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
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309 episodes
Our Mission | A Manifesto
In our recent lectures like Advice to Spiritual Teachers & Aspirants & Sex, Drugs & Choosing A Guru | Q&A...
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Season 8
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Episode 185
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2:33:31
Sex, Drugs & Choosing A Guru | Q&A
Recently, we as a community have been having some very important discussions around integrity and our values so that we may be a genuine place of spiritual learning and a safe and inclusive space for practitioners of all sorts, with all types o...
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Season 8
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Episode 184
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2:03:59
3 Forms of Śiva: Sadā-śiva, Bhairava & Śava-śiva
In one sense, Śiva means the impersonal absolute Consciousness which is the very essence of the Self (as we pointed out in this video
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Season 8
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Episode 183
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1:11:04
Friday the 13th | According to Tantra
To celebrate today's occasion, we took the opportunity to look at the importance of divine immanence as well as the power and pervasiveness and superstition: first, we discussed the Norse and Biblical origins of the Western fear of the number 1...
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Season 8
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Episode 182
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1:30:39
Jagannātha, Bhairava & The Harmony of All Religions
Today is a very auspicious day for us since this full moon in the month of Jyeshta is the Snāna Yatra, the day when Lord Jagannath in Puri is brought out for a bath: on this occassion, in 1855, Mā Bhavatārinī Kālī (Jagadishwari Thakur Rani) ...
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Season 8
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Episode 181
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32:35
Advice to Spiritual Teachers & Aspirants
These past few weeks, we've been reflecting a lot on where we've been as a lineage, on our roots and origins. We discussed all of this in talks like
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Season 8
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Episode 180
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3:45:46
Free Will vs. Determinism/Self Effort vs. Grace in Tantra
Recently, we've been reflecting a lot on Is There Free Will? and also How To Really Worship Kālī | Free Will vs Determinism to explain Sri Ramakrishna'...
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Season 8
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Episode 179
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1:48:12
Why You Should Worship Mā Dhūmāvatī
Last year, on this auspicious occasion of Dhūmāvatī Devī Jayanti (which is the 8th day after the New Moon of Vaiśakh) we gave a series on talks on this very mysterious and often feared phase of Mā's personality (
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Season 8
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Episode 178
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53:26
Swami Vivekananda's Song to Shiva | & A Daily Chanting Practice
First, we present a rendition of Swami Vivekananda's profound and stirring song in Sanskrit to Shiva, the Great God along with an English translation by Swami Prabhavananda. I am especially fond of this song! We then make a few comments about w...
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Season 8
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Episode 177
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1:00:07
How To Really Worship Kālī | Free Will vs Determinism
In this talk, we develop some the ideas from the Is There Free Will? lecture: if there is no free will, then, what's the point exactly? Isn't spiritual life all about freedom? If freedom is the goal,...
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Season 8
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Episode 176
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2:15:29
Is There Free Will?
After giving two talks establishing God (Proof for God & What is God in Tantra?) a in response to various objections from non-theistic traditions lik...
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Season 8
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Episode 175
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2:25:49
How To Realize God
In Verse 104, of the Vijñāna-Bhairava Tantra, we come across a profound teaching:विहाय निजदेहस्थं सर्वत्रास्मीति भावयन्।दृढेन मनसा दृष्ट्या नान्येक्षिण्या सुखी भवेत्॥ १०४॥
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Season 8
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Episode 174
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1:35:20
Everyone is Religious, Non-Duality vs Solipsism & My Tantrik Mission | Q&A
When we say this Universe is internal to consciousness, as we do in Non-Dual Philosophy, are we making a solipsistic claim? In this Q&A discussion after our Friday morning discussion on Turning No...
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Season 8
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Episode 173
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1:20:20
What is God in Tantra?
Perhaps one of the reasons all the various religions in the world are fighting and killing each other is because they never took the time to clarify to one another what, precisely, they meant by the term "God"? Often when atheists ...
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Season 8
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Episode 173
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2:12:43
Who is Gaṇeśa?
As part our How To Do Tantrik Pūjā, we now start discussing the next moment in our puja-krama, sequence of worship: Gaṇeśa puja! This a bit like a talk we gave some time back called...
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Season 8
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Episode 172
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1:15:23
Who is Bhadrakālī?
The krishna-ekadaśi (11th day of the waning moon) right before Phalahārinī Pūjā is known as the Apara-ekadaśi and it coincides with Bhadrakālī Jayanti, the celebration of Mā in her "auspicious" form. While the word "Bhadra" (which can be both a...
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Season 8
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Episode 171
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1:33:19
How To Have Infinite Energy and Live Forever
I wanted to explore the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and physical health to make the somewhat surprising claim: intense spiritual practice can sometimes compromise health! This is because, in the course of intense sādhana, Kula Kund...
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Season 8
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Episode 170
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54:55
Women's Empowerment, Menstruation & Kali Worship | Q&A
This was a fire Questions & Answers discussion! After our Monday evening talk earlier this week, we explore some of the ecological, economical, political & sociologica...
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Season 8
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Episode 169
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2:08:36
Where Did Kālī Come From? | A Brief Herstory
Here is a brief and exultant sketch of Mā Kālī's journey from ancient pre-history into the most esoteric and elite Tantrik circles and into the mainstream Bhakti movement of Bengal and from there into the hearts and homes of people all over the...
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Season 8
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Episode 168
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2:37:51
What is Phalahārinī Kālī Pūjā?
Yesterday, on the new moon in the Vedic month of Vaishakh (Jyeshtha by Purnimanta calendar), we celebrated a most auspicious occasion: the Phalaharini Kali Puja. It is an especially significant day for our lineage and so in this short talk, we ...
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Season 8
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Episode 167
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39:54
Our Tantrik Lineage
We recorded this some time back and its not as comprehensive as I would have liked it to be (lineage is such a rich and sprawling conversation, after all) so I never posted it but inspired by the conversations
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Season 8
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Episode 166
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2:02:54
What is the Sound of Absolute Silence? | Bagalā Jayanti
Last year we gave this talk on Mā Bagalā, on the auspicious occasion of her Jayanti:
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Season 8
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Episode 165
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1:45:55
How To Decapitate Yourself | Chinnamastā Jayanti
Because Buddha Purnima (the full moon celebrating the birth, death and enlightenment of the Shakyamuni Buddha) is so close to Chinnamastā Jayanti, when we celebrate the self-decapitating form of Mā, this year I decided to combine the two themes...
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Season 8
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Episode 164
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2:04:35
Hindu Tantra and Buddhist Tantra and Why They Are The Same | Buddha Purnima Q&A
In this Q&A discussion right after our Buddha Purnima lecture, we first discuss the art of letting go with Rajeevji. What spiritual practices can I do to help let go of attachment and learn to surrender to the situation? Then we inquire the...
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Season 8
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Episode 163
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1:20:11
