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Ganapati Bappa Morayaa
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Forgiveness on Pancha Ganapati
An Upadesha given in Kadavul Temple. Bodhinatha discusses the 2nd day of Pancha Ganapati, explains how we can use that time for the purpose of forgiveness and outlines the importance ...
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Ganesha Visarjana
We bring you a short iPhone video of Ganesha Visarjana at Kauai's Hindu Monastery, August 31, 2011. Thanks to local devotees who made clay Ganesha murtis to immerse in the ...
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Mauritius Spiritual Park by Vidya Jusrut - Part 2
A interview with Paramacharya Palaniswami made at the Spiritual Park of the island of Mauritius. In Part 2 of His interview Paramacharya explains how beneficial it is to write to ...
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Introduction to the Monastery
Tropical rainforests, soaring cliffs, cerulean seas, cascading waterfalls. This remote island is home to Kauai's Hindu Monastery, a center of global outreach for Hinduism and intense spiritual practice leading to ...
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January 2013 News Video
Our January 2013 news video covers events in December 2012, including: BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir inauguration in Chino Hills, CA; Ardra Darshanam and Pancha Ganapati festivals at the monastery; launch of ...
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Drawing Close to Ganesha
Bodhinatha's presentation is based on the Jan/Feb/Mar 2016 Hinduism Today edition and is entitled "Drawing Close to Ganesha". Bodhinatha explains the shaktis of Lord Ganesha who is the guardian of dharma, lord ...
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January 2016 News Video
The January 2016 news video from Kauai's Hindu Monastery features our progress on Iraivan Temple's landscaping and the Silpi memorial bronzes, as well as our celebrations of Ardra Darshana and ...
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Path to Higher Consciousness - Publisher's Desk
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Oct/Nov/Dec 2014 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. In this edition Bodhinatha outlines how virtuous living which consists of performance of dharma, selfless ...
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Drawing Close to Ganesha
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the January/February/March 2016 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. "How sincerely approaching Him as a real being can deepen your relationship with the Lord of Obstacles." Lord Ganesha is the most accessible, easily contacted Deity whose blessings and shakti elevate ...
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Lord Ganeshas 2016 Birthday Party
The April/May/June 2017 Edition of Hinduism Today ran a short feature story on the annual Ganesha Visarjana held in India with a fabulous series of photos by Arun K Mishra. ...
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Who is Lord Ganesha?
We need stability and calmness to prevail in the muladhara chakra, not experiencing serious fear, anger or jealousy for deeper teachings to prevail. Ganesha is the Lord of Obstacles, Vighneshvara. ...
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Kadavul Temple Ganesha TAKA
A devotee of Kadavul temple wrote a special song in Tamil and had the recording done by Tamil playback singer Michael Fernando. He then used this as a sound track ...
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Mauritius Spiritual Park by Vidya Jusrut - Part 1
A interview with Paramacharya Palaniswami made at the Spiritual Park of the island of Mauritius. In Part 1, Paramacharya talks about the nature of Panchamukta Ganapati, the five Shaktis of ...
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On the founding of the Maha Ganapati Temple in Alberta Canada
Aran Veylan tells the story of the founding of the Maha Ganapati Temple in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, focusing on the influence of Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, in the process. ...
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My Friend Lord Ganesha
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's presentation entitled "My Friend Lord Ganesha" is based on an article which was published in Mauritius. Bodhinatha reminds us how Lord Ganesha is easily approachable, contacted and introduces us to ...
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Loving Ganesha
India's rich spirituality begins with Ganesha. Even the most austere yogi starts his inward journey by invoking the God who softens karma and guides dharma. He reigns over our beginnings, ...
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October 2013 News Video
Our October 2013 news video covers events in August and September 2013 including: Satguru Bodhinatha's and Shanmuganathaswami's recent travels, including initiations, vows and the Aloha dinner in Mauritius, Bangaluru temple ...
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The Eight Great Shaktis of His Majesty Lord Siva
Bodhinatha's presentation is based on Gurudeva's 1977 Master Course and is entitled "The Eight Great Shaktis of his Majesty Lord Shiva". Bodhinatha outlines the nature and significance of each of the eight shaktis of Lord Shiva, characterised ...
