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Ayurveda & Spirituality with Alakananda Ma
Welcome to the Ayurveda & Spirituality podcast with Alakananda Ma where you will be guided through the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and its profound connections with spirituality and holistic living.
Join us as we uncover the timeless principles of Ayurveda, discover practical tips for enhancing vitality, and explore the deeper dimensions of spirituality that intertwine with this ancient science.
Episodes
- Ayurveda & Spirituality with Alakananda Ma
Episode 124: Saint Francis' Teachings on Peace
“As thou art willing to make this peace, I promise thee that thou shalt be fed every day by the inhabitants of this land so long as thou shalt live among them…
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Episode 123: Ayurveda for ADHD
While specific treatment of ADD and hyperactivity can be valuable, the most important step is to determine whether the problem is due to vata, pitta, or both…
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Episode 122: Svetasvatar Upanishad Part 2
Two birds of beautiful plumage, who are inseparable friends, reside on the self-same tree. Of these, one eats the fruits of the tree with relish while the…
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Episode 121: Laudato Si: Caring for our Common Home
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and…
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Episode 120: Walking with Lady Poverty
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Sadananda and I have walked with Lady Poverty throughout our 46 years together. Owning no…
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Episode 119: Svetasvatar Upanishad Part 1
"The expounders of Brahman say: 'What is the cause—(what is) Brahman? From where indeed are we born? By what do we live? And where are we established?…
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Episode 118: Taking Care of Your Prostate
“Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is a common ailment affecting one third of men over fifty, half of all men over sixty and ninety percent of all men over…
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Episode 117: Storm on the Sea of Galilee: Palestinian Liberation Theology and the Fifth Gospel
The stones on which our Redeemer walked are still charged with his memory and continue to “cry out” the Good News. For this reason, the Synod Fathers recalled…
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Episode 116: Kairos II: Palestinian Liberation Theology
We are witnesses to the Resurrection and to the empty tomb from which the light of life burst forth. We believe that the final word belongs not to death, but…
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Episode 115: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Part 4
This earth is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this earth. Likewise this bright, immortal person in this earth, and that bright…
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Episode 114: Ayurvedic Nonnamaxxing
Much more than a TikTok trend, the essence of Nonnamaxxing is a healthy and wholesome lifestyle that has endured for centuries and supported longevity. Let’s…
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Episode 113: A Land without a People: Zionism and the Church
Today we’re continuing to look at why the phrase, “Antizionism is antisemitism” is completely wrong, an inversion of the truth. Last week we looked at what…
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Episode 112: Antisemitism and the Catholic Church
The Jews must not be persecuted, slaughtered, nor even driven out. Inquire of the pages of Holy Writ. I know what is written in the Psalms as prophecy about…
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Episode 111: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Part 3
‘Maitreyī, my dear,’ said Yājñavalkya, ‘I am going to renounce this life.’ Allow me to finish between you and Kātyāyanī.[2] Thereupon Maitreyī said, ‘Sir, if…
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Episode 110: Ayurveda for Acid Indigestion
Do you suffer from hyperacidity? Learn how Ayurveda can help. Amlapitta, known as acid indigestion or dyspepsia, is a common and widespread condition of…
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Episode 109: The Four Pillars of Peace
Before a society can be considered well-ordered, creative, and consonant with human dignity, it must be based on truth…Human society…demands that men be guided…
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Episode 108: Friendship with those we disagree with
Cicero says, friendship is agreement in things human and divine, with good will and charity. But there are many circumstances where we do need to be friends…
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Episode 107: Bhrihadaranyaka Upanishad Part 2
Om. There was a man of the Garga family called Proud Bālāki, who was a speaker. He said to Ajātaśatru, the King of Kashi, ‘I will tell you about Brahman.’…
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Episode 106: Ayurveda for Alzheimer's Disease
Throughout an individual's lifetime, each dosha has its time of predominance. Kapha governs childhood; pitta, maturity; and vata, old age. Thus, during the…
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Episode 105: Friendship in the age of AI
So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not…
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Episode 104: Creating Spiritual Friendship
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. St Aelred, Spiritual Friendship St Aelred, a…
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Episode 103: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Part 1: The creation of the world from the Self
In the beginning, this (universe) was but the self of a human form. He reflected and found nothing else but himself. He first uttered, ‘I am he.’ Therefore he…
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Episode 102: Aging Well with Ayurveda
All of us want to live a long life, but the longevity we picture for ourselves is one of robust health, vitality and continued independence. We do not picture…
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Episode 101: Making Friends with Yourself
“The best way to invite friendship is to become your own best friend.” Learn how to befriend your own mind and overcome self-hatred using simple and effective…
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Episode 100: Humus Wars: Fighting Cultural Erasure with Food
“During the process of ethnic cleansing and genocide, destruction of foodways is an important feature. We may think of the slaughter of the bison that formed a…
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Episode 99: Chandogya Upanishad Chapter 8: Indra and Vairochana Apprentice with Prajapati
Prajapati once said: ‘The Self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death, free from sorrow, and free from hunger and thirst. It is the cause of…
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Episode 98: The Vedic View of Gambling
I make a resolve that I will not go gaming. So my friends depart and leave me behind. But as soon as the brown nuts are rattled and thrown, to meet them I run…
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Episode 97: Palantir, Epstein and the Dark Enlightenment
Trump’s Gaza fantasy fuses necropolitics with venture capital. Flatten a place, declare it “free,” and auction it to the highest bidder. This is the Network…
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Episode 96: Stages of Grief
Out of the fullness of thy heart invite sorrow, and the joy thereof shall be in abundance. Sorrow shall bring forth love eternal, sorrow shall unfold the…
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Episode 95: Chandogya Upanishad Chapter 8: The Space in the Heart
Om. This body is the city of brahman, Within it is an abode in the shape of a lotus, the heart, and within that there is a small space. One must search within…
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Episode 94: What is Panchakarma?
