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![6/23/24 Yoga Then and Now](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8015784/Podcast_Artwork_1b19gw_300x300.jpg)
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6/23/24 Yoga Then and Now
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Then - the United Nations established International Day of Yoga ten years ago. Now - How much has yoga grown? Enormously! Then – where does yoga come from? The texts say it comes from the beginning of human existence. Now – tantra is how we incorporate it into our lives. You don’t have to leave the world to find Shiva, for you are Shiva, and your life is Shiva, as is everyone in it. So why would you leave Shiva in order to find Shiva?
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![Sound Bite: Your Meditation](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
5 days ago
Sound Bite: Your Meditation
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5 days ago
Your meditations make you a better person. They make you a deeper person. You know if you drop a penny in a rain puddle it makes a big splash, but if you drop it in a deep lake there’s no splash, “bloop.” Every meditation, whether you were enjoying it or not... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
What does your meditation do for you? Satguru Swami Nirmalananda explains in this excerpt from her discourse at Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center on July 7, 2024.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Meditation Experiences” here.
![Sound Bite: Live This Way](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Sound Bite: Live This Way
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
I love to see you shining. You love to glow. Your eyes shine, the corners of your mouth turn up, your breath opens, your collarbones widen, and you get taller. Best of all, your mind is clear. You can understand the intricacies of the teachings I bring you. You understand your life and... — Satguru Swami Nirmalananda explains in this excerpt from her discourse at Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center on June 30, 2024.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Light & Shadow” here.
![Sound Bite: Divine Eyes](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Sound Bite: Divine Eyes
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
How do you get Divine Eyes?
Satguru Swami Nirmalananda explains in this excerpt from her discourse at Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center on June 23, 2024.
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Yoga - Then and Now" here.
![Teachings Article - The Blue Pearl](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Gurudevi_Teachings_Articles_PodBean_93vusx_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Teachings Article - The Blue Pearl
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Scientists have continued to refine the Big Bang theory including coming up with new terminology. They now say there was something there before the bang. What was there? What banged? It was a single point, a dot. They call it a singularity. In Sanskrit it is “bindu.” It still exists. It was not destroyed in the bang. You can find the bindu inside. It is blue. My Baba called it the “Blue Pearl.” When you see it in meditation, you are assured of liberation in this lifetime. It is the mystical form of...
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![Sound Bite: Guru's Grace](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Sound Bite: Guru's Grace
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
When Grace flows through the Guru, you receive blessings, yes, but the blessings are not about making your life better. They are about making you better. Gurukrpa, Guru’s Grace, makes you better, and then you make your life better. Gurukrpa shows you... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Baba Means Father" here.
![5/26/24 In-Sight](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8015784/Podcast_Artwork_1b19gw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
5/26/24 In-Sight
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Seeing inward means you’re seeing into the inner infinity of your own Divinity. More spiritual practice on the outside opens up your ability to see more deeply inward. The Shiva Sutras promise that, after Shaktipat, you will have amazing and powerful inner experiences. You go through stages in your spiritual development, internal processes and levels of attainment. They are predictable and reliable – and astonishing, delightful, amazing, and profoundly fulfilling…
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![Sound Bite: Shiva](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Sound Bite: Shiva
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Shiva. Shiva underlies all that exists and is being all that exists by dancing his Divine dance of creation, maintenance and destruction. Shiva conceals himself in you by making you infatuated with your powers. So, you think it’s you that’s so creative, so nurturing, so decisive, so productive. But Shiva is hidden within, where he is called... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Inner Source" here.
![Sound Bite: Like a Butterfly](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Sound Bite: Like a Butterfly
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
With anything in your life, I suggest you hold it like a butterfly. Open your hand and soften it. Get really still. Wait for the butterfly to land. Relax into a sweet stillness as it crawls around on your hand. It’s a really weird and funny feeling. Breathe smooth and steady, and... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Stepping into the Light" here.
