Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast Gurudevi Nirmalananda Saraswati

With anything in your life, I suggest you hold it like a butterfly.  Open your hand and soften it. Get really still.  Wait for the butterfly to land.  Relax into a sweet stillness as it crawls around on your hand.  It’s a really weird and funny feeling.  Breathe smooth and steady, and...   — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Today is the day when we honor mothers. On Mother’s Day, we also honor the Guru. Mother’s Day cards and AI texts speak so beautifully of a mother’s best qualities, which is today’s focus. But I have to say, every mother is a mixed bag…
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Whatever you think is possible through meditation, there is more.  Whatever you think you are, you are more.  Whatever you can imagine you will attain, there is more.  When I met Baba, he’d already been enlightened for twenty-one years.  As I studied with him, I watched…  — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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I ring the gong five times at the end of meditation, to invoke Grace.  It is the fifth of God’s five powers. The first three are well-recognized: creation, maintenance and destruction.  It is Shiva’s mystical teachings that reveal what has been concealed, his own additional powers. As an individualized form of Shiva, every human being has all five powers…
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Baba said, “The Guru should be one who has fully realized the mantra and can charge it with conscious force.  He should be a master of Shaktipat, possessing great spiritual power.”  While Baba was describing what he found in Nityananda, he himself also exemplified his own description.  His spiritual power uplifted thousands, including me. Simply sitting in his presence was like...   — Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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When I was the president of Yoga Alliance, I proposed that we give participating yoga teachers the initials RYT, meaning registered yoga teacher. But I explained that it comes from ṛta, the rightness, suchness, is-ness of things. As a yogi, as a meditator, you are diving into this Essence within, so that you embody the Light of Consciousness. You come to live your life by that inner gyroscope, so you always know which way is up. 
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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