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The Ashram Mt Eliza

Locality: Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9775 2568

Address: 27 Tower Road 3930 Mount Eliza, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.satsanglive.com.au

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25.01.2022 This year the annual New Year's Eve yagna (Vedic fire ceremony) will be streamed live online, and available for all to watch. Streaming from 6:30pm AEDT on Thursday the 31st of December, you can watch right here on our Facebook page, or on our Satsang Live streaming website. No bookings or registration required. We invite everyone to join us in saying mantras and bringing in the new year. ... #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #yogamelbourne #swamishankarananda #ashram #theashram #sadhana #yogi #yogini #agni #mounteliza #morningtonpeninsula #yagna #muktananda #swamimuktananda #guru #shakti #shaktipat #kashmirshaivism #tantra #nondual #advaita #vedanta #advaitavedanta #bhakti #jnana #mantra #agnihotra #fireceremony See more

25.01.2022 How close do you feel to the spiritual dimension of life right now? What is standing in the way? The Sunday online mini-Intensive is dedicated to Shaktipat awakening, which helps to dissolve the veil between the mundane and the Divine. You can join us for the mini-Intensive alone or the entire retreat. Contact us for information. ... #kundalini #shakti #shaktipat #babamuktananda #swamimuktananda #kashmirshaivism #tantra #sadhana #goddess #bhakti #worship #jnana #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #ganeshpuri #india #mystic #babamuktananda #ashram #theashram #meditateeveryday #yoga #disciple #mundane #onlineretreat #meditationretreat #satsang #spirituality See more

25.01.2022 In a lineage that is authentic, the cosmic energy flows continuously from master to disciple, generation after generation, from the very beginning of the tradition to the present time. - Baba Muktananda

24.01.2022 Swamiji will be sharing this awakening from 10am at the online mini-Intensive, dedicated to Shaktipat. The online Intensive includes Swamiji's key talk, in which he will be sharing the powerful and little known meditation techniques of Bhagavan Nityananda. It also includes a question and answer session, where Swamiji will answer questions submitted by seekers around the world. You can still sign up and join us for the Intensive. Visit our website satsang...live.com.au or contact us to register. #kundalini #shakti #shaktipat #babamuktananda #swamimuktananda #kashmirshaivism #tantra #sadhana #mantra #japa #bhakti #puja #worship #jnana #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #ganeshpuri #india #mystic #ashram #theashram #meditateeveryday #yoga #bhagwannityananda #swamishankarananda #Intensive #meditationintensive #morningtonpeninsula #mounteliza #awakening See more

23.01.2022 Golden Jubilee Summer Retreat: Celebrating Swami Shankarananda's 50 year anniversary of discipleship with his Guru, Baba Muktananda. This online retreat running from Saturday January 9th - Sunday 17th 2021 will feature Shakti-filled daily livestreams of the retreat programs. It will feature talks and workshops from a variety of ashram teachers, including Devi Ma, on the topics of Kashmir Shaivism, Self-inquiry, and the Guru-disciple relationship. Swamiji's... evening programs each night will share the atmosphere of the Divine, culminating with the Sunday mini-Intensive dedicated to Shaktipat. To learn more about the retreat and register, please visit satsanglive.com.au or the link in our bio. #ganeshpuridays #swamishankarananda #ganeshpuri #author #ashram #theashram #babamuktananda #swamimuktananda #shakti #shaktipat #sadhana #kundalini #guru #disciple #tantra #india #meditationretreat #memoir #retreat #spirituality #consciousness #melbourneauthor #australianauthor #jnana #bhakti #mantra #kashmirshaivism #nondual #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne See more