![Sound Bite: You are More](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Sound Bite: You are More
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Whatever you think is possible through meditation, there is more. Whatever you think you are, you are more. Whatever you can imagine you will attain, there is more. When I met Baba, he’d already been enlightened for twenty-one years. As I studied with him, I watched… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Teachings Article - God's Grace](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Gurudevi_Articles9abb0_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Teachings Article - God's Grace
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
I ring the gong five times at the end of meditation, to invoke Grace. It is the fifth of God’s five powers. The first three are well-recognized: creation, maintenance and destruction. It is Shiva’s mystical teachings that reveal what has been concealed, his own additional powers. As an individualized form of Shiva, every human being has all five powers…
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![Sound Bite: The Fire of Yoga](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Sound Bite: The Fire of Yoga
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Baba said, “The Guru should be one who has fully realized the mantra and can charge it with conscious force. He should be a master of Shaktipat, possessing great spiritual power.” While Baba was describing what he found in Nityananda, he himself also exemplified his own description. His spiritual power uplifted thousands, including me. Simply sitting in his presence was like... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Revealing Power" here.
![Sound Bite: The Light of Consciousness](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Sound Bite: The Light of Consciousness
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
When I was the president of Yoga Alliance, I proposed that we give participating yoga teachers the initials RYT, meaning registered yoga teacher. But I explained that it comes from ṛta, the rightness, suchness, is-ness of things. As a yogi, as a meditator, you are diving into this Essence within, so that you embody the Light of Consciousness. You come to live your life by that inner gyroscope, so you always know which way is up.
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here
![Teachings Article - The Formless Being Form](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 10, 2024
Teachings Article - The Formless Being Form
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
The four-fold model of Consciousness details how the One, being formless, manifests into form. Shiva becomes the universe as well as everything else that exists. Your meditative process unravels all this, so you discover who you are. You are Shiva, who is being all while being you. All this and more unfolds within when you step onto the path of the Great Masters.
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![Sound Bite: The Inner Experience](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 06, 2024
Sound Bite: The Inner Experience
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
Simply repeat mantra. Why is it so simple? Because the enlivened mantra invokes the inner experience to arise within, which uplifts and transforms you completely. This process is called… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Just Know" here
![Chanting is Sublime 5/5/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_7ty5fa_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 05, 2024
Chanting is Sublime 5/5/24
Sunday May 05, 2024
Sunday May 05, 2024
While singing anything is proven to benefit you, yoga’s chants give you more. They saturate your mind with Consciousness. During the chant, you are steeping in Consciousness, and after – even for quite a while afterward – you enjoy what I call the halo effect. It’s like you have a halo – light shining around your head, because your mind is full of light. If they did brainwave studies on you before, during and after the chant, would they be able to see a difference? Yes. Can you feel the difference? It’s about feeling it. Yogis have been chanting for thousands of years. They knew about the benefits because they could feel them.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "CHANTING IS SUBLIME" here.
![God, Guru, and Self 4/28/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
God, Guru, and Self 4/28/24
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Sunday Apr 28, 2024
Whomever you think you are, there is a deeper dimension than you are probably basing yourself in – a deeper level that you’re not yet basing yourself in. When you base yourself in the foundational Beingness that underlies all of existence, everything blossoms forth from that foundational Beingness – Self, for your own Self is all-knowing all-embracing Divine Essence, the source of love and joy and bliss, and when you look inside, you’re right there – right here, Oh Shiva!
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "GOD, GURU, AND SELF" here.
![Everybody Loves Secrets 4/14/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Everybody Loves Secrets 4/14/24
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Well, I’m going to tell a secret. Shiva’s secret. He’s hiding in plain sight. He’s being you, looking through your eyes, hearing through your ears, experiencing all that you experience, and you don’t know. It’s the mystical secret from beyond time. Your secret that even you don’t know. Thus, knowing is the goal. I look at you and I see Shiva pretending to be less than Shiva, delighting in his assumed identity, but you don’t know what’s going on inside. Shh, it’s a secret. You are Shiva.
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Everybody Loves Secrets" here.
