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Spirit Matters: Integrate Your Spiritual Awakening for Mindful Living | Teachings of Sri Chinmoy
Spirit Matters: Integrate Your Spiritual Awakening for Mindful Living | Teachings of Sri Chinmoy
Spirit Matters is a weekly show for modern seekers of spirituality who have had a spiritual awakening, yet struggle to integrate their experience into daily life. Hosts Vajin and Abhinabha are here to take you from the confusion, frustration and loneliness to a grounded practice rooted in heart-based wisdom. Every episode offers spiritual guidance for mindful living. Become the wise and centered soul you know yourself to be! Vajin and Abhinabha are meditation teachers with over 25 years of experience. Both are students of Sri Chinmoy, a modern day spiritual master.
Episodes
The 3 False Narratives Around Gurus That Stunt Your Spiritual Growth | The Guru Episode | Spiritual Guidance for Mindful Living | Ep.45
Are Gurus still relevant today? Why do I need a spiritual teacher? These are crucial questions when the dust has settled after spiritual awakening. Without the proper spiritual guidance you may fall back to false fears and misguided notions about guru's. But if you're unapologetic about spiritual growth, you need to make an informed choice.That's what this episode is all about! We dive
7 Spiritual Growth Signs You Can't Afford To Miss (How to Know You’re Spiritually Growing in Everyday Life) | Spiritual Guidance for Mindful Living | Ep.44
Your spiritual awakening experience is actually useless if you don’t do anything with it. But how do you know if you’re doing the right things in your meditation practice to really grow spiritually? In this episode we unpack seven signs of how you know you’re making good spiritual progress. If you don’t have a spiritual teacher to guide you directly, this conversation will give you grounded wisdom
Why You Can Never Compromise With Ignorance (And How To Recognize Falsehood) | Spiritual Guidance For Mindful Living | Ep.43
The real danger isn’t a big moral collapse. It’s the tiny, everyday moments when you abandon your deepest values.Most of us don’t fall by making one dramatic mistake. We fall in the hundreds of small, invisible ways, such as laughing along while someone is being torn down. Pretending not to care about our spiritual awakening because the room feels cynical. Or sensing a clear inner nudge — a piece
Why You Must Go Through Hell To Reach Heaven After Spiritual Awakening | The Dark Night Of The Soul Episode | Spiritual Guidance For Mindful Living | Ep.42
Has life lost its joy, lustre and meaning after your spiritual awakening? You are going through what is called ‘the dark night of the soul’. This depressing, confusing and often lonely time is a painful but necessary phase in your spiritual awakening journey. It’s important to get spiritual guidance on your bearings, because groping in the dark alone sets you up for failure. This episode will stee
Don't Ignore These 3 Essential Ingredients For Meaningful And Lasting Spiritual Growth | Mindful Living & Spiritual Guidance | Ep.41
If you feel stuck in your spiritual practice, you may lack one of the 3 ingredients or conditions that make the spiritual journey wholesome, grounded and fulfilling. In today's solo episode Abhinabha takes you through these 3 essentials without which your spiritual practice may feel stale and uninspiring. Spirit Matters is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into
Overcoming Jealousy: 8 Spiritual And Psychological Strategies To Kill The Green-Eyed Monster | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.40
If you’ve ever suffered from the sting of jealousy, you’ll know why this negative quality tops the list of spiritual growth obstacles. When you become jealous of someone, that person effectively becomes your God, as you incessantly obsess about them in your mind. Jealousy estranges you from your real self and poisons your sweet, subtle connection to the Divine. If mindful living is what you want,
Why You Lost Faith In Your Friends, The World and God (And How To Regain It Today) | The Doubt Episode | Spiritual Guidance For Mindful Living | Ep.39
Doubt is a slow poison that sneaks into your spiritual practice unnoticed and shakes the very foundations of your spiritual beliefs. Without proper counter measurements doubt can destroy everything you built up so carefully over the months and years of your spiritual awakening. In this episode we clarify when and why doubt becomes problematic. And we offer practical spiritual guidance to prevent t
Why Criticizing Others Hurts Your Spiritual Growth (And 4 Ways To Avoid It) | The Criticism Episode | Spiritual Guidance For Mindful Living
Does your conscience pinch you when you criticize others? Your soul knows that gossip and criticism swell up your ego and hurt your spiritual growth. In this episode we give you 4 spiritual strategies to avoid the criticism trap.Spirit Matters is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into your daily life. We take you beyond the confusion, frustration and spiritual