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October 2016 News Video
Our 2016 October News Video covers events in September 2016 including travels by two of our monks to the Mainland US and Canada, the return of Satguru from his recent ...
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January 2017 News Video
This month's news video covers events from December, 2016, including: the monastery's Pancha Ganapati celebrations, along our many holidy vistors; Iraivan Temple's silver naga is getting closer to arrive on ...
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Prathama Sumara Shri Ganesha
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Gaiye Ganapati Jagavandana
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Who Are Our Holy Men and Women?
Bodhinatha describes the nature of the holy men and women of Saivism and relates the teachings of the women saint Auvaiyar. He shows how her focus is on dharma and ...
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Pancha Ganapati in Tamil
The Pancha Ganapati PDF in the Tamil language ...
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Foundation of Bhakti
Cybertalk: Bodhinatha reads from and gives bhashya on today's Master Course lesson of the Day from Gurudeva's trilogy, Dancing with Siva, Living with Siva and Merging with Siva. Lord Ganesha ...
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Vande Ganapati Vighnavinashan
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Jaya Jaya Ganapati Bhaktana Hitakaare
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Vakratunda Mahaakaaya
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Jaya Ganesha Gananatha Dayanidhi
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Jaya Ganesha Deva
From a collection of popular (and open source) traditional Ganeha bhajans, sung by renowned singer, the late Jagjit Singh. He was famed for his romantic movie ghazal songs (love songs ...
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Dealing with Discouragement
How do we deal with discouragement? Gurudeva gave us a tool, the vasana daha tantra, to deal with events that hit us emotionally. The subconscious mind dutifully throws up memories ...
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Karma Management and Ganesha
With karma management it is important to apply our philosophical understanding to our life in order for it to really benefit us. A new concept is"divinely influence karma." Through the ...
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Controlling Anger part 3
In part three of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha begins by referring to the Tirukural and its chapter called "Avoidance of Anger," which is right before the chapter on ahimsa, the cardinal ...
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Home Puja
A Simple, Traditional Worship Ceremony to Lord Ganesha that Anyone Can Perform?with English Translation, Illustrations And Internet Resources to Facilitate Learning the Chants ...
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My Friend, Lord Ganesha
In Hinduism, believing in God is only a first step toward an ever-deepening personal experience of God?s presence. In this regard many of the great saints and sages of Hinduism ...
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Ganesha Puja (PDF, Black and White)
This version has an introduction and instructions. ...
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Amoroso Ganesha
La rica espiritualidad de la India comienza con Ganesha. Incluso el yogui ms austero comienza su viaje hacia el interior, invocando al Dios que suaviza el karma y que gua ...
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Pancha Ganapati
Daddy, why don't we have Christmas? What do we do? Don't we get presents, too? That question was heard in so many Hindu homes some 15 years ago that it ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 3
2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 3 Bodhinatha unveils the 5th principle of Karma Management, "create no new negative karmas." This involves making a promise to ourselves, a vrata of a sort. To fulfill ...
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Lord Ganesha
Bodhinatha shares part of the Educational Insight section of "Hinduism Today" featuring Lord Ganesha. He lists eleven ways in which Lord Ganesha can benefit each of us in our everyday lives. ...
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Worshipping Lord Ganesha
Bodhinatha explains the basis for the worship of Ganesha--that he is a real being who is closest to us on the earth plane and is thus the easiest to contact. ...
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Karma Management Day 4, Part 2
2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 2 Bodhinatha gives us two final correct concepts about karma, that we are creating our future in the present and that the ultimate future ...
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Mauritius Trip Talks
Bodhinatha tells us of the theme for his trip to Asia coming up, focusing on the parents as the first guru, positive discipline, and that magically the sutra of the ...
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Ganesha the Lord of Obstacles
Bodhinatha discourses on Ganesha, the Lord of Obstacles and gives effective ways to worship Lord Ganapati as He is presented in the fourth belief of the Saivite Creed. Bodhinatha then ...
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A Solution to Emotional Problems
Often devotees will write to Bodhinatha about emotional problems. To these he says he always gives the same advicespend extra time worshiping Lord Ganesha, especially in the temple. Bodhinatha elucidates ...
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Pancha Ganapati's Five Shaktis
Part 4 of 4 - Bodhinatha finishes his moksha ritau address for 2002 by talking about the nature of the Pancha Ganapati festival and how each of Ganesha's five shakti's ...