![Just Know 4/7/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Just Know 4/7/24
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
You don’t become Shiva you simply find that you already are. You let yourself know your own Self. You be you at the deepest and most expansive level within, oh Shiva. If you’re not able to do that just yet, it’s okay. I have more words and more practices that will get you there. Actually, it’s getting you here, right here. There’s no “there” to go to. It’s right here, right inside. So, you’re being you more fully, more wholly, more authentically you.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Just Know" here.
![Teachings Article - Three Ways to Get Enlightened](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Teachings Article - Three Ways to Get Enlightened
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
There are three paths to enlightenment. The first is cultivating the knowing or feeling of being Shiva. The second path is to fill your mind with the energy of Consciousness by doing more mantra. The third path is to delve into the yoga practices that you resonate with. Most importantly, the support and guidance of a Master will help you on your path to enlightenment.
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![Teachings Article - Duality is Reality](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Teachings Article - Duality is Reality
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Your mind lives in multiple realities simultaneously. Unfortunately, this is called delusion. The fictional events in your mind are real. They have real effects on your mind and body. When you are not yet enlightened, you think God is separate from you. This is called duality. But there is only One Divine Reality, who is the source and substance of all that exists.
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Monday Mar 04, 2024
Sound Bite: In Process
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
If all you ever do is familiar stuff, the rest of your life will be a replay of what you’ve done so far. Is this what you want? Or do you want something more? People sometimes tell me it feels weird, it’s strange. Yes. It means you aren’t who you used to be. And you’re not yet who you’re going to be. You’re in a process and you…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Duality & Delusion 3/3/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Duality & Delusion 3/3/24
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
To be a great cook, you learn from a great cook. To be a great musician, you learn from a great musician. To be a great golfer, you learn from a great golfer. To be a great Being, to live in the expanded awareness of your own depths and dimensionality, you find such a Being to get it from. That’s what I did. And Baba explained it, when we keep the company of great Beings, duality turns into unity and disparity into equality.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "DUALITY & DELUSION" here.
![Sound Bite: Sail Through Life](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Sound Bite: Sail Through Life
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Most people invest a tremendous amount of mental and emotional energy in fear and desire. And when their desire is thwarted, they get angry. So, they are either anxious or angry most of the time. Sometimes even both anxious and angry, at the same time. But with yoga, your anxiety goes down. Your desires are...
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Body Mind Continuum 2/18/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Body Mind Continuum 2/18/24
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
In other words, your thoughts and feelings affect your pranic field. And your pranic field determines the condition of your physical body. Your mind is in charge, unfortunately. Or fortunately, depending on how you use your mind. Adi Shankaracharya gives us 11 verses on the physical body, only two verses on the pranic field, and one of them says we already know this well. And then he gives us 16 verses on the mind. Why so many about the mind? Because your mind is complicated, isn’t it? You need help with it, yes?
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Body Mind Continuum" here
![Teachings Article - Aura](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Teachings Article - Aura
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Your energy field, your aura, extends beyond the edges of your body. It enlivens and sustains your physical body, but it depends on how your energies are flowing, which is a function of your mind. Yoga’s goal is Self-Knowingness, which gives you the bliss, as well as the mastery of your mind, your energies, and your body.
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![Body & Breath 2/11/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Body & Breath 2/11/24
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Your body is a living body because of your presence in it. Your presence in your body gives it energy, the life force that makes it be a living body. In Sanskrit, this is called prana. There is cosmic prana, and personal prana. Cosmic prana keeps the whole universe alive. This is a living, breathing universe. That's one of the reasons we like looking at the stars at night. We're being bathed in cosmic prana, the life force of the universe. Walking in the woods, we're being filled by the prana of the forest. Personal prana is your prana, your energy, your life force. It keeps your body alive.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Body & Breath" here.