Spiritual Awakening Loneliness: What To Do When No One Understands Your Spirituality (Plus Avoiding Your Spiritual Ego) | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.37
Going through a spiritual awakening can be a lonely process. When you are changing and growing but your colleagues, friends and family members stay the same, tensions grow and misunderstandings run riot. You're itching to share your newfound insights and discoveries, but all you meet are blank stares and raised eyebrows. If you're not careful you can damage relationships and set yourself up for fu
5 Spiritual Strategies To Stop Difficult People From Destroying Your Inner Peace | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.36
Are you dealing with a negative, aggressive or manipulative person and wondering how you can maintain your spirituality, poise and surrender? Without the proper inner attitude, you'll find that difficult people will keep pushing your buttons, set off your triggers and ruin your hard-earned peace of mind. In this episode we break down practical and spiritual strategies on how to stay peaceful aroun
Spiritual Ego: Tips On How You Navigate The Meaning Crisis After Your Spiritual Awakening | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.35
Is your spiritual awakening experience making you feel life is empty and meaningless? Are you isolated and alone, subtly looking down on those who are still in the purely materialist paradigm? You may be suffering from a bad case of spiritual ego. This ego trap in spirituality is not without its dangers. Spiritual awakening problems can sever friendships, rift families or make you lose your job.In
Spiritual Integration Secrets: Why Your Meditation Practice Feels Disconnected From Your Working Life | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.34
Seekers of spirituality know the feeling: you do your morning meditation practice, you touch something real and powerful—clarity, peace, a sense of who you actually are. And then… you step into the world. Within minutes, that grounded practice fades. Old habits take over. The office energy pulls you back into familiar roles. People expect you to be who you’ve always been, not who you’re becoming.
Why Spiritual Podcasts Don't Change You (But This One Does!) | The Too-Much-Information-Not-Enough-Transformation Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.33
You listen to spiritual podcasts. You read books. You watch video's on spiritual growth. And yet you still yell at your partner and feel that sting of jealousy when your friend makes that promotion.It's easy nowadays to wear the 'yogic face', a.k.a. talking the talk without walking the walk. For many spirituality has become content-driven instead of practice-driven. The result is that you don't ac
7 Fixes To Apply Today If You're Stuck In Your Meditation Practice | The Seasons Of Life Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.32
Are you suffering from a dry period in your meditation practice? Does showing up on your meditation cushion begin to feel like a duty rather than a privilege? In this episode we give you 7 spiritual and practical tips to change a stale spiritual routine into a grounded practice that feels fresh and inspired. Spirit Matters is a podcast for anyone exploring spirituality from the spiritual heart—an
Why You Are Unhappy: You Ignored Your Conscience | The Conscience Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.31
Ignoring your conscience doesn’t just create inner noise—it quietly erodes your clarity, your confidence, and your ability to grow. When you tune it out long enough, spirituality becomes theory instead of a grounded practice, and the gap between who you are and who you want to be only widens.Spirituality asks for spiritual integration, and that begins with learning to hear the voice that’s already
Don't Ignore Your Dreams For They Will Change Your Life (A Spirituality Driven Approach To Dreams) | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.30
Ignore your dreams and you may miss the signals your deeper self is sending. You stay stuck in old patterns. You overlook warnings. You silence insights that could help you grow, heal, or surrender to life with more clarity and trust.Dreams are the one place you can’t pretend, control, or curate—and that’s exactly why they matter. If you’ve ever woken up from a dream that felt like a message, a wa
Why Your Gratitude Diary Is Not Enough: Gratitude Practices Without The Sugarcoating | The Gratitude Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.29
You can meditate, reflect, and study spiritual teachings for years — but without gratitude, your practice of spirituality can quietly become dry, self-focused, or subtly entitled. A gratitude practice keeps your spiritual heart open, humbles the ego, and turns spiritual insight into something lived, relational, and deeply human.Spirit Matters is a biweekly podcast for anyone exploring spirituality
