Gurudevi Nirmalananda Saraswati

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Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: You Already KnowYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Bondage & Freedom” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/bondage-freedom-1-19-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-07-2900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Imprisoned By Your MindEven 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Bliss of Freedom” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-bliss-of-freedom-7-6-25 #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-07-2200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Behind Your ComplaintsWhere 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “What is Love” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/what-is-love-6-29-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-07-1500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Experiential KnowingKnowing 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Unlearning” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/unlearning-6-22-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-07-0900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Yogic FreedomYour 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Clinging” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/clinging-6-15-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-07-0100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The GuruWhile 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “You Need a Guru” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/you-need-a-guru-6-8-25 #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-06-2400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: BreakthroughOf 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Guru's Grace” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/guru-s-grace-6-1-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-06-1700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Use MantraYou 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “I Got It!” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/i-got-it-5-25-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmal...2025-06-1000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: Beyond ConfusionGrowing 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #d...2025-06-0408 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: A Deeper Sense of SelfWhen 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Words of Power” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/words-of-power-5-18-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-06-0300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Marinating in ConsciousnessYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Changing Your Past” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/changing-your-past-5-11-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-05-2700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Look InwardYoga 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “How to Find Happiness” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/how-to-find-happiness-5-4-25 #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevini 2025-05-2000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: Words MatterWords 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.   ...2025-05-1909 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: An Amazing ExperienceYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Moment of Enlightenment” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-moment-of-enlightenment-4-27-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-05-1300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: A Divine UniverseThis 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Celebrating Spiritual Greatness” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/celebrating-spiritual-greatness-4-20-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #bliss...2025-05-0600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Yogic FreedomIf 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Not Normal” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/not-normal-4-13-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-04-2900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your MindNo 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Equanimity — Peace of Mind” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/equanimity-peace-of-mind-4-6-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurude...2025-04-2200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Grace Infused TeachingsWhen 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. Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Who's In Charge?” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/who-s-in-charge-3-30-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga...2025-04-1500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your Own SelfHow 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Meditating on Your Own Self” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/meditating-on-your-own-self-3-23-25 #freemeditation #svaroopameditation #spirituality #yogamysticism #meditation #gurudevi #divine #yoga #shakti...2025-04-0800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: What Is Enlightenment?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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. 2025-04-0310 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Busy MeditationsWhile 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Growing Into Self” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/growing-into-self-3-16-25 #freemeditation #svaroopameditation #spirituality #yogamysticism #meditation #gurudevi #divine #yoga #shaktipat #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-04-0100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Linger LongerSo, 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Liminal Edge” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-liminal-edge-3-9-25 #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-03-2500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Bliss of ConsciousnessYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Bliss Comes Early” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-bliss-comes-early-3-2-25 #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2025-03-1800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Enlivened by GraceYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Root of Meditation” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/the-root-of-meditation-2-23-25 2025-03-1100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: Enlightenment Is a ProcessI 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Fr...2025-03-0409 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Something Worth FindingYoga 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Expansive Experiences” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/expansive-experiences-2-16-25 #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-03-0400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: That Yoga FeelingThe 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Dedicated Time" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/dedicated-time-2-9-25 #yoga #downingtownyoga #svaroopayoga #therapeuticyoga #blissyoga #yogatherapy #domoreyoga #svaroopayoga #healingyoga #ytt #yogateachertraining #yogatherapisttraining 2025-02-2500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: You Are Not Your PainIf 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Freedom from Pain" here: Freedom from Pain 2/2/25 - Gurudevi Nirmalananda #pain #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #si...2025-02-1800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: Getting Set FreeBorn 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2025-02-1407 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Tantric TraditionWe 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “From the Inside-Out" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/from-the-inside-out-1-26-25 #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #tantra #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-02-1100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: God Found WithinAtma, 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Atma & Svaroopa” here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-01-2800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The First SutraYou 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Your Divine Essence” here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-01-2100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Guru's JobIt 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full d...2025-01-1400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: You Just KnowYour 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. 