23.01.2022 Question: Why is it that one day I am happy and the next depressed? Swamiji: It is the nature of the mind to fluctuate. It is unstable. It takes the form of innumerable thoughts minute by minute. It is not surprising that it moves from mood to mood. Underlying these differing moods are unformed thoughts. These thoughts are so subtle we can call them unconscious. If you bring them to consciousness by means of Self-inquiry, your mind will become more stable. ...To make the mind steady it has to become established in the Awakened Self. Do not recoil from less than ideal states of mind. You can regard negative states as an opportunity to study that particular state. For example, if you feel depressed say to yourself: Ah, now I have an opportunity to study depression from inside. How intriguing! The more intimately you know and understand the various mind states you experience, the more wisdom you will have, and the greater will be your capacity to shift out of them. #happyfornogoodreason #swamishankarananda #meditation #meditate #selfinquiry #guidedmeditation #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #freemeditation #sadhana #yoga #yogi #meditateeveryday #mounteliza #happy #themind #Mindfulness #mantra #japa #omnamahshivaya #mentalhealth #emotions #kashmirshaivism #learntomeditate #meditateonline #yogaphilosophy #jnana #dharana #ashram See more

23.01.2022 Did you know that you can listen to Swamiji's satsang talk as a free podcast each week? Just search for 'Swami Shankarananda' on your favourite podcast app, and happy listening! ... #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #yogamelbourne #swamishankarananda #ashram #theashram #sadhana #yogi #yogini #yogisofinstagram #mounteliza #morningtonpeninsula #ganeshpuri #muktananda #swamimuktananda #guru #shakti #shaktipat #kashmirshaivism #tantra #nondual #advaita #vedanta #advaitavedanta #podcast #jnana #mantra #shiva #yogapodcast See more

22.01.2022 Thank you to all the devotees who generously contributed to my birthday gift. Love dmaThank you to all the devotees who generously contributed to my birthday gift. Love dma

22.01.2022 Healing mantras for the world

22.01.2022 How did you move closer to your inner Self today? A moment of awareness, the breath, repeating the mantra? And what did it feel like?Share your practice in the comments

22.01.2022 Do you feel connected to the force of Grace in the universe?

21.01.2022 Healing mantras for the world

21.01.2022 Take a look at this satsang video of Swamiji sharing some of Suzuki Roshi's teachings, a Zen master. What's your favourite takeaway from this video? Let us know in the comments! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D2INyK9dUg&t=43s

19.01.2022 This weeks Siddha Path Blog post is from Ambika, sharing an astrological article about this past year. Ambika has been a long time devotee, and she initially learnt astrology from Swamiji's late ex-wife, Girija. Take a read and let us know your questions and thoughts in the comments! https://www.siddhapathblog.com/why-look-at-astrology-by-am/

19.01.2022 'Strike the Match, Light the Fire' online meditation retreat starts TONIGHT! Join Swamiji from 7:30pm AEDT on satsanglive.com.au for the opening program of the retreat. DM us if you have any questions.... #nityananda #bhagwannityananda #bhagavannityananda #ganeshpuri #swamishankarananda #swamimuktananda #babamuktananda #ashram #theashram #india #saint #sage #mystic #guru #disciple #yoga #yogi #kashmirshaivism #shaktipat #shakti #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #consciousness #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #meditationretreat #meditateeverday #sadhana #shiva #mantra See more

17.01.2022 Kabir wrote, karo satsang gurudeva se, "Keep the company of the Guru." God becomes one with a person who has drunk the nectar of satsang, who has great love for satsang, and who through satsang has attained the kingdom of the supreme state of liberation. There may be many great sadhanas for attaining God, but satsang is the most sublime. It bears fruit instantly; in fact, all sadhanas bear fruit because of it. Through satsang one's desires are fulfilled; ...one learns to meditate ceaselessly on the supreme Self and then does not have to do any other sadhana. Knowers of the Truth, great yogis, and enlightened beings with equal vision have satsang and become serene. - Baba Muktananda Join us tonight, and every Saturday night at 7:15pm AEDT for satsang with Guruji, Devi Ma, and the global ashram community. Tune in at www.satsanglive.com.au #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #yogamelbourne #swamishankarananda #ashram #theashram #sadhana #yogi #yogini #yogisofinstagram #mounteliza #morningtonpeninsula #ganeshpuri #muktananda #swamimuktananda #guru #shakti #shaktipat #kashmirshaivism #tantra #nondual #advaita #vedanta #advaitavedanta #bhakti #jnana #mantra #shiva #devotee See more

