Ep 09 ~ The Path of Transformation with Kavithā Chinnaiyan

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In this episode, Hareesh welcomes Dr. Kavithā Chinnaiyan, a practicing cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, and an international educator in cardiac imaging, preventive cardiology, and women's heart disease. She is the acclaimed author of several books, including The Heart of Wellness, Shakti Rising, and Fractals of Reality: Living the Śrīcakra, a Tantric initiate and adept. As the founder of Svatantra Institute and The Renegade Method™, Kavithā integrates spirituality with science, offering guidance in self-development, wellness, and burnout by blending modern medicine with Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda, and Vedanta. An accomplished retreat leader, artist, and musician, she invites others into the transformative journey toward holistic well-being.
Kavithā shares her journey from a question-filled childhood within a Shaivaite family to transformative encounters with Vedantic teachings and Advanced Yoga Practices, culminating in her profound engagement with non-dual Shaiva Tantra. The conversation explores her immersion into the teachings of Śrī Vidyā, guided by revered teachers, and how these experiences harmonize with her medical expertise and personal life. Kavithā’s story is a testament to the integration of spiritual practice with the rhythms of daily life, reflecting on the roles of mantra, ritual, and The Direct Path in the journey for self-realization. This episode brings light to the complementary nature of the progressive and Direct Paths in the revealing of one's true nature and the unique ways they can enrich a dedicated spiritual practice.
Some of the references mentioned:
Greg Goode ‘Standing as Awareness’ : greg-goode.com...
Michael M. Bowden, Sri Chaitanyananda, The Goddess and The Guru :
/ goddess-and-the-guru
Corinne G. Dempsey, The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York : / 378987
AYP International www.aypinterna...
ŚrīVidyā.org www.srividya.org/
Paul Muller-Ortega www.bluethroat...
Chinmaya Mission www.chinmayami...
Mahāvatāra Bābājī en.wikipedia.o...
Atmananda Krishna Menon en.wikipedia.o...
More references can be found on the episode at Tantra Illuminated Online.
Glossary of Sanskrit terms mentioned:
anugraha - grace, revelation, remembering
artha - meaning, purpose
brahma-granthi - subtle knot located above the perineum
cakra - circle, subtle center
dīkṣā - a traditional initiation to a lineage, with elaborate ceremony
japa - mantra repetition
kriyā - action
mumukṣutva - desire for liberation
prāṇāyāma - breath control, breathing practices
pīṭha - sacred site
pīṭhādhipati - supervisor of the sacred site
pūjā - ritual worship
puraścaraṇa - process of attaining mastery of a mantra
rudra-granthi - subtle knot located at the head ( Energy Body )
sādhaka - spiritual practitioner
sādhanā - gradual awakening through spiritual practice
samādhi - deep meditation
saṃskāra - subtle trace, subliminal impression in the psyche
sat-tarka - discernment
śabda - sound, vibration
upāsaka - lay follower
vāsanā - A subtle impression in the psyche, imposing a quality to any experience. Near synonym to saṃskāra, depending on who you ask
vishnu-granthi - subtle knot located at the heart center ( Energy Body )
ābrahma-kīṭa-jananī - Mother of all beings, from Brahmā to a blade of grass
ardhachandra and nirodhinī - subtle levels of advanced uccāra practice
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@venkateshgiri1 2 месяца назад

Watched this podcast few times. Kindly invite her again for a follow-up session. I can't get enough of Kavitha!

@gyglesiass 6 месяцев назад

She is the best teacher, I never get tired of listening to her wisdom

@OfficialGOD 6 месяцев назад

1:00:59 this is amazing. 1:39:20 & 1:41:48 both powerful statements, although dualistic, could be explored deeper. Loved this Ep, waiting for the next one!

@ankitruparel1895 6 месяцев назад

This is a brilliant podcast! Thanks Hareesh your podcasts are game changing. Ordering Kavitha’s book!

@TyroneCLove 6 месяцев назад

Now that’s a treat ! Thanks 🙏

@OfficialGOD 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the detailed description. I've been following her for a year now but didn't know much. Amazing journey!

@jgarciajr82 6 месяцев назад

Amazing. This really shows me Enlightenment is never ending and it looks like growing up but in experience it looks like getting more insights on life. Maturity is a developmental thing. My niece really believes she is going to marry her boyfriend in the future and she is only 15 😂. My oldest daughter is 19 is just starting to make money. She's learning how to use her money and spend it. She's always wanted money and now she has it. She has to go through this developmental stage to come out of it a better person. I'm 41 and this developmental thing is becoming more relevant and obvious . I had my own struggles growing up as well and I'm still learning/ growing up. They need to go through these stages to show themselves the Truth and their own truth. Developmental growth is inherent within humans? It's just we're also great at suppressing what we want. Or in some cases don't even know what we want.

@OfficialGOD 3 месяца назад

my third time rewatching this, i sought the origin of this beautiful sufi quote 1:42:21 - *apparently, it is not sufi?* here's what i found: “Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.” ― Isak Dinesen

@christopherwallis751 3 месяца назад

She (author's real name was Karen blixen) is paraphrasing that from a Sufi source. Recommend reading the whole story that quote is from!

@OfficialGOD 3 месяца назад

@@christopherwallis751 oh wow good to know, thanks!

