Lectures

Sitaram Dass shares how to love imperfections without having to “jump through cognitive hoops” to do so. Recorded from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat on Salt Spring Island, these three video and audio recordings involve lectures and a Loving-Awareness mantra meditation.

In this third Q&A from the 2024 Sacred Community Retreat, Sitaram Dass leads a discussion on transitioning from a spiritual retreat into our everyday lives and ends by answering an audience question on the nature of grief.

In this audio recording of an event held shortly after the recent election, Sitaram Dass invokes the central scene of the Bhagavad Gita as a meditation on collective grief to inspire deep feeling, compassion, and right action for this time. He breaks up the discourse with 6-minutes of chanting that features: Jeanette Kangas (tabla) Clark…
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A talk on the path of Bhakti Yoga with Q&A at the end. There were some great questions from the group at Center for Sacred Sciences.

This video and audio was recorded during SCP’s first Sacred Community Retreat in the summer of 2023 on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. In this talk, Sitaram Dass recites a variation of the SCP invocation that opens each SCP “Satsang Hang,” and he discusses the importance of the invocation and how Sacred Community is…
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  In this live meditation recording, Sitaram Dass uses the mantra, SitaRam, as an anchor to bring our devotional heart into the presence of grief. In this way, we are reminded that our hearts are capable of holding the entire human experience. More meditations and workshop recordings are available on the SCP website here: https://sacredcommunityproject.org/education…
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A clip from the live stream lecture series that became the audiobook, Exploring the Hanuman Chalisa, now available as a digital download through the Sacred Community Project here: https://sacredcommunityproject.org/exploring-the-hanuman-chalisa I am in the process of adding a bunch of new content to the Youtube Channel. Subscribe Here Related Posts: Exploring the Hanuman Chalisa From and…
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The Sacred Community Presents: Exploring the Hanuman Chalisa This audio was recorded from over nine different livestreams throughout 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In these lectures, Sitaram Dass explores each line of the Hanuman Chalisa, using sacred scripture, humor, modern psychology, and stories from his time serving his beloved teacher, Ram Dass. In this way,…
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This video and transcript is from the event, Remembering Ram Dass, put on by the Emerge in association with Sacred Community Project. Emerge is an international service organization based in India that is deeply rooted and inspired by the teachings of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba. Sacred Community Project is a service and media…
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I was invited on behalf of Kripa to speak on the path of service and love for the Pandemos International Youth Conference. It was a true honor to be a part of it, and it is my true hope that my words were of benefit to the youth. I know that even just the thought…
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