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Gurudevi Nirmalananda Saraswati
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.
The mantra is the portable Guru, because the word Guru means energy. A specific type of energy, Shiva’s Divine Energy of revelation, revealing your own Self to your Self. The person of the Guru is a concentrated form of this energy, like a lightning bolt is a concentrated form of energy. It isn’t about... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Just like Baba said, “Most people who meditate make the same mistake. When they sit for meditation, they do not focus on the Self, instead they run after the mind trying to find out what it is doing.” So, focus on your own Self. Use the mantra, this ancient sacred formula, to pierce through the mental activity that you usually find so intriguing. Mantra gives you your own Self. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sublime Spiritual State" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/sublime-spiritual-state-7-19-26
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You have the power to realize that God lies hidden in your own heart. Too much of the time, when you come from your heart, you’re coming from your emotional residue, your unfinished business. Your heart carries the weight of lifetimes – resentments and fears, unhappy memories and…
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “What is Heaven?" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/what-is-heaven-7-12-26
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Yoga also describes how you usually use your mind, as well as a greater possibility. But yoga is the only one of all these traditions, that I have found, that says your Essence is Divine. How will you know if this is true? You will have to delve deeper within to see who you find in there, oh Shiva. You may go beyond who you think you are. This is why we meditate. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Ideals to Live By" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/ideals-to-live-by-7-5-26
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I live in the Ashram, heaven on earth. I felt this way when living with my Baba. His India Ashram was heavenly. At 3 am, I walked by night-blooming jasmine to get to the meditation hall, along pathways with sacred statues in every corner. Yet it was his presence that made it heavenly. We sat with him as he moved his amber mala, doing japa for all of us. My mind flowed with mantra-virya, the mantric energy he emanated. Deeper than peace, thicker than bliss, more full-filling than…
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The sage says:
Tadah drastuh svaroope vastanam — Yoga Sutras 1.3
In the moment your mind becomes still, you abide in svaroopa, your own Divine Essence.
Here you are, revealed in the space between your thoughts. This means your thoughts are usually hiding you from yourself. This is why all the yoga practices are for your mind, to quiet your mind, so you discover who you are. The you that is svaroopa, your own Divine Essence, aka Shiva. In the pause. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Space Between" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-space-between-6-28-26
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Getting enlightened is a little like watching the sunrise. It’s amazing how long it takes, from the time the sky starts getting lighter, until the sun is above the horizon line. It’s about forty minutes of gradual lightening, and then the sun comes up quick, in only two minutes. Getting enlightened works the same way. It takes longer to get ready than to actually light up. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Getting Free" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/getting-free-6-21-26
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Your soul is great and Divine, even if it’s carrying some baggage. You know how when you’re wearing a heavy backpack, or carrying a suitcase or two, it can throw you off-center? So, you might be trying to live your life while balancing all the baggage, meaning you’re living off-center. The good news is that you’re shedding the baggage with every yoga practice, with every meditation, with every mantra repetition, with every pose and yogic breath, with every chant. And even listening to these teachings, you’re shedding baggage and getting more and more centered. More and more based in your own Divine Essence. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Centered in Self" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/centered-in-self-6-14-26
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Here’s the secret that nobody wants to know about desire. The more you fulfill your desires, the more desires you will have. When you don’t fulfill a desire, it comes back. You don’t fulfill it; it comes back again. When you don’t fulfill it again, it takes longer for it to come back. And you don’t fulfil it, it takes even longer for the desire to arise and it is... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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However, there is a danger in the relationship with a Siddha. In this yoga of relationship, you can get so wonderfully overwhelmed with the Guru’s light that you forget to look for your own. You have to listen and learn. You have to watch closely for the Guru honors you, as much as they… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Auspicious Day" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/auspicious-day-5-31-26
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Infinite Beingness is being finite by being you. Like an iceberg in the ocean, you have a clear and distinct sense of individuality, yet you are made of the same substance you are melting into. Iceberg and sea are like time and timelessness interwoven together. I found timelessness by listening to the clocks ticking in my elementary classrooms. I stopped hearing the teacher as I listened to the silence between the ticks. Looking back, I think I was meditating…
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To get enlightened you have to cooperate with the process. So you may have to revamp your diet. And your mental diet. What thoughts do you feed yourself? And you may have to work on how you show up in relationships. Meditating in solitude won’t make you a master of relationships. A yoga master is a master of the world, as well as a master of... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Food Affects You" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/food-affects-you-5-24-26
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In the Upanishads there is a question, “What do human beings want?” The answer is that we want happiness. Everything we do, we do for the sake of happiness. We seek that happiness through our work, through our friends and family, through art and science, through food, drink and entertainment. For happiness we perform all the... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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There are two ways to be experiencing yogic bliss: from the outside — looking inward, or from the inside — looking outward. When you do some spinal release poses, or Ujjayi Pranayama, mantra, chanting, any of the practices we do, when you’ve gotten lost in the world again outside yourself, you do these practices and now, you’re looking inward. Any of these practices settle you inward. And the deeper you go, the more bliss you experience. And then deeper, beyond your senses, beyond your mind, beyond your idea of who you are. All the way in, to your own Self. Oh, Shiva. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Inner Bliss" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/inner-bliss-5-10-26
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One of the glorious things I love about Baba’s gift to us is when I see it blossoming in you. Of course it’s Shaktipat that makes it happen. That’s Baba’s gift. But you are the one who’s blossoming, and I get to watch as you become more you. As you find who you really are, you bring your light and your Essence into your life and into the world. You glow in the dark, and you can feel it. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Spirituality changes your body as well as your mind and heart. The changes blossom forth as your spiritual essence fills you from the inside. This is not merely a mood change. Your body changes. A body that runs on anxiety is different than a body running on bliss. Your nervous system and hormones operate differently when you stand down from red alert. Research has proven that, when you are happy, your digestion and elimination work better. What do you suppose happens when you’re in bliss? Your lungs and heart, your immune system and even the composition of your blood are changed. Your biological age markers …
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When I met my Baba, I hadn’t been following the rules. As a teen in the 60’s, I took rebellion seriously. Fortunately, tantra is for everyone. Even if your lifestyle isn’t yogic and your karma is messy, the Satguru will give you Shaktipat initiation. External perfection is not a prerequisite because tantrics recognize imperfection as another form of the Divine. Besides, once you’ve been awakened to your own Divine Essence, you want to live your life in attunement. Lifestyle changes…
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But if you’re not putting your time and effort into these teachings and practices, what are you putting your time and effort into? If you put your time and effort into reinforcing your limitations, your feeling of emptiness and neediness, reinforcing your pain and suffering, what will you get from that? You already know. So, you put some time and effort… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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I saw so many people transformed by their encounter with my Baba. And I saw so many people who got nothing at all. They left Baba’s Satsang saying, “That was nice. Shall we go to the movies tomorrow night?” The were looking for an evening out — something enjoyable, entertaining; not uplifting, not transformational, not life-changing, not… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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When you’re lost in your thoughts, or your reaction to them, you’re lost. So, it takes longer to find your own Self. Mantra takes you home. But if you don’t use mantra, where are you headed? So, you recognize where you’re at, and you meet yourself there by invoking… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your life lessons are presented over, and over, and over again until you get it. Once you learn the lesson you don’t need to repeat it. You can move on, which I call “Outgrowing Your Past.” Even if the same or similar events recur, you see them differently. Thus, you react differently. Your knee-jerk responses, your old ways of confronting or hiding… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You need a body to be here in this world. This means your body is important. Your body’s condition affects your experience of life. You know this from having the flu. Not able to do anything, you can’t even think. It works the other way around. Your body experiences your thoughts as real events. You can think yourself into a panic. You can think yourself into exhaustion. Does this mean you can think yourself into bliss? And that you can heal your body by thinking different thoughts…
