Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast

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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Opening the Inner Door  

If you want a door to be opened, you have to knock on it. Or you have to have the key. In a tantric tradition, one who lives inside is able to open the door for you, opening you into the deeper dimensions of your own Beingness. That’s called Shaktipat. But to get the key to the door, you have to earn it. How do you earn it? ... 

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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 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 home, a place inside where you are already whole, full, complete and… 

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