Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast Gurudevi Nirmalananda Saraswati

Yoga gives you the knowing of your own inherent Divinity. Your inner light illumines your understanding of life itself. Yoga’s practices help you move towards the highest, the greatest, the ultimate attainment -- to live in the world while knowing your own Self and seeing the Self in all. This is the goal. Shiva seeing Shiva while being Shiva.
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There are three paths to enlightenment. The first is cultivating the knowing or feeling of being Shiva. The second path is to fill your mind with the energy of Consciousness by doing more mantra. The third path is to delve into the yoga practices that you resonate with. Most importantly, the support and guidance of a Master will help you on your path to enlightenment.  
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You are an individual form of Consciousness, with the whole of Consciousness intact within you. The One becomes many, so that each of the many can come to know their own Self as the One. When you know your own Self you can face reality as it is. In this being and seeing there’s no duality, there’s no delusion. What freedom!
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Your thoughts and feelings affect your pranic field, and your pranic field determines the condition of your physical body. Your mind is so powerful it can delude you for lifetimes. But it can also free you from delusion. As you delve inward, you discover that your mind comes from a more powerful level of inner perception. It is always dependent on the Self.
– Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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Your mind lives in multiple realities simultaneously. Unfortunately, this is called delusion.  The fictional events in your mind are real. They have real effects on your mind and body. When you are not yet enlightened, you think God is separate from you. This is called duality. But there is only One Divine Reality, who is the source and substance of all that exists.
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If all you ever do is familiar stuff, the rest of your life will be a replay of what you’ve done so far. Is this what you want? Or do you want something more? People sometimes tell me it feels weird, it’s strange. Yes. It means you aren’t who you used to be. And you’re not yet who you’re going to be. You’re in a process and you…
- Gurudevi Nirmalananda
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