Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast

But if you’re not putting your time and effort into these teachings and practices, what are you putting your time and effort into? If you put your time and effort into reinforcing your limitations, your feeling of emptiness and neediness, reinforcing your pain and suffering, what will you get from that? You already know. So, you put some time and effort… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Your Divine Essence" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/your-divine-essence-4-26-26   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

I saw so many people transformed by their encounter with my Baba. And I saw so many people who got nothing at all. They left Baba’s Satsang saying, “That was nice. Shall we go to the movies tomorrow night?” The were looking for an evening out — something enjoyable, entertaining; not uplifting, not transformational, not life-changing, not… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Open to Grace" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/open-to-grace-4-19-26   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

When you’re lost in your thoughts, or your reaction to them, you’re lost. So, it takes longer to find your own Self. Mantra takes you home. But if you don’t use mantra, where are you headed? So, you recognize where you’re at, and you meet yourself there by invoking… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Enlightenment Timeline" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/enlightenment-timeline-4-12-26   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

You need a body to be here in this world. This means your body is important. Your body’s condition affects your experience of life. You know this from having the flu. Not able to do anything, you can’t even think. It works the other way around. Your body experiences your thoughts as real events. You can think yourself into a panic. You can think yourself into exhaustion. Does this mean you can think yourself into bliss? And that you can heal your body by thinking different thoughts…    Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #yoga #downingtownyoga #svaroopayoga #therapeuticyoga #blissyoga #yogatherapy #domoreyoga #svaroopayoga #healingyoga  #ytt #yogateachertraining #yogatherapisttraining 

Your life lessons are presented over, and over, and over again until you get it. Once you learn the lesson you don’t need to repeat it. You can move on, which I call “Outgrowing Your Past.” Even if the same or similar events recur, you see them differently. Thus, you react differently. Your knee-jerk responses, your old ways of confronting or hiding… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Are You Ready?" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/are-you-ready-4-6-26   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your mind is made of cosmic Consciousness but mixed with your individual prana. Which means your mind accesses only a limited part of Consciousness, only as much as your prana allows.  And that means when you’re low on prana, your mind is dying on the vine.  So, your mind brings up all the threatening things that could happen, or have happened, giving you thoughts that match...  —  Gurudevi  Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Prana - Life Energy" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/prana-life-energy-3-29-26   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

It is your soul, purusha, that reincarnates from one lifetime to the next.  Shaktipat gives you freedom from the cycle of lifetimes, freedom from the limitation of feeling separate from others, freedom from the feeling of being separate from God.  For God is being you, and me, and everyone and everything.  When you look all the way inward, you find... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Body, Mind & More” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/body-mind-more-3-22-26   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Something wonderful happens when you simply sit. No phone, no music, nothing to read, to say or to do. Gradually settling into easy motionlessness, your body becomes still. Then your mind becomes still… Next, most people fall asleep or drift in a dreamy sleep-like state.  But on the way inward, you can take the other fork in the road. Instead of settling into unconsciousness, you can delve into the bliss of Consciousness within. This is yoga’s promise, that when your…   Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 

I describe it this way: you are more than what the world tells you that you are. You are more than you think you are. You discover who and what you really are, oh Shiva, by looking within. And you still live in the world. You still have experiences, but they don’t make you who you are. Now, based in Self, you draw on Divine intelligence within to guide... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Self-Mastery” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/self-mastery-3-15-26   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

You are not your body. You have a body.  Your body is not who you are.  Everyone identifies with their body.  If they are coughing and sneezing, they say, “I have a cold,” or “I have allergies.”  If you change your words and say, “My body has a cold,” or “My body has allergies,” you might actually....  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Your Physical Condition” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/your-physical-condition-3-8-26   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your existence is concentrated right now in this body, this life. But your existence is that which has always existed, even before this body existed. You existed before you were born. You will exist beyond this body’s ability to sustain your presence in this form. Your own existence is the one existence that has... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Tantric Systems” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/tantric-systems-3-1-26   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

However, the type of benefit you get depends on the type of meditation you do.  If you meditate on peace, you will experience peace.  If you meditate on joy, you will feel joyful.  If you meditate on God, you will…  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Good Meditation” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/videos/good-meditation-2-22-26   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

