Igor Kufayev

Join us for the first interactive, FREE LIVE BROADCAST with Advaita Tantra teacher and meditation master Igor Kufayev on YouTube to shed light on the complete arc of awakening, introducing Igor's newly released book—Kundalini: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism.

This gathering also offers the precious opportunity for joint reflection on your own unfoldment, as Igor will respond to your immediate, most intimate questions in the live chat.

For all who already sense the liberating shift that comes from deep understanding rooted in time-tested, sacredly safeguarded wisdom—lived fully within householder life—this event is not to be missed.

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1 day ago | [YT] | 52

Igor Kufayev

IN HONOUR OF HIS HOLINESS MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI‘S MAHASAMADHI TODAY

Avidyayā mṛityuṁ tīrtvā vidyayā amṛitam aśhnute

Through Avidyā, ignorance, you cross beyond mortality, beyond death, beyond change; through Vidyā, knowledge, you taste immortality.

Īshā Upanishad 11

The Self is always the Self; it is never non-Self; but somehow it became identified with the body and with the whole objective field of life. So the ‘I’ got mixed up with ‘mine’; and when the ‘I’ awakens fully to its own original identity, then is the taste of immortality.

The practice is just for this—to awaken to one’s own immortal reality. And practice means we go beyond that which we have been identified all the time—we transcend that, and transcend, and transcend, and transcend.... With time the taste of transcendental consciousness begins to be a little more lasting, more lasting, more lasting, and gradually the long identification with the boundaries of the body and the surroundings begins to dissolve. Those impressions begin to melt.

So this practice, or Sādhanā, is just for the sake of transcending change. Through change you transcend change. That is why it says, through ignorance you cross beyond the field of change—through ignorance. Because enlightenment is the reality; ignorance is a mirage. You have the glasses on the eyes, but you are searching—where are the glasses? You are the Self, but you are searching—where is the Self, where is the Self? So the whole search is a kind of fraud, which is just Avidyā. The reality is eternity, immortality; so you taste immortality by virtue of being immortality. But to be immortal, you have first to cross beyond the boundaries of change. Through change you transcend change; through knowledge, that awakening, you taste immortality.

– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Dec 6, 1964, History of Thirty Years around the World, p.574.
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6 days ago | [YT] | 87

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It is here.
The reclamation of the real Śakti behind awakening.

Igor Kufayev's second book, KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism, is being received into the first hands, and within its pages lies an evolutionary response to speak with all its weight and beauty to the most sacred, most misunderstood, and yet most intimate process there ever was, is, and will be.

A guiding presence in its own right, it offers a reorientation of how we understand consciousness, spiritual evolution, and the purpose of embodiment, particularly in times of deepening division.

May it open, at the threshold of time, space, and breath for all who enter its transmission. For those who have long sensed that spiritual transformation is not only destination but a returning devotion.

Visit songpublishing.org/kundalini to order your copy today.
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1 week ago | [YT] | 155

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Experience Portugal's fresh April bloom—five residential days at Quinta da Enxara in Mafra—the early Bird offer is now open until January 31st.

Within this sacred container—offering twice-daily Tantric meditations, discourses, and intimate Q&As—we don't so much manufacture an experience as enter a field already at work: Śakti as the organising power of creative intelligence.

In Trika terms, it is the possibility of pratyabhijñā (recognition)—consciousness disclosing itself as consciousness—catalysed through sustained practice, direct guidance from an adept, and the amplifying coherence of the group field.
 
In that shared resonance, the immersion becomes a living mandala: a relational geometry of reflection and attunement that can evoke what rarely happens in isolation. Not forced or predicted, as when any worthwhile moment truly arrives: it comes in its own time, and yet when it comes, it changes the inner climate all at once.

If you're someone who is already sensing a 'stir of readiness' underneath the dormant soil—following online, sensing the call, but not quite stepping in—this is a very supportive format to begin.

And if you've been with us before, you'll recognise the quiet beauty of letting the teachings of Advaita Tantra meet you again, mirrored through the surroundings of an enchanting new venue, where the wind on Portuguese land already hums its songs of remembrance.
 
Catch the Early Bird now!

INFO & BOOKING: shop.igorkufayev.org/product/immersion-portugal-20…
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MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI ON THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP

“...The truth is lost more and more with this increase of gap (between teacher and student). This is inevitable. And this is how the truth gets lost. There is no way to prevent it. It is nature. Just because the difference in the level of consciousness. The teacher and the student. And the student rises and rises.

