Episodes
![Sound Bite: Happiness and Bliss](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_7ty5fa_300x300.jpg)
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Sound Bite: Happiness and Bliss
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
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
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here
![Honoring the Guru 10/1/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Honoring the Guru 10/1/23
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
It's not about learning, as important as that is. It's not about becoming, for you already are the Self. It's just that you don't yet live in the Knowingness of your own Beingness, not all the time. Not yet. The One who gives you your own Self — more than this, the One who opens up the power of Consciousness to arise within you, Kundalini — such a one is worthy of this revered title, Guru.
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Honoring the Guru" here.
![Sound Bite: Your Bliss Tank](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Sound Bite: Your Bliss Tank
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
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
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here
![Beyond Pain 9/17/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Beyond Pain 9/17/23
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Pain and pleasure are two of what yoga describes as the Pair of Opposites, dvandva, the pairs of opposites. Yoga acknowledges that most people bounce back and forth between the opposites like a tennis ball. People pursue pleasure to escape pain. The end of pain is a goal unto itself, yet a pain-free life is not a goal. No one wants merely freedom from pain. People want happiness, not mere pleasure, not merely freedom from pain. Yet, you can be happy when you’re in pain. Confused yet? The key to understanding this is to recognize that pleasure and happiness are not the same thing.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Beyond Pain" here.
![Teachings Article - Pleasure, Happiness & Bliss](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8015784/Podcast_Artwork_1b19gw_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Teachings Article - Pleasure, Happiness & Bliss
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: Happiness in Action](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_7ty5fa_300x300.jpg)
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Sound Bite: Happiness in Action
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
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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![Teachings Article - A Juicy Life](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Teachings Article - A Juicy Life
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
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](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Sound Bite: What a Guru Does
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
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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![Happiness 8/6/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Happiness 8/6/23
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Even when you’ve attained ultimate happiness, life continues. This is the good news. It means you can become enlightened and still have a life. And you get to choose what your life will be full of. You’ll still fulfill your dharma. You will still have possessions and financial resources — maybe you’ll manage them even better. You’ll still enjoy pleasures. But you’ll be you while you do these things. These wonderful things are all part of life in this world, but these things don’t make you who you are.
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Happiness" here.
![Sound Bite: Perfectly Imperfect](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Sound Bite: Perfectly Imperfect
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
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.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here
![Teachings Article - Where Are You Going?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Teachings Article - Where Are You Going?
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: Illumined Actions](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Sound Bite: Illumined Actions
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
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![Sound Bite: My Life Was Changed](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_p73x5u_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Sound Bite: My Life Was Changed
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
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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![Teachings Article - Your Mind’s True Capacity](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Teachings Article - Your Mind’s True Capacity
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
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?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Sound Bite: Who Knew?
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: The Promise of Freedom](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_title_photo_1400_1400_fw7ipr_300x300.png)
Monday May 29, 2023
Sound Bite: The Promise of Freedom
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: Steady State](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_7ty5fa_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Sound Bite: Steady State
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
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?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Gurudevi_Articles9abb0_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 15, 2023
Teachings Article - What Kind of Karma?
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: A Child of God](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sound Bite: A Child of God
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
There were times that your mother or your father, or both of them, truly understood you, supported and guided you in a way that met your needs. You were loved and nourished in just the right way. And there were other times, I don’t know about you, but I certainly wondered, who are these people? I am a child of God so how did I end up here. Your only problem is that you didn’t have perfect karma. You had the karma to be born to imperfect people. You got what you earned in your prior lifetime and your birth family served as your launching pad. But when you truly launch and when you fly into the stratosphere, you need someone who understands where you’re going. That’s the Guru.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "A Child of God" here.
![Sound Bite: Look Deeper Within](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_title_photo_1400_1400_fw7ipr_300x300.png)
Monday May 01, 2023
Sound Bite: Look Deeper Within
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
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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![Freedom From Fear 4/30/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Freedom From Fear 4/30/23
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
How would you feel about the one who set you free? The gift is the gift of freedom. Freedom from karma. Freedom from fear. Freedom from bondage, from being what others think you should be — even freedom from what you think you should be. Freedom to know and to be That which is being all. Freedom to love fully, to give generously, to serve with abandon, to care so deeply and to share the most important thing — the bliss of Beingness — your own Self.
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Freedom From Fear" here.
