Metaphysics

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    Theism, Monism, Meditation, the Shumif Perspective

    urudeva's teachings and Saiva Siddhanta: Monistic Theism, Advaita Ishvaravada. Become a great Theist first. When perfected, through charya, kriya, yoga and jnana, when devotion to God Isvara is really strong, ...

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    We Know Not

    Naam ariyom: We do not know. The approach of our parampara: Not trying to explain the Truth but giving us concepts of God which help us get to the Truth. ...

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    What Are Siva's Three Perfections?

    The idea of Monistic Theism is seen in the three perfections of God Siva. Theism is the face of evolving, monism is always the Truth. We have pure consciousness and ...

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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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    The Physical and Pranic Bodies: Trace the Source of Prana

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    The Physical and Pranic Bodies: Experience Odic Prana

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    The Human Aura: The Art of Seeing Auras

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Color's Magic: Charging Your Aura with Prana

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Guru's Wisdom

    Addressing the challenges facing modern Hindus, including raising children, finding time for spiritual practice, the various yogas, living dharmically, managing stress, treating work as worship, using the power of affirmation ...

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    Powers of the Spine: The Ida and Pingala Currents

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Powers of the Spine: The Spine's Central Energy

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Men and Women Are Not the Same: The Ideals of Family Life

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Chakras, Energies, Death and Reincarnation

    Master Course Recording. Chapter 10. Defines chakras and moving awareness through them. Kashumlinga, sushumna, simshumbisi. Cycles of man's life every seven years. Defining Aum. Body as temple. Muladhara and memory ...

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    Realize What You Know

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a talk on lesson 156 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's Merging With Siva, titled "Japa Opens Inner Doors." Satguru discusses the importance of personal inner experience for a true spiritual life. ...

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    The Intuitive Nature

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a talk on lesson 223 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book, Merging With Siva, about our Intuitive Nature. ...

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    Nirvikapla Samadhi

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly talk in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru reads from lesson 339 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book Merging with Siva, discussing the depths of ...

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    The Story of Awareness

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from chapter 5 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book "Merging with Siva," which is titled "The Story of Awareness" and which elaborates on the evolution of one's awareness as we traversed the spiritual ...

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    Awareness and Consciousness

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 34 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book "Merging with Siva," discussing the subtle differences between awareness and conscious. ...

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    The Leaders of Tomorrow

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple. Here he reads from and discusses lesson 54 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book, Merging with Siva. ...

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    Four Perspectives of Consciousness

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru discusses the four perspectives of consciousness that are outlined in the Shum language of meditation. ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Seventh Dimension Part 2

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind. ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Sixth Dimension Part 1

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Fifth Dimension Part 1

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Fifth Dimension Part 2

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Fifth Dimension Part 4

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Fourth Dimension Part 1

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Fourth Dimension Part 2

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Third Dimension Part 1

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    The Seven Dimensions of the Mind - The Third Dimension Part 2

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here, Satguru continues his discussion of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's writings about the seven dimensions of the mind with ...

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    Seven Dimensions of the Mind

    "THE DIMENSIONS ARE A POSITIVE AND HELPFUL WAY OF LOOKING AT LIFE AND understanding the experiences we have on the inward path. By identifying experience as being within one dimension or another, we are able to know at all times just where we are in consciousness, and that knowledge is the control over awareness that we need to continue the upward climb. At all times we are flowing through all of the dimensions. They all exist in total completion right now within us. However, we are only conscious periodically in one ...

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    The Concept of Awareness Part One

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an upadesha on the concept of awareness from the yogic perspective. ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Two

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 2 of his upadeshas on the concept of awareness from the yogic perspective ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Three

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 3 of his upadeshas on the concept of awareness from the yogic perspective. ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Four

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 4 of his upadesha series on the concept of awareness and omnipresence from the yogic perspective ...

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    Awareness and Omnipresence-Yoga, Charya, Part 3

    The practices of Saiva Siddhanta, thousands of years of teachings: The four padas of charya, kriya, yoga and jnana the natural sequence of the soul's evolutionary process to attain moksha, ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Five

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 5 of his upadesha series on the concept of awareness and omnipresence from the yogic perspective. ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Six

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 6 of his upadesha series on the concept of awareness and omnipresence from the yogic perspective. ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Seven

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 7 of his upadesha series on the concept of awareness and omnipresence from the yogic perspective. ...

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    The Concept of Awareness - Part Eight

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an Part 8 of his upadesha series on the concept of awareness and consciousness from the yogic perspective. ...

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    Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 1

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part one of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a verity of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, ...

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    Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 6

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part six of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a variety of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, ...

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    Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 7

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part seven of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a variety of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, ...

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    Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 8

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part eight of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a variety of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, ...

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    Initution, Runs Cold, Direct, Like a Bolt of Lightening

    How do we tell the difference between what is genuine intuition and what is not? Gurudeva's and Yogaswami's high spiritual attainments are also our potential, the spiritual destiny of each ...

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    Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 9

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part nine of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a variety of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, ...

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    Attending Your Innerversity

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple. This week he continues on the subject of awareness, as found in the teachings of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. ...

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    From Merging With Siva - The River of Life - Part 6

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part six of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings ...

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    Insight: A Mystical Map of Existence & Consciousness

    Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami--Author's Introduction to the Dimensions--The dimensions are a positive and helpful way of looking at life and understanding the experiences we have on the inward path. By identifying ...