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Your mind is made of cosmic Consciousness but mixed with your individual prana. Which means your mind accesses only a limited part of Consciousness, only as much as your prana allows. And that means when you’re low on prana, your mind is dying on the vine. So, your mind brings up all the threatening things that could happen, or have happened, giving you thoughts that match... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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It is your soul, purusha, that reincarnates from one lifetime to the next. Shaktipat gives you freedom from the cycle of lifetimes, freedom from the limitation of feeling separate from others, freedom from the feeling of being separate from God. For God is being you, and me, and everyone and everything. When you look all the way inward, you find... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Something wonderful happens when you simply sit. No phone, no music, nothing to read, to say or to do. Gradually settling into easy motionlessness, your body becomes still. Then your mind becomes still… Next, most people fall asleep or drift in a dreamy sleep-like state. But on the way inward, you can take the other fork in the road. Instead of settling into unconsciousness, you can delve into the bliss of Consciousness within. This is yoga’s promise, that when your…
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I describe it this way: you are more than what the world tells you that you are. You are more than you think you are. You discover who and what you really are, oh Shiva, by looking within. And you still live in the world. You still have experiences, but they don’t make you who you are. Now, based in Self, you draw on Divine intelligence within to guide... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You are not your body. You have a body. Your body is not who you are. Everyone identifies with their body. If they are coughing and sneezing, they say, “I have a cold,” or “I have allergies.” If you change your words and say, “My body has a cold,” or “My body has allergies,” you might actually.... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your existence is concentrated right now in this body, this life. But your existence is that which has always existed, even before this body existed. You existed before you were born. You will exist beyond this body’s ability to sustain your presence in this form. Your own existence is the one existence that has... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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However, the type of benefit you get depends on the type of meditation you do. If you meditate on peace, you will experience peace. If you meditate on joy, you will feel joyful. If you meditate on God, you will… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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But you can get so caught up in looking for blessings to come from these many external sources that you miss the most important holy site – you, inside you. My Baba described this, “You are the holiest of all holy places, the…” — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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This is why I teach meditation on your own Self. I don’t teach meditation on your breath, not on your chakras, not on God, or Gods or Goddesses, not on success or happiness. I remember one woman came to Baba and asked for a husband. Baba told her to meditate on Self for happiness. So, she went to a different Guru and got... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Research has proven that spiritual practitioners have a better quality of life. They experience less depression and live longer. They have better health outcomes. Yet spirituality is not merely about improved quality of life. It’s about “spirit.” Yoga defines spirit as your inherent Divinity. Finding your own essence is finding the One Divine Reality within…
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My Baba emphasized the importance of the seated pose. He wrote, “For meditation the most important thing is asana, that your spine be kept straight, upright.” Sit up. Glide your neck and head back so they’re in line with your spine. At the crown of your head, the top of your head, is a thousand-petaled lotus... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Parinama is the gradual transformation. It comes from the inside out, and from the outside in. When you experience the rising of Consciousness within, you’re being transformed from the inside out. And when you study, when you’re learning – in these discourses, in my teachings, in books, in yoga texts - you’re being transformed from the outside in. Your progress toward enlightenment is…
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While the universe responds to what you do, what you put out — when you put out what you’ve always put out, you’ll get the response you’ve always gotten. When you do something different, it might take a little while, but what happens is you get a different response. This means you can actually change the world... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your body’s condition affects your mind and heart, which affect your relationships, which affect your whole life. Yet the purpose of the poses is not merely health and happiness. Every pose is for your spine which we work with very directly in the…
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Would you like your mind to be like a waveless ocean – calm, infinite, pure? Simply remember your experience of the Self. It’s a matter of taking care of how you feel. If you want to feel differently than you’re currently feeling, use yoga to make a shift. Using your memory to bring back the... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Probably right now your experience of your own beingness is not fluid, is not constant. You have moments when you know who you are. And you have moments when you’re lost in the differences – dotted lines. But you know the way inward. And if you don’t, I’ll remind you again to honor…
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Every birth is a Divine embodiment, a manifestation of the One Source. Each and every one of us is made of the Divine energy that becomes all. This means your birth was a Divine birth. Yet some babies grow up to share Divine Light with others. The world celebrates the birth of a few: Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed. But were they the only ones? Nope. Many saints are honored, with their life stories told in order to inspire and to bless others. Yoga specializes in saints. Not only do we honor…
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Baba commented on this verse, saying, “The Guru destroys the darkness in the hearts of his disciples, and fills them with the light of knowledge. The Guru is the one who dispenses Divine Power.” The Guru points you inward, takes you by the hand and walks you inward and …
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Inner happiness is ever-arising, independent of any external circumstances. This is what yoga calls your own Self. Well, not the happiness. Your own Self is not merely happiness; it is the source of happiness within. When you’re based in your own Beingness, you live in... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Yet any and every holy site is important for only one reason - the effect it has on you. It opens you to the greater reality within, the inner infinity. Many people go on pilgrimage so they can open to God, whom they... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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The process of Self-discovery is a process. Sometimes it’s bliss-filled, sometimes not. Consider how many years have you invested in being unenlightened? How many days have you done your unenlightenment practices? How many... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Sometimes you just know. In the midst of life, you know exactly what to do. Illumined action. Wouldn’t you like to live this way? Yoga says you can. Tune in to your own inner light. Let your Divine Essence shine through your mind and heart. To live this way, base yourself in your own Self, drawing from your inner depth and dimensionality in every moment. In every breath. First, you delve inward to find your own Self. Then you…
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Who am I? Why was I born? Who created me? And what am I supposed to do here? Why am I here? Your mind cannot answer these questions. Your mind asks them, even mulls them over and repeats them again and again. This is called contemplation. Your mind may try on various answers, but your mind won’t rest until.... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your Inner Essence is deep, timeless, expansive, unchanging — the inner infinity of your own Divinity. And everything else is also Divine. So, you care. You care and you act on that caring, but freely, without need, without greed and without... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Something keeps your breath moving and your heart beating, even when you’re asleep. Oh, Shiva. The whole point of yoga is to know who and what this is, that makes your body be a living body - that makes the screen of your mind be so... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your essence is Divine Consciousness concentrated in a unique and individualized form, but you compare your individuality to everyone else’s, and you can always find someone who… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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When you are based in your own Self, you see all the different things, all the different people like different blossoms on the one shrub. For there is only One, being all. And when you don’t see the One hidden in Her divine disguise, as the person sitting next to you, as the driver of the car turning into your lane, as the neighbor walking their dog... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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If you know that doing some yoga or repeating mantra for five minutes will make you happy, and it will, sometimes you simply won’t do it. It’s like you prefer being unhappy to being happy. Well, maybe it’s familiar. And I’d like to rescue you… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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The wonderful thing about this yogic path is that you can stay in your home with your beloveds doing what you’ve already chosen to do and get enlightened while you’re there. Except it’s harder in some ways because you have your usual dance patterns, the way you interact with everyone in your life. And they want you to keep being the same old... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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This is the point of meditation, that your Kundalini will climb your spine and merge into your sahasrara. That you will be jivanmukta, enlightened while alive. And you will be engaged with the world — fulfilling your dharma, completing your karmas, giving from the… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Maayaa is illusion. Moha is delusion. A magician doing card tricks is a master of illusion. To believe their illusions are real is delusion. Energy manifests as matter. This means matter isn’t really solid. You could call it an illusion. Some meditative traditions base their teachings on this principle. Kashmiri Shaivism says the illusion is real. You are living in a movie set. But there is nowhere else to go. This is Shiva’s movie set. The storyline is compelling because…
