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Vedanta and Yoga — 718 episodes
Guru Purnima 2026
Bhagavad Gita (8.23 - 8.28): "The Two Paths Beyond Death"
Improve, Change, Pray
Bhagavad Gita (8.16 - 8.22): "Brahma's Day and Night"
Antar Yoga July 2026
Bhagavad Gita (8.14 - 8.15): "Gradual Liberation Krama-Mukti"
The Trinity of Freedom
Antar Yoga June 2026
Bhagavad Gita (8.7 - 8.13): "The Significance of ॐ"
Bhagavad Gita (8.1 - 8.6): "The Final Moment of Life"
Cultivating Steady Wisdom
Bhagavad Gita (7.25 - 7.30): "At the Hour of Death"
Dealing with Hatred
Coping with Pain
Bhagavad Gita (7.19 - 7.24): "Desire and Its Fulfillment"
Meditation vs. Reflection
Bhagavad Gita (7.13 - 7.18): "Four Types of Devotees"
Picking Myself Up
Antar Yoga May 2026
Bhagavad Gita (7.5 - 7.12): "Like Gems on a String"
Learning from Three Mothers
Bhagavad Gita (7.1 - 7.4): "Knowing God Fully"
Learning How to Learn
Bhagavad Gita (6.40 - 6.46): "The Story of a Distracted Yogi"
Intense Longing for God
Antar Yoga April 2026
Bhagavad Gita (6.33 - 6.39): "How to Control the Mind"
Learning from Hanuman
Bhagavad Gita (6.29 - 6.32): "Who is the Greatest Yogi"
Understanding Easter
Bhagavad Gita (6.24 - 6.28): "Centering in the Atman"
Sri Rama Festival
Bhagavad Gita (6.16 - 6.23): "The State of Yoga"
Bridging the East and the West
Bhagavad Gita (6.11 - 6.15): "Practical Tips for Meditation"
Antar Yoga March 2026
Bhagavad Gita (6.8 - 6.10): "Living Without Expectations"
Learning is Religion
Bhagavad Gita (6.4 - 6.7): "How to Make My Mind a Friend"
Reclaiming My Self
Bhagavad Gita (6.1 - 6.3): "Yoga and Sannyasa"
Bhagavad Gita (5.25 - 5.29): "The Real Sannyasa"
Bhagavad Gita (5.21 - 5.24): "The Bliss of Atman"
Antar Yoga February 2026
Antar Yoga December 2025
Bhagavad Gita (5.16 - 5.20): "Abandoning Strong Likes and Dislikes"
Bhagavad Gita (5.11 - 5.15): "The City of Nine Gates"
Incarnating Christmas: Practicing Holiness in the World
Bhagavad Gita (5.4 - 5.10): "Doing Work Without Working"
Being Grateful
Worship as a Spiritual Practice (2)
Bhagavad Gita (5.1 - 5.3): "Is Giving Up Karma a Good Idea?"
Worship as a Spiritual Practice (1)
Bhagavad Gita (4.38 - 4.42): "Knowledge, the Great Purifier"
Antar Yoga November 2025
Bhagavad Gita (4.34 - 4.37): "The Power of Knowledge"
Prayer as a Spiritual Practice
Bhagavad Gita (4.25 - 4.33): "All About Yajna"
Antar Yoga October 2025
Bhagavad Gita (4.22 - 4.24): "How to Dissolve Karma"
Be and Do and Make. Or Just Be.
Bhagavad Gita (4.19 - 4.21): "Living Without Expectations"
My Relationship with God
Bhagavad Gita (4.15 - 4.18): "Karma is Complex"
Dotting the Day
Bhagavad Gita (4.13 - 4.14): "Karma Does Not Bind Me"
Bhagavad Gita (4.10 - 4.12): "The Path to Freedom is Not New"
Seeing God With Open Eyes
Bhagavad Gita (4.7 - 4.9): "Why Does God Come as Avatara"
Antar Yoga September 2025
Bhagavad Gita (4.1 - 4.6): "The Gita Lineage
Krishna Festival
Dive Deep, O Mind
Bhagavad Gita (3.40 - 3.43): "How to Overcome Desire"
Antar Yoga July 2025
Guru Purnima - God and Guru
Bhagavad Gita (3.36 - 3.39): "Why People Do Bad Things"
Bhagavad Gita (3.33 - 3.35): "What Is My Duty?"
