How Satchitananda Guides Us Back to Our Inner Wisdom and Peace
- Brainz Magazine
- Nov 17
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 18
Written by Victor L. Almeida, Martial Artist
Master Victor Almeida is a lifelong martial artist dedicated to the roots of the arts, teaching Taekwondo, calisthenics, and yoga to unlock our highest potential. Beyond the dojang, he is an accomplished artist working in glass, fire, digital, and mixed media, creating expressive works that embody freedom and inspire transformation.
Throughout life, we look for meaning in many things outside of ourselves, only to realize the truth, to find God within ourselves. The Sanskrit word for God is सच्चिदानन्द (Satchitananda), meaning Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss. We often identify with our emotions and thoughts, relying on external influences to satisfy ourselves, when in truth, the everlasting joy comes from within.
The hardships in life
Physical things can be taken away or changed, creating suffering through attachment. These external influences often have a deep effect on our mental or emotional stability. When we lose a loved one, for example, those experiences can be so crushing and paralyzing. In knowing that each experience in life is meant to teach us a lesson, we can approach it from a different perspective. This allows us to take the knowledge gained from these situations and turn it into wisdom. When we do this, we step out of the repeating circle, demonstrating our growth.
Anger, jealousy, and anxiety are emotions that severely hinder our ability to think clearly. We often allow interactions with other people to disturb the internal peace we’ve established. That anger or hate, in turn, changes our vibration, ending up controlling our very actions. We surrender the one thing we can truly control, ourselves, to these raw emotions through identification with that feeling. Over time, we realize we can observe these experiences without attachment, creating space that allows us to change our reaction. This is true growth and the application of wisdom through awareness.
Walking the path
When we start to realize that we can connect with a calmness that is everlasting inside of us through meditation and awareness of the breath, everything changes. The connection with that divine energy through the repeated practice of intentional and laser-focused meditation increases our ability to remain truly sovereign and connected with that divine energy within.
We first get a taste of that feeling through practices like Kriya Yoga. Although it is hard to meditate for long at first, we begin to connect the feeling of calmness with the practice of meditation, allowing us to sit in stillness longer. The effects of this practice compound, changing the frequency of the brain like a radio station, allowing us to tune into the calm station through union with God.
Just like the cells in our body create the organism that is the human body, each individual person creates the organism that is the human race. We realize we are living on this planet in harmony with all the plants and beings inhabiting it. We are not separate but collectively one. This is the truth taught to us by every great sage, saint, and master to grace their presence here on earth. Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, and my guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, all taught us this truth.
The illusion
Over time, governments and the greedy have distorted this truth to control the masses, the message that we are all one with God. When we look at these great saints, we realize they didn’t rely on external influences for their calmness and divinity. They lived it and became an example in union with God. For those able to discern through the illusion, the message they taught was the same. By looking within ourselves instead of outside, turning our awareness to the breath, and quieting the body, we may increase our awareness of these subtle energies. Through constant practice done with integrity and guidance by the guru, we may know God.
It is a truth we live and not just something we read from a book. We can only know it by experiencing it. When we see the truth, it cannot be taken away, as it changes our lives forever in the best of ways. Finding a guru like the aforementioned saints is critical in connecting to this truth, as they guide us through the fog that is Maya, the physical world. We realize that we can remain calm in any situation if we choose to connect with the divine. What was once impossible becomes as natural as breathing, and we break the barriers we once put on ourselves through identification with the ego.
Learn more
Our podcast on YouTube, The Unlimited You, speaks of this path if you wish to learn more information. At Fera Academy, we train our students in martial arts and the yogic arts in order to further the path of self-realization. You can find us on our website at FeraAcademy.com
I highly recommend connecting with the teachers at Ananda Village, where you can take an online meditation course to truly delve into the details and further your practice. They provide an array of different lessons and levels of training to really bring your practice to a new level. You can find more information on Ananda Village.
Many will not take these steps until they have suffered enough in this physical world to seek this truth. For those who have tasted it, the path is forever moved closer to God. May we all instill calmness and spread it throughout this world, creating true peace by first instilling it within ourselves. This is the way. This is Sanatana Dharma. Be Love, be Light, and be with God.
Aum. Peace. Amen.
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Victor L. Almeida, Martial Artist
Master Victor Almeida is a dedicated artist whose life’s work is to spread joy and love through self-awareness. With decades of experience in Taekwondo, BJJ, Muay Thai, and Haedong Kumdo, he also integrates calisthenics and yoga to cultivate strength, balance, and inner awareness. Beyond martial arts, Master Victor is an accomplished glass, fire, and digital artist. Creating large installation works aligned with bringing awareness to our true enemy, the ego. With these workshops, classes, art installations, and passionate performances, his goal is to spread that joy, sparking creativity and the light inside others. Teaching not only how to care for oneself but also how to express oneself freely.
