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What About Evil, Hell and Sin?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-05-20
Hindus believe in each individual as a soul, a divine being who is inherently good. We all have...
Are Souls And World Essentially Good?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-05-12
The world does contain suffering; it's this way for a reason. If the world was perfect why would...
Why Are We Not All-Knowing Like Siva?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-05-04
The three bonds/pashas, given by Lord Siva: karma, maya and anava, are there to mature the soul. At...
What Is the Nature of Our Soul?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-04-27
"The essence of the soul is Pure Consciousness and Absolute Reality." There are three bodies, shariras, five sheaths, koshas, an inner and an outer aura. The chakras are...
What Are the Three Worlds?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-04-13
"The temple enables us to feel the presence of God, Gods and devas." We use our inner eyes to see what's going on in the temple, the three worlds. In...
What Are Our Holy Scriptures?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-03-22
Within our Saiva Siddhanta Holy Scriptures the Saiva Agamas explain the basis of temple ceremonies and worship plus...
What is the Nature of Life for Saivites?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-03-06
"Stand strong for Saivism." The nature of life for Saivites is to turn work into worship, to turn the secular into...
Four Stages On the Path of Personal Evolution
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-02-24
The soul body takes many lifetimes to mature. The height of divine consciousness: There is no difference between...
What Is Our Affirmation of Faith?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-02-27
"God Siva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality." Devotion is present in each of Saiva Siddhanta's four paths in our relationship to God. When we...
Being in Siva Consciousness
Satguru Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiGiven On: 1989-03-05
Siva is very accessible, everywhere. But the barrier is ignorance, forgetfulness. There are great truths throughout the entire...
What is the Nama Sivaya Mantra?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-02-13
The letter "Ya" in the Panchakshara Mantra, Namasivaya, stands for the soul. Bodhinatha uses the Panchakshara Mantra to...
What Is the Meaning of Siva's Dance
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-02-05
Initially we're looking at the world. By Siva's revealing grace, anugraha, ultimately we turn toward God. The soul...
Gujarati Dancing with Siva Audiobook
A richly illustrated sourcebook of Indian spirituality in question-and-answer form, exploring how to know the Divine, honor all...
Dancing with Siva Audiobook
A richly illustrated sourcebook of Indian spirituality in question-and-answer form, exploring how to know the Divine, honor all...
What Are Siva's Traditional Forms
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-01-28
"Every form is a form of Siva." The Sivalinga symbolizes Siva's formless state. Yantras for Siva temples involve the Panchakshara Mantra. Kadavul represents Si,...
How Can We See God?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-01-21
The divine is in everyone. "See everyone as God." Even in the terrorist, even in the criminal, the seed of divinity...
What Are Siva's Three Perfections?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-01-14
The idea of Monistic Theism is seen in the three perfections of God Siva. Theism is the face...
Who Is Siva?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2017-01-07
Lord Siva is the Supreme Being of the universe, not one of many gods. To Saivites Siva is...
The Guru Chronicles Audiobook
Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid...
What Is Monistic Theism?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-12-30
Our doctrine in Saiva Siddhanta is Monistic Theism, Advaita Ishvaravada. To experience oneness with God, to really do...
What Is Saiva Siddhanta?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-12-16
Saiva Siddhanta is our school of Hinduism. Siva and Shakti are a one gender-less being represented as Ardhanarishvara....
What Is Saivite Hinduism
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-11-09
Bodhinatha reviews the main characteristic of Saivite Philosophy with an indepth focus on the four stages of religions...
What Are the Main Hindu Denominations?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-10-31
Hinduism's primary denominations are Saivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Smartism. Gurudeva's view of Hindu solidarity is unity in diversity...
Is Hinduism a Religion or a Way of Life?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-10-25
"Hinduism is recognized as the most compassionate, mystical and enlightened faith on the planet." Is India's ancient faith Hinduism a religion or a way of life? All religions are ways of...
What is Hinduism?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-10-18
Bodhinatha imparts the four key beliefs in Hinduism, the three pillars of Sanatana Dharma and Gurudeva's three stages...
What Is a Religion?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-10-10
Hindus believe there is one Truth, we just all don't agree on the name and nature of God....
What Is the Ultimate Goal of Life?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-09-24
The three distinct attainments in our philosophy: realization-nirvikalpa samadhi, moksha-liberation and merger-vishvagrasa. Believe in our ability to raise...
Where Am I Going? What Is My Path?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-09-18
The soul body plus the essence of the soul, Parashakti and Parasiva, together equals the totality of the...
Who Am I and Where Did I Come From?
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2016-09-10
Bodhinatha introduces the new Himalayan Academy book "Path to Siva." "By seeing the life energy in all creatures and in all people we are seeing God Siva in action." The life energy within you is the closest thing...
Sivapuranam
Sung by: Tiruthani Swaminathan
This is the most famous of all of the songs by Saint Manickavasagar. The 95 lines of the...
To the Father, to the Mother, Mangalam
Sung by: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
This is a lyrical English version of the popular Tamil Natchintanai titled "Appanukkum Ammaikkum Mangalam" thanks to Sheela Venkatakrishanan and...