Swami Veda’s Audio Courses and Series to Be Studied In the Following Sequence

Theory and Philosophy

• Superconscious Meditation (Basic philosophy of meditation and its practice in the Himalayan Tradition)
• Mantra and Meditation
• Constituents of Personality (also known as Systems within Personality) (covers such topics as subtle body, causal body, five koshas, samskarasa, karma…)
• Kundalini and Chakras (What are they? Where are they?)
• Marks of Spiritual Progress
• Counseling according to Bhagavad-gita
• Meditations from the Tantras
• Meditations from the Upanishads
• Sankhya Philosophy (prerequisite to Yoga-sutras)
• Yoga-sutras of Patanjali (I,II,III) (2006 at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama)
• Philosophy of Ayurveda (summary of first few select chapters of Charaka-samhita (on our psycho-physical systems and philosophy of ‘using thoughts and attitudes’)
• Shiva-sutras (First 17 sutras).
• Philosophy of Alphabet (How our speech originated through atman-mind-prana-breath and becomes sounds)

Do inquire about recordings of teachings of special interest on a wide variety of topics such as (a) attitude to illness (b) attitude to money (c) meditation for pain management (d) unblocking yourself— and 5000 more hours of recordings.

Guided Practices (Audio)

Practice listening with earphones until the earphones are no longer needed when the practices have been assimilated.

First please see the titles of audio-recordings in the Reading List above. These titles are marked with a star *. Only after you have mastered the content of these, the further listening may begin as follows.

• Advanced Relaxation (prerequisite: Exercise without Movement. Contains a series of exercises; each needs to be mastered before moving on to the next until the complete comprehensive set becomes assimilated).
• (Prerequisites (a) reading: “Special Mantras” in Night Birds (b) initiation into a special, long, mantra), audio: two recordings on How to do Long Mantras Faster.
• OM Kriya (as taught by Swami Rama, recorded by Ma Radha Bharati).
• Kevala Kumbhaka (why we do not practice retention of breath until kevala-kumbhaka occurs).
• 27 practices of breath awareness (There are more but 27 are given. Not all can be practiced by all but the information is helpful to know the possible pathways of mind through breath).
• Atma-tattvaavalokanam (awareness of being pure unconditioned nameless Self).
• Yoga-nidra series (prerequisite: Advanced Relaxation).
• Shri-yantra series : (INTERNAL SHRI-YANTRA) : (1) 21600 breaths. (b) papa-purush-dahana, burning the ‘evil man’ within (c) bhuta-shuddhi (d) bahish-chakra-nyasa (e) antash-chakra-nyasa -1. (Same at levels 2 and 3 are yet to be recorded). The meanings of these terms wil become clear as you listen to the recordings. Master one at a time before proceeding to the next one.
• Cultivating Meditative Voice (prerequisite: philosophy of alphabet) How to guide relaxation and meditation from experiential depth. Essential for all who guide such practices at whatever level even to children or lecture on the topic. Contains theory and practices.

There are several hundred recorded pathways in meditation, available to those who wish to advance methodically. Then there are special interest meditations such as (a) How to find one’s chakra (b) Muslim meditations guided (c) Christian meditations guided (with explanatory lectures) and numerous others.