17.01.2022 Shiva Process Self-inquiry is the practical application of the philosophy and practice of Kashmir Shaivism, as developed by Swami Shankarananda. When you do Shiva Process you bring the principles of Kashmir Shaivism into your life as a living reality. Wednesdays are the night where we practice Shiva Process Self-inquiry, a from of meditation used to dissolve blocks in the inner (and outer) world. Whilst the ashramites (students currently living in @the.ashram) continue to practice each Wednesday night, you can do your own practice with one of our facilitators online. Message us for details.

17.01.2022 Wondering what the online retreat program looks like? Here's an *example* schedule of the order of programs starting from this Thursday night. Thursday 26th - Opening program with Swamiji / 7:30pm AEDT ... Friday 27th - Abhishek (ritual bathing, dressing and worship) of Nityananda murti / 7am - Morning meditation / 7:30am - Self-inquiry workshop with Devi Ma / 11:30am - Hatha yoga class / 3pm - Program with Swamiji and Devi Ma / 7:30pm Saturday 28th - Abhishek (ritual bathing, dressing and worship) of Nityananda murti / 7am - Morning meditation / 7:30am - Self-inquiry workshop with Devi Ma / 11:30am - Kirtan chanting workshop / 3pm - Satsang with Swamiji Sunday 29th - Half day Mini-Intensive dedicated to Shaktipat / 10am All programs streamed live, and available for on-demand replay, so you can watch on your time. You can register for the retreat on our satsang live website, link in bio. See more

16.01.2022 One of the highlights from our yearly retreats are Devi Ma's morning programs. Devi Ma was trained in Gestalt therapy, and combined with her years as a disciple and working by Guruji's side to develop the Shiva Process Self-inquiry technique, these morning programs with Devi Ma are often a doorway to deep self-revelation and transformation. You can catch Devi Ma's second workshop this morning streaming live from 11am. Watch it live or on-demand, and enjoy t...his opportunity for sadhana, spiritual practice. #swamishankarananda #devima #selfinquiry #selfenquiry #astatement #present #feeling #emotion #thoughts #shivaprocess #meditation #meditate #awareness #mindfulness #consciousness #atmavichara #ramanamaharshi #sadhana #shaivism #kashmirshaivism #spirituality #meditateeveryday #selfawareness #selfwork #accountability #yogaphilosophy #dharana #shakti #shaktipat #themind See more

16.01.2022 The Siddha Path Blog is now live! Click the link below and read Devi Ma's official welcome letter, as well as the first article from Lilavati, a long time disciple of Swamiji's and devotee. Tell us what you think in the comments below and share this post with your friends! https://www.siddhapathblog.com/

16.01.2022 The Golden Eleven yoga workshop series continues tonight with Nataraj Chaitanya, exploring Swamijis series of postures for daily practice. Each session includes an element of theory and a pose lab, allowing discussion and exploration of each asana. This course is still available! You can watch the last two weeks on-demand and continue live for the final three. Contact us to join.

15.01.2022 'We can make spiritual progress anytime we decide to, whenever we open to it.' ~ Swami Shankarananda In this video of satsang, Swamiji shares his insights into the Guru-disciple relationship. He speaks about 'disciple's grace', and the importance of having an open attitude. Join Swamiji this Sunday for a mini-Intensive on The Supreme Shakti. This program is an opportunity to deepen your connection to the inner Self with guidance and support of experienced teachers. Visit www.satsanglive.com.au to learn more

15.01.2022 Healing mantras for the world

15.01.2022 An online meditation retreat? Live-stream yagna? Tell us what you want to see from The Ashram online by filling out this survey! - https://mailchi.mp/3a7b7229c999/online-programs-survey

13.01.2022 Happy Birthday Devi Ma! Today we celebrate Devi Mas birthday, and also tomorrow night at satsang with Swamiji. You are all invited to join us in honouring the spiritual mother of our community. Devi Mas unconditional love and compassion has helped to uplift and transform hundreds of peoples lives for many years. We love you Devi Ma!