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Eventually, your most valued pleasures become stale. And you realize that you want something the world cannot offer. Your focus turns to spiritual development. This is called sannyasa. It means you’re cultivating freedom from desire, freedom from need, greed and fear. As my Baba described, instead of living in contraction, the other possibility... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Soul is not Self. When you experience the soul level of your being, it is profound. It is meaningful. It is deep and holy. You are deep and holy. Yet, there is more. Soul is like the sunlight shining through a window. Your soul is a window through which you can see... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your mind has the ability to erase an old way of looking at the world. Your mind has the ability to create a new relationship with the world. Your mind has the ability to see the same old world in a whole new way. You’ve been looking for the change to come from... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Clinging means your happiness depends on this certain thing. Repulsion means your unhappiness is guaranteed by a certain thing. But when any single thing will either give you happiness or unhappiness, that thing or that person is in charge. You already know not to rely on the weather for your happiness, yes? How about… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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At the beach, I revel in watching the waves rolling onto the shore. Each has its own personality. One wave is taller but another is wider. One wave washes farther up the shore. Yet they are all made of the same ocean water. They are all the same while they are all different. Like this, Shiva is being everything in the universe. Every individual and every single thing is different from the others, yet all are made of Shiva. Shiva is having a glorious time being…
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What are you hanging on to? Let me put it another way. Anything that you’re hanging on to, if God wants you to have it, you will still have it when you surrender to God. God wants the best for you... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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What do you do when there’s nothing left to seek? There’s nowhere to go, nothing to gain, for it is all already found within, oh, Shiva. Instead of looking for something to get, something to fill me, I am already full. So, I look for what I... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your own Self is always manifest, always present, always accessible, always easy to find. You just have to look in the right direction — inward. But your mind is constructed to look the other way. Your mind is a concentrated form of Consciousness with… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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To discover who you are is the purpose of meditation. It is an inner exploration that takes you deeper and deeper within. But at the end of your meditation, your peripheral vision is wider. Your focus didn’t shut you down. It opened you up. Your capacity for caring, compassion… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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I wanted something that my parents didn’t want. I wanted something that my school teachers never talked about. I wanted something that wasn’t described in church. Joseph Campbell rescued me from my self-doubt. In a series of television interviews titled “The Power of Myth”, he explained that everyone longs for something greater, but only a few... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Yoga teaches surrender. This is how you get enlightened. It is also how you fall in love. Surrender is how you experience God, whether looking outward or inward. In English, surrender means you lost the battle. Yoga uses Sanskrit words that point to becoming free, giving something to the care of another or taking refuge. You go through stages in learning how to give over. Bottom line, it is surrender that yoga values — not to whom you are surrendering. Why? Because each time you surrender…
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Your mind is so powerful. It creates whatever you choose. If you choose to repeat the litany of your pains, you can do this. If you choose to repeat the litany of your pleasures, you can do this. Yet, yoga recommends neither. You see, both of these litanies are still about… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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By Gurudevi Nirmalananda
We love the moon’s silvery-white light, a cooling light. Its soft glow illumines the darkness, soothing and calming your mind. Yet the moon is not the source of its light. It merely reflects the light of the sun. Similarly, the light of Consciousness shines through your mind. The source is within, your own Divine Essence. If your mind were clear and spacious, your mind’s light would be cool, soothing and comforting. However, if your mind is full of limiting notions, Consciousness first has to burn them away…
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Now you can no longer think of God as something you earn with lifetimes of purity and striving for perfection. You don’t earn God. You are God. You’ve simply been looking in the wrong place. You’ve been looking at the ceremonies, at the rituals, at the mountains, the rising sun, the full moon. Yes, Yes! God is… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You long to know your own Self as Consciousness, and to live in the bliss-filled beingness that is your Essence. Yet, you already know at a deep inner level. You already are free. You see, you won’t long for something unless…
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Even if you lived free — no prison bars, no ankle bracelet, you can be imprisoned by your mind. My Baba described it this way, “His own outlook is the thing that shrinks him day by day. As he meditates on and ponders his own limitations, he becomes completely bound.” You do meditate on your limitations. You obsess on… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Where are your complaints? They’re in your mind, usually in the forefront of your mind. Repeating over and over, your mind loops around on them. So you look in the space where your complaints usually are, right here, in the forefront of your mind… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Knowing about your own Self is not the same as experiencing your own Self. I can talk about your Divine Essence all day, and you may love the theory. But even a moment of experiential knowing stops you, settles you, fills you from the inside out. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your attachments define you. They limit you. They take hold of you, defining who you are and what you can do. Thus, yoga’s goal is freedom. Freedom from limitation. Freedom from compulsion. Freedom from being driven. You gain yogic freedom by an internal redefinition of…
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While the Guru is one who dispenses God’s Grace, don’t confuse the Guru with a particular personality or physical form. Yes, I loved spending time with my Guru. I love his photos, to see these images of his physical form. Yet, I know it’s the Divine Reality in him that made him lovable…
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Of course, you can have a breakthrough on a vision quest in nature, or in a dream. Maybe not a piece of chocolate. But anything, potentially anything can stop your mind and let your inherent Divinity peek through. How great it is. Or rather, how great it was... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You know, in the beginning most people use mantra to calm themselves when they’re upset. How great that it works for you. You can calm yourself. You can get centered again when you’ve been thrown off center. Yes, use mantra for this. But consider, what if you did mantra when you didn’t “need” it? If it will give you your Self when…
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Growing up, I was confused. My schoolteachers, at church and my own family said and did self-contradictory things. It took me decades to figure out that the problem wasn’t me. I needed better teachers. Searching far and wide, I found that only yoga gave me teachings I could trust and a teacher I could rely on. Better yet, I was given genuine upliftment as well as practical ways to better myself. Yoga’s teachings and practices come from…
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When you look for others’ opinions to make you feel good about you, it’s called other-worth, not self-worth. It’s a deeper sense of self that you need. And when you uncover this deeper sense of self, you still…
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You can be so entrenched in your patterns and habits, even in your ideas about who you are that you don’t let the fire of Consciousness burn away your limitations. Chanting helps with this. Vichara, our guided self-inquiry process, helps with this. Japa, mantra repetition, helps. And… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Yoga says, “Look inward.”
It doesn’t mean that you stop doing things, but that you find who you are while you’re doing them. What you find is your own Self.
Your early experiences of Self are peace, creativity and happiness. And then it gets better.
The experience of your own Self, as you learn…
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Words are important. The radar screen of your mind is filled with what you say and what others say to you. You’re always tracking the moving blips. If words can shut you down, are there words that can open you up? Yes! The enlivened mantra is sacred words. words of power. They invoke the upwelling of Consciousness within you. This inner arising transforms you completely, bringing a whole new level of aliveness and enthusiasm into your life. You see the world differently. You see you differently.
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You see, when you have an amazing experience, and how important that is, the fact that it is amazing means it’s different from your everyday experience. And then you go back to everyday. Your expanded experience might last a minute, a day, a month, or longer. But you go back to everyday. The point is to… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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This is a key point in tantra. It comes from the recognition that Shiva is being all. Everything in the world and even everything in your mind is Shiva in disguise. So, what part of the world should you reject? What part of you should you reject? Certainly, your mind needs some conditioning, like a runner preparing for a marathon. Your mind needs... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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If you don’t desire something specific to happen in the future, then you won’t be anxious about it. Freedom from desire also frees you from anger. The only time you experience anger is when you desire something but… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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No one’s working on attaining equanimity. Well, that’s not precisely true. You probably have tried to get a little peace by withdrawing from news, from the politicians, from the musicians, the social media influencers, and even your family and friends. But you bring your mind with you, even when you isolate yourself or numb out. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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When you hear these teachings, you are fed at the deepest level of your own being. The words and the energy turn your mind inward, while the words name your own Divine Essence. So you experience Self again and again. This is why I give discourses, to pour this stream of Grace-infused teachings into your head, and heart, and deeper. Again and again.
