Listen to weekly satsang talks with Swami Shankarananda, recorded live at his Ashram in Mount Eliza, Australia.
Episodes
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Monday Sep 24, 2018
This week at Satsang Guruji spoke about Epictetus, a Greek Stoic philosopher from 120-180AD, and Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and philosopher. Guruji speaks about the similarities between Stoicism, yoga and Kashmir Shaivism. We hear thoughts on finding inner happiness and freedom regardless of external situations, learning to accept and let go of things that are not within our control, and how we do have power over own own thoughts and reactions.
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Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
This week at Satsang we celebrated our beloved Devi Ma's birthday. Per her birthday request, Guruji read from question and answers with his own Guru, Baba Muktananda from one of his world tours.
Guruji speaks about many enlightening topics for the spiritual seeker and meditator, including how to deal with other people's anger, dealing with the desire for material things, how to hold the space of the inner self, and finding your Guru.
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Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
Tuesday Sep 11, 2018
Listen to Swami Shankarananda's Satsang talk recorded live from Saturday, 8 September 2018.
This week at Satsang Guruji spoke about the Greek-Armenian mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, a spiritual teacher who lived from 1877-1949. Guruji speaks about Gurdjieff's ideas on spirituality and attaining higher states of consciousness, including 'the work' or spiritual practice (sadhana), self obsvervation and self remembering. We also hear a story with a teaching from Gurdjieff, written by Fritz Peters in his book 'Boyhood with Gurdjieff'.
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Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Listen to this weeks Satsang with Swami Shankarananda from Saturday, 1st September 2018. In this live recorded talk, Guruji talked about Lord Krishna's birthday, and also spoke on the teachings of one of the Great Beings, Sri Aurobindo. He covered topics including the awakening of the psychic being, the meaning of yoga, and discussed the different ranges of consciousness and human awareness, and more.
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Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Listen to Swami Shankarananda's Satsang talk recorded live from 25 August, 2018. In this weeks Satsang Guruji read from a transcript of his Guru, Baba Muktananda. In the transcript Baba told a story from the Mahabharata about Krishna, Arjuna and Duryodhana. Sit back and absorb the wisdom and Shakti of this powerful lineage through Guruji's light and uplifting talk on spirituality and meditation.
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Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
In this weeks Satsang with Swamiji, we celebrated the annual festival in honour of the Guru, or spiritual teacher. Guruji read from question and answers recorded with his own Guru, Baba Muktananda, from one of his world tours. He spoke about the relationship between the inner and outer Guru and about discipleship. Guruji also spoke about his time in the 70s in India and shared stories from his time with Krishna Das, the well-known kirtan artist, and his Guru Neem Karoli Baba.
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Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
In this weeks Satsang with Swamiji, we heard questions and answers, and stories from devotees who lived at the Ashram of the great 20th century sage, Sri Ramana Maharshi. Swami Shankarananda reads to us and comments on Ramana's answers, on topics such as seeings visions or lights in meditation, having conviction in the statement 'I am the Self', the mind and meditation, and finding the inner Self, the subject in your world, your very own awareness. Listen to this recording of Satsang as a meditation, hearing the wisdom and teachings of the great beings, guiding us and pointing toward our own inner divinity.
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Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
In this talk from Satsang with Swami Shankarananda, on Saturday July 14 2018, Guruji speaks about his teacher Baba Muktananda, whom he studied with in Ganeshpuri, India for three years in the 70s. Guruji was one of Baba Muktananda's prominent Western disciples, and Baba instructed him to hold Shaktipat Intensives and retreats, beginning in the United States in the 70s running the Ann Arbour Ashram. Since then, Guruji has been running retreats and Intensives and teaching meditation for over almost fifty years, and is now based in Mount Eliza, Melbourne, Australia.
In this talk, Guruji draws on his many years of experience and wisdom, and speaks on topics including consciousness and the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, meditation and spirituality, and reads from Question and Answers with Baba Muktananda. He speaks with lightness and humour, and eloquently guides us into a Shakti-filled perspective on ourselves and our own sadhana, or spiritual practice.
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Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
In this Satsang talk Swami Shankarananda speaks about the great Indian sage and yogi, Bhagavan Nityananda. Guruji discusses some of Bhagavan's aphorisms or sayings that were recorded by his devotees when he was alive between 1885-1961. In Bhagavan's usual style we are forced to use a different part of our brain and listening to feel the esesence of his teachings and the great Shakti, or spiritual energy behind them.
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Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Listen to Swami Shankarananda's Satsang talk from Saturday, June 30 2018. In this episode Guruji shares with us some question and answers with Nisargadatta Maharaj through the lens of Kashmir Shaivism. Filled with humour, lightness and spirit Guruji reminds us to ask ourselves honestly if we feel connected to spirit, to consciousness, the divine, to the Shakti, and to know it. If we don't feel connected, to know it.
Sit back, meditate and absorb these eloquent and insightful ideas on meditation and the spiritual path.
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