13.01.2022 @the.ashram schedule this week: Study group with Swamiji at 7:30pm Tuesday Online retreat begins on Thursday at 7:30pm AEDT Retreat programs running all throughout the day on Friday, and Saturday... Satsang on Saturday night 7:15pm AEDT Mini-Intensive on Sunday 10am AEDT You can still join us for the entire retreat, or the mini-Intensive alone. Message us for information or visit our website (link in bio). #nityananda #bhagwannityananda #bhagavannityananda #ganeshpuri #swamishankarananda #swamimuktananda #babamuktananda #ashram #theashram #india #saint #sage #mystic #guru #disciple #yoga #yogi #kashmirshaivism #shaktipat #shakti #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #consciousness #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #meditationretreat #meditateeverday #sadhana #shiva #mantra See more

12.01.2022 For only $24.95aud per week, you can join the Ashram Online weekly membership. This gives you access to over 100 hours of on-demand video content including: Kashmir Shaivism Study Group reading through Swamijis book Consciousness is Everything, satsang, meditations, chanting & yoga! Not only that but you can join our vibrant and loving global community who have committed to their own sadhana (spiritual practice) during this difficult year. Enter the mystery school and dive into your inner world

12.01.2022 Join us in chants to Lakshmi followed by the r Mahlakmyaaka Stotram namaste’stu mahmye r-phe sura-pjite akha-cakra-gad-haste... mahlakm namo ’stu te namaste garurhe klsura-bhayakari sarva-ppa-hare devi mahlakm namo ’stu te sarvajñe sarva-varade sarva-dua-bhayakari sarva-dukha-hare devi mahlakm namo ’stu te siddhi-buddhi-prade devi bhukti-mukti-pradyini | mantra-mrte sad devi mahlakm namo ’stu te dyanta-rahite devi dyaakti mahevari ygaj yga-sambhte mahlakm nam ’stu te sthla-skma-mahraudre mahakti mahdare mah-ppa-hare devi mahlakm nam ’stu te padmsana-sthite devi parabrahma-svarpii parame jagan-mtar mahlakm nam ’stute vetmbara-dhare devi nnlakra-bhite jagat-sthite jagan-mtar mahlakm nam ’stu te mahlakmyaaka sttra ya pahed bhaktimn nara sarva-siddhim avpnti rjya prpnti sarvad eka-kle pahen nitya mah-ppa-vinana | dvi-kla ya pahen nitya dhana-dhnya-samanvita tri-kla ya pahen nitya mahatru-vinana | mahlakmr bhaven nitya prasann varad ubh mahlakm nam ’stu te sadgurunth mahrj k jay!

11.01.2022 The comprehensive Shaivite meditation is to find the bliss of the world. The world is complex and hidden in it are kernels of light, of divinity. We can be like the crow and ignore what is joyous and find the negative. Or we can be like the swan. In India the swan symbolises discrimination. It is said that if you were to throw milk into a pond, the swan could find the milk and leave the water. It has the ability to extract what is truly valuable. ~ Swami Shankarananda

08.01.2022 Ashram online schedule: Facebook pujas 12:15pm AEST Tues-Fri on Facebook Live Sanjivani meditation Thursday night Devi Mas Birthday satsang Saturday night Special this week, official launch of The Ashrams new online blog, the Siddha Path... Visit www.satsanglive.com.au to trial the weekly membership