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How do you meditate on your own Self when you don’t know your own Self? In one way, it’s kind of like you lived in a cave your whole life and I tried to teach you to meditate on the sun or the moon. You wouldn’t know what they are. This is why the mantra names your own Self.. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Can you look at someone and see that they are enlightened? This is important because you want to study with the best. They can help you make rapid progress toward your own enlightenment. What is enlightenment like, both inside and outside? Answers from the yogic texts give you an understanding of the inner state as well as how to get there…
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While you may wish for bliss in every meditation, it’s actually the busy meditations that are moving you toward enlightenment faster. Just like a car speeding along the highway passes more scenery, when you’re really zipping along... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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So, at the end of your meditation, when you leap up and you get moving, physically or maybe it’s just your mind, you’re blocking your ability to see the Divine in the mundane. You’ve gone back to measuring, analyzing, counting... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You have a right to bliss. The bliss of Consciousness, for it is what you are made of. If you aren’t experiencing the bliss of Consciousness, you don’t know who you really are. Fortunately, on this path, the bliss comes early. But it’s not unconscious bliss... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You know, the teachings are not enough. They must be enlivened by Grace. You can read the teachings. We read them in translation from the ancient texts, and you can read them for decades and never have a real experience. You certainly will get understandings, aha moments, intellectual breakthroughs, but without any real depth. The experience of your own Self is a feeling, not a thought. It is a deep quality of beingness, not a…. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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I wanted instant enlightenment. I didn’t get it. I wanted the express elevator to the penthouse. I had to climb the stairs. At least I knew where I was headed for I’d had amazing experiences after receiving Shaktipat from my Guru. This inner awakening showed me that there was more to me than I dreamed possible. I’d had a peek at Consciousness. It was a promise of my future. It made me willing to do the climb. Like stairs with landings, at each new level I grew into expanded…
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Yoga explains that there is something worth finding, but it is located inside. Yoga gives you a peek at it - a glimpse of your own Self. And tools to attune yourself to your own Self - ways to progressively surrender into who you already are. And yoga gives you proof. Proof that there is a…
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The feeling I had after my first yoga class was the beginning of how I always feel now. The peace, the awe, the inner vastness, the lightness of being, the ease and openness — I was experiencing Self. My first yoga teacher didn’t give me words for it. I could only call it “that yoga feeling.” It made me want.... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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If you’re going through pain now, simply name it. You are the one who is naming it. You’re not your pain. You’re the one who’s naming it. Yes, you have to deal with it. But you’re not your pain. You are more, so much more. The best way to discover that you are more than your pain is… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Born into bondage, your life’s task is to fly free. You begin the process like a caged bird who keeps flexing its wings, wanting to fly. Your cage door is opened by one who is already free. This is the Shaktipat Guru’s task, to set you free by opening up the inner arising of Consciousness. Thus you discover the truth that has been hidden for so long, that your essence is Divine. The not-knowing of your own Self is what causes all your pain. It is the result of…
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We are in a tantric tradition. Tantra goes about it completely differently. Tantra says, “Let’s just shred anava mala.” Through Shaktipat, I will open you up from the inside out. Shred anava mala so you have experiences of your own Self. You know who you are. Go ahead… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Atma, your own Self, is all pervading. You probably think of your own Self as being inside your body, but it’s the other way around. Your body is inside your own Self. You may think of your own Self like your soul, that your soul is found…
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You are so much more than you think you are. It is all summarized in this one sutra:
Your own Self is Consciousness-Itself.
Chaitanyam atma. — Shiva Sutras 1.1
This is the first sutra, in the first chapter of the first text of Kashmiri Shaivism, our yogic tradition. The first sutra is the most important one. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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It was Baba that gave me God. That’s the Guru’s job – to give you access to what is already there inside. But you haven’t been able to find it. It can be hard to understand God and Guru. They are One, while being different. I’ll compare it to the front door of your house. It’s part of your house. You wouldn’t want that wall to be solid. You wouldn’t want your house to be without an entry portal. The Guru is the door by which you enter into... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your own inner knowing is yoga’s goal. This is a knowing beyond thought, beyond logic, beyond explanation or causation. You just know. Your own Self knows your own Self. Since your mind doesn’t know how to get there on its own, it needs help. The mantra and other practices are not enough on their own. One who knows can give you the knowing. This is Shaktipat. It is the greatest gift…
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Your spiritual practices change you in such a way that you radiate Consciousness into the world. Especially your family is uplifted, even without them doing yoga. How great! And it means you’re doing yoga for two — yourself and your spouse or partner. Or maybe you’re doing yoga for three... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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When you experience love, you feel fulfilled. This is an important part of life, the experience of loving. Your loving of someone does touch the other person, yes. But in yoga, the point is, that it affects you. So, yoga teaches the yogi to take responsibility for their own mood. To grow up, to get over your childish reactivity, or perhaps your.. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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To get to your own knowing of your own beingness takes some time and effort. It takes diligence, perseverance, dedication, determination, resolve, purpose, tenacity and… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Gratitude and devotion are not the same thing. Gratitude is always for something, it’s transactional. You get x, so you feel grateful for it. You say, “Thank you.” You even know how to say thank you whether you’re grateful or not. But hopefully you get to enjoy being grateful. Still, it’s a transaction. Devotion is unfounded, even unbounded. When you experience devotion, it’s... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Devotion is the sweetest, easiest and most intoxicating of all the yogic paths. As a comprehensive science of spirituality, yoga includes your heart along with your body and mind. Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotion, with practices that grow your love for God and Guru. The practices include chanting and candle flame ceremonies along with…
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There’s an easy way to get out of your own way. When you find yourself blocking your Divine Essence from shining through, give your mind a mantra recess. Just do five or ten minutes of mantra. And then… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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In the fourth century BCE, Alexander the Great arrived in Phrygia, a kingdom in what is now Turkey. There, outside the castle, an oxcart was parked tied to a post with a complex knot called the Gordion knot. An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel the knot was destined to become the ruler of all of Asia. Alexander the Great took a look at that. And he reasoned his way through it, thinking that it… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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The splendor of Shiva-Consciousness is imprisoned within you. The prison cell bars are made of words. You lock Shiva down and hide him away by the words you use. You are so powerful. You can imprison Divine Consciousness. You can hide God. You can dim... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Breakthrough! Once I received Shaktipat, the old identities couldn’t limit me anymore. Oh, I still did daughtering. I still did worker-bee. I still did pay-my-taxes, vote-in-elections. I still renewed my driver’s license when it was due. But they were things I did, not…
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Yes, you are spirit, clothed in a human body. Your inner essence is enlivening your body and using your mind to manage the tasks and functions of the physical world. You are not your body. You are not your mind. You are not your body, and your mind put together. You are…
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Divine sounds lie at the root of your existence. This is what makes words affect you so deeply. They reverberate all the way in. The power of words originates in the Divine sound, OM. In order to manifest as the universe, Shiva emanates his bliss as the subtle sound OM. It grows and expands, then blasts itself into many sounds, called Matrika. In this yantra, the sounds emanate forth into the energetic structure underlying the universe, as expressed in the Sanskrit alphabet. It’s all made of energy, with every energy having its own sound…
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Yoga tells you to focus on your own inner process. Support your yogic transformation with yoga practices. You will change, it is guaranteed. And the world will change as you change. When you become healthier and stronger…
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The more energy you put into getting love from others, getting your sense of self-worth from others, getting your happiness from others — the more energy you put into this, the more bound you are. Freedom comes from…
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Nila and sukha, the blue of Consciousness and the pleasure of sensory experiences – one of them lasts, the other doesn’t. Which one is your focus? The good news is that in tantra you don’t have to give up pleasures. You have to give up… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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That’s one of the reasons I love when you’re able to come, to come here in person. Of course, I love to reach your wherever you are, to guide and to support you in the midst of your life. But when you can come here in person, it’s like diving in at the deep end of the pool. And your immersion in the water, in the Grace, makes it easier…
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One easy way to tell if your meditation was truly meditation - regardless of what happened during your meditation, when you open your eyes do you feel different? Washed clean, rested, refreshed. Settled - meaning centered, free from anxiety, serene. Perhaps your breath is… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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You must develop your intuition, but for different reasons than you suppose. Intuition is the inner knowing by which you know your own Self. It’s called in-sight. However, using intuition for external things sabotages your spiritual progress.