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How Temple Worship Can Help Our Life
How can we improve our behavior? Making good use of the Hindu temple is one of these ways. Bodhinatha also discusses how the worship of Ganesha can help us to ...
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Focuses for a Malaysia/Singapore Trip
Bodhinatha discusses his focuses for a nine-day trip to Malaysia and Singapore. In his satsangs, the focus will be on members completing the Maha Vasana Daha Tantra as well as ...
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Malaysia-Singapore Visit Report Part 2
Bodhinatha continues his report on his visit to Malaysia and Singapore (part 2). Bodhinatha gave a wonderful talk, "My friend, Lord Ganesha," at the Sakti Vinayagar Temple in Penang, and now reads an ...
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Yama 8 - Arjava, Honesty
Yama number 8 - arjava, honesty. Part of the reason for these talks is that there is a high demand in Malaysia. We need to harness the tendency to be ...
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Niyama 4 - Astikya, Faith
Bodhinatha speaks on the niyama of astikya, faith. In Hinduism experience develops faith. Faith starts out as a belief in what we have not yet experienced. This leads to experience ...
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Putting Gurudeva's Teachings to the Best Use, Part 4
Bodhinatha continues his Gurudeva mahasamadhi observances class with this part on the importance of The Master Course Trilogy in helping us establish our foundation of philosophical understanding (Dancing with Siva) ...
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Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru Part 6
Part 6 of 7 - Continuing Bodhinatha's first Guru Purnima class on the role of the guru and his task of helping us improve our behavior, Bodhinatha talks about the ...
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Niyama 7 - Mati, Cognition
Bodhinatha speaks about the niyama mati, cognition. He urges seekers to develop a spiritual will and intellect with their guru's guidance. Part of mati involves cultivating and awakening our intuition, ...
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Niyama 8 - Vrata, Vows
Bodhinatha speaks on the eighth niyama, vrata, the practice of taking vows to ourselves, to the inner worlds and to family and community. Vows are a sacred trust. There are ...
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Overview of Upcoming Ganesha Chaturthi Trip
Bodhinatha offers everyone in the temple an overview of his coming trip to California, Mauritius, Malaysia and Singapore. Click below to listen. Real Audio --- | --- MP3 (Quicktime or ...
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Are Souls And World Essentially Good?
The world does contain suffering; it's this way for a reason. If the world was perfect why would we want to transcend it? We're not all in the same place ...
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Breath is a Key to Meditation
Realize the bi-directional inter-relatedness of the mind and the breathing. Practice! Regulate your breathing, it stills down the mind in a very natural way. Still down the mind, it regulates ...
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Nine Ways to Merge with Siva; the Nature of Liberation
The celebration of Mahasivaratri is to have a deeper experience of God. Realization, liberation and merger. Nine progressive ways to merge with Siva. Parasiva, the eighth: becoming and being timeless, ...
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Activating Kundalini; Patanjali's Kriya Yoga
Unless kundalini is active, the deepest meditative states are not available to us. But to activate kundalini, Gurudeva tells us we must invoke the grace of Lord Ganesha and Lord ...
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Stabilize Consciousness in the Muladhara Chakra and Above
The challenge of not falling below the muladhara chakra. "Achieve freedom with responsibility," living in the box of dharma. Ahimsa and himsa: Patanjali advises: to overcome the propensity to do harm, cultivate the ...
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Chakras In Relation to the Gods
An important feature of Saiva Siddhanta is the mixing of Monism and Theism. Worshiping in the temple and meditating are inter-related quite dynamically. In our tradition the kundalini force requires ...
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Visiting the Temple Purifies the Mind, Grants Humility
Religion needs to be of the present. Mankind is evolving spiritually; mass consciousness is rising. When we go to the temple, in the right spirit, contributing devotion and prana, being ...
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Karma Management Review
Moksha includes resolving karma. Even if you realize God, if you have karma you haven't resolved, you're going to be here. Ten Principles of Karma Management in three parts: Handle ...
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Eight Features of the Natha Sampradaya
We have to discover that part of us that is the Self. One of the important benefits of temple worship is it softens the ego. Recognize and love a Being ...
