Spirit Matters: Integrate Your Spiritual Awakening for Mindful Living | Teachings of Sri Chinmoy

Listening to the subtle voice of the soul is one of the hardest tasks on the spiritual path. Even if you've meditated for years you may still feel a stranger to your inner voice. But without aligning yourself with your soul, your spiritual efforts will not bear fruit and the long term fulfilment you've been looking for may never dawn. In this episode we unpack 4 practical and powerful ways...

Is the thrill gone in your meditation? Are you trapped in the same routines without feeling the same peace, clarity and joy you used to feel in the beginning of your spiritual journey, right after awakening? You're suffering from a dry period. And not to worry, because all seekers have them at some point. But it's crucial that you know your way out, because ultimately your life is meant fo...

Are Gurus still relevant today? Why do I need a spiritual teacher? These are crucial questions when the dust has settled after spiritual awakening. Without the proper spiritual guidance you may fall back to false fears and misguided notions about guru's. But if you're unapologetic about spiritual growth, you need to make an informed choice. That's what this episode is all about! We dive deep into...

Your spiritual awakening experience is actually useless if you don’t do anything with it. But how do you know if you’re doing the right things in your meditation practice to really grow spiritually? In this episode we unpack seven signs of how you know you’re making good spiritual progress. If you don’t have a spiritual teacher to guide you directly, this conversation will give you grounded wisdom...

The real danger isn’t a big moral collapse. It’s the tiny, everyday moments when you abandon your deepest values. Most of us don’t fall by making one dramatic mistake. We fall in the hundreds of small, invisible ways, such as laughing along while someone is being torn down. Pretending not to care about our spiritual awakening because the room feels cynical. Or sensing a clear inner nudge — a piece...

Has life lost its joy, lustre and meaning after your spiritual awakening? You are going through what is called ‘the dark night of the soul’. This depressing, confusing and often lonely time is a painful but necessary phase in your spiritual awakening journey. It’s important to get spiritual guidance on your bearings, because groping in the dark alone sets you up for failure. This episode will stee...

If you feel stuck in your spiritual practice, you may lack one of the 3 ingredients or conditions that make the spiritual journey wholesome, grounded and fulfilling. In today's solo episode Abhinabha takes you through these 3 essentials without which your spiritual practice may feel stale and uninspiring. Spirit Matters ⁠ is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into you...

If you’ve ever suffered from the sting of jealousy, you’ll know why this negative quality tops the list of spiritual growth obstacles. When you become jealous of someone, that person effectively becomes your God, as you incessantly obsess about them in your mind. Jealousy estranges you from your real self and poisons your sweet, subtle connection to the Divine. If mindful living is what you want,...

Doubt is a slow poison that sneaks into your spiritual practice unnoticed and shakes the very foundations of your spiritual beliefs. Without proper counter measurements doubt can destroy everything you built up so carefully over the months and years of your spiritual awakening. In this episode we clarify when and why doubt becomes problematic. And we offer practical spiritual guidance to prevent t...

Does your conscience pinch you when you criticize others? Your soul knows that gossip and criticism swell up your ego and hurt your spiritual growth. In this episode we give you 4 spiritual strategies to avoid the criticism trap. ⁠ Spirit Matters ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into your daily life. We take you beyond the confusion, frustration and spirit...

Going through a spiritual awakening can be a lonely process. When you are changing and growing but your colleagues, friends and family members stay the same, tensions grow and misunderstandings run riot. You're itching to share your newfound insights and discoveries, but all you meet are blank stares and raised eyebrows. If you're not careful you can damage relationships and set yourself up for fu...

Are you dealing with a negative, aggressive or manipulative person and wondering how you can maintain your spirituality, poise and surrender? Without the proper inner attitude, you'll find that difficult people will keep pushing your buttons, set off your triggers and ruin your hard-earned peace of mind. In this episode we break down practical and spiritual strategies on how to stay peaceful aroun...

Is your spiritual awakening experience making you feel life is empty and meaningless? Are you isolated and alone, subtly looking down on those who are still in the purely materialist paradigm? You may be suffering from a bad case of spiritual ego. This ego trap in spirituality is not without its dangers. Spiritual awakening problems can sever friendships, rift families or make you lose your job. I...

