Inspirations and Insights
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 is an expert…
'Actually… the day before. On a Friday evening the day before Swami Nishchalananda’s birthday we again got together with people from around Europe and the UK courtesy of online videoconferencing platform Zoom. We started with a rousing, and raucous, rendition…
This is an extract from a longer satsang given at Satyananda Tapovanam, in January 2004. (The new years eve satsang appears earlier in this blog). At the end is a simple rendition of a Shanti Path, Invocation of Peace. Since…
Our regular weekly Web-based satsang with Swamiji on Fridays, hosted by the ashram, with guests from around Europe and the UK. This week the Guided Meditation started with the chant ‘OM Purnamadaha’ and reflections on its profound meaning. Questions and…
A Guided meditation followed by Questions and answers, this Zoom based Webinar was hosted by Mandala Yoga Ashram and invited guests from the UK and around Europe. The meditation was based on the Chakras, specifically, visualising the colour related to…
A Web based event organised from Sheffield, Yorkshire, with questions and answers on such topics as:- In Mantra Yoga, most of the chants and mantras are in the Sanskrit language. How important is correct pronunciation of the words, or is…
This coronavirus epidemic is a challenge for all of us. Many have already been infected, and many have died. Many have already suffered financially and many more certainly will. To these, let us feel our heart-felt compassion. Let us feel gratitude…
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…
Read More Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers (3), 24th 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…
Read More Mandala Yoga Ashram Chakra course – evening questions and answers (2), 22nd 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