07.01.2022 Have you got some beautiful flowers to offer your sacred space this weekend? Tonight we are having satsang with Swamiji, which will lead us into the online meditation Intensive, The Supreme Shakti tomorrow morning. Its not too late to register for either of these programs. Visit our website (link in bio) to sign up! Testimonial from the last Intensive in July: Yes, I thought it felt like a "real" Intensive. I have taken many during the last 36 years. The effects started... earlier for me, as a physical Intensive usually does, with Vani Ma's MC talk at Saturday's satsang that was really moving. Though I couldn't bring myself to get up at 2 am (my time zone) for the Intensive's live transmission, I distinctly felt this special atmosphere with a kind of warm energy flooding from the screen when I started to watch the replay 7 hours later. I think this new format is a fantastic one, please keep it! ... Swamiji just showered us with inspiring food for thought and practice... Also, Devi Ma's talk was a real pleasure to listen to, as always. And I always love Lila's MC talks. The meditations were enveloping. - C. Germany See more

07.01.2022 Bhagavan Nityananda, Swami Muktananda’s Guru, was born in South India. Little is known about his childhood and upbringing. His mother was a serving woman who worked for the lawyer, Ishwar Iyer. The latter became very attached to the young Nityananda (then called Ramana) and raised him with love. Ramana left home at an early age to search for God-realisation. After some years he returned to his village. Now his yogic attainment was palpable. There are many m...iracle stories from these years, many reported healings and displays of occult powers. He gained a reputation in South India as an adept yogi and holy man. After extensive wandering, Nityananda came to the Western state of Maharashtra. The area where he stayed was a sacred place, but a wilderness. He eventually settled near some hot springs and an ancient Shiva temple about 50 miles from Mumbai. The town of Ganeshpuri sprang up around him as the focal point. Over time his reputation as a great seer with the ability to awaken the Consciousness of seekers spread. Today, he is recognised as a true avadhuta, an exalted being reminiscent of the great Vedic seers. He and two other great modern yogis, Akkalkot Swami (Swami Samartha) and Sai Baba of Shirdi, are often mentioned as three of the most extraordinary and mysterious Siddhas (perfected masters) of recent years. There is no real biography of Bhagavan Nityananda. Instead, his life history is like Puranic myth. He seems more in touch with the impersonal than with personhood. Nonetheless, there is no denying the immense impact he has had on thousands of people. You can connect with the great well-spring of Nityananda's shakti this week in our online retreat, honouring his birth. Message us to register and learn more. See more

07.01.2022 If we would stop running, and sit down quietly and meditate, the reason for our running would be fulfilled, our suffering and despair would go, and we would find inside a divine peace, so that whatever condition we were in there would be no decrease in its intoxication. - Baba Muktananda

07.01.2022 A throwback photo from the 90s of a Christmas satsang program with Swamiji and Devi Ma. Join them tonight for satsang, and celebrate the divine during the Christmas and Holiday season. You can watch live from 7:15pm AEDT or watch the replay on-demand. ... #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #yogamelbourne #swamishankarananda #ashram #theashram #sadhana #yogi #yogini #yogisofinstagram #mounteliza #morningtonpeninsula #ganeshpuri #muktananda #swamimuktananda #guru #shakti #shaktipat #kashmirshaivism #tantra #nondual #advaita #vedanta #advaitavedanta #bhakti #jnana #mantra #shiva #devotee See more

06.01.2022 So, have you heard the rumour? Were launching a new blog website this week! The Siddha Path Blog will feature weekly articles and shares from seekers and devotees in @the.ashram community on all things sadhana, including: Shiva Process Self-inquiry, Kundalini awakening, meditation and insights into the Guru-disciple relationship. Stay tuned for our first post this week!

