You must meditate, my Baba always emphasized. And he gave a promise, that turning your attention inward will transform your mind. It becomes the light of Consciousness. What a difference? Instead of blocking your own inner light, your mind becomes radiant with…

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Every time I call him “Baba,” I am calling my Guru, “Dad.” We all called him by this respected and honored title, one spoken with great love and gratitude. He was not my biological father, but he birthed me into the greater reality, a gift my biological father could not give because he didn’t ha...

Desire blocks your bliss, yet you desire things that will give you bliss. How do you find your way out of this repetitive cycle? You need the help of one who has found the way. What does such a helper do for you? They open you to the bliss of your own being…

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Every action comes from a Divine source, an inner impulse that arises within. What is the impulse that makes you help another? You know the feeling. The impulse to act. That inner impulse underlies every action, including your words and thoughts. Meditation will make you better at living in cons...

In yoga, faith means you’ve tested the system and have to yourself that proven it works. Relying on this experiential knowledge, you can delve deeper, to discover where your own thoughts, words and actions come from. Finding the Divine Impulse arising within, you become free, yet live in the wor...

It’s like I lived in a cave all my life. I was born into the dark, grew up in the dark and moved into adulthood, all in the dark. Oh, there were little slits of light that shone through now and again. We could see – dimly. But my life before Baba was like I was a cave dweller. He took my hand ...

One who serves as Guru must have attained the inner state promised by yoga. Serene and compassionate, he moves through the world with his senses under control. He has conquered the six inner enemies. Beyond his own attainment, he must be able to give that state to others. That transmission is ca...

Seeing inward means you’re seeing into the inner infinity of your own Divinity. More spiritual practice on the outside opens up your ability to see more deeply inward. The Shiva Sutras promise that, after Shaktipat, you will have amazing and powerful inner experiences. You go through stages in yo...

Your inner experience changes once you’ve received the Guru’s gift, the gift of Self, your own Divine Essence. Until this inner awakening occurs, you’re only partially present to your own life. You receive this Divine Infusion through Shaktipat and keep expanding into it by using the mantra you r...

The technical term in Sanskrit for the revealing power is Guru. The Guru is not the person who is called Guru. “Guru” means the energy of revelation. The one through whom this energy flows is honored by the title Guru, naming the incredible gift they give by…

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Your physical body is merely the outer expression of deeper levels of your own being. When you meditate under the guidance of one who knows, you explore your subtle body, causal body and supracausal body. Amazing experiences blossom forth, the gift of the Great Masters…

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Today is the day when we honor mothers. On Mother’s Day, we also honor the Guru. Mother’s Day cards and AI texts speak so beautifully of a mother’s best qualities, which is today’s focus. But I have to say, every mother is a mixed bag…

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The energy of Consciousness is in the words you use – the words you use on others and the words you use on yourself. This is matrikaa, the power of words. Too often you use words to create your own bindings and pain. The mantra is words that will free you…

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Chanting is a profound practice, yet simple and easy to do. I call it a sublime sadhana – sadhana means spiritual practice and the process it fuels inside for you. When you are chanting, you are doing sadhana. This means you are doing a traditional yoga practice, plus it means you are going thro...

The texts explain the beneficial effects of studying with a Shaktipat Guru. What you get is God’s Grace, which flows through the Guru. This Divine Grace reveals your inherent Divinity to you – the greatest gift of all. It is the gift that your own Guru received from their Guru…

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God, Guru, and Self We see these three as separate and different: God, Guru and Self. Yet this is another way that the One manifests in a three-fold form. There is only one, being all three. Let's look at what the differences are. Where do you look for God? Out there, maybe even up there and f...

The Truth is that everything is a form of the formless, including you. So is everything you see and think of. When you give up your sense of separateness, you recognize the underlying essence of all. You become the One you have always been.

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I see you and you see me. From my point of view, I am the subject and you are the object. From your point of view, you are the subject and I am the object. In Sanskrit, you are grahaka - the perceiver, the object is grahya, and the process of perception is grahana. This is the three-fold natur...

