Episodes
Friday May 10, 2024
Teachings Article - The Formless Being Form
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
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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Monday May 06, 2024
Sound Bite: The Inner Experience
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
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
Monday Apr 29, 2024
3/31/24 Jesus was a Mystic
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Yoga honors Jesus as a great Guru, a mystic who raised his disciples up to his level. Jesus described himself as one with God. The yogic texts say that you can find in yourself what Jesus found in himself. This means you have to look inward to find God. But you need help with this…
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Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Teachings Article - Three Ways to Get Enlightened
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
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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Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Teachings Article - Duality is Reality
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
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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Monday Mar 04, 2024
Sound Bite: In Process
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
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…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Sound Bite: Sail Through Life
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
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...
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Teachings Article - Aura
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
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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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Sound Bite: That Inner Doorway
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
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…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Jan 22, 2024
Sound Bite: Explore Within
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
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...
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Teachings Article - Embodied Consciousness
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
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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Friday Jan 12, 2024
12/24/23 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
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.
– Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Dec 25, 2023
Sound Bite: Shine All the Time
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
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....
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Teachings Article - Sharing Your Happiness
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
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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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Sound Bite: Your True Nature
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
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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Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Sound Bite: One Thing
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
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…
– Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Sound Bite: Karmic Repercussions
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
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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Friday Nov 24, 2023
Sound Bite: One Who Knows
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
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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Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Teachings Article - Why Do You Do What You Do?
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
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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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Sound Bite: Start Inside
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
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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Friday Nov 10, 2023
10/22/2023 You are Worthy
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
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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Friday Nov 03, 2023
10/15/2023 What’s Happening Matters
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
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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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Sound Bite: Guru
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
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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Monday Oct 16, 2023
Sound Bite: Once You are Enlightened
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
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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Friday Oct 13, 2023
Teachings Article - Just Do It!
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
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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Friday Oct 13, 2023
09/24/2023 Peeling the Onion
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
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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Friday Oct 06, 2023
09/17/2023 Beyond Pain
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
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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Monday Oct 02, 2023
Sound Bite: Happiness and Bliss
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
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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Friday Sep 29, 2023
09/10/2023 Happiness Lies Inside
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
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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Monday Sep 18, 2023
Sound Bite: Your Bliss Tank
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
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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Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Teachings Article - Pleasure, Happiness & Bliss
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
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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Monday Sep 04, 2023
Sound Bite: Happiness in Action
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
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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Friday Sep 01, 2023
08/13/2023 Bliss is Your Nature
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
You are made of Divine bliss. Yoga focuses on your experience of the bliss that you already are. Meditation carries you deeper and deeper within, where you find, not merely bliss, but the source of bliss. You find the source of life itself. The bliss is already within you, and always available. Look in the right direction - inward. Bliss is your nature.
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Monday Aug 21, 2023
Sound Bite: The Experiencer
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
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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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Teachings Article - A Juicy Life
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
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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Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Sound Bite: What a Guru Does
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
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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Friday Jul 28, 2023
07/09/2023 If You’re not Enlightened Yet
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Knowing and being your own Self is enlightenment. If you’re not enlightened yet, you keep getting lost in your outer experiences. But they don’t make you who you are. You are more, so much more. To know your own Self, you have to look within. If you’re not enlightened yet, what have you been focusing on?
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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Sound Bite: Perfectly Imperfect
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
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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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Teachings Article - Where Are You Going?
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
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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Monday Jul 10, 2023
Sound Bite: Illumined Actions
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
Sound Bite: My Life Was Changed
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
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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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Teachings Article - Your Mind’s True Capacity
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Your mind is Consciousness in a contracted form. It changes its shape to match what you perceive. Through meditation and contemplation, you come to see the source of your brilliance, your creativity, your bliss, and your ability to love. Live in total awareness, perfect bliss, and full contentment.
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Monday Jun 12, 2023
Sound Bite: Who Knew?
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
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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Monday May 29, 2023
Sound Bite: The Promise of Freedom
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
Baba’s gift of Shaktipat Initiation, his teachings, and the practices he gave us made us able to attain his promise of Freedom. You need the bliss, yes. But you also need to understand it, and to support it. The teachings make you able to understand it. The practices support it, so you can live in the bliss of your beingness right in the middle…
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Tuesday May 16, 2023
Sound Bite: Steady State
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
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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Monday May 15, 2023
Teachings Article - What Kind of Karma?
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
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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Monday May 01, 2023
Sound Bite: Look Deeper Within
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
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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Friday Apr 28, 2023
04/09/2023 To Shine
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
The light of your own Being shines through your eyes, your mind, and your heart. Apply your mind to Divine thoughts and your mind will be uplifted by this endeavor. Find the deeper dimension that is the source of the light. Then your own light arises and fills you completely. And you shine your light into the world.
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Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Teachings Article - Changing Your Future
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Yoga’s goal is for you to know your own Self. This frees you from the fear of death, for you know you are immortal, an individualized form of the One Divine Reality. It’s only your body that dies, not your Self. But you need to take care of your body and mind if you want them to last. You can change your future by doing more yoga!
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Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Sound Bite: Steady and Deep
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
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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