Experience how easy it can be to explore the inner depths of your own beingness with these Satsangs (teachings) from Satguru Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati of Svaroopa Vidya Ashram.
Episodes
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
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.
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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
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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Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Yoga works on dissolving your resistances, melting your negativities, and freeing you from your fears. Once you get past the ways you negate yourself, you discover the vast dimensionality of your own existence. Gurudevi Nirmalananda clears your access to the inner light that is always within, so that it will shine and illumine your mind from the inside outward. Learn how to stop using external things to give you a sense of self-worth. What if you said “yes” to life more often?
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Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Yoga’s poses and breathing practices gave me a new way to live in my physical body, inside my own skin, in a more enlivened, more relaxed, and more powerful way. The chanting, meditation, and sutra study gave me a new way to live in my mind, which is part of being inside my own skin. Being present in my own presence with my mind contributing to the value of experience rather than tearing me down. Oh mind! – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Yoga describes freedom as an inner experience, living in the knowing of your inherent Divinity. In these teachings, Gurudevi Nirmalananda introduces three systematic processes that move you through the stages of inner expansion. Which of the three you use depends on your starting point. Discover the light and bliss of your own Being and allow it to fill your heart and mind. That is the true goal of freedom that yoga promises.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Overwhelm is one of the most important experiences of life, and if you allow yourself to surrender into it, it becomes a breakthrough. You cannot reinstall the barbed wire and the armor you’ve been used to hiding behind. You are seen. You are known.
You are appreciated in your uniqueness and your fullness. A fullness that is already there and always has been. Yoga doesn’t fill you up, like you fill your car’s gas tank. Yoga gives you access to the inner fullness that is already there. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
When people are numb, they look for something to make them feel alive. They want exciting or entertaining stuff. Something that will stir up their prana, their life energy, so they feel alive. But a yogi feels alive all the time. How’s that? Think of it this way, do you feel more alive after a yoga class? After a meditation? – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
That’s what you really want, a breakthrough: a shift in perception, an insight or realization that makes you “get it”. Suddenly you’re free… It’s true, we want to fly, to shatter the shackles that keep us bound. It’s the norm to live in your agendas, entangled in emotions and chasing wisps of thought. But the desire for freedom is there, inside. So many popular musicians sing, “I want to be free!” Yes! Freedom! Yoga is all about freedom.
Read by Swami Prajñananda.
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Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
It’s like you sit in the dark, in your room, counting and keeping track of all the limiting thoughts, memories, and fears. You keep an inventory. But since it’s dark, you can’t write anything down, so you just keep it all in your mind. And you keep reviewing it over and over, so you know what you’ve got. All your pains and sorrows. And the Guru shines light in there. Light banishes dark. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
He said, “This yoga is not a Guru cult, but in every field, one needs a guide. On the spiritual path, too, a Guru is necessary. At certain times in one’s life, healers, psychologists, psychics and professors may all be necessary. In the same way, in spiritual life, one needs a guide.” If you want what the Guru has to give, then you see that the Guru has it, and offers it. That moves you in deep ways. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
Do you really think that you still are who you were as a child? How long ago was that — a few years or maybe even decades ago?… I see you differently. I see the light shining through you. I see the light of Consciousness shining as you. Can’t you see who you really are? – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Sunday May 22, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Whether I loved others or I allowed myself to feel the love that they had for me, the ache in my heart was untouched... The yearning. It’s so painful, yet it is the only thing that keeps you alive.
This is an audio excerpt from the intro video for Gurudevi's Telecourse "Enlightenment: Stages & Steps" - TL-ESS Intro Video 220512 | Svaroopa Yoga and Meditation.
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Psychology is the study of the mind, while spirituality is about getting beyond your mind. Psychology analyzes mind and emotions. By contrast, seekers are trying to get past their mind. They seek a spiritual experience, an expansive and blissful moment, something that transports them afar. Yoga says neither is enough. What you really want, and what you really need, is to know...
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Sunday May 08, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
When you were a child, you outgrew your clothes every summer. Growth means you leave some things behind. In adulthood, the process is more internal. You outgrow limited attitudes. You outgrow your fears. They can no longer hold you. You lose the ability to hold a grudge or blame others for your situation. Your heart grows, along with your willingness to participate. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
You want something more. You want to become enlightened. When you put your mind and heart into Consciousness and truly participate in the process, you will find the Divine Essence you have always been. To become enlightened, you need to spend more time dissolving limitations than installing them. Gurudevi explains how to base yourself deeper within your own Self. Thus, you outgrow old and limiting attitudes.
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Everyone matters. But no one person matters any more than any other person. Each and every one matters fully. This is the mystical perspective. You have this perspective when you are experiencing your own Self. The One Divine Essence shines through as every single being and every single thing. They are all lovable. They are all to be...
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Bliss is not the goal. Consciousness is. This can be confusing because most seekers are looking for bliss. But Consciousness is what matters. Still, bliss is incredibly important. Why? The need for bliss is built into you. Your body is hard-wired for bliss; it’s called your parasympathetic nervous system. Your body has bliss software; it’s called your...
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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Yoga shows you how to look inward to take you beyond who you think you are. You are the one who is having the experience, you are not the experience. Gurudevi Nirmalananda gives you the key to understanding the ever-existent Reality that is being the universe while being you.
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Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Every being consists of the same essence, the One Reality which has become all. Gurudevi explains the multi-dimensionality you find within and the importance of understanding this human capacity. Learn how to live in the knowing of the One within.
Read by Yogyananda.
