Tag: insight
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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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Awareness
Awareness is neither good nor bad. It is neither male nor female. It is neither light nor dark. It is neither this nor that. It is here and now, and beyond, yet paradoxically, it is in the very heart of everything. This understanding is inaccessible to our conceptual mind but can be intuited in moments…
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Two Meditations
Two meditations from the recent course at Mandala Yoga Ashram, in October 2019. Who it is that feels, sees, thinks through the medium of this body? Can the mind be stilled by the breath, so we can reflect more deeply on what is this life?
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Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers (3), 24th August.
The final question and answer session from the 2019 Chakra course. topics include: The Chakra paradigm and Kriya Yoga The value of the Ashram ‘Ashram is a refuge, you come here to deepen your understanding’ Swami Nishchalananda’s life in India Behaviour and archetypes, the evolution of behaviour patterns Edit and Sound by Narada
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Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers (2), 22nd August.
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 ‘We are ruining this Planet far faster than we thought…….. …….. Don’t underestimate the part…
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Is there meaning to life?
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?
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What is important is the Unchanging
Narada: I have wonderful experiences through the practice of Yoga, but when they are over, they are only a memory. I’m sure they have contributed to my overall spiritual development, but is there more to the fulfillment of human potential? Swami Nishchalananda: What we are really interested in is not changing experiences, but That which…
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Meditation – going deeper, a course given at Mandala Ashram in October 2018
‘…. 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 the ‘Meditation – going deeper’ course run by Swami Nishchalananda and others in October 2018…
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