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
283 episodes
Proof for God
Perhaps one of our finest discussions so far! We cover quite a lot of ground here: "If there is a God, I must see him. If I have a soul, I must feel myself as that." This was Swami Vivekananda's intuition about spiritualit...
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Season 8
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Episode 162
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1:59:22
Who Are You, Really? | According To Tantra
Recently we've been giving a series of talks on some foundational Tantrik concepts starting with the concept of the "self". Is there such a thing and if so, what is its nature? We asked What is the Self in Tantra? and then we looked at the The ...
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Season 8
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Episode 161
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2:02:02
How To Worship Mā Bagalāmukhī
Today is the holy day of Bagalāmukhī Jayanti, celebrating one of the fierce forms of Mā! We've been discussing the Mahāvidyās quite a lot over the years (here's a playlist of talks on them...
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Season 8
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Episode 160
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1:26:25
The Tantrik Shankara
On the fifth day of the waxing fortnight of the month Vaiśakh, we celebrated one of India's greatest and most celebrated philosopher-mystics of all time, Adi Shankaracharya. While many feel that Advaita Vedanta is juxtaposed to Tantrik ph...
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Season 8
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Episode 159
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1:11:12
How To Meditate on Mātangī
In this talk, we discuss the Matangī meditation mantra and present a simple worship of Matangi since the day before yesterday was her Jayanti (birthday).We were all of us recovering from our Atlanta adventure so I didn't get to write to ...
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Season 8
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Episode 158
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36:42
The Tantrik Sermon on the Mount
Last week, to celebrate Easter, we gave a special talk on the Sermon of the Mount from a Tantrik point of view. Not only is the Sermon on the Mount an excellent piece of spiritual literature which like the Gītā essentializes and makes practical...
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Season 8
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Episode 157
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2:17:47
Christ as a Solar Deity
On behalf of this most auspicious occasion of Easter Sunday, celebrating the resurrection of Christ and the upsurge of spring-time energy in nature, we reflect a little bit on Christ as Solar Deity. Importantly, I wanted to compare the ...
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Season 8
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Episode 156
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57:25
Why We Worship the Sun
Today is Good Friday and since the Christ is a solar deity in a sense (the "sun" of God moving through the 12 disciples who are the 12 zodiac signs), I thought it would be nice to discuss the worship of the Sun of the Vedic and Tantrik context....
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Season 8
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Episode 156
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1:15:52
The 6 Layers of the Self in Tantra
In the profound Trika text virūpākṣapañcāśikā, we learn:vimatipadamaṅga sarvaṃ mama caitanyamātmanaḥ śarīramidam |śūnyapadādīlāvadhi dṛśyatvāt piṇḍavat siddham || 2 ||O dear one, all this from th...
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Season 8
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Episode 155
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1:38:47
What is The Self in Tantra?
This is perhaps one of my favorite lectures yet and one of the most foundational. In this talk, we track the idea of the "self", the most immediate reality through various different schools of philosophy: first we sketch out scientific ...
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Season 8
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Episode 154
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1:33:05
How To Be Powerful Like Hanuman
Last year, on Hanuman Jayanti we gave the talk The Tantrik Hanuman exploring some of the Tantrik aspects of this fierce rudra, Mahavīra! This year on Hanuman Jayanti, we decided to talk a little ab...
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Season 8
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Episode 153
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1:42:59
How To Be God's Friend
In the second to last chapter of Swami Vivekananda's Bhakti Yoga (or Volume III of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda), Swamiji gives us a walkthrough of all the attitudes of supreme love, prema with which we can relate to God: God as quie...
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Season 8
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Episode 152
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58:30
Who Can Be A Guru? | According to Tantra
In our Friday morning zoom satsangh, we're studying the Paramārthasāra of Abhinava Gupta, a very profound and concise introductory text for Non-Dual Shaiva/Shakta Tantra. In Verses 2 &...
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Season 8
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Episode 151
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1:46:37
How To Offer Japa To Kālī
Because we've come to the end of Navaratri and because many are now finishing their mantra-repetition sādhana (puraścarana), I thought it would be nice to discuss the mantra for offering japa to the Divine Mother:oṁ guhyātiguhyagoptrī tv...
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Season 8
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Episode 150
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23:15
Who is Mā Tārā?
This past weekend, on Saturday, we celebrated Tārā Jayanti. It felt very fitting to give a talk praising this enigmatic form of Mā! The first thing we do in this lecture is to distinguish the very popular Tibetan Buddhist deity, Tār...
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Season 8
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Episode 150
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2:31:23
How To Worship Mā Durgā
Earlier this week, we celebrated the Spring Goddess Festival, Chaitra Navarātri or the 9 nights of the Mā Durgā! Naturally, we had a conversation about the very profound and very elaborate Durgā Pūjā which is performed on the last five days of ...
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Season 8
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Episode 149
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1:20:40
Why Non-Dualists Should Study Duality
When we fall in love with a particular kind of spiritual philosophy like advaita, non-duality we tend to become a little dogmatic and reject other forms of spirituality like duality. In our discussion called
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Season 8
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Episode 148
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2:00:47
3 Ways To Stay Safe In Tantra
The past few weeks since Shiva Ratri, we've been giving a few talks on the "foundations of Tantra" both philosophically and practically to make the case that advanced transgressive, esoteric & non-dual sādhanas are best founded on firm, dev...
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Season 8
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Episode 147
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2:12:13
The 8 Schools of Shaivism, A Non-Sectarian Approach
Recently, we've been asking the question How To Practice Tantra Safely and we proposed that the historical progression of ideas in Shaivism presents a kind of graded syllabus where the traditions t...
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Season 8
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Episode 147
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2:14:03
How To Practice Tantra Safely
Perhaps one of the most important and foundational lectures we've ever done, this talk features a broad overview of Tantrik non-duality in the beginning and then moves on to make a case for a Vedic lifestyle and basic devotion as important foun...
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Season 8
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Episode 146
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2:08:51
The 3 Malas: 3 Reasons Why You're Not Enlightened
We now turn to a very sophisticated discussion about the reasons why we are not immediately, spontaneously aware of the fact that we are non-dual, pure Consciousness in which the world shines non-differently. If I am Shiva, as this tradition te...
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Season 8
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Episode 145
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1:33:43
Vivekananda's Triangle of Love & How Jñāna = Bhakti
There have been many, many profound moments in Swami Vivekananda's Bhakti Yoga but this is perhaps the signature lecture: the "triangle of love". Here, Swamiji defines just what prema, true ecstatic love for God looks like: this is the kind of ...
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Season 8
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Episode 143
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55:59
The Perfect Jñāni, Knower of God is the Perfect Bhakta, Lover of God
In our Vivekananda's Triangle of Love & How Jñāna = Bhakti we introduced Swamiji's signature idea: the three things that make love worthy of the name as well as the idea that Bhakti, Devotion a...
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Season 8
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Episode 144
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1:05:35
3 Tantrik Meditations on Sarasvatī
In our paddathi (ritual manual), throughout the nyāsa section which we've been studying together over the past few weeks, we find these Sanskrit verses. They are all dhyāna-ślokas, meditat...
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Season 8
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Episode 142
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1:00:49
Why Are Eclipses So Important in Tantra?
Last week on Friday we had a full moon and total lunar eclipse! In the light (or lack thereof) of that (haha), and because we are entering into eclipse season, we took some time on Friday to discuss the Tantrik significance of the eclipse, both...
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Season 8
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Episode 141
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1:42:27
