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Sound Bite: Happiness and Bliss

What’s the difference between happiness and bliss? Happiness is the mind’s experience of bliss. Bliss is deeper and more expansive. When it arises from its source within, which is your own Self, it can fill your mind. That’s happiness. When you let the bliss arise from deep within, and you let it come up inside, come all the way up, literally through your neck and.... – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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09/10/2023 Happiness Lies Inside

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09/03/2023 What is Happiness?

Happiness is the thriving of the soul and doing what you were meant to do as a human. It is the mind’s experience of bliss. Your inherent nature is bliss. Happiness is a decision. It really is only about managing your mind. Turn your mind toward your Divine Essence, and you will find the bliss underlying your quest for happiness.  

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Sound Bite: Your Bliss Tank

Bliss is what fuels your life. When you abide in turiya, even while waking, then the bliss is always arising. But, if you’re not abiding in turiya, you don’t have enough fuel to get through the day. So you have to fill your tank. If you don’t have enough bliss in your tank, you sputter, and die out. You can’t keep going. You gotta get your bliss. Why? Because bliss is… – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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08/27/2023 Did You Get Enlightened?

If you didn’t get enlightened while the pandemic had you isolating, then isolation is not your path to enlightenment. What you do with your day matters. You must master both the worldly and the spiritual dimensions to become enlightened.  Let the Guru show you how to interweave both into a whole new way of living.

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Teachings Article - Pleasure, Happiness & Bliss

When you do something pleasurable you get happy for a short while. The happy feeling comes from a momentary experience of supreme bliss. When you know your own Self as Consciousness-Itself, you live in a steady state of contagious bliss. It uplifts those around you as well as yourself. Instead of pursuing pleasure, follow the bliss!

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08/20/2023 The Quest for Bliss

Bliss is what fuels your life. Yoga has you find it on the inside.  While your mind alternates between waking, dreaming and deep sleep, there is a deeper dimension to you. Your own Beingness is always there in this deeper level. The goal is to live in the steady arising of the inner flow of bliss that comes from this source. Meditate and take your own Self with you everywhere you go.

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Sound Bite: Happiness in Action

Your inner feeling of happiness supports you from the inside, while you do whatever needs to be done. Like, after a beautiful holiday meal, you and everyone else is happy. So, you just pop up and.... – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

 

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08/13/2023 Bliss is Your Nature

You are made of Divine bliss. Yoga focuses on your experience of the bliss that you already are.  Meditation carries you deeper and deeper within, where you find, not merely bliss, but the source of bliss. You find the source of life itself. The bliss is already within you, and always available. Look in the right direction - inward. Bliss is your nature.

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08/06/2023 Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy. When you’re happy your mind is peaceful and friendly. You’re relaxed and helpful to others. Meditation moves your mind through a process of settling deeper and expanding within. This settling and inner expansion takes you to your own Self. Bliss and happiness arise from within.

 

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Sound Bite: The Experiencer

The point of meditation is to perceive the deeper dimensions of your own being. More than this, the goal is to become established in the deepest and most expansive level of Beingness — your own Beingness. Your own Self. Thus, you live from the vastness and the… – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

 

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07/30/2023 Your Innermost Nature

Your innermost nature is simple, unpretentious, and noble. It’s your mind that complicates things. You can use your mind to support your upliftment. Cultivate noble thoughts, see the best in others, practise self restraint and relinquish negativity. Look from a deeper place within and see everyone’s Divine innocence. Delve deep and discover God at your Essence.

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Teachings Article - A Juicy Life

In meditation you delve into your own inner dimensionality; you tap into the source of life. Yoga calls this rasa. Fill your tank before going out into the world and eventually learn how to base your life in the inner flow. Rasa is juice, spirit, energy. Bring yours with you and you have something worth sharing.

 

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Sound Bite: What a Guru Does

I don’t fix your problems. I don’t fix you. That’s not what a Guru does. I give you the tools to see your problems a different way, to see yourself a different way. To see the light of your own Divinity, which is already shining forth. And you have to do…

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07/16/2023 Where Are You Coming From?

The attainment of Self is a melting, a surrender into your own Divinity. When you know your own Self you’re coming from your Self all the time. Where are you coming from? Most people live their lives in a contracted form of Consciousness. Meditate, and experience your Self in the midst of life.   

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07/09/2023 If You’re not Enlightened Yet

Knowing and being your own Self is enlightenment. If you’re not enlightened yet, you keep getting lost in your outer experiences. But they don’t make you who you are. You are more, so much more. To know your own Self, you have to look within. If you’re not enlightened yet, what have you been focusing on?

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Sound Bite: Perfectly Imperfect

You are already perfect. Now, there might be someone in your life who doesn’t think you’re so perfect. Or maybe even your own mind tells you that you’re not perfect. I agree. You are both perfect and not perfect at the same time. Dare we say you are perfectly imperfect? But your Essence is perfection itself. You are the One Divine Reality, which is purna, perfection itself.

