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
216 episodes
Tantrik Techniques for Overcoming Addiction
Giving in to our desires (which is to say: following them into externalized action) can sometimes be just as repressive as avoiding them altogether. In either case, the energy of desire is not fully experienced:; it is instead dissipated throug...
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Season 8
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Episode 100
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29:30
How To Become A Bhairavi, A Tantrik Adept
On this auspicious Mrgaśīrsha Pūrnimā (full moon) to which is ascribed Bhairavi Jayanti, Annapurna Jayanti and also Dattatreya Jayanti, we decide to say a few words about just who Mā Bhairavi might be. She is one of the most mysterious of the m...
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Season 8
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Episode 99
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1:32:28
Kālī = The Lady of Guadalupe
Today we are celebrating the feast day for a very important Marian apparition that occurred on the site of a former Tonantzin temple: The Lady of Guadalupe! This is among my favorite occurrences in Catholic history and it gives us ...
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Season 8
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Episode 98
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1:18:40
Mary of Magdala & The Feminine Approach to Spirituality
Some time ago, we gave a talk on Mary of Magdalena, who I argued was the śakti (power) of Christ in the same way that Rādhā is for Krishna, Sīta is for Rāma and Sārada Mā is for Sri Ramakrishna. This argues for a "dual-aspect" to the avatāra (d...
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Season 8
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Episode 97
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1:42:41
What's Our Lineage?
As we come to the end of our 5th Gregorian Calendar Year since we started coming together as a community, I thought now would be a good (and fairly sentimental) time to do a little retrospective. Often, when we look back at where we've ...
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Season 8
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Episode 97
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1:20:49
Those Who Hate God Will Also Realize God
In this talk, we discuss something very edgy and maybe even quite dark: hating God as a legitimate mode of worship!This is lesser known bhāva is called vipaksha or shatru-bhāv, the "mode of the enemy" and applies to great devotees like ...
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Season 8
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Episode 96
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2:27:10
Can God Be Your Romantic Partner?
In this talk, we discuss a very subtle, high-level and easily misunderstood mode of spiritual practice: madhura bhāva, the practice of seeing God as your lover!In Vaishnava literature this is considered the highest mood because it contai...
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Season 8
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Episode 95
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2:33:57
How To Realize Kali | Ramprasad's Backstory
On the eve of the Mrgaśirsha (9th month of the Vedic Calendar) Amāvasyā (New Moon), we take up a reading from the beautiful book by Swami Buddhananda called "Ramprasad, The Melodious Mystic" which gives us the life story of one of the gre...
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Season 8
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Episode 94
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1:42:31
Introduction to Tantrik Non-Duality
Many people are becoming increasingly familiar with Advaita Vedanta, the classical Non-Duality of Adi Shankaracharya but fewer people are aware that there are indeed other versions of Non-Dual spiritual philosophy and practice. In this video, w...
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Season 8
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Episode 93
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1:35:14
What Does Kālī Really Want?
Time to ask a very important question: what does Mā really want? Last week, we started discussing themes of sensuality and desire in Ma Kali’s iconography alongside the equally controversial motifs of intoxication and madness. We introduced the...
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Season 8
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Episode 92
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1:58:11
How To Pray To Kāla Bhairava
For the auspicious occasion of the Kāla Bhairava Jayanti which also happens to be Mā Siddheśvarī Jayanti, we offer a rather free and somewhat loose translation of the Kāla Bhairavashtakam, the 8 Verses Praising Bhairava attributed to Sri ...
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Season 8
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Episode 91
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1:53:52
The Secret Teaching of Bhairava
After we did our class on how to worship Bhairava (which you can watch here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/secret-mantras-8-116490016?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link...
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Season 8
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Episode 90
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1:42:33
Why is Kālī Desirous?
In the first verse of dhyānam (meditation mantra) in the Kālikāshtakam, a hymn to Kālī attributed to Adi Shankara we learn that Mā Kālī is ever desirous to have union with Her husband, Mahākāla (महाकालकामाकुला कालिकेयम्) and in the 8th verse of...
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Season 8
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Episode 89
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2:10:56
Why is Kālī Crazy?
The image of Mā Kālī alone is unfathomably powerful in its symbolic richness! Having discussed Mā's iconography at some length in this lecture series.we now go a little deeper by...
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Season 8
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Episode 88
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1:53:32
Everything is Consciousness
In this class, we first explore Yogarāja's mangala-śloka (opening verse), in addition to Abhinava Gupta's own mangala-śloka from the profound text, Paramārthasāra which teaches us some of the subtle nuances on Tantrik non-duality in all of its ...
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Season 8
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Episode 87
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1:15:47
Tantrik Tips for Realizing Non Duality
In this lecture, given on the auspicious ashtami of Jagaddhātri pūjā, I first take a moment to express gratitude for our community, let you in on what's upcoming and also make an important point about the threefold epistemological model o...
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Season 8
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Episode 86
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1:18:21
Surrender to the Will of the Divine Mother and Be Free!
In the introduction to this morning's Hatha Yoga classes, we say a few things about determinism and the illusion of free will, offering a few stories from the lives of Vivekananda, Sarada and Ramakrishna to demonstrate how liberation (jīvanmukt...
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Season 8
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Episode 85
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22:57
Why Is Kālī Drunk?
The iconography of Mā Kālī is unfathomably powerful offering us an important tool for philosophical reflection:For example, the 50 heads in Her garland represent the 50 letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, showing us that the Universe ...
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Season 8
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Episode 84
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2:03:02
Ecstatic Saints of Kālī
To know something of Mā Kālī, we have to know something of Her saints, those luminaries who like moths into a flame plunged into ecstasy of love for Mā and as such have become one with Her. As it says in John 14:16, "none can see the Moth...
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Season 8
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Episode 83
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1:09:23
Is Kali Worship Devil Worship?
Swami Vivekananda, in his English poem "Kali The Mother" and in his Bengali poem, "And Let Śyāmā Dance There", highlights the Worship of God as the Worship of The Terrible: God might cure our cancer but She is also the one who gave us cancer! I...
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Season 8
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Episode 82
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2:19:45
How To Practice The Left Hand Path of Tantra
Last week we gave a talk on the very often misunderstood and misrepresented vāma-cāra, "the Left Hand Path of Tantra" you can watch that
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Season 8
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Episode 81
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2:02:22
Kālī & The Left Hand Path of Tantra
Here is our pūjā vidhi (ritual manual):https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pV3lkIQpB75iNfadw3uJwaCpK-S8k50VvGTsoEjKxk4/edit?usp=sharingFor more detailed instructions for how to perform Kālī pūjā, watch this playlist:https://www....
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Season 8
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Episode 80
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2:16:45
How To Celebrate Śyāmā Kali Puja/Diwali
We have a big week coming up! This Thursday, 31st of October, on the new moon of the Vedic month of Kartik, we are celebrating Śyāma Kālī Pūjā, my favorite day of the year! Here are a few thoughts on what this night represents along wit...
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Season 8
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Episode 79
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1:28:23
The Tantrik Laxmī
On the 31st of October this year (2024), we will be celebrating Kālī Pūjā. But this Kartika new moon is also Diwali/Dīpāvalī and many will be worshipping Laxmī, who is light embodied! Last week, on this day, we celebrated the Sarat...
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Season 8
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Episode 78
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1:02:50
How To Worship Laxmī
Last week, on this day, we celebrated the Sarat-Pūrnimā, the Autumn Full Moon which is considered to be the most auspicious, most beautiful and most charming of the full moons. Naturally, then, the full moon of autumn (which is in the month of ...
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Season 8
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Episode 77
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1:05:57