But you can get so caught up in looking for blessings to come from these many external sources that you miss the most important holy site – you, inside you.  My Baba described this, “You are the holiest of all holy places, the…”  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda    Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “O Holy Night” here:  https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/good-meditation-2-22-26-1:     #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 

This is why I teach meditation on your own Self.  I don’t teach meditation on your breath, not on your chakras, not on God, or Gods or Goddesses, not on success or happiness. I remember one woman came to Baba and asked for a husband.  Baba told her to meditate on Self for happiness.  So, she went to a different Guru and got... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “I Wanted to Know!" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/i-wanted-to-know-2-8-26   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Research has proven that spiritual practitioners have a better quality of life. They experience less depression and live longer. They have better health outcomes. Yet spirituality is not merely about improved quality of life. It’s about “spirit.” Yoga defines spirit as your inherent Divinity. Finding your own essence is finding the One Divine Reality within…   Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

My Baba emphasized the importance of the seated pose. He wrote, “For meditation the most important thing is asana, that your spine be kept straight, upright.” Sit up. Glide your neck and head back so they’re in line with your spine. At the crown of your head, the top of your head, is a thousand-petaled lotus... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sitting for Meditation" here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/sitting-for-meditation-2-1-26   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

Parinama is the gradual transformation. It comes from the inside out, and from the outside in.  When you experience the rising of Consciousness within, you’re being transformed from the inside out.  And when you study, when you’re learning – in these discourses, in my teachings, in books, in yoga texts - you’re being transformed from the outside in.  Your progress toward enlightenment is…   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Close to God” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/close-to-god-1-25-26   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

While the universe responds to what you do, what you put out — when you put out what you’ve always put out, you’ll get the response you’ve always gotten.  When you do something different, it might take a little while, but what happens is you get a different response.  This means you can actually change the world...  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Proactive” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/proactive-1-1-23   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your body’s condition affects your mind and heart, which affect your relationships, which affect your whole life.  Yet the purpose of the poses is not merely health and happiness.  Every pose is for your spine which we work with very directly in the…   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Your Body Matters” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/your-body-matters-1-11-26   #yoga #downingtownyoga #svaroopayoga #therapeuticyoga #blissyoga #yogatherapy #domoreyoga #svaroopayoga #healingyoga  #ytt #yogateachertraining #yogatherapisttraining

Would you like your mind to be like a waveless ocean – calm, infinite, pure? Simply remember your experience of the Self.  It’s a matter of taking care of how you feel.  If you want to feel differently than you’re currently feeling, use yoga to make a shift.  Using your memory to bring back the... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Want to Be Happy?” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/want-to-be-happy-1-4-26   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Probably right now your experience of your own beingness is not fluid, is not constant.  You have moments when you know who you are.  And you have moments when you’re lost in the differences – dotted lines. But you know the way inward. And if you don’t, I’ll remind you again to honor…    Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Dotted Lines” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/dotted-lines-12-28-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Every birth is a Divine embodiment, a manifestation of the One Source. Each and every one of us is made of the Divine energy that becomes all. This means your birth was a Divine birth. Yet some babies grow up to share Divine Light with others. The world celebrates the birth of a few: Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed. But were they the only ones? Nope. Many saints are honored, with their life stories told in order to inspire and to bless others. Yoga specializes in saints. Not only do we honor…   Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Baba commented on this verse, saying, “The Guru destroys the darkness in the hearts of his disciples, and fills them with the light of knowledge. The Guru is the one who dispenses Divine Power.” The Guru points you inward, takes you by the hand and walks you inward and …   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Light Incarnate” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/light-incarnate-12-21-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Inner happiness is ever-arising, independent of any external circumstances. This is what yoga calls your own Self. Well, not the happiness. Your own Self is not merely happiness; it is the source of happiness within. When you’re based in your own Beingness, you live in... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “When You Grow Up” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/when-you-grow-up-12-14-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Yet any and every holy site is important for only one reason - the effect it has on you. It opens you to the greater reality within, the inner infinity. Many people go on pilgrimage so they can open to God, whom they... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Pilgrimage to the Infinite” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/pilgrimage-to-the-infinite-12-7-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

