127 – In the garden of our heart and mind

Posted on 4. January 2022 by Dr. Nalini

When you are asked to close your eyes and visualize a garden. What do you see? Pause and enjoy what you see. Is it dusk or dawn? Are you in summer or winter? Are the birds singing and is the fragrance of the flowers everywhere. Is it a winter garden? Is it covered in snow and the purity of the snow is blinding? Is there a pond there? Does it have fish, ducks, or swans? What is the light like? What is the colour of the sky? Or are you in a desert and there is sand everywhere? Or is it a place where everything is dead and barren? What is the state of your mind? Continue reading →

081 – Burn Out

Posted on 15. November 2021 by Dr. Nalini

Burn out is a word used by all of us. Many of us have been burnt out. It is a very frightening word as burnt down means destroyed, wrecked. It is used much more now than in the 20th century. Have we paused to consider why this is happening to us, and why we are not able to prevent it? Is it not our thoughts which have occupied the centre stage of our mind? Our fears, anxieties, frustrations, and miseries have become the actors. They are getting better and better and are ready for an Oscar. The question is what can we do? How should we recognize them and be rid of them? Continue reading →

076 – Ajapa Japa

Posted on 10. November 2021 by Dr. Nalini

Ajapa Japa is chanting from the heart. It is the spontaneous repetition of the Mantra Soham for developing awareness of the psychic breath in the psychic passages of the body. The meaning of psychic is spiritual in the Yogic sense and Ajapa Japa sadhana enables the flow of prana. Continue reading →

069 – How do we purify our mind

Posted on 3. November 2021 by Dr. Nalini

Swami Sivanananda said that by helping others we are cleansing our mind. When we give money to charity, it is used for medicines, food, clothes, education and whatever else is necessary. If we give something to someone, we are purifying our mind. Continue reading →

068 – Observation, kindness, and concern

Posted on 2. November 2021 by Dr. Nalini

Observation, kindness, and concern are words. They are used freely and frankly. How many of us understand those words and apply them. Look around you and you will see many acts taking place. Do they register or are you so lost in yourself that you ignore everything? Continue reading →

056 – How do you control your Awareness

Posted on 21. October 2021 by Dr. Nalini

In all yogic practices you are asked to become aware and at the same time you also have to control your awareness. How is this done. Your goal is to quieten your mind and see a blank screen. You are to distance yourself from your impressions. When you stand in front of a person you are using your ocular awareness and your eyes are looking and it is registering in your mind. You close your eyes and you still see that person. Continue reading →

054 – What do we see, with our eyes open

Posted on 19. October 2021 by Dr. Nalini

We step out and what do we see. Do we see the green of the trees, and the birds twittering about. Do we see how much dust covers the leaves. Thoughts go through our mind, it is so dusty. And the crows are making a racket, I wish they would shut up. I am giving small examples from day to day living. Continue reading →

015 – Story from the Guru

Posted on 2. September 2021 by Dr. Nalini

Thursday is considered the Guru’s day. I want to share a story with you, which my Guru shared with his disciples.

It was a stormy night. There was thunder and lightning. A sannyasin was walking with a lantern. It was a road in the hills. When a motorcyclist whizzed past him. He had no lights. The Sannyasin called out, “Hey, take my lantern. The roads are slippery.” Continue reading →

014 – Gunas the power of the universe

Posted on 1. September 2021 by Dr. Nalini

How can we commune with the powers of the universe. We live in a cosmos which is permeated by powerful sources.There are deities everywhere, whether they are in the clouds, forests, waterfalls, mountains, planets, sand or an atom. We have to connect our heart with them and we will feel their presence. We are part of the divinities as these are aspects of our deeper self. We are comprised of three gunas, Tamas, Rajas and Sattwa. They are our basic energies and their complex interactions create the physical universe. Continue reading →

James Swartz – Love, Existence and Scripture – Talk 2

Posted on 11. February 2021 by nadarupa

Meditation on the silence. It is impossible not to love. You are
Love: Sat Chid Ananda. Every action is motivated by love of
the self. What is existence? Scripture as the appropriate
means of knowledge. You are not a person. The person is an
object known to you. Three states. Experience of the self?
Everything you see reflects you. What are you doing to be
aware or to exist?

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003 – Awareness of the feelings

Posted on 20. January 2019 by Dr. Nalini

Awareness is when one is aware of the feelings and emotions of the other individual.One does not reflect one’s own feelings. It is not an easy path to follow and if we can start by being aware of our breath then we can become neutral in our responses.

002 – Enabling healing

Posted on 18. January 2019 by Dr. Nalini

Breathing is the path for awakening prana and enabling healing.The process of breathing through one nostril and breathing out through the other leads to awareness of the process and quietening of our thoughts.

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