![Sound Bite: You are Immortal](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_title_photo_1400_1400_fw7ipr_300x300.png)
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Sound Bite: You are Immortal
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
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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![Teachings Article - Changing Your Future](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Gurudevi_Articles9abb0_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Teachings Article - Changing Your Future
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
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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![Sound Bite: Steady and Deep](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_title_photo_1400_1400_fw7ipr_300x300.png)
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Sound Bite: Steady and Deep
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
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
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "SACRED, HOLY, PURE" here
![Sound Bite: Inner Answers](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Sound Bite: Inner Answers
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
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
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "KNOWLEDGE IS FOOD" here
![Sound Bite: Propelled Deeper Within](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Sound Bite: Propelled Deeper Within
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Most people think that meditation is about what you do with your mind. But Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation is about using your mind to get beyond your mind. I’ll teach you and, for many of you, remind you to use mantra during meditation. When you fill your mind with the mantra, you are propelled deeper within. In that depth, you find your own Divine Essence. This is called meditation on your own Self. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "GIVING AND RECEIVING" here
![Giving and Receiving 3/5/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Giving and Receiving 3/5/23
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
How could he give out Enlightenment? How could he do that? What’s his secret? In one of his Q&A books, He answered a question about this. Someone asked Baba about the many people who were at one of his many programs, “Will they all get enlightened?” Baba said, “No.” He said, “Most of them aren’t willing to do the work.” Wait! Wait. You mean there’s work involved? Hey, it not just a gift – that He or I or anyone can just give you enlightenment? Well, both are true. That’s the point of having a Shaktipat Guru — someone who can just give you enlightenment. But it’s like if I pour water into your cupped hands. How much of it can you hold?
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Giving and Receiving" here.
![Sound Bite: Meditation Matters Most](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Sound Bite: Meditation Matters Most
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Keep going. Keep doing your practices. Most importantly, keep meditating. It’s meditation that matters most. All the other practices help. They help you with your body. They help you with your mind. But most importantly, they help you with your meditation. Even if you haven’t found the universe within, somehow, you get it when I tell you it’s there. You already have a sense of the truth of it. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "LEARNING YOUR LESSONS" here
![Teachings Article - Choosing Your State](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Teachings Article - Choosing Your State
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
You can choose your attitude as well as your words and actions. You are choosing how to live and who to be. Use your mind without losing your inner state. Your mind functions with more clarity and creativity, when it is rooted in your deeper essence called Self. Your choices are based in Consciousness. So is your life. So are you.
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![Sound Bite: Where Is the Happiness?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Sound Bite: Where Is the Happiness?
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Bliss happens inside. Happiness happens inside. You already know this when the weather is just right, or when everybody is doing exactly what you want. Ha! And it all works so you can be happy. Where do you feel the happiness? Where is it? It’s inside. Happiness is just a hint of the bliss that’s a little deeper within. So go for the source. Dive inside, and then bring your bliss with you. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "CLARITY & COMPASSION" here
![Clarity & Compassion 2/5/23](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Clarity & Compassion 2/5/23
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
How do you get Divine eyes? Meditate. When you have Divine eyes, you have clarity, but you also have compassion. You see that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, is inherently lovable. They are inherently worthy of respect, even if they don't know it and don't act like it. They are, each and every one of them, doing what they know to do. And they may need some help with that, and you can see it. It doesn't mean that you have to do all the things that they need.
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Clarity & Compassion" here.
![Sound Bite: Inner Spaces](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Sound Bite: Inner Spaces
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Now, my spiritual geography might be different than yours. When I think of God, or when I look for God, I look in the inner spaces of my own being. I remember when I used to look outside for God. I confess that I didn’t really know where to look. I’d look up toward the sky, and if there were clouds, I’d wonder, “Well, which one is God on?” And if the sky were clear, well, in that vast space, where would I find God? – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Teachings Article - Being a Yogi in the World](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Teachings Article - Being a Yogi in the World
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Being a yogi in the world doesn’t mean withdrawing from the world. What seems to be only a mundane world is divinely designed to engage you fully. When you ground your sense of self in the deeper dimension of your own being, you are you, even in the midst of life’s realities. Bring the light of your own Being into the world.
Read by Aanandi Ross.
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![Sound Bite: Experience Your Own Self](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Sound Bite: Experience Your Own Self
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
That’s why everything we do here is to give you this extraordinary inner experience, the experience of God within. God being you. This is the experience of your own Self. This is what meditation is about, and all of yoga’s other wonderful practices. From poses through breathing, chanting, seva, and certainly the study of the teachings, they all prepare you for this experience. The whole point is for you to have an experience of your own Self. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "THE WORLD NEEDS MORE YOGIS" here.
![Sound Bite: What You Put into It](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Sound Bite: What You Put into It
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
To pour your energies toward something that has meaning to you. To volunteer your time, and do simple tasks that support the Ashram and the Guru’s work. It makes your life more meaning filled. The meaning of life is found in what you put into it, not what you get out of it. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
![Teachings Article - Wholeness](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/Swami-0056-HR-1_vqbvnr_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Teachings Article - Wholeness
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Yoga is about an integrated way of living. It makes you able to express yourself powerfully, yet lovingly at the same time. The essence of tantra is that you know your own Capital-S Self while doing all the things that your many small-s selves do. You are you, at all levels of your being. In your wholeness, you see the sacred in yourself and all that exists.