A Voice Without a Form
Bhagavad Gita (3.30 - 3.32): "The Fever of the World"
"I" and What It Can Do
Antar Yoga May 2025
Learning is Religion
Bhagavad Gita (3.26 - 29): "The Play of Gunas"
A Mind on a Diet
Do You Remember?
Bhagavad Gita (3.21 - 25): "Working with Wisdom"
From Doing to Being
Meditation (Nididhyāsana)
Antar Yoga May 2025
Remembering Sri Sankaracharya
Bhagavad Gita (3.17 - 20): "Being Self-content"
Antar Yoga April 2025
"Where Did You Hide, My Love?": An Easter Meditation
Bhagavad Gita (3.9 - 16): "Yajña as Cosmic Sacrifice"
"What is Maya?"
Rama Festival
Reflection (Manana)
Hearing (Śravaṇa)
Bhagavad Gita (3.5 - 8): "Action Is Better Than Inaction"
Bhagavad Gita (3.1 - 4): "Which is Better - Knowledge or Work?"
Bhagavad Gita (2.67 - 72): "The State of Enlightenment"
Bhagavad Gita (2.62 - 66): "The Bliss of Tranquillity"
Bhagavad Gita (2.57 - 61): "How Powerful Are the Senses!"
Bhagavad Gita (2.54 - 56): "The Person of Steady Wisdom"
Bhagavad Gita (2.50 - 53): "Evenness of Mind"
Bhagavad Gita (2.48 - 49): "Buddhi-Yoga"
Antar Yoga March 2025
Bhagavad Gita (2.47): "The Nitty-Gritty of Karma"
Ramakrishna of the Heart
Bhagavad Gita (2.45 - 46): "Going Beyond the Gunas"
The Shiva Ideal
Antar Yoga December 2024
The Mystery of Mary: Reflections on the Immaculate Conception
Bhagavad Gita (2.42 - 44): "The Flowery Talk that Leads Nowhere"
Bhagavad Gita (2.40 - 41): "Doing vs Being"
Longing for Freedom
Prayer (Prārthanā)
Deep Faith (Śraddhā)
Concentration
Forbearance (titikshaa)
Bhagavad Gita (2.34 - 39): "Two Kinds of Buddhi"
Bhagavad Gita (2.29 - 33): "Grief is avoidable"
Antar Yoga October 2024
Bhagavad Gita (2.23 - 28): "Stop Grieving!"
Story of Durga
Bhagavad Gita (2.18 - 22) "Body, Mind and Atman"
Bhagavad Gita (2.15 - 17) "What is Really Real?"