2025-01-0810 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Radiate ConsciousnessYour 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Unconditional Love” here. #spirituality #meditation #domoreyoga #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2025-01-0700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Change Your MoodWhen 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Loving God” here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-12-3000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your Own KnowingTo 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Put Your Heart in It” here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-12-2300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: A Sweet SurrenderGratitude 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “An Attitude of Gratitude” here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-12-1600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: A Mantra RecessThere’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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Getting Blasted” here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-12-0900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: DevotionDevotion 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. 2024-12-0910 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Sword of MantraIn 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Mind, Heart and Soul" here. #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopam...2024-12-0200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your WordsThe 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Your Words Create Your Reality" here. #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-11-2500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: BreakthroughBreakthrough! 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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Open the Curtains" here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-11-1800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: You Are SpiritYes, 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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Wearing a Costume" here. #meditation #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-11-1100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article: Words MatterDivine 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…  Read Gurudevi's...2024-11-0910 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Yogic TransformationYoga 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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "A Personal Upgrade" here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-11-0600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Source of LoveThe 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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Subtle Perceptions and Powers" here. #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-10-2800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: PleasureNila 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Into The Blue" here. #meditation #Gurudevi #groupmeditation #Svaroopa 2024-10-2100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Being HereThat’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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "What is an Ashram" here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga...2024-10-1400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Yes, You MeditatedOne 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Inner Experiences" here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-10-0700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Intuition & InsightYou 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. 2024-10-0211 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Yoga Can Free YouThat’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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Sensory Pleasures" here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-09-3000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Settle WithinThis 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… Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Your Ten Senses" here. #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-09-2300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: How to Use Your MindYour 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "The Best Chant Ever" here. #lightofconsciousness #divinemind #divineemotions #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-09-1600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - The Power of Your SensesYour 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies. #lost #seeking #seeker #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 2024-09-0410 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Bliss Is GuaranteedWhile 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 Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Opening The Inner Door" here. #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda...2024-08-1900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your Own Inner CenterWhat 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. Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "The One Who Sees" here. #peace #happiness #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamys...2024-08-1200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Doorways InsideWhen 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 have a home to return to. Getting lost in worldly stuff is like thinking you are a tree. You don’t remember that you have a...2024-08-0811 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Cosmic EnergyThis 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Form of the Formless” here. #kundalini #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-08-0500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Turiya – Deep MeditationTuriya 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “The Primordial Sound” here. 2024-07-2900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your MeditationYour 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. Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Meditation Experiences” here. 2024-07-2200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Live This WayI 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. Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Light & Shadow” here. 2024-07-1500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Divine EyesHow do you get Divine Eyes? Satguru Swami Nirmalananda explains in this excerpt from her discourse at Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center on June 23, 2024. Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Yoga - Then and Now" here. 2024-07-0800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - The Blue PearlScientists 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... Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our F...2024-07-0311 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Guru's GraceWhen 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Baba Means Father" here. 2024-07-0300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: ShivaShiva. 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Inner Source" here. 2024-06-2400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Like a ButterflyWith 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Stepping into the Light" here. 2024-06-1700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: You are MoreWhatever 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-06-1000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - God's GraceI 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… Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies #Shiva #fivepowers #grace #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 2024-06-0510 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Fire of YogaBaba 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Revealing Power" here. 2024-06-0300 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Light of ConsciousnessWhen 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. — Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-05-2800 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - The Formless Being FormThe 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2024-05-1011 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Inner ExperienceSimply 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Just Know" here 2024-05-0600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Three Ways to Get EnlightenedThere 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2024-04-0411 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Jesus was a MysticJesus was a mystic.  