Tag: pracprep
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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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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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VBT4 – Conscious Presence – Deepening
Continuing the series of discourses on, and practices from, the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra, given by Swami Nishchalananda to the Sheffield Yoga School. This is one of Swamiji’s areas of expertise; he has written an erudite translation and commentary on the text, see https://swami-nishchalananda.com/books-and-seminars/ . Indeed his lineage and training in India is strongly rooted in…
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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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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.
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Ishta Devata – an explanation
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 time immemorial, symbols have been used worldwide in mystical circles as a focus for the…
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Satsang webinar from Sheffield, UK
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 the efficacy of mantras more to do with our motivation? If your intention is good,…
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