You love to keep secrets and you love to tell secrets. Well, I’m going to tell a secret – Shiva’s secret. He’s hiding in plain sight – he’s being you, looking through your eyes, hearing through your ears, experiencing all that you experience – and you don’t know. It’s the mystical secret from be...

You are already Shiva, so just know - so many teachers tell you this. But if you don’t know how to just know, then you need some training and practices that will get you ready — to know and to be that which you already are. All the words, all the teachings, all the chanting, all the practices ar...

When your mind reflects the world to you, it is contracted. When you turn your mind toward Consciousness, your own innermost essence, your mind is transformed.

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Yoga honors Jesus as a great Guru, a mystic who raised his disciples up to his level. Jesus described himself as one with God. The yogic texts say that you can find in yourself what Jesus found in himself. This means you have to look inward to find God. But you need help with this…

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Though your own Self is eternally pure, it is weighted down by your karmas and impurities. Yogic practices free you from these, just like a goldsmith heats gold to burn away the other metals. In the Bhagavadgita, Krishna told Arjuna there are many paths to Self-Knowing, including…

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Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Eternal and Ecstatic – there is only One, which yoga calls Shiva. God by any name is still God. But there’s a special meaning to the name Shiva – for it means both formless and form. Shiva becomes the universe by moving, dancing, emanating forth in the form...

All your suffering comes from the mental torment that arises from your sense being separate – separate from God, separate from others, even separate from your own Self. Your mind suffers when it has a desire, even worse when it has two or three desires. The answer is to…

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Yoga gives you the knowing of your own inherent Divinity. Your inner light illumines your understanding of life itself. Yoga’s practices help you move towards the highest, the greatest, the ultimate attainment -- to live in the world while knowing your own Self and seeing the Self in all. This is...

In meditation, your breath changes. After Shaktipat, advanced levels of meditative absorption open up inside. In some of these deeper levels, your breath suspends in a natural and easy stillness, which stills your mind so you experience supreme tranquility…

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My mind is full of Shiva. Gloriously, wondrously, profoundly, blissfully, deeply, endlessly full of Shiva.
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Resting in your own Self, you experience the reality of this world as all made of God’s energy. Duality drops away and you see the universe as a form of the light of Consciousness, bliss-filled and…

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You are an individual form of Consciousness, with the whole of Consciousness intact within you. The One becomes many, so that each of the many can come to know their own Self as the One. When you know your own Self you can face reality as it is. In this being and seeing there’s no duality, there’...

You go beyond your mind to the greater reality within once you have received Shaktipat, the initiation that awakens the energy of Consciousness to arise within you. Your mind’s three states no longer trouble you. You experience the five sheaths, mayakoshas, as expressions of…

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Yoga takes you in a different direction than you’re used to going. You’re used to expanding outward. You probably love to expand. To get out there, to laugh, to dance, to gush and burble. Singing does it, too, which is why we chant. But chanting takes you inward. The yogic expansion is an inne...

We are used to looking “up there” for God, but yoga says God is found within. More importantly, God is not merely in you, but is being you. All-pervading means all around you as well as inside. By turning inward in meditation, you find your own Self and become grounded and free, courageous and co...

Your thoughts and feelings affect your pranic field, and your pranic field determines the condition of your physical body. Your mind is so powerful it can delude you for lifetimes. But it can also free you from delusion. As you delve inward, you discover that your mind comes from a more powerful ...

Yoga says your body is the outermost layer of your own individual presence here on earth. Your prana, or life force, makes your body be a living, breathing body. You are the One Divine Reality who has taken on a body in order to live in this world and have experiences. And there is more to you! ...

Arise and awake. The Kathopanishad tells us that most people are merely sleepwalking through life. Now is the time to awake! This Sanskrit text comes to us from 500 BCE, almost 3,000 years ago. And the problem hasn’t changed. Most people accept too little from life. And they give too little i...

Yoga says that your feeling of being separate, unique, and different is what causes all your pain. The power of Consciousness produces many forms, each one feeling separate from the One Formless Reality. But everything is made of the One Formless Reality. And that One Divine Reality is being you....

As an individual, you are a contracted form of Consciousness, so you don’t experience the fullness of your inherent bliss and Divinity all the time. At least not yet. You are already Shiva, but you don’t live in the Knowingness and Beingness that you are. Can you see your own light and feel your ...

