Tolerance

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      Be a Spiritual Leader

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a presentation on a topic which featured in the June/July/August 2011 edition of the Hinduism Today's Publisher Desk article entirled "Be a Spiritual Leader". In this presentation Bodhinatha ...

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      Noninjury, the Foremost Virtue

      Noninjury is the foremost virtue, the highest dharma or truth from which all dharma proceeds and the first ethical principle of Hinduism.Every indivdual must aim to avoid causing injury to ...

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      Growing Up Without Prejudice - Publisher Desk

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the April/May/June 2016 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. "Conflict and violence have their roots in hatred learned during youth. By teaching children tolerance, we create a more peaceful future." In order to build a peaceful world and society, we must refine our character ...

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      Satguru Speaks on Managing Your Subconscious Mind

      An Upadesha by Bodhinatha on May 6 2008 Bodhinatha read out a lesson on Managing Your Subconscious Mind from Merging with Siva. The subconscious mind is likened to a basement ...

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      Spiritualizing Temple Leadership HMEC 2012

      Presentation on "Spiritualizing Temple Leadership," given to the Hindu Mandir Executives' Conference on August 18, 2012, by Hinduism Today assistant editor Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami. In this presentation, Sannyasin emphasises the importance of maintaining ...

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      Bodhinatha Gives Opening Prayer in US Congress

      On June 4, 2013, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, the leader of Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Hawaii, gave the opening prayer for the session of the US House of Representatives as guest ...

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      Mistakes Are Part of The Spiritual Path

      Hinduism proclaims that all of mankind is good, that the whole world is one family; that all souls emanate from God and evolve into oneness with God. Each soul starts ...

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      Fixing Problems

      Problems are important for spiritual progress. We need a Guru to help us see our problems. We need to accept what comes to us as our karma, we don't because ...

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      The Roots of Martin Luther King

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami honors Dr. Martin Luther King's accomplishments and offers insights into his experience and adoption of Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience and the Hindu roots from which the world-changing ...

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      Parents are the First Guru

      Parents are the first gurus. This will be my message to parents in Mauritius, Malaysia and Singapore when I visit them this September. Everything starts in the home. To change ...

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      Local Martin Luther King Day Speech

      Bodhinatha give his final speech that he has prepared for the coming Martin Lurther King Day. Since the September 11 events, people are distrusting others. That leads to hatred and ...

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      Martin Luther King Day and Hinduism on Tolerance

      Parents need to teach tolerance. There are many practical ways to systematically do this from the pamphlet from the Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/ such as avoiding stereotypes and valuing ...

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      Karma Management Part 1

      I get many questions about karma that are way off the mark. We need to understand karma and apply it to our life. Here are 4 of the principles Principle ...

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      Karma Management Part 2

      Review of part 1 plus... Fifth principle: create no negative karmas. Refrain from actions that will create negative karmas. Promise to. Sixth principle: Mitigate past karma. As long as we're ...

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      Expressing Our Souls Divinity

      Portions of the Master Course lesson of the day from both Dancing with Siva and Merging with Siva are about the soul body. The soul body gives us an important ...

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      Our People

      A letter in Hinduism Today used the phrase "our people." Gurudeva never used this phrase. He reached out to everyone he encountered making no distinction. He also helped people broaden the ...

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      Relation of noninjury to contentment

      Bodhinatha continues his talk on the yamas and niyamas, relating the yama noninjury to the niyama of contentment. If we are content within ourselves, the tendency to disturb or hurt ...

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      Satya, or Truthfulness

      Bodhinatha talks about the second yama, truthfulness, satya, with regard to lying and betraying promises. Lying builds a layer of darkness in the subconscious that covers up the soul nature. ...

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      Noninjury and Brahmacharya

      Cybertalk: Bodhinatha speaks on vasudhaiva kutumbakam, "The whole world is one family," in reference to the current problem in India. He discusses the problem of the "my people" concept, that of exclusion, and the division it ...

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      Hinduism: The Greatest Religion in the World

      Hinduisms venerable age has seasoned it to maturity. It is the only religion, to my knowledge, which is not founded in a single historic event or prophet, but which itself ...

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      Hindu Unity

      Richly illustrated with many stories, this talk on 'Hindu Unity' to be given at the Draupadee Ammen Temple in Rose Hill, explores three aspects of Hindu unity. First, is Gurudeva's ...

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      Prejudice Free Consciousness

      We are not born with prejudice but prejudice is learned, there's a need to teach tolerance, joyous reverence for diversity. Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Swami Chinmayananda each spoke ...