Origins Of Ego: A Spiritual Deep Dive | The Ego Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.28
Spirituality isn’t tested in silence—it’s tested in the moments when your ego flares up, your patience thins, and your highest intentions collide with real life. This episode dives straight into that tension, offering a grounded practice to overcome ego problems for anyone who’s meditated for years yet still finds themselves wrestling with the same old patterns.Spirit Matters is a podcast for anyo
Break The Matrix: How To See The Divine Beyond Maya And Illusion | The Maya Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep. 27
Illusion shapes more of your life than you realize. In this episode, we explore Maya—the subtle force that pulls you out of the present here and now and into a world filtered by fear, habit, and the mind’s constant measuring. Through stories, insights, and lived experience we reveal how spirituality helps you see beyond the surface and reconnect with the deeper truth of existence. The doorway is t
Trust The First Flash: Spiritual Secrets For Grounded Intuition | The Intuition Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.26
Intuition often appears as a quiet flash—clear, immediate, and unmistakable—yet most of us override it before we ever act. This episode explores that inner knowing through the lens of spirituality, asking what happens when you let the spiritual heart guide your choices instead of the mind’s constant second‑guessing. We dive into intuition as a real inner faculty, not a guess or a whim, and show ho
Before The Mind Takes Over: Secrets Of The Spiritual Heart | The Spiritual Heart Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.25
When you lose touch with your inner depth, life slowly becomes narrower, more reactive, and strangely less alive. This episode opens a doorway back to something far more expansive: the spiritual heart. It’s the place within you that feels before it thinks, unites before it divides, and knows before the mind begins to analyze. In a world where the intellect dominates almost every aspect of daily li
What You Learn From Your Failures (Spoiler Alert: There Is No Failure!) | The Spiritual Success Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.24
Do you sometimes feel blocked by the fear of failure in your spiritual journey? In a culture obsessed with success, perfection, and comparison, many seekers struggle to take risks, pursue meaningful goals, or stay steady on their spiritual path when things don’t go as planned. If that's you, then this episode is a balm for your soul.Spirit Matters is a podcast for anyone exploring spiritualit
Origins Of Mind: How You Sabotage Your Spirituality And What You Must Do Today To Stop It | The Mind And Consciousness Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.23
Since you've been developing spiritually, you know by now that we are much more than our brain or our thoughts. But without a clear understanding of what the mind really is and where it comes from, you'll keep falling for its tricks. Let this episode guide you to a deeper understanding and even appreciation for the mind, and the ways you can free yourself from its negative influences.Spirit Matte
Overstimulated, Overstressed And Overwhelmed: Spirituality Challenges In The Age of Distraction | The Modern Spirituality Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.22
Do you sometimes feel that spiritual growth is an uphill battle in a world of diminishing attention spans, choice paralysis and digital overload? It doesn't have to be that way. In this episode we solve living in an age of distraction while wanting to meditate deeply and practice true mindfulness.Spirit Matters is a podcast for anyone exploring spirituality from the spiritual heart—an invitatio
The Spiritual Medicine You Never Heard Of That Cures The Loneliness Epidemic | The Oneness Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep. 21
As a spiritual seeker you feel the pain of loneliness, separation and feeling disconnected from others even more acutely. What if we told you there is a spiritual solution to heal these painful feelings forever? The quality you are looking for is oneness. In this episode we tell you how the heart-based spiritual approach can get you there.Spirit Matters is a spiritual growth podcast for modern see
How Your Spiritual Practice Changes The World Every Single Day (Starting Today!) | The Intention Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.20
Do you sometimes feel that your spiritual practice has no impact on the world? Although understandable, it's actually a false notion. Scientific studies, intention experiments and spiritual insights all say that your conscious meditation helps the world in very significant ways. In this episode we'll dive into the many ways in which intention changes the world.Spirit Matters (previously The Accept
Develop A Mindfulness Based Running Practice For Powerful And Meaningful Spiritual Growth | The Running Episode | Mindful Living & Spiritual Guidance | Ep.19