Your own inner light is the light of Consciousness. The bliss of Consciousness is your birthright. You get to choose how to use the creative power of Consciousness. You can bring that light into every corner of your life.

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You already are perfection incarnate. The whole of Consciousness is within you. Your destiny is to live in the knowing of your own Divine perfection in every moment. The process of discovering your inherent perfection is one of expanding inward. Let yoga show you the way inside to who you really ...

What makes December such a wonderful time of the year? Most people are feeling more generous and are focused on making other people happy. Generosity makes the giver happier. Celebrate the light that is in everyone and make the world a better place. Live in the steady state of Self-Knowingness be...

December is a happy time of the year, but it would be nice if the rest of the year were happy too. If you meditate every day, your happiness level will go up. Stretch your happy time into the New Year and all the way into the rest of your life! – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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You yearn to see beyond the turbulence of your mind, you yearn to be authentically you. It is in your deeper dimensions that you find your own Beingness. When you know who you really are, you recognize that your own Self is the Self of all. Authenticity and wholeness are found in Self-Knowingness...

Everyone wants to be happy. Yoga describes happiness as the bliss of the Self arising to fill you. When you turn your attention inward, you discover the bliss that underlies the existence of everything. Live with the light of Consciousness filling you from within and take your bliss with you ever...

Hidden within every human being is the light of Consciousness. When you live in the ever-arising light of the Self, every moment of life is a moment of delight. Your own greatness is the greatness that shines through everyone, including the Guru. May your mind, like the full moon, always be full ...

Action is not a choice; it is inherent to you. But when you experience the Self, your actions are motivated by bliss. Weave more yoga into your days so you are always filled with the light of your own Being. Your words and actions will be more powerful. When your choices come from wholeness, Bein...

Whatever you want, I promise you that yoga and meditation will help. It’s very simple. I offer you this one thing, yoga and meditation, and you’ll get what you want. When different people want different things, I don’t have to change up what I offer. These practices give you an inner opening that...

We live in a cause-and-effect world. In Sanskrit this is called karma. The key to getting free from karmic repercussions is to do what you know is right without expectations. Shine the light of your own Being into all your worldly actions.

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You are made of Divine light, but how do you come to know? By the Grace of one who knows. That one is called “Guru.” The Divine energy of revelation is called Grace, for which the Sanskrit word is “Guru.” Through the Grace of a Satguru a person comes to know their own Self and is transformed. Wh...

You are worthy. You don’t have to earn your self worth. You don’t have to deserve love. You don’t have to win your place on earth. You are inherently worthwhile. Your life has meaning and purpose, even if you haven’t completed what you came here to do yet. Bring your essence into the world and ma...

What’s happening matters.  You care.  The problem with ignoring the news is that you’re avoiding caring. And when you shut down your caring, who loses the most?  You do.  You lose you.

When you honor your own Self, your own Divine Essence, you come from a different place inside. Empowered, you s...

If you want to call yourself a seeker you need to be putting effort into your seeking. Allow yourself to be saturated by the Guru’s flow of Divine Energy. Surrender to Grace. But even surrender takes self effort. Become anchored in your true nature. Are you paddling with the river of Grace or aga...

One who opens up the power of Consciousness to arise within you is the only one worthy of the title Guru. The Guru gives you the experiential knowing of your own Divine Essence. Honor the one who gives you your own Self. Bow to the Guru, again and again.

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What happens when you can’t have what you want? Look at the desire itself and see what’s prompting it. Peel through the layers described the yogic sage Patanjali:  Fear hides aversion. Aversion hides desire. Desire hides your small-s self. Your small-s self is hiding the not-knowing of your own D...

Your spiritual depth makes a difference in your experience of pain. Pain is part of life, though it is impermanent. Your ability to navigate life’s challenges with a calm and steady state comes from a deeper level. It is what you find inside, at a level beyond pain, that makes life worth living.
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When your mind experiences the Divine Consciousness that you are, the experience is one of bliss. This is the source of happiness, which arises from within. It arises from your own Self. Anchor all your outer interactions with your deepening inner knowing. Fill yourself with great Divinity. Apply...

