Manifest your Destiny: Pramod's Podcast

This exclusive excerpt from the most recent talk by Pramod includes: .Extending spontaneous feeling states of gratitude .How it feels to be in intimate contact with Source .Getting bored with peace and stillness? .Effective tools for slowing down thoughts .Experiencing the Gap through the right questions .Breathe deeper and slower using a pranayama technique and more … [Episode # 48; Running Time: 00:25:05; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art: Juliet's Balcony (for illustrative purposes); Music: Opening Track - Kisna instrumental by A. R. Rahman, End track - Full Sail by Ryan Farish from his album Beautiful; Episode Rights: Creative Commons Attribution]

Note: This meditation is excerpted from the CD, Ananda: Live in Bliss (Meditations for all Purposes). To own your copy of this CD as an addition to your personal library, click here. (The CD comes beautifully packaged in a jewel case and ships from Amazon.) This meditation is a collection of evocative affirmations adapted from a varied selection of sources, including Suzuki's lectures, Zen Buddhist texts, records of conversations with Sri. Nisargadatta Maharaj, philosophical tomes of Heraclitus, books on Advaita Vedanta (non-duality) and self-help classics. The profound words have been set to soul-stirring spiritual music which will elevate you to a sweet meditative state. Here are a few suggestions on how to make the fullest possible use of this meditation: a) Let the tape run softly in the background. Make no effort to focus on or understand the words in the affirmations. b) Simply trust that your subconscious / soul will grasp the truth to which the words point, without any effort on your part. c) Whenever there is a gap of silence, focus softly either on the music or on the silence between the musical notes. Just stay rested in the sacredness of the spaces. d) Alternatively, ponder on the meanings of the words. Most of the affirmations are simple yet powerfully positive statements. However, a few of them are like sutras in their brevity and depth. Some of them are related, some stand alone. May this tape become a portal to the deep peace and bliss that resides in your Self! [Episode # 43; Running Time: 00:09:00; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art: "I am Aware!", CC by Dregsplod; Music: CC by Paul Collier; Rights: Creative Commons Attribution]

More and more athletes, dancers, stunt directors and many others involved in careers which are very physical in nature, are turning to mind work. As they warm to the idea of looking within for solutions, they often wonder how much the Law applies to their sphere of activity, because of the delicious physicality of their work. If you are one of those, then this episode is for you. In this episode, Pramod says, “Don’t be so hard on yourself and don’t look at meditation as something special you have never done in your life, something for which you still need to learn much more. Don’t turn meditation into something too sublime, too important, too formal to be done frequently and naturally. If meditation is sublime and important, you are even more sublime and important.” [Episode # 41; Running Time: 00:11:04; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art: A football resting on green grass, with clouds as the backdrop; Music: CC by Helios Salah; Rights: Creative Commons Attribution]

Note: This meditation is included on the CD, Ananda: Live in Bliss (Meditations for all Purposes). To own your copy of this CD as an addition to your personal library, click here. (The CD comes beautifully packaged in a jewel case and ships from Amazon.) Here's the recording of the Live Meditation Event, with spiritual being Pramod, which was broadcast live from her residence in India on 21 Feb, 2010 (Sunday). Pramod occasionally leads such meditations and gives spiritual lectures at her home and we are happy to announce that we have started doing Live Broadcasts of these special events. To find out the schedule of the upcoming live meditations and lectures, check out the broadcast schedule page of Spirit Imprints Radio by clicking here. Note: The music segment at the beginning of the programme has been edited out for copyright reasons. [Episode # 39; Running Time: 00:24:25; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art Model: Yoga in Fitness Centre, Flickr CC; Music: Invocation to Lord Krishna by K. S. Chitra]

In this special message, Pramod says, “The general tendency is to talk about generating love inside, but I think it’s very important to remember that we are not generating love, but we are getting into the flow or stream of love that is all around us, that pervades not just our life space, but All-that-is. .... Just ask yourself these questions with me right now. Are you feeling lonely? Do you feel a lack of love in your life? If so, then the next question is, what is it that I’m doing to cut myself off from that flow of love that’s always there? What is it that I need to drop right now?” This brief talk will help you bring the love back into your life, in this season of love. [Episode # 38; Running Time: 00:10:40; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art: City of Romance, CC by Joe Shlabotnik; Music: Ambient Piano, Love Swash and Lifecycles, CC by Torley; Rights: Creative Commons Attribution]

Note: Parts of this episode are excerpted from the CD, Meditation 101: The What, Why & How of Meditation. To own your copy of this CD as an addition to your personal library, click here. In this talk, Pramod says, “Some, as they try to meditate, get very annoyed or frustrated when thoughts arise. Maybe they have an unrealistic goal that when they meditate there should be no thoughts at all. There is a Tibetan saying, “It’s a tall order to ask for meat without bones and tea without leaves.” As long as you have a mind, you will have thoughts and emotions. The thoughts are composed of the mind stuff itself, just as the waves of the sea come from the sea itself and go back into the sea. In the same way, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and the expression of the very nature of your mind. Accepting such a compassionate view of your thoughts and emotions is the easiest way to quiet your mind in meditation.” Note: This is the live recording of a talk which was delivered by Pramod in India. [Episode # 35; Running Time: 00:17:00; File Type: MP3 Audio, Digital Stereo; Content Rating: G* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art: Sunset over frozen Lake Nagog - the gorgeous, spacious sky reflected on the ice, (CC by Muffet); Music: Techno electronic oriental Indian sitar (CC by Djad); Rights: Creative Commons Attribution]

Immobilizing feelings such as extreme rage or depression are powerless by themselves. It is the identification with those feelings that is the real issue. We can always detach ourselves from our own feelings and thoughts, for we are not the thoughts but the Thinker of the thoughts. And this Thinker is divinity itself. This Thinker is always above the thoughts. Even if you feel the thoughts are impure, they just cannot make the Thinker impure. This Witness is pure love; It is a Compassionate Witness and It always observes the world from a standpoint of total non-judgmental love. When we become one with the Witness by going within, we remove ourselves from the material world where we have the pain and suffering. Cultivating the Witness is out ticket to absolute freedom. Go for it! [Duration: 00:14:52; File Type: MP3 Audio; Content Rating: General (G)* (*Suitable to listeners of all ages); Cover Art Model: Leandro Okabe; Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License]

There is nothing wrong with having desires. Our desires are an integral part of the very life force in us. Once we cease desiring we cease existing. Even the intention to have no desires is a desire. The key to the fulfillment of our deepest desires is joy. The secret is to be in a state of gratitude. To feel gratitude, you must stop depreciating and start appreciating. Appreciation is this wonderful warm experience of focusing only on that which gives us joy, on that which we want to see and have. [Duration: 00:18:31; File Type: MP3 Audio; Content Rating: General (G); Cover Art Model: Uday Kiran; Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License]

This powerful meditation combines hypnotic language patterns, positive subliminal affirmations, soothing sounds from nature, sacred Indian mantras and soft calming music. Think of that which you want to attract to yourself as you listen to this meditation. You can have what you want, whatever it may be. As you relax and do this meditation, you are contacting your sacred self. You are tapping out the creativity, the power that lies within your soul. There can be no better time to do imaging, to imagine the fulfillment of the deep desires of your heart. Remember, there are no limits; you can accomplish anything! [Duration: 00:19:11; File Type: MP3 Audio; Content Rating: General (G); Cover Art Model: Allu Arjun]