Tag: yparad
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Ida, Pingala and Sushumna
A talk given to student Yoga teachers at Mandala Yoga Ashram, Wales. The main Spinal Nadis (channels) are Ida and Pingala originating on the left and the right of the spine, and Sushumna in the midline. Ida is considered to represent the lunar current, more internalised aspects of a person, and Pingala represents the solar…
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Mandukya Upanishad (3)
The third in the series of five sessions on the Mandukya Upanishad given at Mandala Yoga Ashram in 2002. Here we continue the text from the third verse. In verse two we saw the author dividing existence into four parts. Now in verse three he talks of the first quarter as Vaishwanara, the waking state.…
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From the Whole, the Whole is Taken, yet the Whole Remains.
Om PurnamadahaPurnamidamPurnatPurnamudachyatePurnasyaPurnamadayaPurnamiwa WashishyateOm Shanti Shanti Shantih This Sanskrit Chant appears as the Shanti Path (Invocation of Peace) at the beginning of one of the great Upanishads, the Ishavasya, also called the Isha Upanishad.. You could call it a great statement of Advaita (non-dualism). It could also be regarded in a similar light to a Zen…
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Personal growth and inner conflict.
The seventh in the archive series of 2003 from the Satyananda Tapovanam Ashram in Bangalore, India. Conversation and discourse from Swami Nishchalananda. These sessions are edited to get the essence of Swamiji’s replies to questions, or impromptu discourses. . ‘A human being can transcend their own finiteness’ In the modern era do we deify ego?…
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Maya, Tantra, and the Outside and Inside search.
The second in a series taken from Swami Nishchalananda’s visit to India from December 2002 to January 2003
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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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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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Concentration and Focus
Another extract from a longer satsang, Questions and Answers from India, 2004 Part of the Dynamic of modern life is that we have to set priorities. Machines should be doing all the work for us…. that was how it looked 50 years ago, but actually the machine age, the computer age, has made life faster…
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