Are you a runner and a spiritual seeker? This episode dives into all the ways you can turn your running into a spiritual pursuit. We've done it - and so can you!Spirit Matters is a spiritual growth podcast for modern seekers. Do you feel stuck in your practice? Become unstuck with our heart-based approach to spirituality.After this episode you will know:the special trick that will finally turn you
7 Spiritual Stories To Boost Your Spiritual Awkening | The Stories Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep. 18
Spiritual stories have the magical capacity to infuse spiritual theory and philosophy with life. If you feel stuck in your spiritual journey, stories are the best way to infuse your spiritual practice with freshness and newness. Spirit Matters is a spiritual growth podcast for modern seekers who feel stuck in their practice. Become unstuck with a heart-based approach to spirituality.After this epi
The 3 Phases Of Spiritual Surrender That Lead To Divine Oneness | The Surrender Episode | Mindful Living & Spiritual Guidance | Ep.17
If you feel you are not reaching your full spiritual potential, you may have a surrender problem. As all resistance leads to suffering, surrender is the only spiritual strategy that leads to abiding fulfilment, true mindful living and peace. In this episode we uncover the 3 phases of surrender that lead you from your limited ego to your unlimited soul.Spirit Matters is a show that helps you i
How To Always See The Good In Others | The New Millennium Episode | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.16
Sri Chinmoy predicted that the new millennium will see the birth of a new age of spirituality and consciousness, replacing our outdated materialist paradigms. In this episode we dive deep into Sri Chinmoy's philosophy for the new millennium, which emphasizes on only seeing the good in others. The ultimate aim being spiritual oneness and tangible inner growth.Spirit Matters is a show that
Why Life Feels Like It's Getting Worse When It's Actually Getting Better | The Best-Times-Ever Episode | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.15
Are you pessimistic about the world, thinking everything is just getting worse? This episode turns that idea on its head. All historical data show we're actually living in the best times ever. If you ever needed a boost of optimism and positivity, this episode is for you. Spirit Matters is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into your daily life. We take you
Belief vs. Faith: How to Trust the Universe When Life Stops Making Sense | The Faith Episode | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep. 14
Is your view of the world making you unhappy? It may be time to update your belief system. In this episode we dive deep into the concept of faith as a transformative force in spiritual awakening. Spirit Matters is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into your daily life. We take you beyond the confusion, frustration and spiritual loneliness to a grounded practice
Solving Burnout And Mastering Your Psychic Energy Through Silence | The Silence Episode (A Calm Your Mind Podcast) | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.13
Burnout, mental exhaustion and people sucking away your life-energy have a common enemy: silence. This episode dives into the spirituality of silence as a living, creative force that restores clarity, energy, and balance. Spirit Matters is a show that helps you integrate a spiritual awakening experience into your daily life. We take you beyond the confusion, frustration and spiritual loneline
How To Take Your Imperfections As Tools For Your Spiritual Growth | The Imperfection Episode | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.12
Do you find it difficult to accept yourself fully? Perhaps you haven't looked at your imperfections properly. They are not mistakes you must shove under the rug. Without them there would be no cosmic game of life. Embracing imperfection and learning how to accept yourself - this is what this episode is all about!We take you deep into the origin story of our imperfections and limitations. We ge
Why You Need To Go Beyond Yourself To Grow Spiritually | The Self-Transcendence Episode | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.11
One of the secrets to find true meaning and purpose in life lies in the concept of self-transcendence. It is the core of Sri Chinmoy's teachings and can be made super practical in everybody's life.In this episode we dive deep into the art of going beyond your limitations wisely and responsibly. How to grow spiritually through hardship is something we can all do. And it is there where you w
Letting Go Of Ego: Forget Your Opinions Just For A Day | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.10
Curious about the one quality that trumps all in keeping ego in check? Humility might just be the most undervalued and overlooked spiritual quality in modern culture. Without it, you can never truly give your full value to the world. But not to worry! We're here to dive deep and give you some spiritual guidance to develop more humility.Letting go of ego, how to accept you don't know, being
