Archive Items
The Swami Maheshananda Archive is a growing collection of Swamiji’s talks, teachings and writings. Also contained here are recordings of mantras practised and taught by Swamiji and Angelika, along with images contributed by their students and friends.
We welcome new contributions: please see About This Site for information about how you can help grow the archive.
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Lecture 4/5. Netherlands, 2018.
This recording, explores how the “I”, or our Ego, can be our friend – for the “I” can help us find guidance from within. It also discusses the mind, its connection to our Ego, and how it can be a source of suffering or release.
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Lecture 3/5. Netherlands, 2018.
This lecture delves further into the Ego and how its main program is to create separation: it wants to be the best; the first; the most loved; and so automatically makes someone else not as good; second; and less loved. In doing this it keeps us separate from our-Self.
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Lecture 1/5. Netherlands, 2018.
The sessions presented in this series further develop themes discussed at a 2018 retreat, although they can be listened to as a stand alone series. Here Swamiji directly addresses what the ego is, how it appears in life, and how we can consciously engage with it to guide our growth and understanding.
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Lecture 2/5. Singapore, 2010.
The lecture develops the idea of bearable, tolerable and pleasurable from Lecture 1. And from there moves to talk about how, via the help of our Ego we develop our understanding of the world.
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Lecture 3/5. Singapore, 2010.
What is the importance of “the pause”? Whether it be an asana practice, the natural rhythm of our breath, or how we lead our daily life, pausing is an invitation…
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Lecture 4/5. Singapore, 2010.
The conversation in this lecture explores the idea of 3 connected words: Doing, Feeling and Becoming/Being.
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Lecture 5/5. Singapore, 2010.
This final lecture in the series ultimately asks us the question: “Are you willing to reflect upon your own actions?”
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Recitation: Samādhi Pāda of the Yoga Sūtras.
This recording was made in the Kuti where Swami Maheshananda was giving instruction on how to recite the first chapter of the Yoga Sūtras.
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Mantra: Shanti Mantra
Swami Maheshanandaji reciting the Shanti Mantra at the beginning of a lecture.
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Writings: Lifestyle
How do we match our values, to the values of society? Today, the standard of living and our quality of life is given great importance. While the inner condition of the mind becomes secondary. It has less, and less importance.