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07/02/2023 The Light of the Moon

In yoga the moonlight is very significant. It is likened to the Lght of Consciousness filtered through your mind, like the moon reflects the light of the sun. The spiritual path is subtle and is most easily attained through the Guru. Keep the company of the Guru and bask in the glow, like moonlight penetrating your mind and heart.

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Teachings Article - Where Are You Going?

Your destiny is to know your deeper essence, to live in the constant flow of inner inspiration. Let your Divine light overflow into your life, your relationships, and the world. Shape your thoughts and actions as if you were already enlightened. What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

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06/25/2023 This is Perfect

Everything is always perfect. Even when it doesn’t seem so, hindsight proves it to be true. True wisdom comes from the Self, your own Essence. Your Essence is perfection itself. The One Divine Reality is being you, being me, being all, and beyond all. When you see that everything is the One in a different form, you see that it is always perfect.

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Sound Bite: Illumined Actions

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06/18/2023 To Be Nurtured

You are a radiant, brilliant incarnation of Divine light, but your mind gets lost in worldly things. The light of Consciousness within you needs to be nurtured and brought forth. The Guru shows you the source of intelligence, creativity and insight that shines through everyone, including you. Tap into the nurturing power of the Guru’s grace.

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06/11/2023 Illumined Action

When you do something out of the goodness of your heart, out of inherent kindness and in a spirit of generosity, it’s an illumined action. Draw from the light of Consciousness within and shine it into the world through your words and actions. Make every action an illumined action by turning it into service to the Divine.

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Sound Bite: My Life Was Changed

My life was changed the day I got Shaktipat from my Baba. At the time, of course, I didn’t understand it. The energy climbing my spine at that moment was so ecstatic that I wanted nothing else. And it happened again every morning during meditation. At first, nothing external changed. I lived in the same place and pursued the same desires. But gradually, I found I needed less and less of those things. Particularly the ones that weren’t good for me fell away…

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06/04/2023 The Inner Source

It is your nature to shine, to be radiant, luminous, and brilliant. When you look inward you’ll find Divine Consciousness at your core. Recognize where all your great ideas come from. Clear your mind and empower your ability to look inward. When you find the Divine source of all your thoughts, words, and actions, you will be free.

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05/28/2023 Who Can Give You Enlightenment

You need one who has mastery over the Divine Energy that, once awakened, climbs your spine while opening and balancing your chakras. As the energy of enlightenment climbs your spine, Kundalini clears out the limitations that hold you back and empowers your full potential. Bow in gratitude to the one who frees you.

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Teachings Article - Your Mind’s True Capacity

Your mind is Consciousness in a contracted form. It changes its shape to match what you perceive. Through meditation and contemplation, you come to see the source of your brilliance, your creativity, your bliss, and your ability to love. Live in total awareness, perfect bliss, and full contentment.

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Sound Bite: Who Knew?

When I was looking for a Guru, I didn’t know I was looking for a Guru. I knew I wanted something, but I couldn’t explain what the something was. I read books. I went to different churches, healers, and to spiritual groups. Nothing really worked for me. Someone did a reading on the tarot cards for me…

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05/21/2023 Oh No!

When you change the content of your mind it affects your body. By filling your mind and heart with Consciousness again and again you create an inner openness of Self-Knowingness that transcends the mind and heart. Whatever you are thinking, that is what you’re becoming. Work on the tendency of saying, “Oh no” at every little thing. Learn how to say, “Oh yes!”  

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05/14/2023 A Child of God

The One Divine Reality birthed the universe out of its own Beingness. You are a child of God, with the whole of God hidden within you. While your feet remain grounded on the earth, let the Guru guide you into the limitlessness of your own Divine Essence. The truth is that we are all children of God. Jai Ma!

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Sound Bite: The Promise of Freedom

Baba’s gift of Shaktipat Initiation, his teachings, and the practices he gave us made us able to attain his promise of Freedom. You need the bliss, yes. But you also need to understand it, and to support it. The teachings make you able to understand it. The practices support it, so you can live in the bliss of your beingness right in the middle…

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05/07/2023 To Honor

Honor the shakti, love the energy, for your own Self is made from the same Divine Energy. Self, Shakti, Guru, God -- are all the same energy, just seen from different perspectives. See and honor the Divine in everyone, everywhere. Honor and worship the Guru, the embodiment of Grace.

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04/30/2023 Freedom From Fear

Freedom from fear is one of the ways enlightenment is described. When you are Self-Realized you have no fear. You know your own Self is the One Divine Reality, beyond time and space, beyond individuality. Beyond need, greed, and fear. Freedom from fear comes when you know who you really are.

