Guided Meditations Archives - Arsha Bodha Center: Recent Episodes
Swami Tadatmananda
om tad brahma, om tad vayu, om tad atma, om tat satyam
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Discovering the reality we seek that is hidden in plain sight.
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Om chanting with pranayama
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Learn to focus and concentrate your attention for the sake of attaining samadhi.
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om aim sarasvatyai namah
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Learn how to remove vagueness, doubts, and habitual wrong thinking.
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om namah shivaya
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Learn how to use meditation to validate truths you have already understood.
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Guided Contemplation
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Remove habitual wrong thinking to abide in your true nature
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so’ham mantra
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Three stages of practice – faith, knowledge, assimilation – for becoming established in one’s true nature.
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sat-cit-ananda svarupo `ham.
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Vedantic contemplation for assimilation of spiritual wisdom.
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om-kara recitation
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Om is understood as a + u + m + silence. These four elements are interpreted in two different ways for contemplation.
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Om Namah Shivaya.
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Abide as pure consciousness in the absence of thoughts during the gap between mantras.
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hari bol hari bol hari hari bol, mukunda madhava govinda bol
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Ishvara’s names, together with their sounds and meanings, make excellent objects of concentration for meditation.
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om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
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Discovering your own true nature as an amsha avatara, a partial incarnation of God.
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om namo narayanaya shankha-chakra-gadadharaya
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Using imagination as a powerful aid in meditation.
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chandra-shekharaya nama om ganga-dharaya namah om
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Understanding Ishvara, God of the Cosmos.
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om dum durgam devim sharanam aham prapadye
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Prayer to Durga invokes blessings of shakti (power) and assurance.
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Discover Bhagavan’s presence on the altar of your heart.
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sri rama rama ram
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jay radhe jay radhe
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Discover how you are never separate from Bhagavan.
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gopijana-vallabha-caranam sharanam prapadye
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Find Bhagavan’s sacred presence within yourself.
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gam ganapataye nama om
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Mature prayer invokes Ishvara’s blessings without childish hope for miracles.
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lokas samastas sukhino bhavantu
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Discover the true basis for forgiveness so you can become free from hurt, resentment and regret.
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sthane hrishikesha shri-krishnarpanam astu
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Accepting reality on its own terms without demanding the universe to be different than it really is.
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Embrace me dear Lord – Song by Rabindranath Tagore
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Using meditation to turn to Ishwara for understanding, validation, and healing.
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om harih om shri krishna sharanam mamaLearn to use meditation to let go hurt, resentment, and blame.
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Learn to use meditation to let go hurt, resentment, and blame.
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guided reflection, lokas samastas sukhino bhavantu.
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Use of pratipaksha bhavana to remove undesirable traits.
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Contemplation on each decade of life / om namo narayanaya
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Decision making and perspective on life become clear from the standpoint of life’s final days..
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dhanyo ‘ham
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Cultivating gratitude by creating new samskaras (impressions) through a technique called pratipaksha bhavana.
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om namah shivaya
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Free your mind from hurt, anger, and frustration
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suddhosmi buddhosmi niranjanosmi
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Recognizing the signs of spiritual growth on life’s journey.
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om namah shivaya
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Learn to detach yourself to find inner peace, even in times of crisis.
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om namah shivaya
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All experiences are reflected by the mind. Mental impurities which distort those experiences must be removed.
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om namo vishnave prabhavishnave
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Understanding Ishvara’s order in the laws of nature and in our lives.
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nadi shodhana pranayama
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Learn how to use a breathing technique known as nadi shodhana pranayama to release accumulated stress
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om sri ram jay ram jay jay ram
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Discover how the problem of suffering and its solution is in your mind.
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Mahamritunjaya mantra
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Learn how your contentment does not depend on external situations.
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Prana Vikshana (breath awareness)
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Become the observer of thoughts, rather than the thinker of thoughts.
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Sakshi Bhava: witnessing body, breathing, and mind.
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Learn to become the passive, silent witness of your mind’s activities.
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om tad brahma, om tad vayu, om tad atma, om tat satyam
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Chanting of om is based on four principles – name, sound, meaning & symbolism.
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Gayatri Mantra
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Meaning and symbolism of God as sun representing source of spiritual wisdom.
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om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
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Employ the inherent power of mantras – mantra shakti – to turn your attention towards the divinity within.
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sri ram jay ram jay jay ram
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Restrain your mind from wandering and train it to stay focused on a mantra
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Gong / guided observation
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Learn to break the habitual train of verbal thinking in meditation.
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Prana Vikshana (breath awareness)
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Learn to keep your attention on the present moment by focusing on your breath.
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jaya sita rama, jaya raghu-rama
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Creating a samskara (mental impression) to more deeply assimilate values.
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Ujjayi Pranayama
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Complete explanation of this breathing technique which has a profound calming effect on body and mind.
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panduranga vitthala hari narayana
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Withdrawing your attention from the outside world and focusing it within yourself is a fundamental practice of renunciation.
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Dakshinamurthi Mantra
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Spiritual guidance to lead us to find happiness and contentment at its true source – within.
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Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
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Find the true source of peace within yourself.
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Om Namah Shivaya
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Performing pranayama while repeating mantra is a powerful aid
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om narayani namo ‘stu te
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Like teaching a child, your mind can be trained to be focused during meditation.
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