Sacinandana Swami

For over 40 years, Sacinandana Swami has cultivated his love and devotion to God and has worked toward guiding others to achieve the same as well. As a practicing monk within the bhakti yogic path, Sacinandana Swami travels the world to provide guidance in the form of lectures, public speaking events, and meditation retreats for individuals who are seeking to cultivate their own spirituality as well. As he began exploring the path that he is now on, Sacinandana Swami faced many challenges.

Coming from an affluent and very cosmopolitan German family, Sacinandana Swami found it most difficult to first unburden himself from the material world he grew up within. But his desire to begin leading a life free of the material world and to fully answer his spiritual calling led Sacinandana Swami to seek out formal training and so he began living in an ashram in Hamburg, Germany. As he overcame these challenges and began to learn who he was as a spiritual being, his spiritual master once told him, “You are a teacher – a teacher like me. But for now you first need to become a good student.” Since then, Sacinandana Swami has become a teacher to many as well as an accomplished writer and spiritual music guide. He uses these mediums to continue spreading messages that can help guide others and instruct them in ways to cultivate that higher connection.

One of the many areas that Sacinandana Swami is considered a leading guide in is called Sacred Space. Sacred Space goes by many names and it is a concept found within different spiritual traditions. It has been written about as far back as the sacred Vedas but likely dates back well before that as well.

Above all, Sacred Space is an area found within ourselves where we are free and unburdened of distracting desires, ideas and fears. Within the Upanishads it is written that hidden within this Space is our true Self and within this Space we become capable of distinguishing our true desires from false, selfish desires. In this Space, the connection to our true desires are found and they lie close within the Divine. Ancient Indian texts liken this Sacred Space as an area within a city that stands out the most yet we do not enter it as we continuously walk past it. In our bodies, it strongly resembles our heart. Not the organ itself, but a more transcendental heart with several rooms that we must travel before entering this Space.

Entering this Space can be accomplished in several ways, Sacinandana Swami provides guidance into entering this space through meditation, kirtan and other processes of bhakti. He leads retreats with the goal of guiding others into their Sacred Space, giving them the spiritual tools necessary to maintain this connection long after they leave. His writings and CDs also serve as guides to enter this Sacred Space, especially for those unable to attend a Sacred Space retreat.