SAT-YUGA SAṂKALPA MAṆḌALA

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with Jeanie Manchester

Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Sat-Yuga Saṃkalpa Maṇḍala is a group practice to consolidate individual benevolent intentions and support the work of the Absolute in moving time from the age of darkness to the age of light; from the Kali-Yuga to the dawning time of the Sat-Yuga.

The Sat-Yuga is the age of light and wisdom described in the Indian Tradition; and like the transition time between night and day, the night is ending but the day has not yet fully breached the horizon. The darkness that is the ending is the Kali-Yuga, the time of ignorance, confusion, and mixed up concepts and perceptions.

A Saṃkalpa is an intention. In this practice, we consolidate our intentions for planetary benevolence. We invite the light, setting an intention of a greater vision for all of humanity, with a sacred personal vow that adds to the success of the whole. We offer to usher in the age of light quickly and fully, so the age of darkness and suffering comes to an end. And the maṇḍala is the cycle of time, as well as our circle— our assemblage around the Jyotir-Liṅga – symbolizing the hub around which our entire reality revolves, as well as Śiva, the Absolute itself. We envision the Jyotir-Liṅga as an infinite pillar of radiant light, in front of us as well as within each us as the central energetic channel.

This symbolic practice has its origins in the mythology of the Purāṇas in which Śiva appears as the liṅga of light to settle the argument between Lord Viṣṇu and Lord Brahmā. Also, in the myth of Kṛṣṇa & the Villagers, devoted villagers gathered long sticks to assist Kṛṣṇa in the work of holding up a mountain (though Kṛṣṇa did not require their support.) They did so from a place of love, compassion, and a deep desire to serve the light that Kṛṣṇa represented for them.

Since the dawning of the light will happen regardless, the question before us is “Shall I participate?” “Shall I assist in the benevolent process of bringing light into an age of darkness so that its inevitable arrival is hastened and supported by me and so many others?”

Everywhere on the planet, where devoted ones offer their benevolence, whether in the form of this practice or another, there is a concentration of light created that serves to uplift and support a more auspicious Reality.