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
352 episodes
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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2:00:37
A Very Powerful Śakti Mantra | 3 Ways To Use The Devī Māhātmya
After we gave our Secrets of the Devī Māhātmyam | Śākta Theology 101 talk at the start of Navarātri (The Autumn Goddess Festival) earlier this year, we then gave this talk wh...
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Season 8
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Episode 218
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1:54:54
Secrets of the Devī Māhātmyam | Śākta Theology 101
As one of the most ancient and important texts of the Tāntrik Goddess (śākta) tradition, the Devī Māhātmyam is of course unspeakably rich in its every dimension!In its esoteric dimension, it is a very complex manual of mantra, ritual an...
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Season 8
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Episode 217
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2:23:10
Dealing with Difficult Emotions & What Happens When You See God | Q&A
After our discussion on the Three Kinds of Madness | Kālī vs. Laxmī vs Sarasvatī on Laxmī Purnimā earlier this week, we launched into a very beautiful, rich and ...
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Season 8
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Episode 216
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2:14:45
Three Kinds of Madness | Kālī vs. Laxmī vs Sarasvatī
On this very auspicious Laxmī Pūrnimā (Autumn full moon) I want to discuss the topic we’ve been meaning to discuss for sometime now: “Kundalinī emergency” or “spiritual crisis" & how to say safe.First, we distinguish betwe...
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Season 8
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Episode 215
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2:23:13
Some Stories of the Goddess & What They Mean
As part of our Navarātri celebrations, we explored some stories from the Devī Māhātmyam and contrasts them to/built up on them with some similar narratives from other Purānic Śakta texts like the Devī Bhāgavatam (i.e the Devī Gitā) to excavate ...
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Season 8
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Episode 214
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1:37:04
Vijaya Daśamī & What To Do After Navarātri
Congratulations on completing another 9 (or perhaps 10) nights of intense contemplation, celebration and worship of Mā! What a powerful Navarātri it's been and each time feels like the first time especially if it was, in fact, your first time c...
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Season 8
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Episode 213
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49:55
Durgā = Kālī = Caṇḍi | & What To Do For Navarātri
It's that time of the year again, gang! You know what's up. Here's the document we were presenting in this talk: it walks you through...
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Season 8
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Episode 212
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2:08:27
Esoteric Tāntrik Ideas in the Vijñāna-Bhairava Tantra
A high level talk on some of the subtle and esoteric ideas sketched out by Devī in the opening verses of the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra.
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Season 8
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Episode 211
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1:54:17
The Dark Side of Spirituality | & The Left Hand Path of Kālī
In the Who Should Worship Kālī? | Dakṣiṇa Kālī vs Smaśāna Kālī talk, we explained the technical term "jagadānanda" which describes the bliss of fullness. We arg...
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Season 8
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Episode 210
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2:20:57
Kālī's Non-Duality of Radical Acceptance | vs. Classical Non-Duality
Broadly speaking, there are to archetypical non-dual traditions, two very valid paths to bliss: The Non-Duality of Total Negation (Classical Advaita) & Kālī's Non-Duality of Total Acceptance (i.e Tāntrik Non-Duality or paramadvāya).
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Season 8
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Episode 209
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2:30:52
A Complete Śiva Sādhana
After watching What Does Kālī Want From You? | The Yoga of Grief & Fullness, Who Should ...
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Season 8
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Episode 208
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1:57:59
What Do You Need To Start Worshipping Kālī & Practicing Tantra?
The word Tantra essentially refers to a set of texts, or a genre of spiritual literature in which we encounter profound philosophies, intricate visualizations, techniques for meditation involving the phonetic power of language and various other...
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Season 8
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Episode 208
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1:22:11
Who Should Worship Kālī? | Dakṣiṇa Kālī vs Smaśāna Kālī
Last week, we had a profound and poignant discussion on the heart of Kālī sādhana in What Does Kālī Want From You? | The Yoga of Grief & Fullness where we explored what Sw...
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Season 8
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Episode 207
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2:12:11
What Does Kālī Want From You? | The Yoga of Grief & Fullness
On the last Monday of śrāvana is an especially sacred day for contemplating the Absolute because it is a culmination four or six weeks of very intense Sādhanā (spiritual practice). As such, as a celebration and consummation, I’d like to discuss...
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Season 8
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Episode 206
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3:23:17
4 Esoteric Tāntrik Goddesses
One of the most exalted, refined and mysterious aspects of the Tāntrik non-dual tradition is the veneration of the devītraya, the Three Wisdom Goddesses who are linked to three dynamic expressions of Consciousness: Knower (Parā), Knowi...
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Season 8
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Episode 205
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1:52:35
