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Meditation – Ananda Marga Dharmacast
Podcasts on spirituality, meditation, Ananda Marga yoga philosophy
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What Are the Stages of Meditation
Dada Vedaprajinananda (Dada Veda) looks at the four stages that a meditator will experience on the path of mantra meditation. This explanation is based on Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s essay “Yatamana, Vyatireka, Ekendriya and Vashiikara” in the book “Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 33.” All of Anandamurti’s...
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Can We Do Our Spiritual Practice Throughout the Day?
Dada Vedaprajinananda (aka Dada Veda) explains how to cultivate Madhuvidya – the sweet knowledge that God is embedded in all the particles of this universe. This can be practice through a special mantra that reminds you that the physical objects that you come in contact with are basically divine,...
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How Should We Live Our Lives?
Should we live to please only ourselves? What is our responsibility to the wider society? These are some of the issues that Dada Vedaprajinananda explores in this podcast episode. The video version can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@dadaveda If you wish to contact Dada visit his website and...
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Begin Your Meditation Practice Today!
In this episode Dada Vedaprajinananda (Dada Veda) demonstrates how to do meditation with the universal mantra (Baba Nam Kevalam “Only the name of the most Beloved” or “Love is All There Is”)
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Is My Meditation Working?
If you are new to meditation, maybe in the first few weeks, you may feel like nothing is happening or perhaps you are doing something wrong. Dada Veda explains why this is natural, but shows how underneath the surface your meditation is actually helping you to reach your goal of finding inner…
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What is Dharma?
Dada Vedaprajinananda (aka Dada Veda) addresses the question what is dharma, and explains how Dharma isthe basic characteristic of humans: it explains why humans need mental expansion, how we can become one with the Cosmic flow, why we serve others and how we merge with the Supreme Consciousness....
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Yama-Niyama: the base of yoga and meditation
Success in meditation depends on our everyday living which is described in Yoga’s “Yama and Niyama) Yama describes five areas of bringing and individual in harmony with the environment and society, and Niyama shows the way to internal harmony and purity. This is based on Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s...
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Seven Tips to Help Your Meditation Practice
Dada Veda shares seven basic tips that can help you get started and become established in the practice of meditation. If you have additional tips or would like to share things which have helped you, put them down in the comments section. To attend a retreat in person with Dada visit...
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Who is the Real Guru?
The Criteria of a Guru is what we are discussing today. What is the role of a real guru in spirituality? What qualifications must a guru have? We look at this based on a discourse of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
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Using the Power of Suggestion in Daily Life
Auto-suggestion (what we think and tell ourselves) and outer-suggestion (the messages that our surroundings give us) play a big role in shaping our destiny. With simple meditation techniques you can take control of this process. This podcast explains how it works and how you can do it. If you…
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The Role of Surrender in Spiritual Practice
We look at how surrendering everything to God can help us in spiritual meditation, and also look at some practical ways to accomplish this.
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Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation
We take a look at the three main obstacles that crop up when we try to meditate, and give some suggestion about how to overcome them and achieve a deeper more peaceful experience.
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How to use Auto-Suggestion and Outer-Suggestion
“As you think, so you become” is the psychological basis for the practice of meditation and for success in life. In this podcast we look at the role of auto-suggestion and outer-suggestion in this process.
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Kiirtan: Chant Your Way to Bliss
Kiirtan (often spelled kirtan) is the practice of chanting mantras prior to meditation. In this podcast Dada Vedaprajinanda goes over the benefits of this practice. The Baba Nam Kevalam (only the name of the most beloved) is the chant referenced in this podcast.
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Tips for Better Meditation
We go over a few steps you can take to improve your meditation practice.
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The Earlier One Starts Meditation The Better
Why should I start meditation now, when I can do it at a later time? Dada Vedaprajinananda explores this question.
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Which Path Should I Follow?
Someone asked this question 3500 years ago, and it is still a pressing issue. Dada Vedaprajinananda goes into it using the response given by the yogi-king Yudhisthira and by contemporary guru Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
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Meditation and Psychotherapy
Dada Vedaprajinananda is joined by special guest Dr. Sid Jordan, aka. Acarya Vishvamitra for a discussion on the roles of meditation and psychotherapy in the task of overcoming psychological problems and reaching our full human potential.
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The Four Stages of Spiritual Practice
Is there a way to understand the milestones on the spiritual path? In this episode we look at four stages of spiritual growth. This topic stemmed from a question by one of our listeners who wondered how to deal with the obstacles to meditation posed by friends, neighbors and other people who do…
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Can Meditation Heal the World?
It has been claimed that if enough people meditate, then the world will be transformed. Is this true or not? Dada Vedaprajinananda offers his opinion in this podcast.
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Overcoming Fear
Fear is a bully and you can overcome that bully by knowing the lore of the playground and also through spiritual remembrance. Dada Vedaprajinananda looks at the problem from both a practical and spiritual perspective, applying the teachings of his guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
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Press the Re-start Button to Help Your Meditation
When your meditation session seems to be going nowhere there is a simple technique that might help you overcome your obstacles and go on to a more blissful sitting.
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How to Do “Selfless” Meditation
Here is another method you can use to improve and deepen your meditation practice.
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The Greatest Secret of the Universe
Dada Vedaprajinananda talks about the obstacles in the way of peaceful meditation and explains “the greatest secret of the universe” as a way to overcome the obstacles. You will have to listen for around ten minutes to find out the secret.
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Struggle is the Essence of Life
In this episode we we look at the inevitability of obstacles along the spiritual path (and life itself) and how we can overcome those obstacles
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Who Am I?
We take a look at the age old question “Who am I?” from the perspective of yoga and meditation.
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What is a Mantra?
What are the characteristics of the words that are used in meditation? This short podcast explains why and how a particular combination of syllables can help someone move on the path of human perfection.
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The Supreme Truth
Dada Vedaprajinananda reads Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s discourse, “The Supreme Truth” and then gives a short commentary touching on the nature of this universe and the role of meditation in reminding us who we are, and what we have to do in this world.
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Perfecting the Layers of the Mind
This is a workshop-class by Dada Vedaprajinananda at a retreat at Ananda Liina (www.anandaliina.org) in Urbana, IL on September 30, 2012. According to yoga, there are six layers of the mind (including the physical body) and they can be perfected and purified using the eight limbs of yoga practice...
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The Secrets of a Joyous Life
This is a recording of a lecture on “The Secrets of a Life of Joy” given by Dada Vedaprajinananda on May 7, 2012 at the Unitarian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the lecture Dada speaks about a way of life which is joyous. He draws on the wisdom of Tantra, Buddhism and the Vedas […]
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Vegetarianism, yoga and meditation
In this wide-ranging interview with WEFT, Champaign, IL, Dada Vedaprajinananda explains the importance of vegetarianism for yoga and meditation, as well as revealing important points about the process of meditation.
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