For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish
The world of Yoga is wide and varied. In this podcast, yogi Nish the Fish shares the deeper dimensions of Yoga, Vedanta and Tantra, asking the big questions: why do we practice? What is meditation? What is the purpose of a human life? What is Beauty? What is Death? Nishanth Selvalingam studied various South Asian philosophies with his Shaivite grandfather in an ashram in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and moved to Los Angeles to study philosophy, teach yoga and play guitar in a rock band. Join him and special guests as they explore Yoga, in all its splendours. For more episodes and instruction, and to support this humble offering of the heart, visit me on Patreon: patreon.com/yogawithnish
Episodes
368 episodes
How To Worship the Non-Dual Shiva
Leading up to Śiva Rātri (which is coming up for us this Sunday on February 15th, 2026), I'm releasing a bunch of videos on different aspects of our tradition, as part of the celebration! Having already put out
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Season 8
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Episode 244
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2:24:14
Which Deity Should I Worship? | & Does It Matter?
In this talk, we ask the question "which deity should I worship?" & "does it even matter?" going off last week’s reflection on
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Season 8
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Episode 243
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3:10:18
Karma Yoga = Haṭha-Yoga
Recently, we've started giving some classes on the हठप्रदीपिकां haṭha-pradīpikāṁ, the central text on the post-classical tradition in the Nāth sampradāya as part of our weekly Wednesday po...
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Season 8
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Episode 242
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1:38:08
How To Practice Śākta Tantra | Performing Puraścaraṇa
Since we are in the lineage of Sri Ramakrishna and since you will be interacting with his life and teachings quite a bit in our community, it’s important at this point to say that no one interpretation of Sri Ramakrishna and of his lineage c...
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Season 8
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Episode 241
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2:57:49
Śrī Rāmakrishna & The Whole Spectrum of Tantra
What does Tantra really look like in practice? Whether its "right" hand path Tantra or the so-called "left" hand path, Tantra is essentially a form of Deity Yoga, that is, an ongoing practice of cultivating a deep, personal, devotiona...
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Season 8
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Episode 240
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2:06:54
What is Śākta Tantra?
Here is a particularly inspired and lively discussion from our Atlanta retreat in which we sketch out the Sāmkhya, Yoga & Śaiva Siddhānta traditions & thus, prepare the foundations for understanding Non-Dual Śaiva/Śākta tantra, in both ...
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Season 8
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Episode 239
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1:53:01
Scientific Materialism as a Spiritual Path | Tāntrik Cārvāka
Some years back, we gave a talk called "Can Atheist Be Spiritual?" (alas its gone now since the YouTube ban of 2025!) Anyway, there, I presented some non-theistic traditions like Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism and of course, Sāmkhya to show...
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Season 8
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Episode 238
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3:32:55
The Best Tāntrik Philosophy | & How Pūjā Works
After our second day of talks at the Atlanta retreat, I was feeling particularly charged and inspired and so I insisted on hosting the Monday night zoom satsangh and this is the discussion we happened to have! In this talk, I first sketch out s...
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Season 8
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Episode 237
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1:31:24
How To Be Blissful & In Love | My Reading on Ramakrishna
From our opening talk at the December 2025 Vedanta Society of Atlanta retreat, which I felt was especially inspired and rather foundational for almost everything we discuss here in this corner of the internet. May it be an offering to the linea...
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Season 8
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Episode 236
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1:32:23
3 Single-Syllable Kālī Mantras | Eka-Varna Śakti Vidyā
Spiritual life is unbelievably simple. It is essentially all about single-pointed, sincere, intense love for God, by whatever name you want to call Her! It's about obsessions and absorption, about losing yourself in love for that which ...
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Season 8
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Episode 235
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2:27:49
The Universe = A Blissful Mass of Consciousness | & The Bīja Mantra For It
These past few weeks, we've been discussing some slightly more esoteric ideas including the ethos and strategy around Vāmācāra, the often misunderstood and misrepresented "left-hand path" of Tantra. Since it's the Gregorian new year, an...
