Tag: yoga
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Joy

Swami Nishchalananada made this movie down on the seashore. Please enjoy, and hopefully allow it to inspire you wherever you are, in nature, or in the middle of a busy town or city. It’s the same joy because it comes from within.
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Time and the Timeless

Swami Nishchalananda gives a short, emphatic, discourse on Time and the Timeless, Thought and Meditation. Where do we find the Timeless? Our mind is in Time. The whole Universe in in Time. Time is a projection out of the Timeless.
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Firefly

A post by guest author, Narada. I’ve been invited to put this post on here by Swami Nishchalananda. It’s an honour to me, as I mostly consider he is the one who has something to say! I’m the student, he’s the teacher.
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Satyananda Tapovanam 10th January 2004

Another from the series recorded at this Ashram near Bangalore. A series of topics are discussed between Swamiji and the people who were there with him, and again, the recording is as good as we can get it given the ambient noises of nature all around… which leads on to… …the first topic which someone…
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Bhagavad Gita: a commentary on chapter 2.

Swami Nishchalananda gave this discourse, via the web, to a Europe -wide audience on Friday 14th August 2020. It also serves as a preliminary introduction to the text; he is running a 4 day seminar on the Bhagavad Gita, spread over 4 stand-alone sessions, starting on 29th August, in collaboration with Swami Krishnapremananda of Mandala…
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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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A birthday webinar by Swamiji

‘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 of ‘Happy Birthday to you’ which set the atmosphere for a session underpinned with a…
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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…