Happiness is the thriving of the soul and doing what you were meant to do as a human. It is the mind’s experience of bliss. Your inherent nature is bliss. Happiness is a decision. It really is only about managing your mind. Turn your mind toward your Divine Essence, and you will find the bliss un...

If you didn’t get enlightened while the pandemic had you isolating, then isolation is not your path to enlightenment. What you do with your day matters. You must master both the worldly and the spiritual dimensions to become enlightened.  Let the Guru show you how to interweave both into a whole ...

Bliss is what fuels your life. Yoga has you find it on the inside.  While your mind alternates between waking, dreaming and deep sleep, there is a deeper dimension to you. Your own Beingness is always there in this deeper level. The goal is to live in the steady arising of the inner flow of bliss...

You are made of Divine bliss. Yoga focuses on your experience of the bliss that you already are.  Meditation carries you deeper and deeper within, where you find, not merely bliss, but the source of bliss. You find the source of life itself. The bliss is already within you, and always available. ...

Everyone wants to be happy. When you’re happy your mind is peaceful and friendly. You’re relaxed and helpful to others. Meditation moves your mind through a process of settling deeper and expanding within. This settling and inner expansion takes you to your own Self. Bliss and happiness arise fro...

Your innermost nature is simple, unpretentious, and noble. It’s your mind that complicates things. You can use your mind to support your upliftment. Cultivate noble thoughts, see the best in others, practice self restraint and relinquish negativity. Look from a deeper place within and see everyon...

The attainment of Self is a melting, a surrender into your own Divinity. When you know your own Self you’re coming from your Self all the time. Where are you coming from? Most people live their lives in a contracted form of Consciousness. Meditate, and experience your Self in the midst of life.  ...

Knowing and being your own Self is enlightenment. If you’re not enlightened yet, you keep getting lost in your outer experiences. But they don’t make you who you are. You are more, so much more. To know your own Self, you have to look within. If you’re not enlightened yet, what have you been focu...

In yoga the moonlight is very significant. It is likened to the Light of Consciousness filtered through your mind, like the moon reflects the light of the sun. The spiritual path is subtle and is most easily attained through the Guru. Keep the company of the Guru and bask in the glow, like moonli...

Everything is always perfect. Even when it doesn’t seem so, hindsight proves it to be true. True wisdom comes from the Self, your own Essence. Your Essence is perfection itself. The One Divine Reality is being you, being me, being all, and beyond all. When you see that everything is the One in a ...

You are a radiant, brilliant incarnation of Divine light, but your mind gets lost in worldly things. The light of Consciousness within you needs to be nurtured and brought forth. The Guru shows you the source of intelligence, creativity and insight that shines through everyone, including you. Tap...

When you do something out of the goodness of your heart, out of inherent kindness and in a spirit of generosity, it’s an illumined action. Draw from the light of Consciousness within and shine it into the world through your words and actions. Make every action an illumined action by turning it in...

It is your nature to shine, to be radiant, luminous, and brilliant. When you look inward you’ll find Divine Consciousness at your core. Recognize where all your great ideas come from. Clear your mind and empower your ability to look inward. When you find the Divine source of all your thoughts, wo...

You need one who has mastery over the Divine Energy that, once awakened, climbs your spine while opening and balancing your chakras. As the energy of enlightenment climbs your spine, Kundalini clears out the limitations that hold you back and empowers your full potential. Bow in gratitude to the ...

When you change the content of your mind it affects your body. By filling your mind and heart with Consciousness again and again you create an inner openness of Self-Knowingness that transcends the mind and heart. Whatever you are thinking, that is what you’re becoming. Work on the tendency of sa...

The One Divine Reality birthed the universe out of its own Beingness. You are a child of God, with the whole of God hidden within you. While your feet remain grounded on the earth, let the Guru guide you into the limitlessness of your own Divine Essence. The truth is that we are all children of G...

Honor the shakti, love the energy, for your own Self is made from the same Divine Energy. Self, Shakti, Guru, God -- are all the same energy, just seen from different perspectives. See and honor the Divine in everyone, everywhere. Honor and worship the Guru, the embodiment of Grace.

