Svaroopa Vidya Ashram’s Podcast

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   #...

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 i...

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...

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-gr...

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 #medita...

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 #une...

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...

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: htt...

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 #i...

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 #svaroop...

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 #s...

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 f...

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...

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 dis...

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...

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 nowhe...

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 di...

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-so...

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...

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 Divid...

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,...

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 #spiritual...

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 #medi...

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...

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...