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Celebrating Pancha Ganapati
Gurudeva tells about Pancha Ganapati, even Hindu's today are celebrating Christmas. Gurudeva explains how and why we may reverse this trend. Gurudeva also tells us about daily talks between him ...
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Celebration of Pancha Ganapati
Gurudeva describes Pancha Ganapati, the five day festival, explaining how Hindus experience each day by bringing forth harmony and joy and happiness in all three worlds. Gurudeva then tells how ...
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The Second Day of Pancha Ganapati
A question about ahimsa is answered by Gurudeva who tells us we can go about harming others with thought, even long distance. Thought is the first thing that you do ...
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How to Realize God: Preparations For True Yoga
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Fulfill Dharma to Attain Realization
Bodhinatha comments on excerpts from the book "Self and Samadhi." Worship of Lord Ganesha helps us get settled in our dharma. Challenge ourselves through our duties. Interests and desires change from life ...
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Lord Ganesha
Today Gurudeva talks about Lord Ganesha and how He can help you. Then Brahmachari Nanthakumar reads about Lord Ganesha in the Malay language, and Gurudeva explains how each library in ...
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Spinning Wheels of Consciousness: 14 Regions of Consciousness
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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How Do We Celebrate Festivals?
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 64 of the Himalayan Academy publication Path To Siva, discussing Hindu festivals. ...
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The Language of Meditation
Master Course Recording. Chapter 12. Religion is the result of evolution. Are you a Hindu soul? Saivite lifestyle, Saivite thinking. Tirukural. Summa. Kanif. Become a natye. Meditation as a fine ...
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Loving Ganesha, A Chathurti Blessing
To celebrate Gurudeva's being in Malaysia this very moment, we present a talk he gave recently for Malaysia's Siddhi Vinayaka temple. He gave the talk for Kanesh Ramanathan while he ...
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Ganesha in the home; Five states of mind; Honoring ancestors
A cyber devotee asks if you have a Ganesha statue in the home which direction should he be facing. Gurudeva said that the Gods should always face you and you ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 8
Today's cybertalk is part eight of a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco. Arthur Pacheco conducts a weekly radio show in Honolulu, Hawaii and is also a trans-medium. ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 9
Today's cybertalk is a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco. Arthur Pacheco conducts a weekly radio show in Honolulu, Hawaii and is also a trans-medium. This interview is ...
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Worshipping the Gods
A cyberspace devotee wants to know if he should worship all the Gods equally or is there a particular God that he should worship first. Gurudeva explains that Hinduism has ...
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Let Go of Attachments, Part 2
Achieve the maximum possibilities we can attain in this life inwardly and outwardly. Attachments, regrets about the past, clinging to people and possessions, burden us and prevent us from moving ...
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The Nature and Worship of Lord Ganesha
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a thorough presentation about Lord Ganesha, the elephant-faced Patron of Art and Science, the Lord of Obstacles and Guardian of Dharma. Aum. ...
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Pancha Ganapati
Think of Pancha Ganapati as the Hindu Christmas, a modern winter holiday full of family-centered happenings, but with five days of gifts for the kids, not just one. From December ...
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Vakratunda Mahakaya, Dhyaan Shlok
This beautiful Lord Ganesha chant, Vakratunda Mahakaya, is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Lord Ganesha Gayatri
This very short, beautiful Lord Ganesha chant, Ganesha Gayatri, is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Lord Ganesha Japa
This very ancient japa to Lord Ganesha, "Aum Gam Ganapataye Namaha" said for 108 times, is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Mahesh Ganesha Stuti Bhajan
This beautiful Lord Ganesha bhajan is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Lord Ganesha Namavalli
This beautiful Lord Ganesha chant, Lord Ganesha Namavalli, is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Lord Ganesha Atharva Shirshya
This beautiful Lord Ganesha chant, Lord Ganesha Atharva Shirshya-, is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Ganesh Aarti - Part 2 - Pt. Jasraj
This Lord Ganesha bhajan is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Ganesh Aarti - Part 1 - Pt. Jasraj
This Lord Ganesha bhajan is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...
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Ganesh Aarti - Part 3 - Pt. Jasraj
This Lord Ganesha bhajan is performed by Pandit Jasraj, who we hosted at Kauai Aadheenam. ...