with Swami Nirmalananda and other speakers

Click links below to hear streaming audio of these various satsangs.

• Sri Ramakrishna as the Mother – How Sri Ramakrishna embodied the characteristics of the Divine Mother,and what those characteristics are. A talk given at the San Diego Vedanta Society.

• Commentary on the Yoga Sutras - The Beginning of the Beginning – Swami Nirmalananda speaks about what qualifications are necessary for the spiritual aspirant.

• The Power that IS the Throne: Sri Sarada Devi and the Virgin Mary – What are the qualities that the Virgin Mary and Holy Mother Sarada Devi had in common, and what are the implications for those who practice spiritual discipline? A talk given at the San Diego Vedanta Society.

• The Purification of the Yogi – How does the yogi purify himself, and what are the signs of that purification? (Swami Nirmalananda)

• The Necessity of Inner Spiritual Experience – In Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda writes about the supreme importance of coming to realization of inner spiritual realities rather than to be satisfied with mere theory. Swami Nirmalananda elaborates on this essential principle.

• The Necessity for Vegetarianism –What Swami Vivekananda says in Raja Yoga about the importance of purity in diet for the spiritual aspirant, and how vegetarianism plays such a vital role in the practice of meditation. A talk given at Atma Jyoti Ashram by Swami Nirmalananda.

• Prana, Breath, and Japa of Om – How the prana and breath are related, the regulating the breath (pranayama) and its role in meditation, and the implication for the use of the breath in japa and meditation. Given by Swami Nirmalananda at Atma Jyoti Ashram.

• Vivekananda’s Real Pranayama – A discussion on what Swami Vivekananda considered to be true pranayama, much beyond mere bodily breathing exercises. Given by Swami Nirmalananda at Atma Jyoti Ashram.

• Our Saradamani – Incidents from the life of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, and the spiritual characteristics they demonstrate, and how they should inspire our lives and actions. A talk given at the San Diego Vedanta Society by Swami Nirmalananda.

• Sri Ramakrishna as Seen Through the Eyes of “M” – Swami Satyananda explains how Mahendranath Gupta (or "M"), the author of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, saw his holy Master and embodied his teachings,transforming him into a divine man. Given at Vedanta Society in San Diego.

• The Maharshi Gita sung in english. – This is an arrangement of verses of the Bhagavad Gita made by Sri Ramana Maharshi that gives an overview of the essential message of the Gita. Arranged according to the meter of the original Sanskrit text and sung to a classical Gita melody used to chant the Gita every morning in our ashram and in most of the ashrams of India. Sung by the monks of Atma Jyoti Ashram.

• Karnatic singing by Jyoti Chalam

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