Money and Happiness: Living Well Without The Attachment To Dollar Value (And Understanding Value vs Price In Life) | Spiritual Guidance & Mindful Living | Ep.09
Stop allowing your bank balance to determine your level of wellbeing and happiness in life! This episode dives into money and meaning in life with a spiritual view on money that cuts you loose from the unhealthy attachments to money, while using it as the tool to fulfil your daily duties and your distant dreams.We start by exploring one of the most emotionally charged forces in modern life: the st
The Flood Is Always Coming: How To Grow Through Difficult Times (Finding Meaning In Struggle) | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.08
A difficult moment can feel like it’s breaking you open, but those cracks often become the places where light enters. Spirituality is not as an escape from hardship, but a way of finding the wisdom to turn pain into growth. Challenges build character by carving out strength, clarity, and compassion. Something that comfort alone can never achieve.We give spiritual tips of how to grow through diffic
Travel As A Spiritual Practice: Slowing Down And Being Present In Every Journey | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.07
For travel to become transformative it needs to stop being something you consume but instead, something that opens you from the inside. This episode explores spirituality through the lens of movement and journey—how stepping into new environments is a chance to heighten your awareness and open you to experiences you could never plan. Instead of racing from landmark to landmark like a tourist, we p
Why Success Feels Empty (And How To Find Purpose Beyond Career And Money) | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.06
A lot of people spend years climbing the ladder of achievement only to reach the top and whisper, “Why do I feel empty even though I’m successful?” This episode explores that quiet, uncomfortable truth: why success feels empty when it isn’t connected to meaning, inner alignment, or genuine happiness. Through our personal stories with earthquakes, injuries, career upheavals, and moments where life
From Stone Life To Divine Consciousness: Reincarnation And The Journey of the Soul | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.05
What if your life didn’t begin at birth — and won’t end at death? In this episode of Spirit Matters (previously called The Acceptance Of Life Podcast), Abhinabha and Vajin dive deep into the mystery of reincarnation and the long, evolutionary journey of the soul. Why do so many people intuitively feel they’ve lived before? And what does that means for the life you’re living now?Spirit Matters
If You Don't Grasp This Spiritual Understanding Of Time, You'll Never Understand Yourself | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.04
What if we told you that time is just as flexible and malleable as a lump of clay? Becoming aware of your agency over time can liberate you from a traumatic or unfulfilling past.Most of us live trapped between memories of the past and fantasies of the future. But spirituality teaches that the only real moment is the eternal now — the space where transformation, clarity, and joy actually exist. Spi
Why You Need A Spiritual Practice For Meaning, Impact And Growth | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.03
What if the real reason you feel stuck, restless, or unfulfilled is that you’re living the wrong story about who you are? In this episode of The Acceptance of Life Podcast (now called Spirit Matters), we talk about how modern life gives us comfort but not meaning — and why reconnecting with your inner world is the key to mindful living.Spirit Matters is a podcast for anyone exploring spiritu
You Are The Big Bang! 3 Spiritual Mindsets You Cannot Afford To Ignore | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.02
In this episode Abhinabha and Vajin explore the eternal question of 'Who am I?' but also touch upon some interesting follow-up questions, such as 'Where am I?' and 'What am I?' Questions that inspire spiritual growth and unlock the way to mindful living. Vajin proposes the existence of 3 models of the universe, the mechanical, the natural and the Divine Lila or Play. They a
Acceptance: The Spirituality Hack That Instantly Transforms Your Life | Spiritual Guidance on Mindful Living | Ep.01
What if the single most powerful shift you could make in your life is simply… accepting it? In this opening episode of The Acceptance of Life Podcast (now called Spirit Matters), we show you how this deceptively simple idea can transform your entire inner world and be a true gateway to mindful living.Rooted in spirituality yet grounded in everyday experience, we dive into Sri Chinmoy’s profound te
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