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
188 episodes
Cāmuṇḍā Chanting + Kirtan
On Navami last week, for our final online Navarātri celebration, we chanted one māla of the siddha-kunjika mantra together, which as it says in the Rudra-Yāmala Tantra is itself equivalent to chanting the whole Caṇḍi! Be forewarned: this is qui...
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Season 8
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Episode 73
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1:29:11
The Slaying of Mahiṣāsura
Whenever we think of the Goddess Durgā, the image that almost invariable comes to mind is of Her standing on her lion of Dharma with Her right foot, stepping on a buffalo with Her left foot and, spear in hand, stabbing the mustachioed villain-t...
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Season 8
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Episode 73
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1:31:09
How Tantrik Mantra & Visualization Works
The calling card of Tantrik spiritual practice is creative visualization on rich, complex and thoroughly symbolic imagery along with the repetition and chanting of subtle sound patterns or speech formulae known as "mantras." After all, Tantra i...
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Season 8
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Episode 72
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1:14:11
The Warrior Laxmī
The full moon after Sārada Navarātri (Autumn Goddess festival) is known as Laxmī pūjā, the day where we celebrate the Goddess of Beauty, Elegance, Auspiciousness and Wealth! Of course we'll have many, many more things to say about ...
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Season 8
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Episode 71
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1:10:52
Who are the Aṣṭa Mātrikās (The 8 Tantrik Mothers)?
The Aṣṭa mātṝkās (the 8 mothers) are so central to Tantrik theory and practice and oh so mysterious! We first meet these 8 fierce, blood drinking, intoxicated Goddesses in the third act of the Devī Māhātmyam! And so, in this lecture, we'll take...
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Season 8
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Episode 69
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1:38:29
Who is Cāmuṇḍā?
First, we take a look at the Caṇḍi (Devī Māhātmyam) to see all the different forms of Mā: 1. Mahākālī from chapter I who is described as being blue like a jewel with ten hands holding various weapons, ten legs and ten heads , 2. Kālī wh...
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Season 8
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Episode 70
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1:33:16
A Simple Way To Worship The Srī Yantra | Khaḍgamālā Stotram
On this auspicious day of Lalitā Pañchami, I pray to the Divine Mother Tripurasundarī, the beauty of the three cities (of waking, dreaming and deep sleep), who soaks the states of Consciousness with beauty like oil soaks a cloth, that we may su...
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Season 8
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Episode 68
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1:17:48
The Slaying of Madhu and Kaiṭabha | Devī Māhātmyam, Chapter I
Last week, on Tritiya, the third day of the nine nights of the Autumn Goddess festival (Navarātri), we got together to chant some Devī Māhātmyam! Having already chanted the preliminary verses when we got together in the morning (you can follow ...
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Season 8
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Episode 67
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1:30:37
How To Worship The Kālī Yantra
Last week, we went over an abridged ritual worship of the Goddess Kālī with some detail (watch that
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Season 8
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Episode 66
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1:08:38
How To Perform Kālī Pūjā
Tomorrow (October 1st, 2024) is a very, very special day: a new moon night on Tuesday, the eve of Navarātri, the 9 nights of the Goddess! Mā Kālī tells us in the Tantras that this is the best time to worship Her! Natural...
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Season 8
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Episode 66
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1:19:07
What To Do For Navarātri | Rules for Chanting The Candi
Starting this upcoming Tuesday, on the New Moon, we will be entering into a very sacred and transformative period!Perhaps the most exciting and intense time in our community, Navarātri (The 9 Nights of the Goddess) typically features:
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Season 8
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Episode 65
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50:11
How To Get Renunciation | Bhakti Yoga, Swami Vivekananda
In this class, we read from "The Preparatory Renunciation" from the Parā-Bhakti (Supreme Devotion) section of the Bhakti Yoga book in Volume III of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda to learn how we may "cultivate" renunciation which as we...
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Season 8
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Episode 65
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1:24:30
How To Contact The Spirit World & Not Go Insane
I know the title sounds new agey and off the wall but only because it is. I intend to discuss cremation ground sadhana a little and present three or four reasons for it, focusing on the concept of “spirit traffic”. This is a bit of a pre-...
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Season 8
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Episode 64
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1:57:43
Do I Have To Be Vegetarian To Practice Spirituality?
This lecture is undoubtedly going to be somewhat controversial for some! Brace yourselves!In this week's Bhakti Yoga lecture, we take a few excerpts from Swami Vivekananda's "The Methods and the Means (for practicing Bhakti Yoga)" from ...
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Season 8
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Episode 63
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1:20:06
Goddess Mantras for Protection
This is perhaps the most new-agey title we've ever given for any of our videos but bear with me! It's appropriate, I promise! In this lecture, we explore the exciting world of Kavaca (spiritual armor), devices or mantras which serv...
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Season 8
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Episode 62
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1:14:10
The 15 Kālīs | & How To Worship Them
In the Tantrik worship of Mā Kālī, after She is worshipped, we then worship Her āvarana devatās, attendant/auxiliary deities which can be each of them conceived of as emanations of Her Being. Among these emanations are the 15 yogin...
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Season 8
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Episode 61
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1:44:04
Swami Vivekananda's 9/11 Message
As is our tradition in this community, to commemorate today's auspicious anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's 1893 address at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, I make a few comments about why this is such a special moment before readi...
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Season 8
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Episode 60
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30:30
What Are The Different Forms of Kālī? | & How Can I Worship Them?
Unity delights in diversity! While there is only One Reality, called Kālī, She plays in a myriad ways, appearing in a dazzling display of forms! Taking the 10 mahāvidyās for example, the 10 aspects of Kālī, they each of them have their own vigr...
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Season 8
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Episode 59
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2:03:53
The Tantrik Gaṇeśa
On Gaṇeśa Chathurthi, the auspicious day when we worship Gaṇeśa, the elephant headed God who is so beloved by one and one, we gave a talk on the "Tantrik Gaṇeśa", that is to say, on the more esoteric dimensions of the veneration of this Lord of...
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Season 8
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Episode 59
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1:30:48
The Secret Worship of Mā Kālī
This talk was given on the sacred 8th day of the waning moon that just went by, which as you know, is not only Kālī Jayanti but also Krishnajanmasthami, the birthday of Kali-Krishna. And I am releasing this midnight on a new moon on Tuesday, th...
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Season 8
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Episode 58
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2:35:28
Staying Safe with Kundalinī
Kundalinī is real (and very powerful)! In this brief talk, we sketch out a few of the basic ideas regarding the experience of Kundalinī śakti in the context of spiritual life and then go on to suggest 4 or 5 different ways to practice safely to...
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Season 8
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Episode 57
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22:18
What Are Chakras?
In this lecture, we are going into the Tantrik subtle body with even finer brushstrokes following our last discussion on the subject, "The Tantrik Body" which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/-rsfpR2SY9c?si=wJl7KFbwa1L-4td_...
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Season 8
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Episode 56
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1:51:02
Is Artificial Intelligence Conscious?
Many people are concerned that AI is at present Conscious or will become Conscious at some point. And if so, will they turn then on their human overlords? Or worse, they might remain calm and continue to be helpful at which point we would have ...
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Season 8
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Episode 55
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1:33:42
Tantra vs Hatha Yoga vs Modern Postural Yoga
As we study the Paramārthsāra of Abhinava Gupta, a wonderful introductory work on the foundational metaphysics of the Svatantrya Vada (Kashmir Shaivai) system, I felt it would be good to ground ourselves in the other schools of Indian philosoph...
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Season 8
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Episode 54
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1:34:26