Category: Satsangs
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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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VB2 – More practices from Vigyana Bhairava Tantra
Excerpts from the latest in the series of seminars given by Swami Nishchalananda to Sheffield School of Yoga, with some more ‘Dharanas’, practices, from his translation of this Kashmir Shaivism text. You can find out more on this translation and commentary, ‘Insight into Reality’ at the end of this post.
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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.
Swami Nishchalananda 