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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 (3)
The third in the series of five sessions on the Mandukya Upanishad given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in 2002. Here we continue the text from the third verse. In verse two we saw the author dividing existence into four parts. Now in verse three he talks of the first quarter as Vaishwanara, the waking state.…
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From the Whole, the Whole is Taken, yet the Whole Remains.
Om PurnamadahaPurnamidamPurnatPurnamudachyatePurnasyaPurnamadayaPurnamiwa WashishyateOm Shanti Shanti Shantih This Sanskrit Chant appears as the Shanti Path (Invocation of Peace) at the beginning of one of the great Upanishads, the Ishavasya, also called the Isha Upanishad.. You could call it a great statement of Advaita (non-dualism). It could also be regarded in a similar light to a Zen…
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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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A Garland of Gratitude
A post from guest author Spandan (Michael McCann), taken from his Facebook community page ‘The Yoga Well’ A GARLAND OF GRATITUDE Thank you for your innumerable sages and saints. Thank you for Paramahamsa Ramakrishna, Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi and Sri Anandamayi Ma. Thank you for teaching us that Truth is One, but the sages call it…
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The Middle Path.
The ninth and last recording in the archive series of 2003 from the Satyananda Tapovanam Ashram in Bangalore, India. Conversation and discourse from Swami Nishchalananda. In this last session more of the informal exchanges have been left in the edit, so we get a feel for the closeness between Swamiji and the people asking questions.…
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