![Sound Bite: That Inner Doorway](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_7ty5fa_300x300.jpg)
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Sound Bite: That Inner Doorway
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
The way out is the way in. Once that inner door has been opened for you, you can see inward to a whole new level. You can feel your way. You can find your way in there, which is in here. And once that inner door is opened…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Arise! Awake! 2/4/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Arise! Awake! 2/4/24
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
When you spend time with one who lives in the light full time, you start to perceive your own. And then there are the lightning bolts. Shaktipat is like a lightning bolt. The Guru infuses you with the Divine energy they live in. It's not the Guru's energy. It's God's energy but the Guru is God's agent, dispensing that energy wherever God says. So when you receive this Divine energy, your gratitude goes to God. Yet you wouldn't be receiving it so easily unless the Guru made it available, so your gratitude is to the Guru as well.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Arise! Awake!" here
![Sound Bite: Explore Within](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Sound Bite: Explore Within
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
It was yoga that gave me the ability to see beyond the blame game. As my gaze lifted up out of my past, even out of my future, and turned inward, I discovered dimensionality and resiliency I had never dreamed of. It was clear to me that I could point to someone specific for this...
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Teachings Article - Embodied Consciousness](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Teachings Article - Embodied Consciousness
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
The purpose of yoga is to empower your discovery that the whole of Consciousness is hidden within you. The goal is to discover your own source, so you can enjoy the bliss of Consciousness while embodied. You are fully, wholly, and completely made of light. You truly are more than you think you are.
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![Sound Bite: Self is You](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Sound Bite: Self is You
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
You must experience Self in order to know Self. But where is it? What color is it? How big is this thing we call Self? It’s inside. It has no color and all colors, and beyond color. It’s bigger than the universe, but fully inside you. And it is not…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Choosing Consciousness 1/7/24](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8015784/Podcast_Artwork_1b19gw_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Choosing Consciousness 1/7/24
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
You get to choose. The creative power of Consciousness lies intact within you. You can sculpt time into whatever shape you’d like it to be. You can be up before the sunrise doing yoga and meditation, so the inner sun comes up with the outer sun. You can bring that light into every corner of your life, basing your decisions and actions in the inner illumination that flows forth as love and creativity.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "CHOOSING CONSCIOUSNESS" here.
![Sound Bite: Shine All the Time](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Sound Bite: Shine All the Time
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
While you probably focus much of your time and energy on what you do, yoga focuses on who you be. When you settle into your own humanness, something shines through. Hidden within every human being is the light of Consciousness. This is your own light shining through. This is your best side. I’d like for you to shine all the time. More than me wanting you to....
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Sound Bite: The Most Wonderful Time of Year](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sound Bite: The Most Wonderful Time of Year
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
For 20 years, this has been researched — proving that generosity makes you, the giver, happier. It even improves your physical health measurably and increases life satisfaction. And it doesn’t have to be big gifts. A yogi told me about baking cookies and delivering them to the neighbors — a long-standing tradition. Just waving another driver into the lane in front of you increases your well-being. Holding the door for someone to walk through, running an errand or driving someone where they need to go, picking up trash off the sidewalk — there are so many things simple things you can do to make the world a better place, and they make you happier. Why do we have to wait for December for this to happen?
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" here.
![Teachings Article - Sharing Your Happiness](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Teachings Article - Sharing Your Happiness
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
When you base yourself in the deeper dimensions of your own being, bliss is ever arising. Consciousness arises within and overflows into your life, becoming an open-heartedness that motivates your actions. Keep your bliss tank full so you can give more, do more and share more with others.
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![Sound Bite: Your True Nature](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Sound Bite: Your True Nature
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
We haven’t found the real abode of bliss. We haven’t learned how to obtain it. And for this reason, we remain unhappy. The closer we get to the inner Self, the more happiness we experience. Happiness is your true nature. Happiness is inherent to you. Your own Self is the embodiment of happiness. Like ice is the embodiment of water, your own body, mind, heart and soul are the embodiment of Consciousness. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Sound Bite: One Thing](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Sound Bite: One Thing
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Whatever you want, I promise you that yoga and meditation will help. It’s very simple. I offer you this one thing, yoga and meditation, and you’ll get what you want. When different people want different things, I don’t have to change up what I offer. These practices give you an inner opening that fulfills your desires…
– Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sound Bite: Authentically You
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
This meditative system is not about emptying. It’s about filling, but you don’t fill the pot from outside. Shaktipat initiation makes the space inside expand, even glow and arise to fill you from the inside out. You get so full that you overflow, filling the space around you as well, just like a light bulb shines light for all around. And you’re so full that you don’t feel needy anymore. Need, greed, and fear dissolve in the light of Consciousness that is arising within, setting you free. In this extraordinary freedom, you are free from what used to hold you back and keep you small – plus you are free to love, to care and to share.
