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
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
What is a serene and luminous experience? It’s a transcendent moment, beyond time and space, full of peace and bliss. Gurudevi cautions not to become dependent on external circumstances to find such an experience. Instead, look inside. In remembering a serene and luminous experience, you reinstate it. These experiences are memorable because they trigger an inner shift. They deepen you into Consciousness, the Consciousness that you already are.
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Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Patanjali defines yoga as the stilling of your mind’s activities. So how do you get there? Gurudevi explores the power and effectiveness of a yogic “Quick Fix” to quiet your mind. Even more, she instructs you on why, when, and how to use it. She also delves into the differences between breathing practices and mantra. The pause between the breaths bypasses the mind. Repeating the enlivened mantra prepares you for meditation by engaging your mind in the process. Now you have even more tools in your yogic toolbox.
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Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Gurudevi offers a specific practice from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras that uplifts your life and purifies your mind. It elevates your responses, first toward the behavior of others and then toward yourself. Gurudevi explains that for yogis, normal is not nearly good enough. Yoga’s practices help you grow into your Self, which you discover to be more than you thought you could be. It’s a whole new kind of normal.
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Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Gurudevi says, don’t let your mind get too far from Consciousness. Keep your mind on a short leash. To accomplish this, she recommends the yogic remedy of steering your mind to Consciousness, your Self. Repeat mantra for two minutes to give you the experiential knowing of your own Self. Elevate your state.
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Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Gurudevi says you must notice your condition, just like you check your fuel levels. She discusses four symptoms that indicate that you are distracted from your own Divine Essence. She recommends that you apply a yogic remedy so you can find your Self again. The remedy she offers is doing a few Ujjayi breaths, anywhere and anytime.
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Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
Gurudevi explains that everything you do is for the purpose of making you feel better. She recommends that you do more yoga, and you will feel better. When you don’t have time to do a long yoga practice, she explains the power of quick fixes to improve your state instantly. She offers the first of twelve quick fixes offered monthly during 2019.
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Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Gurudevi explains that Svaroopa® yoga is a Shaktipat tradition yoga. Svaroopa® yoga gives you an inner opening revealing your own Divine Essence to you. The authors discuss Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga and their importance for transforming your mind. They explain why, along with receiving Shaktipat, it is important for you to practice Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga.
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Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Gurudevi discusses the words used for the ultimate state in different meditation traditions. The ultimate state, promised by Svaroopa® Vidya meditation, is called sahaja samadhi. She says that in this state, you are established in Consciousness. You know your own Divinity in the midst of life, while seeing the Divine in all.
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Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Samadhi is the culmination of Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga. It is a deep inner absorption into Consciousness-itself, which is your own Self. Gurudevi and Rukmini (Samvidaananda) discuss samadhi and the value of understanding Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga in our Shaktipat tradition. Swami Muktananda, described the highest and most exalted attainment, sahaja samadhi, which is beyond the ultimate state described by Patanjali.
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Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Gurudevi discusses 3 stages of meditation and the importance of understanding this process to help you understand your meditation experiences and deepen into them even more. She says that when you apply your mind to a task, once you groove in on it, that’s meditation. Modern researchers call it a “flow state”. Gurudevi says that pouring your mind in a meditative flow toward Consciousness places your mind in service to Consciousness, to your own Self.
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Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
Gurudevi discusses your capacity to keep your mind on a single object to explore inward. Each time you're propelled by Grace, into the depths of your inherent Divinity, your mind is imprinted by Consciousness. She says that to elevate and uplift your mind, to have a Divine mind, do more japa.
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Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Your prana, or energy, is drained when your senses are focused outward. When you focus your attention inward you can experience your life in a more fulfilling way. Gurudevi gives a clear and practical discussion on the incredible benefits of delving inward. There is more to you than you think there is.
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Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Your breath is life; it is the enlivening force of your body. But there are many ways that you can impede the energy available within your breath. Find out what is beyond your breath, and how to tap into, and ultimately stay in the beyond always.
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Tuesday May 01, 2018
Tuesday May 01, 2018
Yoga poses can improve your physical condition, as well as calming your mind and emotions. In this contemplation article Gurudevi explains why the seated pose is the “ultimate pose.” Discover the inner awakening of Kundalini that is offered by delving deeper into the Yoga of Grace, Svaroopa® yoga.
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Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Ancient yogic texts outline a process that propels you through physical and emotional healing to spiritual upliftment. In this teachings article Gurudevi brings the ancient texts to you in a contemporary way. She provides a step-by-step practice to help you incorporate the teachings into your life.
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Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Yoga teaches you how to live in this world without mental or emotional disturbances, even while life is challenging. It may be hard to choose to live by this higher standard all the time. But Gurudevi gives you tools to help you react to difficult circumstances so you can attain this goal.
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Thursday Feb 01, 2018
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
You are what you think. Yoga teaches lifestyle practices that free you from self-limiting behaviors. Gurudevi beautifully describes these practices and explains the inner changes you will see in yourself by doing them.
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Monday Jan 01, 2018
Monday Jan 01, 2018
Patanjali developed the eight limbs of Yoga to help you attain happiness by improving your life, as well as to guide you in the knowing of your own inherent Divinity. Gurudevi discusses the importance of self-effort in this quest, while at the same time revealing how the gift of the Guru’s grace will flow when self-effort is applied.
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