The process of Self-discovery is a process.  Sometimes it’s bliss-filled, sometimes not.  Consider how many years have you invested in being unenlightened? How many days have you done your unenlightenment practices? How many... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Dharma, Karma, Moksha” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/dharma-karma-moksha-11-30-25   #enlightenment #unenlightened #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Sometimes you just know. In the midst of life, you know exactly what to do. Illumined action. Wouldn’t you like to live this way? Yoga says you can. Tune in to your own inner light. Let your Divine Essence shine through your mind and heart.  To live this way, base yourself in your own Self, drawing from your inner depth and dimensionality in every moment. In every breath.  First, you delve inward to find your own Self. Then you…    Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Who am I? Why was I born? Who created me? And what am I supposed to do here? Why am I here? Your mind cannot answer these questions. Your mind asks them, even mulls them over and repeats them again and again. This is called contemplation. Your mind may try on various answers, but your mind won’t rest until.... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Having Experiences” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/having-experiences-11-23-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your Inner Essence is deep, timeless, expansive, unchanging — the inner infinity of your own Divinity. And everything else is also Divine.  So, you care. You care and you act on that caring, but freely, without need, without greed and without... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Perception” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/perception-11-16-25   #essence #timeless #infinity #unchanging #divine #witnessconsciousness #observer #being #beingness #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Something keeps your breath moving and your heart beating, even when you’re asleep. Oh, Shiva. The whole point of yoga is to know who and what this is, that makes your body be a living body - that makes the screen of your mind be so... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Inner Self” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/inner-self-11-9-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

Your essence is Divine Consciousness concentrated in a unique and individualized form, but you compare your individuality to everyone else’s, and you can always find someone who… —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Response Ability” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/response-ability-11-2-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

When you are based in your own Self, you see all the different things, all the different people like different blossoms on the one shrub. For there is only One, being all. And when you don’t see the One hidden in Her divine disguise, as the person sitting next to you, as the driver of the car turning into your lane, as the neighbor walking their dog... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Beyond Measure” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/beyond-measure-10-26-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

If you know that doing some yoga or repeating mantra for five minutes will make you happy, and it will, sometimes you simply won’t do it.  It’s like you prefer being unhappy to being happy.  Well, maybe it’s familiar. And I’d like to rescue you…  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Searching for Happiness” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/searching-for-happiness-10-19-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

The wonderful thing about this yogic path is that you can stay in your home with your beloveds doing what you’ve already chosen to do and get enlightened while you’re there.  Except it’s harder in some ways because you have your usual dance patterns, the way you interact with everyone in your life. And they want you to keep being the same old... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Maayaa” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/maayaa-10-12-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

This is the point of meditation, that your Kundalini will climb your spine and merge into your sahasrara.  That you will be jivanmukta, enlightened while alive.  And you will be engaged with the world — fulfilling your dharma, completing your karmas, giving from the…  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Merging Into the Inner Infinity” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/merging-into-the-inner-infinity-10-5-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Maayaa is illusion. Moha is delusion. A magician doing card tricks is a master of illusion. To believe their illusions are real is delusion. Energy manifests as matter. This means matter isn’t really solid. You could call it an illusion. Some meditative traditions base their teachings on this principle.  Kashmiri Shaivism says the illusion is real. You are living in a movie set. But there is nowhere else to go. This is Shiva’s movie set. The storyline is compelling because…   Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Eventually, your most valued pleasures become stale. And you realize that you want something the world cannot offer. Your focus turns to spiritual development. This is called sannyasa. It means you’re cultivating freedom from desire, freedom from need, greed and fear. As my Baba described, instead of living in contraction, the other possibility... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “What Is an Ashram” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/what-is-an-ashram-9-28-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

Soul is not Self.  When you experience the soul level of your being, it is profound.  It is meaningful.  It is deep and holy.  You are deep and holy.  Yet, there is more.  Soul is like the sunlight shining through a window.  Your soul is a window through which you can see...  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Self & Soul” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/self-soul-9-21-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your mind has the ability to erase an old way of looking at the world. Your mind has the ability to create a new relationship with the world. Your mind has the ability to see the same old world in a whole new way. You’ve been looking for the change to come from... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “One Pulsation” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/one-pulsation-9-14-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Clinging means your happiness depends on this certain thing. Repulsion means your unhappiness is guaranteed by a certain thing.  But when any single thing will either give you happiness or unhappiness, that thing or that person is in charge. You already know not to rely on the weather for your happiness, yes? How about…  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Differences Divide” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/differences-divide-9-7-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