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That’s because yoga meets you where you’re at. And if you’re having any trouble with it, if you’re experiencing pain, it’s because yoga is excavating, digging up your own patterns to clear them away and free you from them. In a pose, Svaroopa® Yoga may get into some gnarly stuff. But it’s merely finding what was there and would be causing…
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This is how you use your senses. You get them running around outside — looking this way, looking that way, listening to the sounds, aware of smells as well as the temperature of the air around you. It’s like your senses are roaming out there looking for something that…
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Your mind is capable of blocking Consciousness. Don’t trust your mind. Well, not yet. Not until you know how to use your mind to access Consciousness, and to use your mind as a conduit of Consciousness. You need your mind. You need it to be shining with the light of Consciousness. Only then can you… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your senses pull you outward in a constant search for bliss. But the bliss is inside. Crazy-making? Fortunately, these two things work together. They are perfectly paired to keep you in bondage and delusion. By contrast, yoga sets you free. Yoga shows you how to turn your senses inward, to explore the multi-dimensionality of your own Beingness. This is called pratyahara, which is made easy by Grace.
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While bliss is guaranteed, it’s not always immediate. You may need some clearings first, before you can find the bliss. It’s like looking for the sunrise when you have the drapes closed. There needs to be some inner opening first. Baba said, “When the bliss of the Self arises from within…” This means that bliss is an attainment. In the beginning it may feel like peace, or contentment, or simply like... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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What about the people you live with, or connect with most often? They are always changing. Mostly going up and down with the internal weather of their mind and emotions. Do you have any control over them? So, the only place you can land, if you want peace and happiness…
Where can you land if you want peace and happiness? Satguru Swami Nirmalananda explains in this excerpt from her discourse at Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center on July 28, 2024.
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When you get lost in the world, you have not only lost your way, you have lost your own Self.
If you go for a hike and get lost in the woods, after a while you know you are lost. You try to retrace your steps or find a pathway out. But you never get so lost that you think you are a tree. You still know you are a person and that you…
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Meditation Experiences
When you meditate, you have meditation experiences. They are different from your everyday experiences and your usual mental activity. As you develop your capacity, your meditation experiences change. Your capacity includes…
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Cosmic Energy
This is the energy that fires off volcanoes. This is the energy that keeps our sun burning. The energy that lights the stars or even makes them explode or collapse in on themselves. Kundalini Shakti is cosmic energy hidden in you. The name kundalini describes how….
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Turiya is the fourth state. It is beyond your mind and senses, and free from the density and darkness you know from deep sleep. Turiya is vast, comforting, incomprehensible, indescribable and unthinkable with the mind. Turiya is serene, tranquil, filled with bliss. Here you find your own Self. This is the Self that is to be realized. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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
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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
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Today is the day when we honor mothers. On Mother’s Day, we also honor the Guru. Mother’s Day cards and AI texts speak so beautifully of a mother’s best qualities, which is today’s focus. But I have to say, every mother is a mixed bag…
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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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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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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
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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.
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God, Guru, and Self We see these three as separate and different: God, Guru and Self. Yet this is another way that the One manifests in a three-fold form. There is only one, being all three. Let's look at what the differences are. Where do you look for God? Out there, maybe even up there and far away. Where do you look for Guru? I look...
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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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The Inner Experience
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
Yoga gives you the knowing of your own inherent Divinity. Your inner light illumines your understanding of life itself. Yoga’s practices help you move towards the highest, the greatest, the ultimate attainment -- to live in the world while knowing your own Self and seeing the Self in all. This is the goal. Shiva seeing Shiva while being Shiva.
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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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You are an individual form of Consciousness, with the whole of Consciousness intact within you. The One becomes many, so that each of the many can come to know their own Self as the One. When you know your own Self you can face reality as it is. In this being and seeing there’s no duality, there’s no delusion. What freedom!
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Your thoughts and feelings affect your pranic field, and your pranic field determines the condition of your physical body. Your mind is so powerful it can delude you for lifetimes. But it can also free you from delusion. As you delve inward, you discover that your mind comes from a more powerful level of inner perception. It is always dependent on the Self.
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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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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…
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Yoga says your body is the outermost layer of your own individual presence here on earth. Your prana, or life force, makes your body be a living, breathing body. You are the One Divine Reality who has taken on a body in order to live in this world and have experiences. And there is more to you! Discover your multidimensionality beyond your body and breath.
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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...
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Yoga says that your feeling of being separate, unique, and different is what causes all your pain. The power of Consciousness produces many forms, each one feeling separate from the One Formless Reality. But everything is made of the One Formless Reality. And that One Divine Reality is being you. Right now, and always.
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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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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…
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As an individual, you are a contracted form of Consciousness, so you don’t experience the fullness of your inherent bliss and Divinity all the time. At least not yet. You are already Shiva, but you don’t live in the Knowingness and Beingness that you are. Can you see your own light and feel your inherent beingness while living your life? Yoga makes it possible.
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Your own inner light is the light of Consciousness. The bliss of Consciousness is your birthright. You get to choose how to use the creative power of Consciousness. You can bring that light into every corner of your life.
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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...
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You already are perfection incarnate. The whole of Consciousness is within you. Your destiny is to live in the knowing of your own Divine perfection in every moment. The process of discovering your inherent perfection is one of expanding inward. Let yoga show you the way inside to who you really are.
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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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What makes December such a wonderful time of the year? Most people are feeling more generous and are focussed on making other people happy. Generosity makes the giver happier. Celebrate the light that is in everyone and make the world a better place. Live in the steady state of Self-Knowingness being Shiva and seeing Shiva in all.
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December is a happy time of the year, but it would be nice if the rest of the year were happy too. If you meditate every day, your happiness level will go up. Stretch your happy time into the New Year and all the way into the rest of your life!
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You yearn to see beyond the turbulence of your mind, you yearn to be authentically you. It is in your deeper dimensions that you find your own Beingness. When you know who you really are, you recognize that your own Self is the Self of all. Authenticity and wholeness are found in Self-Knowingness.
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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....
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Everyone wants to be happy. Yoga describes happiness as the bliss of the Self arising to fill you. When you turn your attention inward, you discover the bliss that underlies the existence of everything. Live with the light of Consciousness filling you from within and take your bliss with you everywhere you go.
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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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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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Hidden within every human being is the light of Consciousness. When you live in the ever-arising light of the Self, every moment of life is a moment of delight. Your own greatness is the greatness that shines through everyone, including the Guru. May your mind, like the full moon, always be full of the reflection of your own inner light.
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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…
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Action is not a choice; it is inherent to you. But when you experience the Self, your actions are motivated by bliss. Weave more yoga into your days so you are always filled with the light of your own Being. Your words and actions will be more powerful. When your choices come from wholeness, Beingness and bliss, what will you choose to do?
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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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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…
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We live in a cause-and-effect world. In Sanskrit this is called karma. The key to getting free from karmic repercussions is to do what you know is right without expectations. Shine the light of your own Being into all your worldly actions.
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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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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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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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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You are worthy. You don’t have to earn your self worth. You don’t have to deserve love. You don’t have to win your place on earth. You are inherently worthwhile. Your life has meaning and purpose, even if you haven’t completed what you came here to do yet. Bring your essence into the world and make a difference.
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What’s happening matters. You care. The problem with ignoring the news is that you’re avoiding caring. And when you shut down your caring, who loses the most? You do. You lose you.
When you honor your own Self, your own Divine Essence, you come from a different place inside. Empowered, you see the deeper dimension in every person. You live in the light of your own Beingness and see it in others. Fueled by Guru’s Grace and filled by bliss, you are able to face the hard stuff in life without being destroyed by it.
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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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If you want to call yourself a seeker you need to be putting effort into your seeking. Allow yourself to be saturated by the Guru’s flow of Divine Energy. Surrender to Grace. But even surrender takes self effort. Become anchored in your true nature. Are you paddling with the river of Grace or against it?
