time this is also a good opportunity to stay in the here and now. Satyaa beautifully highlights the importance to learn to listen what comes and to trust that. Especially when our mind creates some worries or when we are going through so-called difficult times, some new development can unfold if we allow life to become more in a flow.

In recent years, true hotspots like those in Costa Rica or Portugal have emerged all over the world, visited by seekers of all walks of life with the aim to finally 'arrive'. Arillas, a small Greek village on Corfu, has also become part of this development. But what is behind this phenomenon that spiritual seekers feel magically attracted to such places, often without knowing exactly why?

Times have always been exciting, and now we are experiencing an intense time due to technological developments that makes many things possible, but also leads to a lot of loneliness. Being with like-minded people can provide a great support for each of us allowing the manifestation of happiness also on social level. In this episode, we hear why it is so important right now to cultivate these connections and communities, because one thing is clear: one race, one humanity, one consciousness is not a pipe dream to be achieved, but a fact that needs to get realized.

In this episode, we shed light on the difference between taking and receiving. In a culture of consumers, we are used to getting things to fill our bags. This may be a good starting point at the beginning when we search for happiness, but finally we have to discover that we, as the Self, are the source of happiness and that nothing was ever missing. This enables us to see that the receiver and the giver are expressions of the same source of oneness.

For more than 20 years, Satyaa and Pari have been opening their doors in Corfu to share their dedication for truth and love. The original idea was to offer a combination of singing and Satsang outside of the context of a normal seminar house. It all started with a seminar called 'Garden of Peace'. This episode unfolds why Satyaa and Pari encourage participants not to follow them, but to discover their own source of Trust, and what “Hearts on Fire” is really about.

The sweet love affair with Papaji was and still is characterized by a deep connection that cannot be put into words and at the same time it is not just connection because connection is based on separation. Ordinary love affairs usually have a beginning and an end and need some personal involvement, but in this highest love affair possible all things disappear. It is like a duett of one. It starts with ‘me’ and ‘that’ and ends melting into One.

There are habits in everyday life that can nourish or diminish the quality of the relationship in a partnership. In this episode, Satyaa and Pari share how they nurture their love for each other. Especially when working together, it is crucial that not every professional matter ends up on the kitchen table. And believe it or not, but Pari never had a single day off from ‘work’ before he met Satyaa. He has learnt to appreciate quality time all the more. Here you can hear what habits the two of them have without making a concept out of it.

In this episode Satyaa and Pari share how relationships have to be understood in the light of our abilities to have a good time with ourselves first. This creates a deep commitment first to one self, which enables us having this commitment to others. Because most of our human problems are so called relationship problems, but being alone does not mean we would have a better time and being with someone will also not guarantee to have a better time. Both concepts are applied in a wrong way. They unfold a way finding the proper balance between personal freedom versus commitment in a relationship by pointing out the freedom from our own personal preferences and expectations.

Satyaa & Pari provide in this episode some insights how to deal with possible fear of loss, which can arise in an relationship. With their experience they also share the difference between a holy and a human relationship. Because the other is never the reason for ones own happiness or unhappiness. There are some simple aspects, which Satyaa & Pari integrate as a couple in order to give, to listen and to nourish their time together. You can discover which aspects these are here.

In this episode Satyaa talks about womanhood because she misses a conversation about it in our society as no one really prepares us to be a mother, for the menopause or for the menstruation. Looking back she realized how the channel opened for all the music and creativtiy through the birth of her daughter Mira, which she was not expected before. Currently her body is going through menopause and she share how she is accepting the change of her body. At the end, she reveals which message she has to all women out there.

What is it that holds partnerships together? What is the common cause that carries a relationship through the rollercoaster of ups and downs? How do we deal with it when only one partner is interested in personal development and spiritual growth? These questions are examined in this episode. It is dignity, which is a sense of value for oneself, to serve the welfare of a relationship. And especially if we do not betray this love affair with ourselves, we are protected and not devastated when a relationship doesn't go well or even breaks up.

Satyaa gives insights into how a mantra comes to her that wants to be expressed through music and how this process takes place when the mind surrenders to a mantra. Through her devotion to Papaji, she has experienced this quality of Krishna that still surrounds her today.

In this episode, Satyaa shares with us her personal journey of how she got in touch with mantras and why there is this phenomenon of not being able to stop repeating such mantras. And beware - there are also surprising side effects of mantra chanting, which Satyaa reveals at the end.

In this episode Satyaa & Pari share their open little secret how it happened that they are already 30 years together. Apart from the fact that they were both seekers of truth, they also had their share of disillusionments and disappointments, but Satyaa & Pari were prepared not to expect everything from each other. Letting go of one’s own expectations and having this readiness to love out of fulfillment, which is the primordinal committment. It is this own love affair with oneself and above all a little pinch of magic, because not everything is in their hands. You can listen to more about the foundation of a healthy relationship here.

In the early Nineties Pari was in a devastated and disappointed state as far as relationships were concerned as he was facing many problems around the issues of loyalty and real commitment. And Satyaa went at that time through a kind of personal doubting period and was busy with this. Both were in Lucknow at that time spending time with their beloved Guru Papaji. Both, each in their own way, first prepared themselves internally for their paths to cross. For Pari, it was the decision that if he was to be with a woman again, then only with someone whose love is dedicated to truth first. And it was clear to Satyaa that she no longer wanted to suffer from relationships and wanted things to happen out of love in their natural way. Although Satyaa hardly gave him any attention at the beginning and it also took some time for them to get closer, Pari, who was Papaji's cameraman at that time, happened to always have Satyaa in his sights too. Papaji also played an important role and you can hear more how he looked after them in this episode.

After Osho passed away, her search for truth was not yet complete. Satyaa heard about Papaji and she went to Lucknow. She honestly asked herself, "Am I really happy in my life?" and she couldn't quite answer it in an affirmative way and Satyaa felt that Papaji could help her. The external conditions in Lucknow were harsh, sometimes around 46 degrees Celsius, but so were the internal conditions as Satyaa was confronted with many concepts that she was carrying along with her. When you are with an enlightened person, there is no way to escape yourself. Satyaa's path to Papaji was through music and dance, and that expression was the sweet love affair with him that she shares in this episode.