At the beach, I revel in watching the waves rolling onto the shore. Each has its own personality. One wave is taller but another is wider. One wave washes farther up the shore.  Yet they are all made of the same ocean water. They are all the same while they are all different. Like this, Shiva is being everything in the universe. Every individual and every single thing is different from the others, yet all are made of Shiva. Shiva is having a glorious time being…    Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.        #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 

What are you hanging on to?  Let me put it another way. Anything that you’re hanging on to, if God wants you to have it, you will still have it when you surrender to God. God wants the best for you... —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Surrender to God” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/surrender-to-god-8-31-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

What do you do when there’s nothing left to seek? There’s nowhere to go, nothing to gain, for it is all already found within, oh, Shiva. Instead of looking for something to get, something to fill me, I am already full. So, I look for what I...  —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sanctification” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/sanctification-8-24-25   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

Your own Self is always manifest, always present, always accessible, always easy to find.  You just have to look in the right direction — inward.  But your mind is constructed to look the other way.  Your mind is a concentrated form of Consciousness with… —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Jiva Becomes Shiva” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/jiva-becomes-shiva-2-6-22   #meditate #meditation #gurudevi #yogamysticism #spirituality #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

To discover who you are is the purpose of meditation.  It is an inner exploration that takes you deeper and deeper within.  But at the end of your meditation, your peripheral vision is wider.  Your focus didn’t shut you down. It opened you up.  Your capacity for caring, compassion… —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Peripheral Vision” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/peripheral-vision-8-10-25   #freemeditation #svaroopameditation #spirituality #yogamysticism #meditation #gurudevi #divine #yoga #shaktipat #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

I wanted something that my parents didn’t want. I wanted something that my school teachers never talked about. I wanted something that wasn’t described in church. Joseph Campbell rescued me from my self-doubt. In a series of television interviews titled “The Power of Myth”, he explained that everyone longs for something greater, but only a few... — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “A New Normal” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/a-new-normal-8-3-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda

Yoga teaches surrender. This is how you get enlightened. It is also how you fall in love. Surrender is how you experience God, whether looking outward or inward.  In English, surrender means you lost the battle. Yoga uses Sanskrit words that point to becoming free, giving something to the care of another or taking refuge. You go through stages in learning how to give over. Bottom line, it is surrender that yoga values — not to whom you are surrendering. Why? Because each time you surrender…   Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.     #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda 

Your mind is so powerful. It creates whatever you choose. If you choose to repeat the litany of your pains, you can do this. If you choose to repeat the litany of your pleasures, you can do this. Yet, yoga recommends neither. You see, both of these litanies are still about… — Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Your Mind’s Greatness” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/your-mind-s-greatness-7-27-25   #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda

By Gurudevi Nirmalananda  We love the moon’s silvery-white light, a cooling light. Its soft glow illumines the darkness, soothing and calming your mind. Yet the moon is not the source of its light. It merely reflects the light of the sun. Similarly, the light of Consciousness shines through your mind. The source is within, your own Divine Essence. If your mind were clear and spacious, your mind’s light would be cool, soothing and comforting. However, if your mind is full of limiting notions, Consciousness first has to burn them away…    Read Gurudevi's Teachings Article in our Freebies.      #spirituality #meditation #Gurudevi #yogamysticism #svaroopa #meditate #divine #yoga #swaminirmalananda #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda 

Now you can no longer think of God as something you earn with lifetimes of purity and striving for perfection.   You don’t earn God.  You are God. You’ve simply been looking in the wrong place. You’ve been looking at the ceremonies, at the rituals, at the mountains, the rising sun, the full moon. Yes, Yes! God is… —  Gurudevi Nirmalananda   Watch Gurudevi’s full discourse “Sacred Acts” here: https://gurudevi.vhx.tv/products/sacred-acts-7-20-25   #yogamysticism #gurudevi #svaroopameditation #spirituality #divine #yoga #siddhayoga #muktananda #gurudevinirmalananda #meditation #blissyoga #svaroopayoga #swaminirmalananda