Bhagavad Gita (2.11 - 15) "Learning to Endure"
Bhagavad Gita (2. 4 - 10) "I am confused"
Bhagavad Gita (2. 1 - 3) "Stop Being Fainthearted and Arise"
Bhagavad Gita (1. 31 - 46) "I Cannot Kill 'My People'"
Bhagavad Gita (1. 13-30) "The Conches Are Blown"
Pulling Back
Bhagavad Gita (1. 1-12) "Setting the Stage"
Antar Yoga September 2024
Bhagavad Gita (Introduction)
Vedanta as a Mirror
Krishna Festival
Nine Forms of Devotion
Guru Purnima
Restraining the Senses
Antar Yoga July 2024
Dealing with Disappointment
Antar Yoga June 2024
Restraining the Mind
Beginning Anew
All the World's a Stage
Detachment (Vairāgya)
Learning from Nature
The Story of Buddha
Antar Yoga May 2024
Sri Ramakrishna and Lifelong Learning
Discernment (Viveka)
RamaFestival2024
Spiritual Fitness
Antar Yoga
Message of Easter
Antar Yoga March 2024
Ramakrishna of the Heart
The Story of Shiva
Antar Yoga February 2024
Christmas Eve Celebration
Holy Mother
Two Stories of Christmas: Learning from St. Luke and St. Matthew
Antar Yoga
Practicing Gratitude
Antar Yoga November 2023
No Going, No Coming
Growing Old, Being Young
The Story of Durga
Antar Yoga October 2023
What We Really Want
Antar Yoga September 2023
Vedanta in Brazil
Krishna Festival
Antar Yoga 2023
God Realization or Self Realization
Learning from Swami Ramakrishnananda
Dive Deep
Guru Purnima
Practice of Bhakti Yoga
Many Windows One Truth
AntarYoga June 2023
The Price of Success
What Buddha Taught
Antar Yoga
God as Mother
Spiritual Growth In Hindu Yoga and Jewish Musar Traditions
The Story of Sankaracharya
Learning to Be a Learner
The Happiness U-curve
The Message of Easter
Rama Festival
Community--A Vedanta View
Bringing God Home
Affirmations
"I" and "Mine"
The Shiva Ideal
Christmas Celebration
Understanding Sarada Devi
Jewish Learning
The Chosen Ideal
All About Karma
A Verse from the Ramayana
From Doing to Being
God's Work
Vivekananda in America
Understanding Kali
Benefits of Yoga
Evolution vs. Creation
Lessons from Swami Akhandananda
Sri Ramakrishna's Smile
Krishna Festival
"How Can We Help?"
Being a Lotus
Guru Purnima
"I and Mine"
FREEDOM FESTIVAL
Ramakrishna and Me
God Laughs Twice
Fully Present, Fully Absent
Creative Imagination
Coping with Pain
Habit / Choice
Lessons from Shankaracharya
"To Labor Is to Pray"
"Not This Time Again!"
The Message of Easter
Rama Festival
What Is Really Real?
Lessons from Sri Hanuman
Lessons from Sri Chaitanya
Lessons from Sri Ramakrishna
Story of Shiva
God Is Seeing Me
Devotion to Practice
"Ishta": The Chosen Ideal
Overcoming Greed
Overcoming Loneliness
Overcoming Fear
Reflections on the Gita 48
Reflections on the Gita 47
Reflections on the Gita 46
Reflections on the Gita 45
Reflections on the Gita 44
Learning from Nature
Reflections on the Gita 43
Reflections on the Gita 42
Reflections on the Gita 41
Reflections on the Gita 40
Krishna Festival
Reflections on the Gita 39
Reflections on the Gita 38
Reflections on the Gita 37
Reflections on the Gita 36
Reflections on the Gita 35
Reflections on the Gita 34
Reflections on the Gita 33
Reflections on the Gita 32
Reflections on the Gita 31
Reflections on the Gita 30
Reflections on the Gita 29
Reflections on the Gita 28
Reflections on the Gita 27
The Message of Sri Chaitanya
Reflections on the Gita 26
Reflections on the Gita 25
Reflections on the Gita 24
Reflections on the Gita 23
Reflections on the Gita 22
Reflections on the Gita 21
Reflections on the Gita 20
Reflections on the Gita 19
Reflections on the Gita 18
Reflections on the Gita 17
Reflections on the Gita 16
Reflections on the Gita 15
The Story of the Devi 3
The Story of the Devi 2
The Story of the Devi 1
Reflections on the Gita 14
Reflections on the Gita 13
Reflections on the Gita 12
Reflections on the Gita 11
Reflections on the Gita 10
Reflections on the Gita 9
Guru Purnima
Reflections on the Gita 8
Reflections on the Gita 7
Reflections on the Gita 6
Reflections on the Gita 5
Reflections on the Gita 4
Buddha Festival
Reflections on the Gita 3
Reflections on the Gita 2
Reflections on the Gita 1
Ramakrisha's Three Gifts
Who is Shiva?