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Freedom from fear is one of the ways enlightenment is described. When you are Self-Realized you have no fear. You know your own Self is the One Divine Reality, beyond time and space, beyond individuality. Beyond need, greed, and fear. Freedom from fear comes when you know who you really are. - Gu...

The Self never dies. No matter where you find yourself, you are you. Before you were born you were you. After your body can no longer house you, you will still be you. The you that you are Yoga calls Self. Your own Self is the One Self that has always existed. You are Existence-Itself.

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Sometimes you get caught up in the drama of everyday life. You have two options. One is to be constrained by the not knowing of your own Self. The second option is to live in a state of freedom from desires. To shine with the light of Consciousness. You can focus on your limitations, or you can f...

The light of your own Being shines through your eyes, your mind, and your heart. Apply your mind to Divine thoughts and your mind will be uplifted by this endeavor. Find the deeper dimension that is the source of the light. Then your own light arises and fills you completely. And you shine your l...

Your own Self shines fully; it is sacred, holy, and pure. It’s only when you feel it inside that you know it to be true. Once you experience that God is being you, you know who you really are. It’s about you seeing yourself as Divine. Let the Guru’s grace help you see God within.

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Wherever you go and whatever you do, your essence is unchanged. The deeper dimensions of your own Being are hidden inside you. The whole point is to find what’s hidden, to find your own Self. When you know your own Self you live in a constant flow of Divine inspiration, love, joy, and creativity....

Yoga calls true knowledge the knowledge you get from the inside, deeper than your mind. It feeds your soul. From that inner spaciousness you understand everything. The knowing of Self frees you from the not knowingness. You have been and will always be the Self. You are the One Divine Reality man...

You are a multidimensional reality made of Consciousness manifesting as a separate and unique individual. The mind and body are both products of something deeper. What you need to work on is that deeper dimension. Align yourself with Consciousness. Discover that you are Consciousness and have al...

When you give, you open the door and light shines in. It’s only when you give of yourself that you truly receive. Giving changes the giver. All you have to do is get out of your own way. Grace will wash in and empty everything else out. Align yourself with the Guru’s generosity, and you will lear...

When you’re feeling empty, you’re not feeling the inherent fullness of your own Beingness. The fullness that is the inner experience of Consciousness is already within you. Saturate your mind with the bliss of Consciousness and your mind simply can’t hold on to the old limitations anymore. You ou...

When you experience your own Divine Essence there is an inner unfolding, a blossoming forth of Consciousness. It’s already there hidden within you. Bliss is not something you acquire, it is your true nature. All you have to do is dive inward. Then you learn to trickle Consciousness through your m...

You get lost out in the world – what you lose is your own Self. The way home is found within. With the Guru’s grace you come to know that which you’ve always been, your own Self. Grace shows you the way when you’re lost. Don’t let your life be ruled by your senses and your mind. When you know you...

Living with clarity and compassion gives you the ability to live with an open heart, while you let your intelligence lead the way. Meditation gives you access to the deeper dimension of your own being, which is where both clarity and compassion come from. You become a means by which God’s light s...

When you’re enlightened, the light of Consciousness shines through you. It is to attain that bliss and establish ourselves in it that we meditate. In meditation you go into the source of the bliss, into the Consciousness that is your own Beingness, your own Self. When you live in the light of you...

You can live life on an even keel by meditating and with the help of a Guru. You discover the tangible and vast reality within. When you live from this inner dimensionality, no matter what happens you sail right through it. Even through the storms you are supported by Grace and grounded in your o...

Shakti, or Ma, is the Divine Power that is the source of all life. She is the energy of inner awakening that is the mystical core of yoga. She coalesces into all of us forming objects, creatures, people. When you recognize that you are Consciousness-Itself, you embrace all that is within you. It’...

Yogis shine with the light of Consciousness. As a yogi, you can bring that light into your life and into the world. Live your life from an inner steadiness and with an evenness of mind. It’s all about your ability to take your own Self into your life with you. Bring your own Self with you everywh...

On New Year’s Day make a resolution to decide what direction you want to go. This is called being proactive. If you’re not getting what you want, you must put forth effort to change what you’ve got. You get to steer toward whatever destination you choose. The world around you will adapt to your n...