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Chanting Guru Mantras
By Joan Bragar
I want to chant along during the opening of Ashram offerings both online and in person. I feel more part of it when I join in the chant of “Guru Mantras.” Consequently, more shakti moves through me.
I’ve been working on memorizing them on my morning walk. On Track 5 of Spiritual Hunger & Fulfillment, I get to hear Gurudevi’s beautiful voice repeating them for a full 25 minutes.
This is a sample of that audio.
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Honoring the One Who Needs No Praise
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Enjoy these joyful songs of praise, dedicated to the one who needs no praise. They honor the Gurus of my lineage, Baba Muktananda and Bhagavan Nityananda.
We usually do a candle flame ceremony when chanting them. Yet you can chant them or listen to them anytime, with or without waving the light.
Jyota se Jyota — Light my Inner Flame
Gurudeva Hamara Pyara — Our Beloved Guru
I made these recordings several years ago, specifically for us to use in Ashram programs. People hearing them and chanting along have been asking if they could get them somewhere. And now you can!
The title comes from Shree Guru Gita, intro verse 2:
Nana-vidhani chanda.msi
"srii-guru-paramatma devata.
Verses with diff’rent melodies
honor the One who needs no praise.
Satguru, the Supreme Self is
the Divine One being honored.
Hear me chanting this verse in Sanskrit and the commentary on it in my Guru Gita Podcast.
And fill your heart with joy by buying these splendid songs of praise! They will fill your day with light when you play them.
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
“Numinous — expansive, holy, sacred, all-knowing, filled with God.” But who or what is God? Listen to Gurudevi answer this important question. Learn about your own God-ness. Discover how to live in the inner knowing that yoga describes, the knowing of your own Divine Essence.
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Where have you come from and why are you here? Gurudevi explains the origins of the universe as described by yoga’s ancient sages. She delves into the mystical practices of yoga and discusses how these answer the most powerful and basic questions of your existence.
Read by Swami Samvidaananda.
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Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
What is this thing we call life? It is the energy of aliveness (prana) that makes you and everything and everyone alive. Yoga says this entire universe is created out of Shiva’s bliss. Your own life is your personal version of Shiva’s cosmic dance. Find your own Self, your deepest essence, and take it with you everywhere you go. Then you don’t merely survive, you thrive!
Read by Swami Sahajananda.
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Sunday Sep 05, 2021
Sunday Sep 05, 2021
“The Self does not die,” Gurudevi explains. The one thing that continues without end is the One Reality from which all has come. You are not something that was created. God did not create you, but became you, and is being you now. You are that which never dies. Your own essence, your own Self, is immortal. The purpose of human life is to know your own Self.
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Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
You were born to know your Self. Without this inner knowing, you feel incomplete. Gurudevi names the 12 darshanas (ways of seeing) that are the different approaches to the meaning and goals of life. She describes non-dualistic Kashmiri Shaivism and her own Guru as revealing the mystery that has been hidden for lifetimes — the Truth of who you are, Consciousness incarnate.
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Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Gurudevi tells her story —she was propelled by an inner yearning that led her to her Guru. He revealed the mystical dimensions within her in an instant, through an energy blast called Shaktipat. Then, he explained it all so her mind could understand. He laid out the answers as clearly as a breadcrumb trail leading to her own Self. Listen to learn more.
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Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Gurudevi tells us, “As glorious as love can be, it’s never enough. It’s not a substitute for your own Self.” At its root, the feeling of emptiness comes from feeling separate from God. Yoga is a science of spiritual development that takes you inward, reconnecting you to your inherent Divinity. But how do you get there by yourself? You need help from an enlightened being. Only one who knows the One Reality can give you the inner experience of your own Self. That experience truly is an inner homecoming.
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Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Do you want to break free from your limitations and fears? In this teachings article Gurudevi will help you find an easy path to getting past yourself and tapping into the power of the deeper dimensions within. Yoga gives you the ability to listen and learn from your own inner knowing.
Read by Swami Samvidaananda.
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Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
There is an easier path to spiritual enlightenment. Gurudevi has dedicated her life to serving those who yearn to become Self-Realized. In this article she describes a way to awaken your inner power of upliftment. You can weave regular yogic practices into your daily routine. Learn the easy path from one who knows.
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Yoga develops your power of perception so that you can see life as more than the day-to-day practicalities while truly being a part of all that exists. Gurudevi teaches a pathway beyond the familiar limited way of living to the mystical realms within yourself. She explains how through yoga you can find the deep interconnectedness between yourself, the world and more.
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Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Gurudevi asks, “How can intellect (enlightenment) and heart (devotion) possibly go together?” This article explains why both are necessary for the full experience of the highest. In a Shaktipat tradition the first step is to have the experience you seek. Yet once you’ve been awakened, practice and study are not enough. Devotion is also an important part of the process. The tantric pathway to the goal involves both your head and heart. The highest level a human can attain is recognizing their own Divine Essence and expressing it in loving service to the world.
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Gurudevi explains that the yogic sense of equanimity is about more than even-mindedness. Equanimity is one of the qualities of being established in the Self. This inward deepening into Self frees you from emotional reactivity. Describing her own experience, Gurudevi says, “Yoga gave me a superpower: the ability to choose how I wanted to feel. I was freed from the ups and downs.” Yet equanimity is not the goal. It is a sign that you are deepening within as you progress toward enlightenment.
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Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Bliss is your inner foundation. The bliss of pure beingness underlies your mind. Gurudevi discusses the thirty-five levels in which a human being can be aware. You can experience your own blissful beingness while experiencing all the levels at the same time. In this Shakipat tradition you can have it all.
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