Author: Swami Nishchalananda
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Ishavasya Upanishad

I have just received and listened to Rajesh David’s latest CD entitled ‘Isha’. I must say that it is, as ever, an absolute gem. Rajesh brings out the wisdom, sentiments and inspirations of the Ishavasya Upanishad in his incomparable style. Beautiful chanting of the Sanskrit text. May Rajesh continue to produce more priceless renditions of…
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Sannyasa

This satsang was given in 2001 at Satyananda Ashram, Greece. Sannyasa, dedication to the life of spiritual pursuit, has changed from the days of early ascetic ashram lifewhere the sannyasi was fairly much isolatedfrom the doings of the ‘outside world’…. Swamiji talks of both the external form of Sannyasa and the internal form. Externally, the…
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VBT5 – Conscious Presence – final session

The last in the current series of seminars and meditations taken from the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, delivered to Sheffield School of Yoga by Swami Nishchalananda.
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VBT4 – Conscious Presence – Deepening

Continuing the series of discourses on, and practices from, the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, given by Swami Nishchalananda to the Sheffield Yoga School. This is one of Swamiji’s areas of expertise; he has written an erudite translation and commentary on the text, see https://swami-nishchalananda.com/books-and-seminars/ . Indeed his lineage and training in India is strongly rooted in…
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14th March 2021 Satsang with Swami Nishchalananda

In this satsang Swamiji introduces and highly recommends the Yoga Vasistha as an advaitic text full of startling wisdom. From this text he reads and illuminates two verses which, if pondered deeply upon, can revolutionise our understanding of the nature of cause and effect. There follows a meditation on the meaning of the Shanti Path – chanted…
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VBT3 – More on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra

A further exploration of practices from this classic text, presented by Swami Nishchalananda to the Sheffield School of Yoga Swamiji starts out by addressing the apparent obstacle that all of us, who have ever tried to meditate, come up against; the noise of our own thoughts. The dharanas in this text give us something practical…
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Joy

Swami Nishchalananada made this movie down on the seashore. Please enjoy, and hopefully allow it to inspire you wherever you are, in nature, or in the middle of a busy town or city. It’s the same joy because it comes from within.
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Time and the Timeless

Swami Nishchalananda gives a short, emphatic, discourse on Time and the Timeless, Thought and Meditation. Where do we find the Timeless? Our mind is in Time. The whole Universe in in Time. Time is a projection out of the Timeless.