05.01.2022 'A yogi has to always attend to his feeling state. He has to be alert to the downward shift of feeling and look for upward shifts. From a certain perspective, yoga is simply the skill of remaining in a state of peace, love, joy and contentment. Bhavana rakho can also be translated as ‘maintain the [good] feeling’. To reduce the yoga of feeling to its essentials: when you are in a good state you have to ‘maintain the feeling’; when you are in a bad state you have to ...uplift the feeling. Bhavana rakho reminds us to address both these possibilities. It is Bhagavan Nityananda shorthand. This phrase speaks to me like no other. Bhavana rakho sums up the yoga we practised with Baba. The ashram was a psychic pool seething with Shakti, tests, and pitfalls. Our job was to follow the schedule and also to ‘keep the feeling’. The practices were designed to burn out the tendencies that took us away from our centre. Sri Aurobindo used to make the same point. He said the first job of a seeker was to stay in a calm and peaceful state. Only then, he would say, could the Force work on one. Aurobindo’s Force, of course, was the same as Baba’s Shakti, and while we had to be very active in expelling our negative tendencies, we had to be passively receptive to that higher power. Sometimes we feel that the universe is set up against us: to deny us what we want. Perhaps it is set up perfectly for us in a different way to teach us what we need to learn. Bhavana rakho says that it’s not about getting what we want, it is about being peaceful no matter what happens.' - Swami Shankarananda, Ganeshpuri Days: Memoirs of a Western Yogi Join Swamiji for his New Year's Message satsang online on Saturday, January 9th. This satsang will also be the opening of The Golden Jubilee Summer Retreat. Click the link in our bio to register! See more

05.01.2022 My first glimpse of Baba was in a large tent pitched on a devotees property on Suneri Bagh Road in Delhi. He reclined on a low throne. Hundreds of people sat around him. He seemed powerful and self- contained, receiving garlands in a detached way. Surprisingly, a considerable number of military people in uniform were sitting in the posture of devotees. In America the gulf between an army officer and spirituality was immense. Somehow, in India, the two could coexist. I was ...riveted by Baba, taken by the way his hands and feet moved and the sudden way he sometimes changed position. When he sat in an asana he seemed the perfect yogi. When he autographed a book or photo he wrote in a peculiar way, from the elbow, with no wasted pressure, effortlessly. He lounged on his seat and every muscle was relaxed. ~ Swami Shankarananda, Ganeshpuri Days: Memoirs of a Western Yogi. Now available worldwide, link in bio. See more

04.01.2022 Our next article written by Yogi Sri is now live on the Siddha Path Blog! Be ready to get transported back to Ganeshpuri, India with a taste of the Ganeshpuri retreat experience. https://www.siddhapathblog.com/itll-all-be-ok-part-1-by-yo/

04.01.2022 'When Shri Guru sows the seed of shaktipat in the field of the heart, it sprouts into a plant, a tree, or a creeper and bears full fruit. The seed of the Guru's shakti enters one very subtly and, by awakening one's inner shakti, automatically gives rise to inner yoga. It does extensive work in one's body, reveals infinite miracles, and gives one a new life. Shaktipat is true life. It is rejuvenation.' Baba Muktananda The second evening program with Swam...iji is streaming live tonight from 7:30pm AEDT. You can still register for the retreat now and watch last night's program on-demand. What was your key takeaway from Swamiji's talk last night? #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #melbourneyoga #yogamelbourne #swamishankarananda #ashram #theashram #sadhana #yogi #yogini #yogisofinstagram #mounteliza #morningtonpeninsula #ganeshpuri #muktananda #swamimuktananda #guru #shakti #shaktipat #kashmirshaivism #tantra #nondual #advaita #vedanta #advaitavedanta #bhakti #jnana #mantra #shiva #devotee See more

03.01.2022 Retreat starts TOMORROW! Book in now at www.satsanglive.com.au ... #nityananda #bhagwannityananda #bhagavannityananda #ganeshpuri #swamishankarananda #swamimuktananda #babamuktananda #ashram #theashram #india #saint #sage #mystic #guru #disciple #yoga #yogi #kashmirshaivism #shaktipat #shakti #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #consciousness #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #meditationretreat #meditateeverday #sadhana #shiva #mantra See more

03.01.2022 Ashram schedule this week: Announcing our new online meditation retreat - coming soon! Facebook Live pujas | 12:15pm AEST Tues-Fri New Siddha Path Blog posts and articles ... Streaming live + on-demand on the weekly membership: Non-dual Shaiva Tantra course with Swamiji reading Consciousness is Everything | Tuesday 7:30pm AEST Sanjivani mantra and meditation | Thursday 7:30pm AEST Satsang | Saturday 7:30pm AEST Guru Gita chant and meditate | Sunday 8:30am AEST and more!

