Everyone and everything in the universe, known and unknown, is part of the network of Reality. We may love and hate, we may accept and not accept, but these attitudes are just expressions of our individual mental conditioning. Whether we…
Swami Nishchalananda
What is important is the Unchanging
Narada: I have wonderful experiences through the practice of Yoga, but when they are over, they are only a memory. I’m sure they have contributed to my overall spiritual development, but is there more to the fulfillment of human potential?…
The Guru Principle
This satsang was given at Mandala Yoga Ashram on the 8th of June 2018, on 'Guru Purnima', a day traditional in India for acknowledging the role of the 'Guru' or Teacher. "I don't think an external teacher really teaches you…
Meditation – going deeper, a course given at Mandala Ashram in October 2018
'.... when we see that our belief systems and our behaviour is nothing but conditioning, that then gives us the starting point for looking deeper through meditation' Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati This satsang, and question and answer sessions, were part of…
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The Limitation of Conceptual Thinking.
A satsang given to a visiting yoga group, on the limitation of thinking in the search for wisdom and insight.
Morning Meditation on Anxiety
Where does space come from?
There is an interesting philosophical conundrum: Everything exists in space, but in what does space exist? This is not only a question in yoga and mysticism, but also a conundrum of science. After all, modern science hypothesizes that the universe…
Initiation into Wisdom
In one of the wonderful collection of books by Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian shaman says: ‘The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die and since that is already our unalterable fate, we…
The Essential Nature of ‘I’
What is this ‘I’ with which we so identify and which we spend our entire life-time feeding, pampering, protecting and re-producing? What is this ‘I’ that we fear for after death? Will the ‘I’ be extinguished or will something survive?…
The Edge of Infinity
When I was eight years of age I had a dream, a very lucid and vivid dream, that repeated itself over a period of some weeks. I dreamed that in my search for Truth I traveled endlessly into space passing…
