E84 - Paramahamsa Vishwananda: The 3 Paths of Spiritual Purification To Go From Your HEAD To Your HEART
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Know Thyself Podcast we are joined by Paramahamsa Vishwananda, for an intriguing conversation on the reality of self realization, samadhi, and performing miracles. He shares his story of awakening at a young age, revealing the divine interactions with Mahavatar Babaji that shaped his life forever. He reveals what lies at the heart of humanity's search for happiness, and how we can make every day heaven on Earth. He discusses the truth about being a guru: from spiritual ego, experiencing anger, and the importance of the guru. Andre and Paramahamsa Vishwananda also discuss achieving harmony in romantic relationships, aligning ourselves to the will of the Divine, and finding your own unique path of self realization.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:38 Humanity's Search for Happiness
5:27 Self Realization & Exploring the True Nature of Self
8:06 Shift from the Mind to the Heart
16:01 Parmanhansa’s Spiritual Lineage
19:47 The Journey of Our Souls' Awakening
24:46 What Comes After Self-Realization & Making Paradise Here and Now
27:58 Childhood Awakening through Mahavatar Babaji
39:33 Who Mahavatar Babaji Is
40:54 Discernment on the Spiritual Path
43:49 Experiencing Samadhi & Cosmic Consciousness
48:37 Being Initiated into Kriya Yoga
49:50 Becoming a Guru & Performing Miracles
52:47 Navigating Ego Traps as a Guru
54:06 The Role of a Guru
55:15 Do you Experience Anger?
57:37 Devoting Ourselves to Something Greater
59:55 Balance of Effort and Grace
1:02:03 Achieving Fearlessness on the Spiritual Path
1:05:01 The Spiritual Ego's Slippery Slope
1:08:36 Divine Design: The Greater Plan of Consciousness
1:10:57 Yogic Lineages: What Draws Us to Certain Paths
1:18:49 Romantic Relationships on the Spiritual Path
1:21:25 Conclusion
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Paramahamsa Vishwananda is the founder of the international organisation known as ‘Bhakti Marga’, which means the ‘path of devotion’. It is through Love and with Love that Paramahamsa Vishwananda has inspired a global community to share His wisdom, teachings and spiritual practices with the world.
All of Bhakti Marga’s efforts and offerings are dedicated to supporting His mission of awakening bhakti in everyone to live a life of devotion to God.
Website: https://paramahamsavishwananda.com
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| 0:00.0 | People think that life just happened random. |
| 0:02.0 | It can't be random. |
| 0:04.0 | At the age of 14, I experienced something that changed my life itself. |
| 0:10.0 | You sat down to meditate and you left your body for three days. |
| 0:13.0 | I was in the state of samadhi. |
| 0:15.0 | And what was your experience as you were... |
| 0:18.0 | Ah. |
| 0:19.0 | Really? |
| 0:23.2 | Before that, I heard about Mahatar Babaji. |
| 0:25.1 | He bent down, look in my eyes. |
| 0:28.6 | He revealed that all these times it was on him. |
| 0:32.2 | Everybody is searching for one thing, which is happiness. |
| 0:34.5 | We think that something will make us happy. |
| 0:42.3 | There is a part of us which is still not satisfied. And this is when your soul itself have that deep longing. I want to know. Every day of your life there is a golden moment. You have to make here your paradise. If you have not make here your paradise, what paradise are you aiming for? |
| 0:50.3 | In everything that we do, we serve the divine. We find God in everything. We are not |
| 0:56.8 | separate from God. Wherever we are, the divine is with us. |
| 1:07.5 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast. Today we have the privilege of sitting down |
| 1:12.1 | with the founder of Bhakti Marga, an individual who is a spiritual teacher and leader, Parmahansa |
| 1:18.5 | Vishwananda. Pleasure to have you here. Yeah. Your mission is to open the heart of humanity. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. I would love to dive into your story, how you originated here. |
| 1:31.4 | But where I first want to start off is I believe, and I've come to my understanding that |
| 1:37.6 | there is a deeper fundamental longing and searching within the mind and heart of every human |
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