Seekers of spirituality know the feeling: you do your morning meditation practice, you touch something real and powerful—clarity, peace, a sense of who you actually are. And then… you step into the world. Within minutes, that grounded practice fades. Old habits take over. The office energy pulls you back into familiar roles. People expect you to be who you’ve always been, not who you’re becoming....

You listen to spiritual podcasts. You read books. You watch video's on spiritual growth. And yet you still yell at your partner or feel a sting of jealousy when your friend makes that promotion. It's easy nowadays to wear the 'yogic face', a.k.a. talking the talk without walking the walk. For many spirituality has become content-driven instead of practice-driven. The result is that...

Are you suffering from a dry period in your meditation practice? Does showing up on your meditation cushion begin to feel like a duty rather than a privilege? In this episode we give you 7 spiritual and practical tips to change a stale spiritual routine into a grounded practice that feels fresh and inspired. Spirit Matters ⁠ is a podcast for anyone exploring spirituality from the spiritual heart—a...

Ignoring your conscience doesn’t just create inner noise—it quietly erodes your clarity, your confidence, and your ability to grow. When you tune it out long enough, spirituality becomes theory instead of a grounded practice, and the gap between who you are and who you want to be only widens. Spirituality asks for spiritual integration, and that begins with learning to hear the voice that’s alread...

Ignore your dreams and you may miss the signals your deeper self is sending. You stay stuck in old patterns. You overlook warnings. You silence insights that could help you grow, heal, or surrender to life with more clarity and trust. Dreams are the one place you can’t pretend, control, or curate—and that’s exactly why they matter. If you’ve ever woken up from a dream that felt like a message, a w...

You can meditate, reflect, and study spiritual teachings for years — but without gratitude, your practice of spirituality can quickly become dry, self-focused, or subtly entitled. A gratitude practice keeps your spiritual heart open, humbles the ego, and turns spiritual insight into something lived, relational, and deeply human. Spirit Matters is a biweekly podcast for anyone exploring spiritualit...

Spirituality isn’t tested in silence—it’s tested in the moments when your ego flares up, your patience thins, and your highest intentions collide with real life. This episode dives straight into that tension, offering a grounded practice to overcome ego problems for anyone who’s meditated for years yet still finds themselves wrestling with the same old patterns. Spirit Matters is a podcast for any...

Illusion shapes more of your life than you realize. In this episode, we explore Maya—the subtle force that pulls you out of the present here and now and into a world filtered by fear, habit, and the mind’s constant measuring. Through stories, insights, and lived experience we reveal how spirituality helps you see beyond the surface and reconnect with the deeper truth of existence. The doorway is t...

Intuition often appears as a quiet flash—clear, immediate, and unmistakable—yet most of us override it before we ever act. This episode explores that inner knowing through the lens of spirituality, asking what happens when you let the spiritual heart guide your choices instead of the mind’s constant second‑guessing. We dive into intuition as a real inner faculty, not a guess or a whim, and show ho...

When you lose touch with your inner depth, life slowly becomes narrower, more reactive, and strangely less alive. This episode opens a doorway back to something far more expansive: the spiritual heart . It’s the place within you that feels before it thinks, unites before it divides, and knows before the mind begins to analyze. In a world where the intellect dominates almost every aspect of daily l...

Do you sometimes feel blocked by the fear of failure in your spiritual journey? In a culture obsessed with success, perfection, and comparison, many seekers struggle to take risks, pursue meaningful goals, or stay steady on their spiritual path when things don’t go as planned. If that's you, then this episode is a balm for your soul. Spirit Matters ⁠ is a podcast for anyone exploring spirituality...

Since you've been developing spiritually, you know by now that we are much more than our brain or our thoughts. But without a clear understanding of what the mind really is and where it comes from, you'll keep falling for its tricks. Let this episode guide you to a deeper understanding and even appreciation for the mind, and the ways you can free yourself from its negative influences. ⁠ Spirit Mat...