It is the efficiency of the teacher that he is able to raise the student, fine. But if in some generation it can’t come up to that, maybe one step and the body of the teacher falls, something happens, then this much is the gap between the absolute truth and between the understood reality. And this is the misery of wisdom, the tragedy of knowledge. And this is something very, very inevitable. Now you see how the wisdom gets lost: because of the gap between the teacher and the taught, teacher and the student. That is why in order to raise the level of the student to the level of the teacher as soon as possible, the requirement is love and reverence accompanied with the sense of service.

These are the three requirements for the student in order to get to the reality–love for the teacher, reverence for the teacher and service to the teacher. These are the three things. This minimizes the resistance that might be to the flow of knowledge– the resistance. If the teacher says this, this, this–love and reverence. Now, the student has all right to question and question and question– innumerable questions he can put. All doubts he could put. Putting the doubts to the teacher is no disrespect. If one doesn’t understand one asks and asks and asks. That is absolutely no disrespect to the teacher.

In all reverence, love and sense of service the channel of the heart and mind of the student starts flowing towards the teacher. And then action and reaction are equal. When the heart and mind of the teacher starts to flow for the student and then both start to be more and more harmonious, the flow of wisdom is more complete every day and more complete and more complete.

And soon the student comes to the level of the teacher. And when he has come to the level of the teacher, then he is a teacher.
One doesn't have to remain a student all the time. Rising to the level of the teacher and that's it.

There is a proverb in India which says 'the teacher is inert if he fails to bring enlightenment to his student. The fault is not in the student.
The lack is on the part of the teacher. It is said he is inert, he is no good, lifeless, if he has not been able to raise the student to his level. This tragedy of knowledge is there wherever there is imparting of knowledge. This difference in the level of consciousness is just there. And to minimize the gap, just these three things: service to the teacher, reverence and love..!”

– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi –

Photo: Jerry Jarvis opening the door of the car for His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“Life is the light of God, the expression of Divinity. It is divine.
It is the stream of eternal Being, a flow of existence, of intelligence, of creativity, of purity, and of bliss.
Life is unity. On the basis of absolute and eternal life, on the surface of eternity, we are mortal beings of ever-changing phenomenal existence.
Life is unity in God consciousness. It is multiplicity in the light of God. Life is absolute in bliss consciousness and relative in the variety of phenomenal joy.
Essentially life is Being. Life, in its essential nature, is the unbounded eternal ocean of Being.”

– His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Today, on January 12th, the day of his Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Jayanti, the day of birth —we are ever-grateful for the purest of threads that weaves beyond any birth and death—in the name of the eternal, from heart to heart, between Teacher and student. We honour and pay our deepest respects to the ever-loving presence and light of his Being, which continues to illumine and shape a path of harmony, peace and bliss.   

Bowing to the illumined Master, 
In service of Light. 

Jai Guru Dev
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4 weeks ago | [YT] | 77

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For many years, we have grappled with the paradoxical difficulty of putting into words the immensity of this work and how it impresses itself upon anyone who has experienced it firsthand, or even sensed it through proximity and the undeniable transformation it brings.

In the wake of this day, January 5th, 2026—the 60th birthday of our dear Teacher—we are delighted to offer a hymn of entrance into the heart of the teaching and the governing Power behind this work.

We welcome you to explore exclusive passages from Igor Vamadeva Kufayev's newly published book KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Trika Saivism.

These intimate reflections come as close as language can manage to convey the essence of it all.

An Ode to Life itself…
A Song of a New Goddess.

Read the full Journal at www.igorkufayev.org/song-of-a-new-goddess, and, if you feel called, we would love to hear your own reflections—so that this living space may continue to resonate and reach into the corners and expanses where it is most needed.

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“Beneath the centuries of enquiry and renunciation, beneath the effort to settle what trembles at the root of perception, a current persists in which speech does not chase meaning but moves within its wake. It cannot be recovered by discipline; it enters when holding releases. Older than thought, older even than prayer, it stirs as syllable meeting silence with the delicacy of flame taken to wick. In that flicker, before there is light, there is presence—the quiver of the Goddess, resting in her own resonance, allowing the scene to dissolve even as she inclines toward utterance again.”