What is panchakarma? Learn about: Ayurveda—more than wellness Pacification and purification What is pacification? What is purification? If you book an abhyanga…
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Episode 93: Unmasking the Board of peace
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation…
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Episode 92: Bringing on Armageddon
This past week, members of the military reported being told by commanders that Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause…
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Episode 91: Chandogya Upanishad Chapter 7
True, I have learnt much, but I know only the word meaning. I do not know the Self. Sir, I have heard from great persons like you that only those who know the…
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Episode 90: Ayurveda for Arthritis
Learn about rheumatoid arthritis, gout and osteoarthritis. How does Ayurveda see arthritis? How does the Ayurvedic approach contrast with that of Western…
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Episode 89: Spiritual Guidance in the Age of Aquarius
How has the spiritual teacher expressed during the last two thousand years? What is the new face of the spiritual guide in the emerging paradigm? How has…
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Episode 88: The Epstein Files: From Horror to Hope
“Some of the key stories the Epstein files reveal are areas that have been my specialist interest for years. The Kremlin. Silicon Valley. MAGA and the European…
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Episode 87: Honouring Time: Rituals for Life
“One purpose of creative ritual was to experience the connection to “the other” as well as a deeper connection to oneself. That’s why ancient people would say…
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Episode 86: Creating a Healing Space
"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." - Hermann Hesse For thirty years, Alandi Ashram’s…
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Episode 85: Chandogya Upanishad Part 2
That which is the subtle essence is the Self of the whole world. It is the True, it is the Self. Thou art That, Svetaketu. Let’s continue our exploration of…
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Episode 84: Ayurveda for Memory
Thanks to your wholesome remedies, O God, May I attain the span of a hundred winters! Drive far away from us all hatreds and troubles Scatter to the four winds…
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Episode 83: January 14th, a transformational day
“January 14th is the day of transfer of the sun and is of great importance. Whatever is our state today, to change that and accept the opposite—the best, the…
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Episode 82: Endings and Beginnings
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. TS Eliot, Little Gidding, Four Quartets…
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Episode 81: Every Child is the Prince of Peace
“Once you get to be 74, and your potential remaining years are just in the teens, children and young people seem even more important, for you are handing the…
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Episode 80: Making Peace with our Aspirations
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't…
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Episode 79: Ayurveda for Depression
“Of the hundreds of people who attend my Ayurvedic clinic in Colorado each year complaining of chronic illness, at least half mention recurrent or longstanding…
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Episode 78: Taking Care of Yourself as a Healer
Alakananda Ma has been a healer since the day in 1973 when she walked onto the ward in her white coat, badge and stethoscope as a twenty one year old clinical…
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Episode 77: Chandogya Upanishad Part 1
O Śvetaketu, you have now become very serious and vain, and you think you are a great scholar. But did you ask your teacher for that teaching which what is…
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Episode 76: Truth, Lies and Disinformation
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying…
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Episode 75: How AI Impoverishes Us
“Mind has two aspects, manas, the measuring mind and buddhi, the intellect. AI is all manas. True intelligence is buddhi.” Let’s think about how AI…
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Episode 74: The Spectrum of healing
“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must…
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Episode 73: Taittirīrya Upanishad Part 3
From bliss all beings come, by bliss they live, and unto bliss they all return. Taittirīrya Upanishad Alakananda Ma first read these astonishing words from…
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Episode 72: Fundamentals of Peace- Reconciling warring religious traditions
“We stand at the threshold of Aquarius, an age whose highest potential is to manifest as the Age of Spirit and Truth. Yet we also stand in the long dark shadow…
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Episode 71: Making Peace with Tradition
“Creation, like a prism Fragments the pure white light of Truth. People in different lands Catching sight of different colors Have taught that ‘It is green’ Or…
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Episode 70: Taittirīrya Upanishad Part 2
Aum. The knower of Brahman reaches the Supreme. The one who knows Brahman as the real, as knowledge and as the infinite, placed in the secret place of the…
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Episode 69: A Lifetime of Breast Health
“A woman's breasts are a key part of her experience of herself. More than just mammary glands, a woman's breasts are also a secondary sexual characteristic…
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Episode 68: Sustenance Beyond the Supermarket
Today we’ll look at ways to create community, connection, local resilience and a deeper relationship to food sources by going beyond the supermarket. How can…
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Episode 67: Finding Peace in a Troubled World
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete…
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Episode 66: Chronic Illness Burnout
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. Usually applied to work, it has been…
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Episode 65: Taittiriya Upanishad Part 1
Here, in this bright space within the heart, is He, that Purusha, that Person, who is formed of thought, undying, full of light. ‘Om’ is Brahman. ‘Om’ is this…