Vivekananda Talks 17
Inner Wandering
The Power of Intuition
Vivekananda Talks 16
Look at the Ocean
Vivekananda Talks 15
Vivekananda Talks 14
Vivekananda Talks 13
Vivekananda Talks 12
Vivekananda Talks 11
Meditation on the Elements
Vivekananda Talks 10
Vivekananda Talks 9
Worship of Mother Durga
Vivekananda Talks 8
Vivekananda Talks 7
Vivekananda Talks 6
Vivekananda Talks 5
Vivekananda Talks 4
The Basics of Meditation
Vivekananda Talks 3
Vivekananda Talks 2
Vivekananda Talks 1
Krishna Festival
Learning Is Religion
Guru Purnima Festival
Freedom Festival
Adventure and Security
Different Pathways in Jewish Spirituality
Spiritual Cultivation Through Fasting in Islam
Easter and Human Transformation
Rama Festival
The Power of Symbols
The Story of Chaitanya
The Shiva Ideal
Life's Seven Stages
The Art of Knowing
Labels: Uses and Abuses
Holy Mother's Two Gifts
Unto Us a Child Is Born
Being Grateful
Going Beyond Words
I and What It Can Do
The Story of Creation
The Story of Durga
Are All Religions Same?
"All the World's a Stage"
Synthesis of Yoga
Meditation 101
Freedom Festival
Kathopanishad 1
Krishna Festival
A Mind on a Diet
Being Me
Improve, Change, Pray
The Price of Success
Kaivalya Upanishad 2
Recognizing Mother
Self-Renewal
Kaivalya Upanishad 1
The Story of Buddha
The Story of Sankaracharya
Living with Uncertainty
Easter Service
The Story Of Chaitanya
Rama Festival
Dealing with Difficult People
Sri Ramakrishna: The Past and the Present
Kalpataru Festival 2018
Christmas Carols and Scriptural Reading
Christmas Celebration 2017
God Laughs Twice
Within You, Without You
Grace vs Self-Effort
How to Be Happy
Questions about God
Questions about "Me"
Questions about the World
Vedanta in Southeast Asia
Creative Imagination
Rebirth and Religious Pluralism
Self-Reliance vs Self-Surrender
How to Live Vedanta
The Tree Without a Future
Meditation vs Reflection
Why Believe in God
The Story of Shankara
Who Is 'Thy Neighbor'?
This Precious Moment
Purity, Patience, and Perseverance
Renunciation Myths
Why Travel
The Shiva Ideal
Kalpataru Festival 2017
How Mary Matters to Christians at Christmas
Learning from Sister Nivedita
Happiness and Misery
Doing Dialogue
"Do You Remember?"
Understanding Duality
The Mother Season
Message of Sri Krishna
"Where Am I?"
Guru Purnima Festival
"Who Am I?"
The Nature of the Self
Two Faces
The Language of Paradox in Advaita Vedanta
The Three Jewels of Buddhism
The Story of Sankara
The Keeper of My Stories
To Labor Is to Pray
Self-Control as Self-Mastery
The Story of Chaitanya
"Not This Time Again!"
Dealing with Disappointment
To Do or Not to Do?
Escape from God
Kalpataru Festival 2016
The Reality Non-Show
Inner Sacrifice, Outer Prayer
Gratitude
Learning How to Learn Vedanta
Understanding Kali
Me and My "I"
Harmony of Religions
Why Am I the Way That I Am?
Two Dimensions of Homelessness
Learning from Krishna
Guru Purnima
Holy Company
Coping with Pain
Freedom Festival 2015
Service as Spiritual Practice
The Fruit of Yoga
Affirmations
Stepping Back
Our Mother Who Art in Heaven
The Story of Two Mothers
Buddha Festival
"Where Shall I Stay?"