When I say that Jesus was a mystic, then I have to explain:  What is a mystic?   The dictionary gives us a good definition, saying that a mystic is a person who seeks to attain unity with or absorption into the deity or the Absolute by contemplation and self-surrender.  Or, one who believes in the spiritual knowing of truths that are beyond the intellect.   You might qualify, you think? Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "Jesus was a Mystic" here. 2024-03-3100 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Highest, The Greatest, The Ultimate AttainmentYou matter. In life you usually focus on the experiences, as though they matter, as though they make you who you are. But your essence is unchanged, regardless of the circumstances. You are you. You are Consciousness. You matter. Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "The Highest, The Greatest, The Ultimate Attainment" here. 2024-03-1700 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Duality is RealityYour 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2024-03-1409 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: In ProcessIf 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… - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-03-0401 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Sail Through LifeMost 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... - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Listen to Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-02-1901 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - AuraYour 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2024-02-1511 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: That Inner DoorwayThe 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… - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-02-0501 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Explore WithinIt 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... - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2024-01-2201 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Embodied ConsciousnessThe 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2024-01-1311 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Shine All the TimeWhile 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.... - Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-12-2501 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: The Most Wonderful Time of YearFor 20 years, this has been researched — proving that generosity makes you, the giver, happier. It even improves your physical health measurably and increases life satisfaction. And it doesn’t have to be big gifts. A yogi told me about baking cookies and delivering them to the neighbors — a long-standing tradition. Just waving another driver into the lane in front of you increases your well-being. Holding the door for someone to walk through, running an errand or driving someone where they need to go, picking up trash off the sidewalk — there are so many things simple things you can do to make the w...2023-12-2400 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Sharing Your HappinessWhen 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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2023-12-1909 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your True NatureWe 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-12-1801 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: One ThingWhatever 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… – Gurudevi Nirmalananda Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-12-1201 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Authentically YouThis meditative system is not about emptying. It’s about filling, but you don’t fill the pot from outside. Shaktipat initiation makes the space inside expand, even glow and arise to fill you from the inside out. You get so full that you overflow, filling the space around you as well, just like a light bulb shines light for all around. And you’re so full that you don’t feel needy anymore. Need, greed, and fear dissolve in the light of Consciousness that is arising within, setting you free. In this extraordinary freedom, you are free from what used to...2023-12-1000 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Karmic RepercussionsIt’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... Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-12-0401 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Your Inherent GreatnessI went to Baba because I had no clue about my own inner light.  I had tried the only thing I knew, which was getting light from others.  I had proved to myself that I wasn't good at it.  Part of it is that the people I knew had precious little of their own inner light.  And part of it was that I didn't really want someone else's light to fill me up.  I wanted me.   Yet, when you've lost track of your own essence, you do want others to fill you up.  That's because any light is better than none.  When...2023-11-2600 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: One Who KnowsI 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… Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-11-2401 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite Action Is An ImperativeAction is not a choice; action is an imperative. If you don’t have enough to do, you get bored. And when you get bored, life loses it’s meaning and purpose. Your light dims, you even become less intelligent. Boredom is not good for the soul. Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Action Is An Imperative" here. 2023-11-1900 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastTeachings Article - Why Do You Do What You Do?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. Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies 2023-11-1510 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Start InsideSomething 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-11-1301 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: What Do You WantWhat do you want? Whatever you want, I’ll promise you that yoga and meditation will help. It’s really wonderful that I can 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 teachings and practices give you an inner opening that fulfills your desires, whatever they are. One thing — and you get it all. Pretty amazing Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "What Do You Want" here. 2023-11-1200 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Action and Reaction When you know your own Self, you will still have a generous heart. You will still participate in the world. You will still care and share. And your actions will make a difference in other people’s lives. But you’re like the masked man, not looking for their appreciation. You do it because it’s there to be done. Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Action and Reaction" here. 2023-11-0500 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: GuruOne 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 Listen to Gurudevi’s full discourse here. 2023-10-3001 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: Once You are EnlightenedOnce 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 Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse here 2023-10-1601 min

Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s PodcastSound Bite: What's Happening MattersWhy do you care about the world? Why do you care about people you’ve never met? This caring comes from recognition, the key principle of our tantric path. Recognition is even the name of one of the primary texts of Kashmiri Shaivism, the Pratyabhijnahrdayam. The title is made up of two words, hyrdayam, which means the heart, the essence or the core of the teaching; and pratyabhijna which means recognition. Watch Gurudevi's full discourse "What's Happening Matters" here. 2023-10-1500 min