Excerpts from the latest in the series of seminars given by Swami Nishchalananda to Sheffield School of Yoga, with some more 'Dharanas', practices, from his translation of this Kashmir Shaivism text. You can find out more on this translation and…
Swami Nishchalananda
Concentration and Focus
Another extract from a longer satsang, Questions and Answers from India, 2004 Part of the Dynamic of modern life is that we have to set priorities. Machines should be doing all the work for us.... that was how it looked…
Will and Free Will
If I identify one hundred percent with this body and mind, then I'm a puppet in the storm.Swami Nishchalananda From the point of view of Individuality, we feel that we have free will. We feel this because we have Ego,…
A question and answer session from 2004 in India
An informal gathering at a friend's flat in early 2004 leads to some great questions. This is the full session, from which shorter extracts ('Will and Free Will', 'Concentration and Focus') have been taken - you'll find them here on…
Satyananda Tapovanam 10th January 2004
Another from the series recorded at this Ashram near Bangalore. A series of topics are discussed between Swamiji and the people who were there with him, and again, the recording is as good as we can get it given the…
Bhagavad Gita: a commentary on chapter 2.
Swami Nishchalananda gave this discourse, via the web, to a Europe -wide audience on Friday 14th August 2020. It also serves as a preliminary introduction to the text; he is running a 4 day seminar on the Bhagavad Gita, spread…
The Lokas
The second archive recording from Satyananda Tapovanam, near Bangalore, India. Swami Nishchalananda gives an exposition on the Lokas, which are regarded in Hindu Symbolism as 'celestial realms', but also have a more practical application to understanding the 'realms of consciousness'…
Excerpts from Vigyana Bhairava Tantra course
Given online to course participants in a seminar organised by the Sheffield Satyananda Centre, these extracts are not from the actual course content, but from the preamble, and then Questions and Answers at the end. Swami Nishchalananda is an expert…
A birthday webinar by Swamiji
'Actually… the day before. On a Friday evening the day before Swami Nishchalananda’s birthday we again got together with people from around Europe and the UK courtesy of online videoconferencing platform Zoom. We started with a rousing, and raucous, rendition…
Ishta Devata – an explanation
This is an extract from a longer satsang given at Satyananda Tapovanam, in January 2004. (The new years eve satsang appears earlier in this blog). At the end is a simple rendition of a Shanti Path, Invocation of Peace. Since…
