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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…
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An Interview with Swami Nishchalananda
Welcome back to Swamiji’s blog; it’s been decided that it will continue, and in time you will start to see more of his archived material from about 20 years ago. First, we’d like to bring you an interview that happened here at Mandala ashram recently; you can tell when by the lovely blue skies when…
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Portal to Consciousness (4)
The final part of the second series on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, given online to the Sheffield School of Yoga. Swamiji begins by noting that we seem to have ‘deified’ thinking; The practices of Yoga and Tantra, certainly as laid out in the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, may cause us to question the certainty of our…
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What are We and What is Love?
Swamiji gave one of his Zoom transmissions on 20th November. It seemed to be one of those times, (perhaps partly the space this editor was in?), when what we were hearing was simplicity itself, yet resonating with the core truth of our being. The simplicity of Conscious Presence, that which ‘Is’. We can make things…
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Portal to Consciousness (1)
Part one of a further series of seminars on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra given to the Sheffield School of Yoga by Swami Nishchalananda. The session starts with Dharana number 72 from the text Vigyana Bhairava Tantra. ‘Maya, or cosmic delusion, deludes us by means of the five Kanchukas. Consider and reflect on these functions. In…
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Ishavasya Upanishad
I have just received and listened to Rajesh David’s latest CD entitled ‘Isha’. I must say that it is, as ever, an absolute gem. Rajesh brings out the wisdom, sentiments and inspirations of the Ishavasya Upanishad in his incomparable style. Beautiful chanting of the Sanskrit text. May Rajesh continue to produce more priceless renditions of…
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Sannyasa
This satsang was given in 2001 at Satyananda Ashram, Greece. Sannyasa, dedication to the life of spiritual pursuit, has changed from the days of early ascetic ashram lifewhere the sannyasi was fairly much isolatedfrom the doings of the ‘outside world’…. Swamiji talks of both the external form of Sannyasa and the internal form. Externally, the…
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VBT5 – Conscious Presence – final session
The last in the current series of seminars and meditations taken from the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, delivered to Sheffield School of Yoga by Swami Nishchalananda.
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