Read by Swami Samvidaananda
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![Sound Bite: Your Notebook](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Sound Bite: Your Notebook
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
All the papers have painful stories written on them. Some of them are true, and some of them are just your take on things. You carry your notebook with you everywhere you go. You read and re-read the stories, and share them with other people, even if you’ve shared them before… Instead, I recommend you take a new notebook, even a small one. Like the one we have for newcomers, our welcome journal notebook. And, all those lovely blank pages, and all of those empty spaces, you can write mantra. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Sound Bite: Spending Time with a Saint](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Sound Bite: Spending Time with a Saint
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
If you don’t know your Self yet, not all the time, and if you don’t live in the bliss of Consciousness yet, not all the time, what’s the best way to get there? My Baba said if you want to become a siddha, a realized master, you have to spend enough time with a siddha. Really? Just spending time with a saint makes you more saintly? Yes! He described it this way. If you keep the company of a saint, your inner being changes. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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![Sound Bite: Prana](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8015784/220608_Podbean_Sound_Bites_photo_SNS_approved_967x967_w9vdz2_300x300.jpg)
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Sound Bite: Prana
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
“Prana is the most important element in the body. When the prana leaves the body, it becomes worth only a few pennies,” my Baba explained. Prana is what makes your body a living body. Prana makes your heart beat. It makes your eyes able to see. It makes your breath move.
It’s interesting that we use yogic breathing to move your prana, yet it is the prana that makes your breath move. Your breath is at a crossroads, a place where you can use the physical to affect the subtle. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Teachings Article - A Living Temple
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Your body is a living temple, housing the One Divine Reality. Yoga helps you develop your ability to tune in and to discern the difference between your purpose and your desires. Then your worldly actions will be an outer expression of your inner peace and dimensionality. Your life will be a celebration of the interweaving of the Divine in the mundane.
Hear it read by Yogaratna Yogyananda.
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Monday Oct 31, 2022
Sound Bite: Self Is the Source
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
The Guru makes himself into what he himself is, the Self. And when you have your own Self, you have everything. For your own Self is the source of joy, the source of love, the source of healing, the source of life itself, the source of your own existence, the source of all existence, the source of the universe. By delving within, you discover that it is all contained within you. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Sound Bite: Meditation
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Some people think that meditation is about reducing stress, which is true. Others say that meditation is about healing, or improving your relationships, which also does happen. Others say that meditation is about equanimity in the face of difficulties. Good stuff! Yet, all of this happens because meditation gives you your own Self. When you are your own Self, you are not as stressed by stressful things. Your body and your mind heal more deeply and more easily. You are more present in your relationships. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Sound Bite: Get in Your Body
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
We begin with, “Notice your toes… all ten toes… all at the same time. Become aware of both feet… outside and inside.” We talk you through the process of becoming present in your own body. Right here, in this body, in this place, in this moment in time. You see, your body is never in the future. It is never in the past. When you get in your body, you are present in the present moment. It’s a fantastic pathway to the here and now. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Teachings Article - Consciousness Imprints
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Meditation leaves Consciousness imprints in your mind. Not only does your mind become filled with Consciousness, each of these impressions dissolves prior impressions, freeing you from your history. The goal is to always live based in the Consciousness that you are. Yoga makes you able to harness the energy of your mind and pour it toward your inherent Divinity.
Hear it read by Swami Prajñananda.
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
9/11/22 I, Me, My, Mine
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Your focus is on your mind and heart, your body and life. But you are the one who HAS a mind, who has a body, who has a life, who has a past and who has a future. Yoga says you are more than who you think you are. You are that existence which is being all that exists. There is more to you on the inside than the outside can ever convey.
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
Sound Bite: Filled From the Inside
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Yes, my body needs care. But here I am in my seventies, with less aches and pains than I had in my thirties. I don’t have to press the reset button. I don’t have to push myself to get going. Why? Because I’m filled from the inside. Baba gave me that. That which is called That. That reality that pervades all of existence, and also pervades inside my own existence, and inside yours. There is only one. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Teachings Article - Perception & Action
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Yoga says that you are the perceiver, not what you perceive. Know who you are, even while you are perceiving and acting. You can use your mind without getting trapped in it. Let the light of your own Self shine through your mind and into the world, so all your actions are based in love and generosity.
Read by Aanandi Ross.
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
8/14/2022 I was Clueless
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Shaktipat is an initiation that awakens your own Divine energy within, but you need to nurture it afterward, by repeating the mantra of this tradition. The mantra is powerful due to the energy installed in it by the Guru. It is filled with the Light of Consciousness. Every time you say the mantra you draw on the Guru’s energy, which helps you know your own Self.
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Monday Sep 05, 2022
Sound Bite: Yoga is Amazing
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Yoga is amazing. You step on to the path followed by other yogis for millenia, and you just put one foot in front of the other. How limiting that sounds. Yet, it is the path to freedom and its fruits are reliable. I was standing outside the other day, watching some of our regular yoga students as they walked to their cars. They moved so freely. They called to each other and laughed so freely. Doing the poses makes such a difference… – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Sound Bite: Stay in Your Own Skin
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
You’re used to jumping out of your own skin. Moving forward into the space in front of your body. Racing against time, and trying to prove your worth. Instead, stay in your own skin. Be present in the space of your own body. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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