@MrGboustany Месяц назад

Wisdom Consciousness Some of the talks remind me about CHOD practice and Shadow work(The malignant male and female demons Who create myriad troubles and obstructions Seem real before one has reached enlightenment. But when one realizes their true nature, They become Protectors, And through their help and assistance One attains numerous accomplishments. - Tibet’s great yogi Milarepa)

@dipalipatnaik8249 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this incredibly deep conversation. I am glad I came across this one. And indeed it would be great to look fwd to another continued talk through this with Kavithaji. Thanks again, Hareesh ji. 😊🙏✨

@MW-fh8xh 6 месяцев назад

Wooonderful and of great importance! More, more, more🙏

@anahatamyst 6 месяцев назад

Great interview, thank you both. I would like to know how much she has integrated modern psychology (especially the embodied version) with traditional Tantric practices? She hints at an overlap, but doesn’t go into specifics.

@shattered_lightsb8381 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful conversation :) Jai Sri Ramakrishna!

@whiteglassart3694 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for another great podcast

@katiaverreault4828 29 дней назад

Loved this conversation

@hughenthomas935 6 месяцев назад

Wonderful conversation deeply grateful 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼. So many beautiful resonances uncovered to reveal that it’s all about laughter and gratitude . There is an inner knowing laughter at my ego dissolving into gratitude . God is laughing at our “struggle “ to dissolve when we are him .

@deepa6383 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this conversation. It was most enlightening. Much much gratitude 🙏🏼 🌺

@unseekingseeker1359 6 месяцев назад

An interesting chat, thanks for featuring this, Chris. Quite a path, Kavitha has had. I’m not a one for ritual or formatted practice, preferring spontaneity of unfoldment but acknowledge those for whom disciplined practice has worked. About mantras, in my view, the mantras automatically ’come to us’, so to speak, bestowed by the universe, as and when required. Of course we must be mindfully attentive to be aware when it happens. I appreciate the depth of clarity with which Kavitha speaks, although I don’t agree with all she affirms. 👍🏼

@joseluisgomezsoler7601 6 месяцев назад

🙏💗 Two in One, Two who know difference rich in sense, Two to clasp, One to be, this His strange mystery. (Sri Aurobindo)

@drjitendratanna8713 6 месяцев назад

Wow 😳 Superb content. Love you so much hareesh. Thank you 🙏💞

@Durga-ct2eb 6 месяцев назад

Enjoyed the dialogue! What I’ve learned on my spiritual path is to live what I learned and my experience. And from there just let go and simply live my life knowing the Goddess is there on “good” and “bad” days. And when I feel a bit lost I say to the Goddess “you drive Mother” then I laugh😅!

@noobslayer9291 6 месяцев назад

perfect, actually wise.

@Yeshedzogchen 6 месяцев назад

Thanks! Jay Ananda!

@andreasrylander 6 месяцев назад

Love the talk that starts around 1:06:45

@anilkrishnan4894 4 месяца назад

Intriguing madam 🙏

@elizadaphne5501 6 месяцев назад

A really lovely wonderful interview…love what she said about Christian lineage as being so simple and sweet….how true… and how after experiencing so many teachings and masters on the planet or in subtler realms she ends her inner voyage (at least for the moment) saying not to take oneself so seriously and to turn it all over to the Divine Mother 🙏🏼🦚 (if I understood correctly) Thank you and look forward to the following interview

@polarisstella 6 месяцев назад

Thank you

@Hello.Yellow.Mellow 6 месяцев назад

My sincere apologies as Iam going to share a pov , which may not seem + There is so much “I” in all her statements. But there is no I in the first place. Is there ? Life is unfolding through experiences of all kinds and “I” is just a vessel for them. But all I hear is “ I did this, I was intense, I could connect with masters in different realms etc” Ishwar Segobind spoke of similar experiences , but the way he explained, there was oneness , there was love, and there was profound connection for me🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@OfficialGOD 6 месяцев назад

this is very common projection. they are both in different traditions, anyway, heard both of them and the take away was completely opposite, not profound at all.

@Hello.Yellow.Mellow 6 месяцев назад

@@OfficialGOD thank you for your POV. Please can you explain what you mean by Projection ? Thank you

@Tamer_108 6 месяцев назад

More to life than FadVaita / Neo-Advaita indoctrination my friend 🕊️🧿

@OfficialGOD 6 месяцев назад

@@Hello.Yellow.Mellow seeing one's own focus on individuality or ego in another's statements, rather than recognizing it as simply their way of expressing personal experiences.

@Hello.Yellow.Mellow 6 месяцев назад

There is some truth in what u say. Thanks for that The other truth is I'm disillusioned with text based spiritual knowledge. I have been at it for a decade and i feel my spirituality is intellectualised much like this lady. But its nee-ras/ lacks the ras or the juice of love with the divine. I admire those who can dissolve themselves into oneness with the universe using love / bhakti. Like Kabir or Mirabai

@hilkka_nen 6 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤

@Shalien333 6 месяцев назад

Rituals are Cultural and the North American or Western way of Life requires adjustments Accordingly

@stanilindbeck2180 6 месяцев назад

❤❤❤

@odeing4258 6 месяцев назад

There’s one student I heard off that have found Yogani and knocked on his door, Yogani wasn’t the happiest about it.. just a correction on no one knows whose Yogani is ;)

@Christoth2012 6 месяцев назад

🥰

@daoscience9476 6 месяцев назад

It is definitively incorrect that nobody is saying the direct path means the progressive path is not needed. There are Neo Advaita folks and various non duality people all over the internett saying exactly this.

@christopherwallis751 6 месяцев назад

yes, we know. Nobody in *our* circles is saying it; didn't mean to suggest that nobody at all is saying it.

@daoscience9476 6 месяцев назад

@@christopherwallis751 Ah I see