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One who opens up the power of Consciousness to arise within you is the only one worthy of the title Guru. The Guru gives you the experiential knowing of your own Divine Essence. Honor the one who gives you your own Self. Bow to the Guru, again and again.
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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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What happens when you can’t have what you want? Look at the desire itself and see what’s prompting it. Peel through the layers described the yogic sage Patanjali: Fear hides aversion. Aversion hides desire. Desire hides your small-s self. Your small-s self is hiding the not-knowing of your own Divine Essence. Peel back that final layer and uncover your own Self. It’s always there. You are always right here.
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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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Your spiritual depth makes a difference in your experience of pain. Pain is part of life, though it is impermanent. Your ability to navigate life’s challenges with a calm and steady state comes from a deeper level. It is what you find inside, at a level beyond pain, that makes life worth living.
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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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When your mind experiences the Divine Consciousness that you are, the experience is one of bliss. This is the source of happiness, which arises from within. It arises from your own Self. Anchor all your outer interactions with your deepening inner knowing. Fill yourself with great Divinity. Apply yourself to the knowing of your own Self, which is the true source of joy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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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“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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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.
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Prana is the enlivening source, it’s the power of life. Prana is what keeps you alive, vibrant, healthy, and happy. Pain calls your attention to the area that is low on prana and motivates you to do something about it. Pain is the greatest motivator and can be felt at the physical, mental, emotional, psychic, or soul level.
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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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Yoga gives you direct access to the bliss of your own Beingness. The closer you get to your own Self, the more happiness you experience. You become smarter, more focused, more intentional and less driven by instinct, fear and desire. This all comes from the inside out. When you know your own Innermost Essence, you are fully and authentically yourself.
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We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Baba Muktananda’s mahasamadhi. Muktananda didn’t merely inspire people to follow him, he gave them greatness itself. Greatness lies within you; you simply haven’t tapped into it fully yet. What Muktananda found within is Self. Self is you; Self is all, Self is beyond all. But the closest is within.
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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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A living master lives in the continuous flow of Divine Grace and can reveal the mystery hidden within you. What do you want and what are you willing to do to get it? It’s about seeing your own Divinity again and again, until again turns into always.
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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.
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What you find when you look inward depends on how deeply you look. Yoga says to look deeper than your mind. The purpose of meditation is to establish yourself in the bliss of your own Self. When you attain the light of your own Self within yourself, that light emerges as supreme love. When you look inward what will you find?
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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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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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You grab on to things to construct your sense of self. Wherever you go, whatever you do, who you know, none of it makes you who you really are. Your core Essence is intact no matter what comes your way. Can you stay in the Self while you do what you do?
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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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The light of your own Divinity shines in you and through you. Yoga is about finding, knowing and being the Self that you already are. There is more to you than what you experience by seeing, thinking, feeling or doing. Cultivate the inner experience of your own Self and live in that experience all the time.
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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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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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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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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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Once you know, you know… This is yoga’s purpose, to give you the knowing of your own Self. It begins with an experience of stillness or depth. An inner plentitude or fullness that is like none other. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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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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Learn from a Shaktipat Guru what a breakthrough can do for you. Your inner state becomes deep and steady, and you are no longer dependant on external things to support you. What you say, what you mean, what you feel and what you do are all in alignment with each other. When all is given, how much will you carry home with you?
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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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This year’s theme for International Day of Yoga is “Yoga for Humanity.” Yoga gives you your own Self. Once you know your own Self, you see Self in all. Then you are drawn into a new level of relationship with the world and everyone in it. Yoga improves your health, your life, and your state of mind. The light of your own Divinity begins to shine through you. In this illuminating discourse you will learn more about the benefits of yoga for yourself, as well as for all of humanity.
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You yearn to fly so you can shatter the shackles that keep you bound. Yoga and meditation show you the infinity that lies within you. Find the bliss of your own Self and you will become free. It doesn’t matter where you are or what you do, what matters is who you are and what your inner state is. Let the Guru’s Grace help you go beyond your sense of individuality. You can be fully embodied, fully alive, and fully present.
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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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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.
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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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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
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
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
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.
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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
When I found my Baba, he shed a whole new light on it. He said that this yoga, this spiritual discipline, enables you to make the journey through the world with supreme bliss. This was a whole new ballgame for me. I’d been seeking pleasure and running away from pain, but he promised bliss. What a difference! – Gurudevi Nirmalananda
Just as water takes on many forms, Consciousness takes on many forms. It becomes bliss, but it also becomes you. Gurudevi Nirmalananda says, “When you’re all caught up in your body, or you’re repeating your script to yourself again, reinstalling your limited sense of personhood, then you can't find the bliss that is hidden deeper within.” The Guru’s job is to help you beyond your mind, beyond your inner sense of separation, and allow you to discover Consciousness within.
Yoga is about knowing who and where you are, even when surrounded by the world. Gurudevi Nirmalananda explains how the Guru points you inward, so you never lose your true self again. Find out how the Guru’s Grace can propel you deeper until you know the greatness that you already are.
It is the shadows and constrictions in your mind and heart that give you pain. Ego gives you a sense of self that is dependent on your environment. But when you have a healthy ego, you recognize that these identities are what you do, not who you are. Gurudevi Nirmalananda explains the various dimensions of your Self and how you can dissolve the limitations so your inner essence can shine through.
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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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Your true Self is hidden within you, but you get glimpses of it every now and then. The Guru lives in the knowing of his or her own Self all the time. Find out how the Guru can give you the experience of your own Self, so you can live in that experience always.
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You and I are different expressions of the One Reality. Sages have told stories and put different names to this essence through thousands of years. With clarity and heart, Gurudevi Nirmalananda delves into some of these stories to help you understand and see the Divine in all.
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Yoga helps you become present in your body so you can become aware of the multi dimensionality of your own being. Your perception of the outside world changes when you base yourself in the inner knowing of your own Divinity. Gurudevi guides you through the interweaving of your inner state, your body and what you give to the world.
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Why is meditation yoga’ most important practice? Gurudevi explains the benefits in a way that helps you discover what meditation can do for your life, your mind, and your awareness of the deepest dimension of your own being.
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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.
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What you focus on is where you will go. Gurudevi encourages you to focus on your own Divine Presence — Self. She describes the qualities of your own Self in detail. This helps you understand and recognize your own Self when you have the experience. In this first discourse of 2022, Gurudevi inspires you to utilize the year to steer inward. Revealing the hidden aspect of the mantra, she guides you on your way.
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You yearn to know your own Divinity. Gurudevi explains the many ways in which you experience this deep yearning. It is your urge to merge with God. She teaches you how to prepare yourself for the ultimate fulfillment of your yearning.
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You can experience your own Divinity. Gurudevi explains that the process is one of settling inward until you come to rest in your own Self. When you get all the way in, all in, you are beyond your mind and senses. Yogis dive all the way in, into an inner infinity. Learn more about settling deeper and deeper within, all in.
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Your experience of God is on the inside. Since your experience is inside, you should look inside to the source of the experience. This is yoga’s specialty, making you able to dive into the depths of your own being. Gurudevi discusses how to invoke the inner experience of God. Not only to know God, but to know that you are God.
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December Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda; read by Annie (Aanandi) Ross
“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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Gratitude isn’t always easy to come by. Gurudevi describes how she found gratitude. Gratitude opens the doorway to devotion, which empowers your ability to embody Divine Love.
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People create identities based on where they came from or where they are living. In this discourse, you learn how to make everywhere you go feel like home. Gurudevi helps you shed your limited sense of who you are. Who are you, and where have you come from when you’re not living in your old sense of self?
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November Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Swami Samvidaananda
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.
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A human life is so precious and so short! Gurudevi gave this inspiring discourse on the occasion of her birthday. Filled with Grace and gratitude, it will motivate you to use your own lifetime wisely.
