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
330 episodes
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
Three Techniques in Tāntrik Pūja | External Rituals, Substitution & Interiorization
As part our our How To Do Tāntrik Pūjā lecture series, we've recently been exploring the topic of mānasa pūjā, or Mental Wo...
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Season 8
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Episode 204
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1:12:22
The Scariest Spiritual Idea | The Advaita of Kālī
Almost all of us have so man hang-ups lurking in our psyche. Whether through religious indoctrination or societal conditioning of any sort, most of us carry around a strong sense of duality that distinguishes between pure & impure, holy &am...
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Season 8
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Episode 203
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2:08:26
The Key Teaching of Non-Dual Śaivism
The one indubitable fact about my life is that I AM. Or rather, I am essentially consciousness because to be is to be aware and to be aware is to be. But what is the nature of that Consciousness? We argue in our tradition that this Conscious Se...
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Season 8
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Episode 202
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1:33:20
What is Kālī in Tāntrik Śaivism?
Who or What is Kali?According to Abhinava Gupta , Kālī is: क्षेपो ज्ञानं च संख्यां गतिनाद इति क्रमात्। कल्लनां कुर्वती काली कर्षिणीत्यभिधीयते। She who projects, She who knows, She who delimits, She who...
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Season 8
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Episode 201
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3:02:58
How To Practice Tāntrik Śaivism | 3 Śiva Mantras
Last week, on the first Monday of Śrāvana, the sacred month of Lord Śiva, we gave this exhaustive account of Śaiva Tantra in both theory and practice. It was indeed an exceedingly auspicious day for the worship and contemplation of ...
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Season 8
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Episode 200
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2:42:31
Substituting Animal Sacrifice & Other Transgressive Offerings in Kālī Worship
As you approach Mā Kālī, you will likely encounter many transgressive (and for some people of a certain temperament, even disturbing) practices. Things like animal sacrifice (Bali) and offerings of meat, fish, liquor, intoxicants and sex (pañca...
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Season 8
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Episode 199
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1:28:52
Substituting the Pañcamakāras, Forbidden Offerings
Right now in our How To Do Tāntrik Pūjā lecture series, we're exploring the topic of Mānasa-pūjā, mental worship, the process of internalizing everything that we would otherwise be doing o...
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Season 8
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Episode 198
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1:21:31
How To Practice Śākta Tantra | Animism & Śaktism
Today on the very sacred and auspicious day of Nāga Pañcami, the day when we honor serpents in the holy month of śrāvana, the sacred month of Lord Śiva, I felt it would be wonderful to contemplate Mā (śakti) as the all-pervasive enlivening/anim...
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Season 8
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Episode 197
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1:38:48
The Most Important Spiritual Resource
What is the most important spiritual resource? Since spirituality is the process of going inward, of checking the natural inclination towards externalization, naturally, the most important thing we can learn how to do is to take responsibility ...
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Season 8
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Episode 196
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1:36:45
A Non-Duality of Radical Agency
In this talk, we continue to unpack the Somānanda's Radical Non-Dual Revelation to show how Consciousness, the Absolute Reality which you yourself are is endowed...
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Season 8
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Episode 195
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1:41:51
Yogic vs Vedāntic vs Tāntrik Non-Duality
Non-duality is the profound view that only one Reality exists and that you are essentially That! This unitive vision of one-ness, this harmony of all things resonates so deeply in the human psyche, perhaps because we all of us sense the underly...
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Season 8
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Episode 194
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1:54:58
Somānanda's Radical Non-Dual Revelation
And now, our main project is to study Somānanda's radical non-dual philosophy, which is the foundation for Shākta non-duality. Somānanda might be one of the most radical and God-intoxicated of the Shaiva Non-Dual masters. He is Abhinava Gupta's...
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Season 8
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Episode 193
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1:55:24
Is My Coffee Mug Conscious?
Naturally, naturalists and physicalists (i.e materialists) are exceedingly challenged by the "hard problem of Consciousness" as David Chalmers put it which is the challenge to explain, in physical terms, this somewhat transcendent reality calle...
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Season 8
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Episode 192
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1:55:06
Swami Vivekananda on Sri Ramakrishna | "My Master"
As you know, over the past few months we've been trying to articulate our ideals and values as a community so that we can maintain the highest degree of integrity as possible, according to the ideals of our lineage, as exemplified by our Parame...
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Season 8
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Episode 191
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54:17
Approaching the Guru
On the very auspicious day for Guru Purnima this year, we reflected on the role of the Guru and the process of approaching one in humility and surrender. We reflect upon the opening scene of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and we offer a running ...
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Season 8
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Episode 190
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1:09:23
5 Practices for Śiva | How To Celebrate Śrāvaṇa
We suggest about 5 different practices you can do to celebrate Śrāvaṇa, the month of Śiva:1. Vratam. Many people will observing vows like abstaining from a particular kind of food (salt, sugar, pickles etc.) or observing s...
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Season 8
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Episode 189
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1:29:54
How To Give & Receive Spiritual Power
Back in the day, the guru was very necessary because without one, we could not access the Tantras at all (that is, the ritual manuals in which we encounter the practices and philosophies of the tradition) because they were all physical manuscri...
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Season 8
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Episode 188
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1:58:40
Guru as Transmission of Power
Because last week's Capricorn Full Moon was the celebration of the Guru (it was actually the birthday of Veda Vyāsa, the OG Guru), in our Friday evening restorative yoga class (which you can watch
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Season 8
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Episode 187
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39:59
The Most Important Spiritual Idea
Recently, we've been giving a series of talks on our values and ideals, based on what Swami Vivekananda said about his Master, Sri Ramakrishna. Having discussed our heritage in Where Did Kālī Come Fr...
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Season 8
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Episode 186
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50:28
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