The Ideal Spiritual Seeker
Adbhutananda, Life and Message
Message of Easter
Community, A Vedanta View
Learning from Hanuman
Silence as Yoga
Silence as Yoga
The Happiness U-curve
Swami Brahmananda: Life and Message
Vivekananda: Life and Message
The Word Became Flesh
Be the Witness
Worship as Spiritual Practice - Part 3
Opening the Door of the Heart
Worship as Spiritual Practice - Part 2
Worship as Spiritual Practice: The Purpose of Puja
Why Mother Kali
The Purpose of a Retreat
"I" And "Mine"
Self-Renewal
Vivekananda and Ethics
The Story of Hanuman
Spiritual, Not Religious
The Power of Ignorance
Mother Knows Best
The Art of Knowing
Is Religion Necessary?
Divine Promises in the Bhagvad Gita
Learning from the Ramayana
What Vedanta Can Teach Us About Good Business
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Three Breathing Exercises
The Why and How of Puja
Just Being
Swami Brahmananda: A Reflection
Dedicated Life: What It Means for Us
Harmony of Religions
Self-Renewal
Mother: In Vivekananda's Eyes
Being Grateful
Joyful Living
Love and Detachment
Divine Mother
Vedanta in Australia
Vivekananda Oratorio
Krishna Festival
Vedanta and Privilege
Be Attached
The Story of Narada
Being a Child Again
All About Karma
Temples as Hospitals
Vivekananda on Courage
The Shiva Ideal
Sarada Devi: Uncommonly Common
The Sword of Mercy: Sikhism and Non-aggression
Everyday Vedanta: Putting it to Work
God the Mother, the Mother of God
Swami Vivekananda's Four Yogas
Guru Purnima
The Price of Success
Two Mothers
The Story of Buddha
The Story of Shankaracharya
What the Upanishads Teach Us
The Message of Easter
Rama Festival
"The Tree Without a Name"
The Story of Chaitanya
The Story of Shiva
Swami Adbhutananda: Life & Legacy
Where Am I?
Personal Reflections on Swamiji's Poems and Hymns
The Ramakrishna Kalpataru
Discovering Jesus
Ignorance in Disguise
Practicing Gratitude
Thank You
Be and Make. Be and Do. Just Be.
The Story of Creation
Lessons from Swami Akhandananda's Life
God as Mother
The Story of Banke-Bihari
Shivo'ham Shivo'ham
Krishna Festival
Amritabindu Upanishad 7
Amritabindu Upanishad 6
Amritabindu Upanishad 5
Amritabindu Upanishad 4
Guru Poornima
Many Windows, One Truth
Swami Vivekananda and the Bodhisattva Ideal
"Look at the Ocean."
Pilgrimage To Shanti Ashram
Restful Work
The Story of Buddha
The Story of Sankara
Dāna: Thoughts of a 21st Century Zen Buddhist
Faith and Reason
Rama Festival
Reflection on Faultfinding
Are All Religions Same?
"Behold, the Two Brothers Have Come!"
Cultivating "Steady Wisdom"
Karma: What It Is, What It Is Not
"Let Us Go for a Walk, O Mind"
The Mystery of Yoga-Kshema
Swami Brahmananda: Life & Legacy
What Would Vivekananda Do
A Mind on a Diet
"Mother, My Boat Is Sinking"
Inner Silence
Christmas Celebration 2010
"When a Kite is Set Free"
Islamic Spirituality
Detachment: Way to Freedom
All the World's a Stage
Detachment And Love
"Dive Deep O Mind"
Why Meditation
Intense Longing for God
The Story of Durga
Chandi
The Law of Forgiveness
"Returning Home"
Vedanta and Privilege
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Krishna Festival
Do Not Succumb to Unmanliness
Just Being
The Last Day
Renunciation Myths
Kumbha-Mela: A Reflection
Bodhichitta: Cultivating an Altruistic Mind
Some Thoughts on Thinking
A Case of Mistaken Identity
Don't Postpone Spiritual Life
A Study of Sleepwalking
The Message of Easter
Rama-Lakshamana Dialogue
The Basics of Meditation
Story of Nachiketa
Story of Chaitanya
Visions of Sri Ramakrishna
Story of Shiva
Study as Practice
Living from Moment to Moment
Teachings of Swami Brahmananda
Life's Seven Stages
Yoga of Seasons
God & Truth in Sikhism: It's All Ice Cream, Just Different Flavors
Through the Looking Glass
Self-effort of Self-surrender?
