Tag: ytext
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Ishavasya Upanishad
I have just received and listened to Rajesh David’s latest CD entitled ‘Isha’. I must say that it is, as ever, an absolute gem. Rajesh brings out the wisdom, sentiments and inspirations of the Ishavasya Upanishad in his incomparable style. Beautiful chanting of the Sanskrit text. May Rajesh continue to produce more priceless renditions of…
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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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14th March 2021 Satsang with Swami Nishchalananda
In this satsang Swamiji introduces and highly recommends the Yoga Vasistha as an advaitic text full of startling wisdom. From this text he reads and illuminates two verses which, if pondered deeply upon, can revolutionise our understanding of the nature of cause and effect. There follows a meditation on the meaning of the Shanti Path – chanted…
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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.
Swami Nishchalananda 