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The Inner Workings of Temple Worship
An upadesha by Bodhinatha describing Gurudeva's most important teaching: God realiation as the foremost goal of life. Deep inside we are perfect this very moment and have to live up ...
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Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami is guest of honor at the graduation ceremony for Sri Skandaguru Vidyalayam at Tiruparakundram Murugan Temple just outside of Madurai, April 3, 2010. Bodhinatha is honoured and ...
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Bodhinatha Padapuja in Carlsbad
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami attended satsang and received padapuja from the devotees of the Southern California Saiva Siddhanta Church mission in Carlsbad, California. Video by Shailesh Trivedi. ...
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Gurudeva's Spiritual Visions
There are always on the Earth a few rare souls who from birth are open to the mysteries within life and consciousness more than the rest of us. They become ...
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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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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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Jayanthi Address
Gurudeva's Shakti is so strong here at Kauai Aadheenam, stronger than any other place. Initiations are an important part of Saivism. It starts an inner process. The Paramachaya initiations of ...
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Pujas to Gurudeva
Tomorrow is our monthly pada puja for Gurudeva on Chitra nakshatra. So, we're thinking about Gurudeva and the future. Gurudeva has been appearing in the monks dreams and talking about ...
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Six Streams of Hindu Philosophy
Darshana is the art of seeing. To see is ordinary. Everyone sees, but when a rishi sees, it makes a difference. He reflects on what is seen, questions it, examines ...
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The Satguru
Everyone needs a teacher, a model to look up to and follow, a master of his art, a champion in his field, one who sets the standards of aspiration. These ...
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Darshan's Mystic Power
Darshan, experiencing through vision, seeing and perception, the Deity's darshan, the Guru's darshan. Asian Tsunami of 2004 and A message to Toronto devotees for Sri Sivayogaswami's Maha Samadhi Festival, from ...
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Revealed Scriptures
Bodhinatha speaks about Hinduism's revealed scriptures, the Vedas and Agamas. These are called sruti, "that which is heard." This ties into the 6th niyama, siddhanta sravana, which is literally scriptural "listening." The transferrence ...
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Honoring the Mayor of Kauai
Bodhinatha gives news of a dinner at the Marriott Hotel which he and another monk attended in honor of our island's mayor who is about to leave office after eight ...
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Honoring Gurudeva at Lydgate Park
At the Lydgate Park event honoring Gurudeva, Bodhinatha addressed the public regarding the monastery's intention to continue all the wonderful community contributions that Gurudeva set in motion when he was ...
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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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Darshan Goes Both Ways
Reading from Gurudeva's upadesha on darshan, Bodhinatha delves into Gurudeva's special insights on the spiritual darshan of the guru. The concept of darshan goes beyond the devotee's seeing of the ...
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Don't Get Stuck in the Mud
One reaction many face in life is the feeling of being unworthy and wanting to give up in our spiritual efforts. This feeling of despair can make a person feel ...
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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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Niyama 6 - Siddhanta Shravana
The niyama of siddhanta shravana involves studying and listening to learned people, our primary scriptures, the Vedas, and other holy texts. This guides us to become more spiritual people. But ...
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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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Exchange Love in Cyberspace
Swamiji Maharaj is 54 today. His beautiful talk from this morning can be heard here. Gurudeva has given him a mission to perform, to stop corporal punishment and to lift ...
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Face and Accept Karma; Three Ways to Mitigate Karma
Human nature is very strange in that we tend to blame others when things go poorly. Avoid that. Accept whatever happens as our own creation. Karma can be mitigated or ...
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How to Realize God: The Perspective Of the Knower
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Making Spiritual Progress Through Darshan
Today Gurudeva talks about darshan, the non-verbal communication of seeing a holy man. Then he talks about cows, and what to do when your cow herd gets too big and ...
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The Fine Art of Meditation: Finding Your Guru
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Three Worlds - This is Religion
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami explains how Saivism brings the beings of the Three Worlds together. He explains how they work together throug the temple, and the esoteric workings of darshan. Great ...
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The Great Story of Awareness
Master Course recording. Chapter 1. Gurudeva defines who is a mystic and what awareness is. Gurudeva elaborates on 5 states of mind, Self Realization, darshan. Dedication: This course is dedicated ...
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Talking about Religion
Gurudeva asks "What if there were no priests in your temple?" Gurudeva tells us to keep the priests happy and the vibrations in the temple will come up. Sanskrit awakens religion within us. Supreme Energy comes through the ...
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Sanskrit for Invocation of the Gods
Gurudeva tells us the importance of Sanskrit in the temple. The Priest is talking to and invoking God and Gods. Destruction of religion and darshan, attraction of asuras, takes place ...
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Return of a Spiritual Generation
Darshan & Invocation Part 3. Samskaras impress the subconscious minds of children. Abused children can be brought back to the temple to become the core of the community, to be ...
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The Many Benefits of Temple Worship
The most important teaching of Gurudeva: "Siva's followers strive for God Realization as the first and foremost goal of life." Gurudeva's mystic and psychic abilities. Gurudeva is the only teacher in modern time to stress temple worship. How the temple works and the ...
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Importance of Associations; Hinduism In the Technological Era
Part 1 of Bodhinatha's Karma Management Course preliminary to a presentation to be given in Singapore including questions and answers from pilgrims/devotees during the 10th Annual Gurudeva Mahasamadhi Celebration. ...
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Darshan: Seeing and Being Seen
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from chapter 303 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book, Merging with Siva, discussing the mystical mechanics of darshan, meaning "vision, seeing or perception." ...
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Mystic Power of Darshan, Vision of Oneness
This is Advaita Ishvaravada: When you really take darshan to its depth, you are looking at the Deity or the guru, the Deity or the guru is looking at you, ...