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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Sound Bite: Karmic Repercussions
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
It’s not the action, it’s the desire. You want to be noticed. You want to be liked. You want to be appreciated. Only because you don’t know the Self. When your actions are motivated by need, they have karmic repercussions. Karma-free action, this is what Krishna is talking about. You have certainly done many karma-free actions in your life, but you probably don’t...
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Friday Nov 24, 2023
Sound Bite: One Who Knows
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
I felt the truth of it. I felt something deep inside me as the teacher shared: “You are Consciousness. Your own essence is Divine. Your core beingness is Beingness Itself. What you are looking for is you.” But you need help in finding you. You need one who knows to show you what is hidden…
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Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sound Bite Action Is An Imperative
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Action is not a choice; action is an imperative. If you don’t have enough to do, you get bored. And when you get bored, life loses it’s meaning and purpose. Your light dims, you even become less intelligent. Boredom is not good for the soul.
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Friday Nov 17, 2023
10/29/2023 I Wanted to Know
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
You are made of Divine light, but how do you come to know? By the Grace of one who knows. That one is called “Guru.” The Divine energy of revelation is called Grace, for which the Sanskrit word is “Guru.” Through the Grace of a Satguru a person comes to know their own Self and is transformed. When you know, who will you be?
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Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Teachings Article - Why Do You Do What You Do?
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
What is it that motivates you? When you look outward for fulfillment, you don’t see your inherent inner fullness. Develop your ability to see who you are, while you are in your life and all its realities. Let Divine inspiration fuel your life, giving you answers as well as the love that makes everything possible.
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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Sound Bite: Start Inside
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Something happened in me, for me, with me, to me, when I sat with him. Something I couldn’t access so well on my own. So I spent as much time with him as possible. But I didn’t see God in him. Not in the beginning. If you can’t see God in a God-realized Being, where can you see God? You have to start inside. First you find God inside, then you see... – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sound Bite: What Do You Want
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
What do you want? Whatever you want, I’ll promise you that yoga and meditation will help. It’s really wonderful that I can offer you this one thing, yoga, and meditation, and you’ll get what you want. When different people want different things, I don’t have to change up what I offer. These teachings and practices give you an inner opening that fulfills your desires, whatever they are. One thing — and you get it all. Pretty amazing
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Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sound Bite: Action and Reaction
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
When you know your own Self, you will still have a generous heart. You will still participate in the world. You will still care and share. And your actions will make a difference in other people’s lives. But you’re like the masked man, not looking for their appreciation. You do it because it’s there to be done.
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Sound Bite: Guru
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
One who gives the upwelling light of your own Self is called Guru. If someone else gives you the upwelling light of your own Self, then call them Guru. Personally, I never found anyone else who did. I definitely found people who caused upwelling feelings in me. Emotions ranging from happiness to pain, ranging from anger to love, ranging from fascination to fear. But no one else gave me my Self. No one but Baba. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Oct 16, 2023
Sound Bite: Once You are Enlightened
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Once you are enlightened, you will still have a body. And it will still experience heat and cold, as well as pleasure and pain. Oh Arjuna, manage to endure them, by seeing that you are more than your senses… You’re not waiting for life to make you happy, because you already are. Happier than happy, you live in the continuing flow of the bliss of Consciousness. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Friday Oct 13, 2023
Teachings Article - Just Do It!
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Bring your spirituality into the world. It’s not about fulfilling your desires; it’s about serving others. You choose to share, to give, to live in a spirit of generosity. Your life becomes filled by the river of Grace. You see the bigger picture and choose to operate from that higher perspective. Yoga is skillful action. Just do it!
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