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Learn about the ancient text, the Shiva Purana. It begins before the beginning. All was the One infinite essence, which hid itself by becoming the void. Gurudevi points out that you know this void. You find it within, in meditation. She says, you must delve deeper into “the before the beginning.” Listen as she explains the wisdom of the Shiva Purana.
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Your feeling state is merely what you feel, not who you are. What you do is merely what you do, not who you are. You are the same you, regardless of what you are feeling and doing. The you that you are is your being, your own Self. Use mantra and meditation to dive deeper, below the surface of things, below the churning waves of your mind. This is the goal of yoga, to be based in Self, living from the inside out.
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As a child you were vibrant with the energy of life itself! This energy is called prana. Gurudevi draws upon an ancient text to explain how the divine force of prana works in the individual. She explains how to regain that child-like vibrancy in your own life.
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“When you are grounded in the inner infinity, you see that same reality being all. This experience of seeing the Divine shining in another – we have a name for it – we call it love.” Gurudevi explains the true nature of love and where to find it. See how service to others naturally follows, leading to complete fulfillment.
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October Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda;; read by Swami Sahajananda
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“You don’t have to move to a Greek Island, the Maldives or Bali in order to be happy.” Gurudevi explains, “ Where you live is already a paradise. Look around you! There is beauty in every direction you look. Yoga says that this entire universe is created out of Shiva’s bliss. Everything we see is an explosion of Divine bliss, like a little, mini big bang. I remember when I first saw this – I was driving on a big, wide, fast freeway in Los Angeles…”
Learn about Gurudevi’s Guru. In this satsang, Gurudevi explains that her Guru was a Shaktipat Guru. “A Shaktipat Guru bestows grace, the inner opening to your own Divine Essence. Most Gurus teach you about God within. But a Shaktipat Guru gives you the experience they name. Baba gave me me.”
Find out all about the goddess, the cosmic energy out of which the universe is made. In a weekend devoted to the Goddess, Gurudevi explains, “Yoga is all about the goddess. The goddess is the movement of the divine within the divine. The goddess is in you and is being you. It is intensely personal. This is the energy that is coiled within you and once awakened arises within to show you your Divine Essence, who you really are.”
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You can get enlightened while you are alive or you can get enlightened on the way out. Gurudevi explains that, according to India’s sages, one human lifetime is usually not enough to accomplish all you have come to do and to be. Yet, the purpose of a human life is to get enlightened. Shaktipat is the initiation that gives you the inner awakening. Like a rocket ship, it propels you toward enlightenment.
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You are not going to live forever, yet Gurudevi says, “Yes you are going to live forever.” Come listen to her explain that you are not your body. You live in it, but you are more than your body. Your essence is the One Divine Essence, your Self. You are the Self while you are in a body. When you leave your body, you will still be the Self. The Self never dies.
September Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Yogyananda Fountain
“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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You do not die when your body dies. Gurudevi explains that you are more than your mind could ever come up with. Your own Self is eternal. You are immortal, yet wearing this mortal body. Use it to accomplish something important — to know your own immortal essence. Listen to learn more.
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Your spine is the conduit of Consciousness. Swami Nirmalananda explains how this works. It empowers you to look inward, so to experience who you really are!
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Your own Self is not merely conscious but Consciousness. Listen to Swami Nirmalananda explain how you can experience yourself as Consciousness all the time!
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The universe is not merely conscious, as the physicist have discovered, but Consciousness. Listen to Swami Nirmalananda answer the question, what is consciousness.
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The mystery of the Guru, explained by one who knows. Gurudevi tells the story of her Guru, Baba Muktananda, receiving Shaktipat from Bhagawan Nityananda. She explains that enlightenment is not something you attain by yourself. It is a gift you receive from a qualified guru, one who knows their own Self fully. It is a gift given by one who is authorized to give Shaktipat, the initiation that awakens your own spiritual power.
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Gurudevi tells us that yoga’s goal is the knowing of your own Self. It is an inner knowing of the mystery hidden within you. When you receive Shaktipat you have an inner experience of your own Self, an inner opening that gives you access to the deepest dimension within, forever after. The root teachings of this system come from a revealed text from 1300 years ago, called the Shiva Sutras. This text explains the different processes that a seeker goes through to reach the highest, the knowing of your own Self as Shiva. Gurudevi gives us a deep and practical understanding of how these approaches are used to reach the highest state.
Gurudevi describes the capacity of a human being in this way: “You were born with an insatiable desire which you have tried to satiate for much of your life. You misunderstand what your desire really is. Only one thing can possibly fulfill your insatiable desires. That is God, specifically the inner experience of God. When you experience your own Self, all your desires melt away.” Tantra is a yogic system that specializes in giving you the experience of God within. It’s a whole science of Consciousness whereby you have an inner experience of your inherent Divinity. This inner knowing is your greater capacity.
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Yogis marinate in the light that shines through the darkness inside, especially on Guru Purnima, Gurudevi explains. That light shining through is Guru’s Grace. Through this light, a person comes to know their own Self and is transformed. How does the Guru give you your Self? Guru and Self are not distinct. Listen to learn more.
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In this discourse, Gurudevi talks about her experiences a few days after taking Sannyasa. She says that there is only One Reality. She explains that it’s all unreal and real at the same time. There is only One. Listen to discover more.
Gurudevi explains that you are the one who is seeing. You are you, seeing the multiple dimensions of your own being from the innermost wholeness and expansiveness that is your Self. And you see that everyone else is also the Self. The Self is the One who sees all and is being all. There is only One. Listen and discover more.
Learn from Gurudevi Nirmalananda, in this talk, how your own Essence and happiness are one and the same!
Let Gurudevi Nirmalananda expand your understanding of what Real, really means, and help you experience your true Reality, Consciousness!
Everyone seeks happiness in life. What, exactly, is bliss? Gurudevi differentiates between them, and gives time tested methods of experiencing inner bliss. Yet, the point of life is deeper still. Listen to discover what lies beyond bliss and learn how to find it.
Learn, in this talk from Gurudevi, how to lighten the baggage of memories that do not serve to uplift you or lead you to enlightenment!
In this talk, Swami Nirmalananda points out that you need the strength of Hercules to manage your mind. Find out how you can do this by living in the river of Grace rather than shoveling dung!
In this talk, you will learn how your mind is like a mirror. Your mind reflects back to you what you put into it, while being unaffected by the object it reflects.
Listen to this talk and learn, not only why your mind is so crazy, but how to change it by using yoga’s many tools!
In this discourse Swami Nirmalananda shares in detail, the before and after experience of what happens when the power of the guru enters a disciple.
Do you feel elated by success and defeated by failure? Do you desperately try to hang on to what makes you happy? Gurudevi shares the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita and explains how to find equanimity and peace.
Everyone seeks happiness in life. What, exactly, is bliss? Gurudevi differentiates between them, and gives time tested methods of experiencing inner bliss. Yet, the point of life is deeper still. Listen to discover what lies beyond bliss and learn how to find it.
Anything can be done the hard way or the easy way. Gurudevi explains how Divine Grace and the power of mantra create a profound shift. The promise: as you go deeper everything in life becomes easier.
Learn how through renunciation and meditation you can experience what you were really looking for, which is bliss!
In this talk, Swami Nirmalananda states, “Your ability to choose is your freedom of will.” Listen, and learn how to apply both mind and free will to create your own destiny!
What is divine love and how is it different from the way most people love? Come listen as Gurudevi explains how and where to find divine love. Find the source and you will forever abide in the state of divine love and bliss.
Gurudevi describes the inextricable nature of Self, Love and Ecstasy. She recounts her experience of learning this at the feet of her Guru, Swami Muktananda. In this podcast she points the way for you to learn and experience it too.
What is love? What is mysticism? Gurudevi describes both in her discourse as well as the difference between them. Ultimately, it comes down to the direction you are looking — out or in. When your focus is on your own inner source you get love and even more.