How to Measure Spiritual Progress
Many Facets of the Divine Mother
The Trinity of Freedom
Religion, Unlabeled & Eternal
Worship of Mother Durga
Worship of the Divine Mother
Imagination and Meditation
Three Levels of Being
Two Faces
How to Overcome Fear
From Disappointment to Spirituality
Coping with Pain
The Three Jewels of Buddhism
Growing Old, Being Young
The Greatest Miracle of Ramakrishna
Dying to Be Alive
The Story of Rama
The Last Day
Dive Deep
Meaning of the Words of Sri Ramakrishna
Ecstasy in Body, Heart--and Mind
Śivo'ham, "I am Śiva"
Meditation on the Elements
Vivekananda: The Form and the Voice
Holy Mother on Forebearance
Swami Premananda: Embodiment of Love
Pancikaranam - 12
Thank You
Pancikaranam - 11
Practice of Jnana Yoga
Pancikaranam - 10
Practice of Raja Yoga
Practice of Bhakti Yoga
Practice of Karma Yoga
Is Science a Religion?
God as Mother
What Vedanta Is Not
Pancikaranam - 9
Fear of Death
The Great Wall-'I'
Understanding Consciousness
Pancikaranam - 8
Pancikaranam - 7
Pancikaranam - 6
Pancikaranam - 5
Pancikaranam - 4
Pancikaranam - 3
Pancikaranam - 2
Arati Song 3- Sarva mangala
Arati Song 2- Om hrim rtam
Arati Song 1- Khandana-bhava-bandhana
Our Addictive Existence
Quantum Leap in Consciousness
The Psuedo Selves
The Rise and Fall of the Ego
The Story of Narada
The Story of Buddha
The Story of Sankara
The Parables of Buddha
"I" and What It Can Do
A Verse from the Ramayanana
Spiritual Transformation
Doing Dialogue Interreligiously
Waking Up From Sleep
Raja Yoga (8): Dhyana and Samadhi
Fast and Slow
Raja Yoga (7): Pratyahara and Dharana
Raja Yoga (6): The Control of Psychic Prana
Raja Yoga (5): The Psychic Prana
The 'One'and Nous of Plotinus
Beginning Anew
The Way, the Truth and the Life
Amritabindu Upanishad
What is Beauty?
Raja Yoga (3): Prana[continued]
Raja Yoga (3): Prana
Vivekananda Today
Raja Yoga (2): The First Steps
Amritabindu Upanishad
Raja Yoga (1): Introduction
Do we need Religion?
Swami Akhandananda - Service to Man and God
Meditation on the Divine Play
Amritabindu Upanishad 3
What is Renunciation?
Amritabindu Upanishad 2
Amritabindu Upanishad
Plotinus: The Greek Vedantist Philosopher
The Light Within
Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Life above the Clouds
Renunciation and its Practice
Getting the right insurance
Knowing the Knower
What the Buddha Taught
Karma and Freedom
Integration of Personality
Kathopanishad
How to Work
Surrender or Self-Effort?
Death and Resurrection
Anger and Forgiveness: A Muslim Perspective
The Art of Dying
From Multitasking to Unitasking
Karma and Non-Attachment
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
What Ramakrishna Taught
Karma and Equality
Kathopanishad
Hafiz in Communion with God
The Ideal of Karma Yoga
Being Religious in a Pluralistic Environment
Katha Upanishad
Vivekananda and the Holistic Vision
What Vivekananda did for us
First January Celebrations 2007
Karma Yoga
Christmas Celebrations at Vedanta Society, Boston
All About Duty
Just Being by Swami Tyagananda
The story of two Mothers
Marshfield Retreat Lecture by Swami Tyagananda