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"How dare you think you are just a thought?" With this question, Ma Jaya shows how us to develop awareness of our passing thoughts, how to stop them for a moment, and how to feel who we truly are. (6 minutes)
Showing posts with label author: Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. Show all posts
Showing posts with label author: Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Thought and Karma
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In an informal session with her students, Ma Jaya reads and responds to a question on the relationship between thoughts and karma. (6 minutes)
The breath
© 2008 Kashi Ashram * kashi.org
Ma often begins guided meditations with instructions for becoming more aware of the breath. This short podcast begins with her instruction “close your eyes.” We suggest you use it as a tool to begin your own meditation. (2 minutes)
The death of the ego
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This podcast is a selection from an intensive called “Stepping into the Death of the Ego,” in which Ma Jaya asks us to burn our limiting ego in the fire of awareness. (7 minutes)
Inner yoga
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Speaking to Kali Natha Yoga students and teachers, Ma explains that yoga creates more space in the body, especially the heart center. Into this space comes sound, in the form of mantra or chanting, bringing even greater opening. Ma also demonstrates the "Breath of Intention," a combination of chanting and breath which can bring us closer to our spiritual Beloved. This podcast offers insight for the practitioners of any yoga, or the devotees of any path. (9 Minutes)
The Mother's Gift
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Ma gives us a very simple formula for receiving the blessings of the universe -- whether material or spiritual. (4 minutes)
The Feminine Warrior
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Ma Jaya answers women's questions about power and anger, the true meaning of shakti, and how to respond to sexist language in the scriptures of every religion. The questions were not recorded, but they are clear from the context. (6 minutes)
A moment of freedom
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A moment of freedom is a moment without thought or ego. Ma points out the many ways our thoughts can bind us, and invites us to taste freedom in meditation. (9 minutes)
Love, fear, power
Giving up negativity, opening to love
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Instead of denying negativity, or acting on it, we can offer it up to god or goddess, or to the essence of love. Giving up negativity and opening to love heals the wounded heart. (4 minutes)
7 Points of Kali Natha Alignment
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Before going into meditation, it is important to check our posture. This podcast leads us through the steps of aligning the body for meditation and becoming more aware -- a process Ma calls "The Seven Points of Kali Natha Alignment. " (6 minutes)
The higher and lower egos
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Ma explains the higher and lower ego, and speaks of the fears that we have in meditation, and our choice to go beyond them. This podcast can lead you into meditation. (6 minutes)
The way of detachment
© 2008 Kashi Ashram * kashi.org
Ma explains the way of detachment, or the Chidakash. This teaching, which Ma learned from her teacher Swami Nityananda, allows us to work with the sick and dying from a place of clarity and detachment. (3 minutes)
A Way Out of Addictions
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This is Ma's introduction to a guided meditation and pranayam which can help us break our addictions. The full tape will be available soon, but this brief excerpt can lead you into the silence of meditation. (4 minutes)
What is the soul?
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Ma speaks with great sweetness and simplicity about that "piece of eternity that ties us all together...." (3 minutes)
Ma Jaya on Discipline & Procrastination
Ma Jaya on Kali Natha Meditation
Shakti and the Soul
Ma Jaya on Transcending Depression
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