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Sound Bite: Steady State

Steady State

When your inner state is steady, based in the dimensionless, limitless, expansiveness of your own Divine Essence, you face life head on. You don’t manufacture problems, but you don’t run from them, either. And everything that comes to you, you embrace with your heart, as well as with your mind. Okay, this is what we’re doing now. Your answers come from an inner depth that gives you wisdom on the go.

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Teachings Article - What Kind of Karma?

You can do things to change your karma. When desire motivates you to do things, you get karmic repercussions. But when you do things out of pure altruism you get none. Desireless action is your pathway to freedom. When you live this way you’re not creating new karmas for yourself. Create a happy life. Live with a generous spirit!

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04/23/2023 The Self Never Dies

The Self never dies. No matter where you find yourself, you are you. Before you were born you were you. After your body can no longer house you, you will still be you. The you that you are Yoga calls Self. Your own Self is the One Self that has always existed. You are Existence-Itself.

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04/16/2023 Two Options

Sometimes you get caught up in the drama of everyday life. You have two options. One is to be constrained by the not knowing of your own Self. The second option is to live in a state of freedom from desires. To shine with the light of Consciousness. You can focus on your limitations, or you can focus on your own Divine Essence.

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Sound Bite: Look Deeper Within

When I look in your eyes, I see that you are looking at your limitations, your needs, and fears. But you could look deeper within. That’s what satsang is all about. That’s why I come to you, and hopefully, that’s why you come to see me. So you see you. So you can look into your own eyes and see all the way to God. Because that’s who’s inside. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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04/09/2023 To Shine

The light of your own Being shines through your eyes, your mind, and your heart. Apply your mind to Divine thoughts and your mind will be uplifted by this endeavor. Find the deeper dimension that is the source of the light. Then your own light arises and fills you completely. And you shine your light into the world.

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04/02/2023 Sacred, Holy, Pure

Your own Self shines fully; it is sacred, holy, and pure. It’s only when you feel it inside that you know it to be true. Once you experience that God is being you, you know who you really are. It’s about you seeing yourself as Divine. Let the Guru’s grace help you see God within.

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Sound Bite: You are Immortal

You know, you’re usually on the outside, looking inward. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see your body, so you think you are your body. But look into your own eyes. Get up close in the mirror, and look into your own eyes. There’s somebody in there. That somebody is you. You are so much more than your body. Yes, your body has a limited lifespan. But the you that is in your body, the you that is looking through your eyes, that you, the real you – you are immortal. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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03/26/2023 Knowing the Knower

Wherever you go and whatever you do, your essence is unchanged. The deeper dimensions of your own Being are hidden inside you. The whole point is to find what’s hidden, to find your own Self. When you know your own Self you live in a constant flow of Divine inspiration, love, joy, and creativity. Turn your attention inward and know the knower.

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Teachings Article - Changing Your Future

Yoga’s goal is for you to know your own Self. This frees you from the fear of death, for you know you are immortal, an individualized form of the One Divine Reality. It’s only your body that dies, not your Self. But you need to take care of your body and mind if you want them to last. You can change your future by doing more yoga!

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03/19/2023 Knowledge is Food

Yoga calls true knowledge the knowledge you get from the inside, deeper than your mind. It feeds your soul. From that inner spaciousness you understand everything. The knowing of Self frees you from the not knowingness. You have been and will always be the Self. You are the One Divine Reality manifesting as an individual.

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Sound Bite: Steady and Deep

This steady and deep inner experience is likened to a steady candle flame in a windless place. I got this experience from Baba. He gave it to me with just a glance. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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03/12/2023 Multidimensonality

You are a multidimensional reality made of Consciousness manifesting as a separate and unique individual. The mind and body are both products of something deeper. What you need to work on is that deeper dimension.  Align yourself with Consciousness. Discover that you are Consciousness and have always been.

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03/05/2023 Giving & Receiving

When you give, you open the door and light shines in. It’s only when you give of yourself that you truly receive. Giving changes the giver. All you have to do is get out of your own way. Grace will wash in and empty everything else out. Align yourself with the Guru’s generosity, and you will learn to live in the river of Grace.

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Sound Bite: Inner Answers

I began to rely on these inner answers, for they were always right. They cut through my doubts and fears. They ended my internal dialogues. I began to live with a clarity and a sense of purpose. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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02/26/2023 Empty or Full?

When you’re feeling empty, you’re not feeling the inherent fullness of your own Beingness. The fullness that is the inner experience of Consciousness is already within you. Saturate your mind with the bliss of Consciousness and your mind simply can’t hold on to the old limitations anymore. You outgrow your wounds and grievances, even your needs and desires. Choose your state, empty or full.

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03/15/2023 Making a DIfference

Yoga inspires altruism. You discover that your own essence is the One Essence that is being all. Only when you give of yourself do you truly receive. When you’re changed on the inside, then you can truly work to benefit the world and all in it. It’s another reason to do more yoga.

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