You want to receive unconditional love from others. Yet, yoga says you are already full. In this discourse, Gurudevi describes the pathway to love. She explains the difference between ordinary and Divine Love and tells you how to find it inside.
In this discourse, Gurudevi explains what you need to know to get Enlightened. She calls it your Enlightenment kit! She also gives you a warning of how the bindings, the kleshas, can get in your way. As well as how to go deeper so the bindings cannot hold you.
In this talk, Swami Nirmalananda states, “Yoga and life are all about love.” Therefore, it is important to find out the answer to that big question, what exactly is love?
In this discourse, Gurudevi describes the inner knowing “I am” or “aham” in Sanskrit. “I am” is a complete sentence. It is the knowing of your own perfection. While you may try and become perfect on the outside, Gurudevi explains how perfection is found within. She gives you the explanation and the inner experience.
To give without strings. To serve without acknowledgement. This is called seva or selfless service. In her discourse, Gurudevi explores the yoga of seva and asks you to look at your own motivations. Why do you do what you do? When you give without looking for a reward, you are on the divine path of seva, a superhighway to enlightenment.
Beingness is awareness is free will. Gurudevi Nirmalananda breaks down this mystical formula to explain how you have the power of free will. What are you doing with it?
You are divine and so is the world. This is one of the teachings of Kashmiri Shaivism. Gurudevi walks you through the mystical teachings of her tradition, as well as reveals the key – the awakening of your own cosmic energy.
Uprightness, serenity, compassion, fearlessness — these are a few of the divine virtues that blossom forth when you practice yoga & meditation. In her discourse, Gurudevi Nirmalananda explains how this happens by pointing you towards the source within — your own Self. When you discover this inner source, life just keeps getting better.
Gurudevi describes how love gets mixed up with lust and need. She compares what we think love is to divine love, which is unconditional and unlimited. Where can you find this divine love? You must look inward to the source. Shaktipat, the cosmic inner awakening, opens the way inward so that you can access and live in your Self, the source of love-itself.
A fundamental question: is what you seek attainable? Swami Nirmalananda poses this question both at the beginning and the end of this discourse. In the middle lies a deep teaching.
Come listen as Gurudevi brings the Four Great Statements of the ancient Upanishads to life! She explains how to develop an understanding of these teachings at their deepest level.
February Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Yogyananda (Lissa) Fountain
Are you interested in Enlightenment? Come listen as Gurudevi Nirmalananda explains how you can use the power of this ancient meditative system to propel you all the way there.
There is an underlying yearning in all of us to discover the primordial source of our own being. There is more to you than what you can conceive of with your mind. Gurudevi explains the importance of looking within to understand what your Self has known all along.
In this discourse Gurudevi describes how you can use yoga’s teachings to uncover the deeper dimension of your being. That same being is within us all. The separateness that you feel is caused by not knowing the full dimensionality of your self. She helps to give you the understanding that we are all one, and that it is only the mind that hinders our knowingness of our inherent greatness.
In this discourse Gurudevi describes three different paths to follow to become enlightened. She weaves in metaphors and personal experiences that help to describe them in a clear and precise way.
This discourse is about finding your way in your life, whether your life is challenging or peaceful. Gurudevi describes how major upheavals like the pandemic can be an opportunity to help you learn how to keep the world from pushing your buttons. She discusses how to find your way as a “new normal” emerges. And how to maintain behavior learned in a slower time while you return to a busier life.
Gurudevi says that without God life is empty. It’s about the God feeling on the inside. It’s the inner fullness, wholeness, depth, vastness, and ease of being that is unmistakably holy, sacred, and true. Without this feeling, you feel empty. Except you’re not empty. You are already full. The Guru is the conduit of Grace that reveals the reality within. Listen and discover how to find it.
Guudevi says that yoga gives you the ability to perceive your own inner vastness and bliss. God is in the bliss feeling. God is not found in a statue. Your experience of Self is a feeling. You feel yourself to be more you — more whole, more centered, more full, more expanded, more free, more God. It's the God feeling.
Gurudevi says that homecoming is an inner homecoming. You are sitting inside yourself in a whole new way. You have found what yoga calls your own Self. Self-knowing is the familiarity of everything being right in the world. Come home to a home you’ve always wanted to live in. Your spiritual home is within you, as you.
December 2020 Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Aanandi
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.
Gurudevi explains the difference between connection and Beingness. It is your own Self that you seek, the inner sense of wholeness and oneness that is the knowing of your own Self. But the root of the human dilemma is that this knowing is hidden from you. Instead of looking outward for connection, you must look inward to find your Self. You are the One Reality. You are Shiva. Through meditation and Shaktipat, the One Reality being you is now revealed to you as you.
If it is not nature or nurture that totally make you who you are, then what does? Listen to discover the answer to this all-important question!
Swami Nirmalananda implies that one can get the most out of life by “attaining the highest“. Listen and learn how the highest can be attained!
Satguru Swami Nirmalananda's Satsang
You need to do your part in your spiritual development. Learn how to be based in your true self even while doing your daily activities and making your way in the world. There is a deeper dimension hidden within, under the layers you have constructed to maintain your identities.
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Meditators access parts of their brains that other people are barely using. You can tap into your inner source of intelligence, creativity, joy, love, generosity, and bliss. You can have distinct physical changes to your body that arise from the inside out. Why settle for less? Listen to this discourse and find out how to operate from a more inspired level.
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.
What makes a life a divine life? In this satsang Gurudevi can help you find the energy and power of the divinity that has always been within you.
A true guru can guide you beyond your mind to your most Divine Self. You can shine your light in everything you do, everywhere you go and with everyone you care about. Learn from Gurudevi how to pull yourself out of the dark and live in the light always.
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.
Learn how the teachings and practices of yoga can propel you beyond the flaws and into the experience of your own divinity.
Swami Nirmalananda brings the wisdom of the ancient yoga teachings into the modern world. She shows you how to move beyond unhappiness and dissatisfaction to rediscover inner bliss.
Discover how creation, including you, which reflects so much difference is really the one being many.
Yoga and meditation work on your ability to perceive, both the world around you and within yourself. By working on your inner power of perception you can have the ability to participate in the world while at the same time seeing the Divine in everyone, including yourself.
September 2020 Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Yogyananda Fountain
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.
Swami Nirmalananda learned the mystery, meaning and power of mantra from her guru, Swami Muktananda. In this podcast she shares the Great Mantra of her lineage and describes how to use it.
Swami Nirmalananda describes the highest attainment in life. Calling upon the teachings of the sages in her lineage, she points the way toward the fulfillment of your life's true purpose.
Satguru Swami Nirmalananda Satsang
Upliftment is fullness arising within. It makes the weight of the world melt away and allows peace and joy to take its place. Yoga has practices and techniques that can help lift you up and keep you up all the time. In this satsang, Gurudevi guides you on the yogic path to spiritual upliftment. Become the you that you really are, and have always been.
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Renunciation is not what you think it is. Gurudevi explains renunciation as having fewer desires and being happy with what you have. Learn to cultivate happiness even when the unexpected happens. When your inner fullness expands you accept things as they are, and you live a more peaceful life. In this satsang, you can discover the true meaning of renunciation and the incredible path of spirituality that yoga can give you.
Swami Nirmalananda describes the true relationship between bliss and love. She guides you through a reflection on love in your own life. She clearly explains how and where to find the bliss you seek.
August 2020 Teachings Article
By Gurudevi Nirmalananda Read by Swami Sahajananda
Swami Nirmalananda shares ancient teachings on desire and its painful effect on you. What is the remedy for this pain? Come listen, the answer is here.
Gurudevi tours you back through history discussing the meaning and use of the word, “enlightenment”. She explains the concept from a yogic perspective and relates it to modern life. As always, she encourages you along your journey!
Gurudevi provides a nuanced definition of the word devotion. She describes the development and trajectory of devotion in her own life. This will give you a new understanding of the role of devotion in yours.