– Igor Kufayev, from the book “KUṆḌALINĪ: The Goddess as the Power of Self-Recognition in Tantric Śaivism”

Today, on January 5th, 2026, we light our candles in honour of our beloved teacher on his 60th birthday. With a love continuously woven in the silent pulse from heart to heart—unstruck yet ever-resounding—we offer our deepest gratitude for the grace that overflows, without effort, without asking.

In Vedic tradition, the sixtieth year is marked as Shastipurti: the completion of a full cycle of time, a return to the beginning with the wisdom of having traversed the whole, a sacred threshold toward alignment with dharma, away from worldly pursuit.

And yet the life of Igor Vamadeva Kufayev speaks of something more complete, of a presence that already seeps through all facets of life, where linearity begins to bend—revealing beginning and ending as a single, unbroken gesture of grace.

We wish this day to be filled with beauty and love, together with his family and all who hold him close.

If you feel called to share in this day’s resonance, we warmly invite you to partake—through words or silence—allowing the celebratory field to widen, travel far, and return to the source from which it arose.
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1 month ago | [YT] | 82

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As the wheel of the year turns once more, may we embrace the many shades of becoming, while resting in the quiet remembrance of That which pulses beyond all beginnings and endings.

Whether this threshold meets you in shared celebration or in the season’s inward hush, we express deep gratitude for walking together through 2025—for your dedicated presence and every sincere intention through which this work is enlivened. 

It is only through this mutual attunement that a field of Pure Potential is continually woven, expressing through many forms, yet breathing as one.

May our paths cross again—or meet anew—in 2026, guided by courage, reverence, and compassion, as we follow the quiet song vibrating in the depths of the heart.

In this joint spirit, may the following reflections by Igor serve as a guiding light in encountering whatever is yet to come:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_-F7...

In loving service,

Team Flowing Wakefulness
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1 month ago | [YT] | 58

Igor Kufayev

WHAT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST REPRESENTS

“...What interests us perhaps here is that hidden dimension that becomes apparent from here, from the existential point of view, of what this phase is set to signify in our spiritual journey; and that what Christmas here to convey is very much linked to the very process of transition—transitioning from something which outlived itself towards something which is literally being born. If we are to stick with this [Gregorian] calendar, then the baby Christ is now lying in the barn, one day old. And we are awaiting for all the magic encounters, beginning with the adoration of the shepherds, only to progress to the adoration of the magi or the visitation of the three kings...
And that baby Jesus here is not so-and-so born in Bethlehem some time ago; but it is that continuity of the way Consciousness will have it. So in other words, the Christmas, in a way, robs us of that understanding because it conceals the otherwise continuity of the experience of the renewal, making it into a once a year event. Because the true understanding, the mystical, the hidden understanding of the birthing of Christ is that it is not fixed to a point in time…

But if we are truly to understand what the birth of Christ represents here, it represents literally that which happens at every instant, not just every day. We could say that it happens every day, but it happens at every instant. It is—it has to. It has to happen at every instant, otherwise there will be no continuity of experience. So the baby Jesus here represents literally that continuity of the interconnectedness of all life exemplified in that crossing of materia prima and spiritus. It is that mystery, the Christian mysteries, where the vertical and the horizontal dimensions meet. When they are literally interlocked to create that what we call our reality—whatever that reality is. Whether that reality is lived, fully being aware of its dimensionalities; or whether it is being only lived at one of its dimensions, at one of its peripheries—it doesn’t matter…

So if you will, that night of the Bethlehem is the perpetually happening. It happens at all times, everywhere, all the time. That rebirthing happens at all times. So we die and being reborn at all times. It’s a perpetual process, and this is what marks the free being. The realized being essentially realized that’s what it is, and nothing else. Continuously dying to something, and continuously being reborn. The attachment to this form is only of superficial value. One can have this haircut or that haircut, this body, nice 18-year-old or 80-year-old if that many years are given.

It makes no difference whatsoever because there is this inner direct realization born out of the cognition that there is nothing other than continuous birth and continuous death—nothing other than this rebirthing that takes place. And that is what we set to celebrate around this time, the time of the birth of Christ, the so-called Christmas—that’s what it’s set to convey. So we can bring that reminder, that check, that checkup, that needed adjustment—that’s what it is. The sudden reminder of the utter immortality, the utter immortality of my own Self. And this is what we are set to contemplate here...”

– Igor Kufayev – excerpt from Online Darshan, Mallorca, Spain, December 2015.
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