03.01.2022 Explore the mysterious teachings of the great sage Bhagavan Nityananda at our upcoming retreat. Streaming live from Thursday November 26th to Sunday the 29th. Watch live or on-demand. Contact us for information. ... #nityananda #bhagwannityananda #bhagavannityananda #ganeshpuri #swamishankarananda #swamimuktananda #babamuktananda #ashram #theashram #india #saint #sage #mystic #guru #disciple #yoga #yogi #kashmirshaivism #shaktipat #shakti #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #consciousness #melbournemeditation #meditationmelbourne #meditationretreat #meditateeverday #sadhana #shiva #mantra See more

02.01.2022 Good morning and love from the ashramites (ashram residents)!

02.01.2022 Healing mantras for the world!

01.01.2022 Question: It seems to me that I have trust issues and that even if I heard the voice of the Self, I wouldn’t believe it. Do you have any suggestions? Swamiji: It’s not so much that you have trust issues as you have doubt issues. You have a habit of doubting everything and you need to see it and overcome it. The kind of trust I’m talking about is not the kind of trust we associate with blind faith. In that kind of trust, somebody says, ‘Trust me, it’s ...this way’; you say, ‘I don’t feel good about it’. What I’m talking about is trusting and going with the sense of harmony and peace that certain choices give you. If the Self tells you this is correct, trust that feeling or intuition. Then a voice arises and wonders if it’s wrong. That is just your habit of doubt. Get rid of it. Trusting the good inner feeling can lead you into unexpected territory. It can stretch you and help you grow. Paying attention to the voice of the Self, the upward shift of feeling, actually entails a new way of living, a new criterion of choice. It is a criterion beyond the mind. Here’s something you can trust: the Self is stronger than the mind. It might look as though your mind completely defeats you at every turn, but in fact it’s far too weak, flighty, indulgent, negative (add whatever adjective you like). Despite appearances, it’s an unequal struggle that the Self will win. I’ve been doing this for a long time and I don’t doubt this; I have seen so much improvement in so many people and dozens of extraordinary transformations. #swamishankarananda #selfinquiry #selfenquiry #astatement #present #feeling #emotion #thoughts #shivaprocess #meditation #meditate #awareness #mindfulness #consciousness #atmavichara #atma #ramanamaharshi #sadhana #shaivism #kashmirshaivism #spirituality #meditateeveryday #selfawareness #selfwork #accountability #yogaphilosophy #dharana #shakti #shaktipat #themind See more

01.01.2022 Q: What is grace? Swamiji: Grace is light. Grace is pure awareness. Grace is absolute upliftment, oneness, love and peace. Grace is the goal of yoga and it is what we look for in meditation. Kashmir Shaivism talks about the five processes of the Lord. The last two are concealment and grace. These two refer to two orders of reality or two worlds: the karmic world and the world of grace. The karmic world is the world of matter. It is mar...ked by cause and effect. Everything is limited and determined. There is no freedom at all. The world of grace is a world of pure Consciousness. Its laws are completely different from the karmic world. Here, the impossible becomes possible. Instead of causality and determinism, there is pure freedom, svatantrya. Freedom of will is a property of Consciousness, while determinism and mechanicalness are properties of matter. The higher you go, the closer to divine Consciousness, the more freedom you have. The lower down the chain, the more mechanical you are. Therefore, when a yogi is connected to the Self he has free will. But if he lets his samskaras run him then his free will is vitiated. ... Grace is another world living at the core of this world. It is invisible to the gross eye of materiality, but it is completely real. The world of grace is more real than the material world, though only those who are awake experience it. In truth, grace is the very underpinning of the whole universe. One who has had the experience of grace becomes intoxicated with God. I think of Coleridge’s lines in Kubla Khan, ‘Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise’. Of course, one who knows the world of grace can keep it together a little better than that fellow. But in essence, it’s a true picture. See more