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      Tirukural, Chapter 7-8, BAPS, London Visit

      Bodhinatha continues his series on the Tirukural chapter 7-8 synopsis summary. Also includes the presentation of the talk he planned to give while visiting London to the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, ...

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      Hindu Temple of Atlanta, diversity, Nartana Ritau

      Bodhinatha reviews last year's visit to the Siva Temple of Atlanta and preparation for this year's visit, He presents the topics of solidarity and diversity then quotes from scriptures and ...

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      Karma Management Day 4, Part 1

      2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 1 Bodhinatha gives several examples of how we can work through our karma by helping others through their karma. He also talks about Drug ...

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      Good and Evil People

      That there are good and evil people who should be treated differently is not the correct Hindu perspective, and we don't want this to go into the minds of our ...

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      Gurudeva's Mahavakya Part 1

      Bodhinatha welcomes everyone to the first annual observances of Gurudeva's mahasamadhi with a talk on the mahavakya, or great sayings. Citing several classics from the Upanishads, Bodhinatha repeats and elucidates ...

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      Gurudeva's Mahavakya Part 2

      Bodhiantha continues in Part 2 of his talk on the mahavakya, or great sayings, of our guru parampara. This part is on Gurudeva's mahavakya, split into five groups, with a ...

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      Malaysia Conference Part 2

      Bodhinatha continues his talk about unethical and ethical religious conversion and cites a number of very useful quotes from Gurudeva's recent book, How to Become a Hindu. Gurudeva encourages religious ...

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      Not Getting Angry

      After a short review of his recent talk on the Hindu philosophical outlook on the nature of man, Bodhinatha begins with a "Dear Bodhinatha" e-mail written in by a devotee who ...

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      How Judgments Affect Others

      Bodhinatha responds to an e-mail from Sheela Venkatakrishnan, the transcriber of his talks for the website, regarding how to look at assessments, evaluations and judgments. Bodhinatha says they're all the ...

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      Good Conduct Means to Assist

      Bodhinatha elucidates from Gurudeva's Master Course lesson of the day on good conduct and reminds us that our conduct should always be aimed to assist, never hinder. He tells a ...

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      Hindu Culture and the Temple

      Bodhinatha speaks on Hindu culture, the theme of the Jivana Ritau, and begins with Gurudeva's central thoughts on culture which are captured in the five Living with Siva sutras on ...

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      Seeing Siva in Everyone

      Here Bodhinatha reads from the daily Living with Siva lesson 323 on The Guru Tradition. After reading a section on developing the ability to see Siva in everything, Satguru expounds ...

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      Yama 7 - Daya, Compassion

      Yama number 7 - daya, compassion. Compassion is conquering cruelty. It is the outgrowth of love. Bodhinatha explains he difference beween ahimsa and daya. Part of compassion is the desire ...

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      Tolerance as a Hindu Value

      Bodhinatha began by speaking of the troubles in the world today, in the aftermath of 9/11. At the core of the problem is hatred, and we need to counter all ...

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      Living in Harmony with Intuition

      Living in harmony is a challenge for everyone at one time or another. Present opinions in ways that maintain harmony. Abstain from excessive talking as it stimulates unnecessary internal thinking. ...

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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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      The Subconscious Mind: Meditation's Great Obstacle

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

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      How Do We View Other Faiths?

      Hindus can accept and love the peoples of all religions yet not seek to convert them, although, we accept sincere seekers into the fold. All religions revere the One Truth ...

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      How Do We View Other Faiths?

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 68 of the Himalayan Academy publication Path To Siva, discussing how Hindus view other religions ...

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      Mauritius Elections; Avoid Those Angry People

      Gurudeva tells a little story today about one of his sishya in Mauritius who was recently elected to Parliament. He based his platform on the injunctions for politicians and parliamentarians ...

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      Demons, Heaven and Hell; Taunting in School

      Today we include two of Gurudeva's answers to questions from e-devotees. The first explores the view of demons, heaven and hell according to Hindu tradition. The second comes from young ...

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      Teaching Tolerance to Children

      Terrorism has brought forth hatred on TV. We need to teach children tolerance, teach them to love and trust. The qualities we create in our children create the future we ...

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      Bhakti, the Foundation, Leads to Humility

      Attainment beyond anava marga. Acknowledging and coming closer to the Deities. True humility and devotion result from sincere temple worship. Charya involves shutting out anger with love. Dancing with Siva ...