Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast

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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For 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 world a better place, and they make you happier.  Why do we have to wait for December for this to happen?

Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" here.

When you base yourself in the deeper dimensions of your own being, bliss is ever arising. Consciousness arises within and overflows into your life, becoming an open-heartedness that motivates your actions. Keep your bliss tank full so you can give more, do more and share more with others.

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We haven’t found the real abode of bliss. We haven’t learned how to obtain it. And for this reason, we remain unhappy. The closer we get to the inner Self, the more happiness we experience. Happiness is your true nature. Happiness is inherent to you. Your own Self is the embodiment of happiness. Like ice is the embodiment of water, your own body, mind, heart and soul are the embodiment of Consciousness.  – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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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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This 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 hold you back and keep you small – plus you are free to love, to care and to share.

Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse "Authentically You" here: