Inspirations and Insights
A wide ranging question and answer session, themed by the worldwide expressions of alarm at apparently uncontrolled burning of many locations in the Amazonian Rain Forest. So themes include :- Environment and playing our part in tidying up the planet…
Read More Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers (2), 22nd August.
Topics raised in this question and answer session include 'The Inner Space' in meditation practice. 'Meditation has nothing to do with whether your eyes are open or closed' The significance of Mouna (the practice of keeping silent). The positives and…
Read More Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers, 19th August.
Discourse given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in August 2019. The context is the 4 day course on Advaita, non-dualism, under the title 'The Essential I'. Investigating the "I" based on the Kena upanishad. edit and sound by Narada
The meaning of life is not in what we do, the meaning is in where does it come from? What is the impulse that gives you the capacity to be conscious?
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…
'.... 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…
Read More Meditation – going deeper, a course given at Mandala Ashram in October 2018
A satsang given to a visiting yoga group, on the limitation of thinking in the search for wisdom and insight.