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Season 8
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Episode 234
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53:36
Holy Mother & Vāmācāra, The Left Hand Path
Recently, we've been having some fascinating discussions around Sārada Devī = Jaggadhātri = Ṣoḍaśī in order to understand the deep mystery of the pūjā that Śrī Rāma...
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Season 8
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Episode 232
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4:55:23
What is Vāmācāra, the Left Hand Path of Tantra?
When we don't have honest and open discussions, with close scriptural and lineage citation when it comes to the more esoteric dimensions of our tradition and heritage as śaivas, it allows for so much superstition! Now, many are under the impres...
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Season 8
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Episode 231
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1:44:22
How To Meditate on the Tāntrik Goddess | Śrī Sāradā Devī Dhyāna Mantra
In this exceedingly beautiful discussion we did last week as an offering to Holy Mother for Her Jayanti, he say a few things about how Tāntrik meditation and practice works in general (with reference to some of its unique, aesthetically rich fe...
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Season 8
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Episode 230
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1:46:07
How To Kill Kālī | The Three Sacrifices of Tāntrik Sādhana
One of the distinctive features of Kālī pūjā is animal sacrifice. But you know, this is only practice for a much greater sacrifice: the killing of the paśu, that is, one's own sense of limited self. Notice how Sri Ramakrishna used ...
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Season 8
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Episode 229
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2:33:49
Sārada Devī = Jaggadhātri = Ṣoḍaśī
On the 8th day of the waning moon in the Vedic calendar month of Mrgaśirsha, we celebrate the birth anniversary of Holy Mother Sārada Devī. This an exceedingly auspicious a day for our lineage especially if not also for all worshippers of the D...
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Season 8
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Episode 228
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2:08:11
What is Mā Kālī's Vibe? | Distinctive Features of Kālī Pūjā
I'm just so thrilled about all the new Kālī content we've been putting out this past month, in the days leading up to Śyåma Kālī Pūjā, and the weeks after: First, in How...
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Season 8
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Episode 227
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1:56:14
Who Is Kali? | & A Ritual to Invoke Her
We gave this talk around the time of the Śyāmā Kālī Pūjā last month and now here is the recording as a present to celebrate this Scorpio New Moon! May it be an offering to each of you who are each living incarnations of the Goddess we worship!&...
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Season 8
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Episode 226
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4:05:45
The Two Extremes of Kālī Worship
After we performed our Śyāmā Kālī Pūjā this year (which you can watch
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Season 8
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Episode 225
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35:29
How To Say Grounded & Reasonable In Kālī Pūjā
Before we plunged into the fervor of Śyāma Kālī Pūjā, we paused to reflect on an important question that Sandhyā Devī astutely asked one morning which was more or less along the lines of "how can we verify the truth claims of the tradition"? "h...
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Season 8
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Episode 224
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1:32:02
The Essence of Tantra | & Why You Should Learn Pūjā
Some time ago on the 11th of September, we gave this talk on the very heart of our tradition and practice. September 11th in 1893 was the day Swami Vivekananda opened his transmission to the West (and the the world at large) at the Parliament o...
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Season 8
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Episode 223
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2:16:11
Vampires, Kali and Christ | A Hallowe'en Special
One of my favorite lectures of all time. We inquire into some "scary" themes in spiritual life like the potential difference between my will and God's will, as it is understood across various traditions with an emphasis on the life-affirming, i...
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Season 8
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Episode 222
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2:23:01
How To Get Started With Kālī Worship
The best way to start is to just start. Here's everything you need and more.
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Season 8
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Episode 220
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2:03:38
How To Get Possessed By Kālī
In this conversation about the mechanism of image-worship and the subtler (and more radical) aspects of the Tāntrik worship tradition, we carefully explain what it is to be a paśu or anu, a discreet unit of consciousness (i.e an embodied soul o...
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Season 8
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Episode 221
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2:11:06
What is Kuṇḍalinī? | & The Best Kaula Ritual
One of the most important ideas in Tantra (and often one of the most misunderstood and most difficult to discuss) is Kuṇḍalinī! What exactly is this "serpent power", as Arthur Avalonji once called it? Specifically in this talk, we relate Kuṇḍal...
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Season 8
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Episode 219
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