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
270 episodes
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
Śankara vs Rāmānuja vs Caitanya vs Abhinava Gupta vs Rāmakrishna
Usually, after a slew of lectures on Sri Caitanya and Tantrik Vaishnavism, which we tend to do around Gaur Purnima, we like to bask in the afterglow by simply comparing Caitanya's philosophy to the other schools that we tend to study in our com...
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Season 8
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Episode 140
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1:02:54
Nārada vs Caitanya vs Rāmakrishna on Bhakti Philosophy
After we did our series of lectures on Caitanya and the acintya bhedābedha philosophy of Bengal school of Vaishnavism last year, we did this "bonus talk" comparing Caitanya's philosophy and practice of Bhakti to that of Śrī Nāradamuni (as we se...
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Season 8
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Episode 139
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1:28:31
How To Invoke the 12 Secret Kalis | Krama Stotram & The Wheel of Fire
After our lecture on The 12 Secret Kālīs | & The Most Closely G...
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Season 8
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Episode 138
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2:53:56
The Tantrik Worship of Krsna and Rādhā
Having explored the philosophy and
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Season 8
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Episode 137
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1:15:58
How To Practice Bhakti According to Sri Krishna Chaitanya
Having explored the philosophy and lift of Sri Krishna Chaitanya, the incarnation of Rādhā and Krsna in one body, it is now time to turn to something very important: the practices! In this class, we do a quick overview of the various aspects of...
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Season 8
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Episode 136
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1:26:36
Who is Sri Krishna Chaitanya?
This is the story of perhaps one the greatest lovers of God who ever lived, in whom was manifest both Krishna and Radha and the intense love them bound them together!We gave this lecture in San Francisco last year during Gauranga Purnima...
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Season 8
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Episode 134
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1:45:12
Sri Chaitanya's Philosophy of Devotion
Last year on the auspicious occasion of Gauranga Purnima, the full moon celebrating the birthday of Sri Chaitanya (Gauranga), the most ecstatic lover of God who perhaps ever lived next to Sri Ramakrishna, we gave a series of three talks on the ...
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Season 8
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Episode 135
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2:20:12
What is Holi?
Tomorrow is a very special day: we are celebrating the full moon commemorating the birthday of one the world's most ecstatic lover's of God, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who is considered to be an incarnation of Krishna and Radha in one single body.&nb...
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Season 8
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Episode 133
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34:07
Introduction to Tamil Shaivism
While I was back home at my grandfather's ashram earlier this year I discovered Swami Shivananda Saraswati's beautiful little survey of the 64 nayanar saints of Tamil Shaivism. Since this is my central heritage, I have been a little hesitant to...
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Season 8
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Episode 132
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1:10:46
Categories of Tantrik Thought: 5 Kalās, 36 Tattvas and 118 Bhuvanas
In today's class as part of our Paramārthasāra series, we take a broad sweeping tour of some of the major categories of thought in the non-dual Tantrik world starting with the 5 Kalās
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Season 8
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Episode 131
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1:36:02
Japa and Ritual Worship as a Non-Dual Practice
In this next installment of our How To Do Tantrik Ritual series, we look at three very important moments in Tantrik ritual worship (namely, bhūta-śuddhi, nyāsa and gandhādi pūjā) that all ...
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Season 8
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Episode 130
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57:44
Reflections on Milarepa for Tibetan New Year
On Tibetan New Year, the Friday just after Shiva Ratri, we spent some time practicing non-dual meditation (practice with us
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Season 8
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Episode 129
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1:06:50
Why Did We Fast and Stay Up All Night for Shiva Ratri? + Shiva Puja Walkthrough
On the very auspicious day of Shiva Ratri this year, we got together on zoom in the morning to say a few things about the "art of tapasya", that is, the art of austerities in the name of spirituality. If done too excessively, the body and mind ...
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Season 8
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Episode 128
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1:29:12
