Author: Swami Nishchalananda
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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 this blog under the category ‘Inspirations’.
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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 ambient noises of nature all around… which leads on to… …the first topic which someone…
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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 over 4 stand-alone sessions, starting on 29th August, in collaboration with Swami Krishnapremananda of Mandala…
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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’ that exist within a human experience. It is this aspect that Swamiji explores in this…
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VBT1 – 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.
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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 of ‘Happy Birthday to you’ which set the atmosphere for a session underpinned with a…
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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 time immemorial, symbols have been used worldwide in mystical circles as a focus for the…
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Satsang webinar from Sheffield, UK
A Web based event organised from Sheffield, Yorkshire, with questions and answers on such topics as:- In Mantra Yoga, most of the chants and mantras are in the Sanskrit language. How important is correct pronunciation of the words, or is the efficacy of mantras more to do with our motivation? If your intention is good,…
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