Category: 2002
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Mandukya Upanishad (4)

The fourth in the series of five sessions on the Mandukya Upanishad given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in 2002. Here we continue further with the text from the third verse. Continuing verse three, Swamiji talks of the four quarters represented by the A, U and M of AUM and the fourth being a circle which…
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The Bhagavad Gita, in depth.

Some twenty-plus years ago…… …….. Swami Nishchalananda conducted a Masterclass on the Bhagavad Gita. The ten days of translation and analysis of the deeper meaning of the text were recorded, then forgotten; the recordings consigned to a cupboard along with hundreds of other recorded minidiscs. Finally those hundreds of discs have been converted to ‘digital’…
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Mandukya Upanishad (1)

The first of a series of five sessions, given by Swami Nishchalananda at Mandala Yoga Ashram in May 2002. This first recording is mostly preamble; setting the scene before actually looking at the Upanishad verse by verse. The Mandukya Upanishad comes from the Atharvaveda (one of the four Vedas).It’s only 12 verses long, yet is…
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Mandukya Upanishad (2)

Second in the series of five sessions on the Mandukya Upanishad given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in 2002. The first session was introducing the Upanishad, here Swami Nishchalananda introduces his commentary on the text starting from verse 1. Be in touch with the inner space…. within that space thoughts, feelings, and sensations arise…. The recording…
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Maya, Tantra, and the Outside and Inside search.

The second in a series taken from Swami Nishchalananda’s visit to India from December 2002 to January 2003
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Mantra, Grace and other matters

The first in a series taken from Swami Nishchalananda’s visit to Indiafrom December 2002 to January 2003 The sessions from Satyananda Tapovanam are quite informal, but always contain pearls of wisdom from Swamiji’s extensive knowledge of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita. These particular pearls are all prompted by questions, often from Westerners who had gone to India…
