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Devotion Is a Prerequisite for Realization
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-12-21
Acquire, cultivate and perfect devotion to God before sitting to meditate. Meditation is intense, dynamic when approached in...
Discipline Thinking about the Future
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-30
Worry, thinking about unnecessary negative patterns, excessive talk: Wastes energy, over-stimulates intellect and desire. Discipline, quiet the mind....
Patience with karma. Double your Practice.
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-31
Ashramas in family life keep us busy up to age 72 but then there's more time; double your...
Fulfill Dharma to Attain Realization
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-08
Bodhinatha comments on excerpts from the book "Self and Samadhi." Worship of Lord Ganesha helps us get settled in our...
You Are the Self, Identify with Awareness
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-23
Find the right balance in the world that you can sustain. Purify, quiet the mind, transcend externalities. See...
Find the Self
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-16
Wrapped up in externalities, upset, life in a swirl, we forget about going within. Be sublime, control actions...
Affirm Your Divinity
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-09
Seeing our shortcomings it's hard to think of ourselves as divine beings. Avoiding that series of memories we...
We Are Not Sinners
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-02
The idea of redemption is not really the case in Hinduism. Being already exists deep in the soul....
Bhakti, the Foundation, Leads to Humility
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-09-02
Attainment beyond anava marga. Acknowledging and coming closer to the Deities. True humility and devotion result from sincere...
No Guilt, Do Penance, Live Joyously
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-08-26
Think of heaven and hell as being states of mind, available in the present moment. Live in a...
How God and Gods Come Into the Murti During Puja; Jivana Ritau
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-08-18
Three varied Hindu views regarding the Gods and temple images. Gurudeva's perception: During the high point of puja...
Theism and Monism in Saiva Siddhanta
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-27
In Gurudeva's teachings both approaches, monism and theism, are found in one tradition: monistic Saiva Siddhanta. Keep them...
Dealing with Distraction, Lesson 99 of Living with Siva
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-20
The shumif perspective is helpful in detachment. Thoughts are stationary, move awareness to the pattern we want to...
Importance of the Saiva Agamas
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-02
This talk was prepared by Bodhinatha as an address to the conference of Adi Saiva priests in Bangalore,...
Conduct, thoughts, life-cycles
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-06-12
When we think about someone, we're sending a thought form to that person. Start with: "I need to be sending positive thoughts to others." Negative habits,...
Classical Definition of Yoga
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-21
The Yoga Pada of Gurudeva related to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. The goal is to restrain the vrittis. Awareness,...
Methods for Maintaining Inner Awareness
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-14
When going into meditation have a destiny; find the spiritual energy, the power that's within the spine. Learn...
The Soul and Its Five Bodies
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-08
One of the ways of understanding the soul is to understand what it is not. The faculties of...
Decisions, Discover and Use Your Intuition
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-30
As a human race we don't solve problems until we have to; then we get highly motivated. Forget...
Find Your Divinity Within, Do Sadhana and Service
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-26
We don't have to do anything to become God. Religion gives us an age-old, well proven structure to...
Life's Experiences Accelerate Our Evolution
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-22
Most of us need interaction with other people to challenge us, to make spiritual progress. The more we...
No Need to Ponder Past Lives - Look to the future
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-03-23
We are the sum total of actions and reactions set in motion in past lives, recorded in the...
Accepting and Facing Challenges
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-03-13
Having a sense of who we are, fulfilling the dharma of that person, we're motivated to do certain...
Accept Your Life; Be Engaged
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-02-22
Many people end up in the state of mind that we should be doing something else. Accept reincarnation...
Importance of Associations; Hinduism In the Technological Era
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-01-17
The inner nature of every person is divine. We need a balance in recognizing the inner divinity but...
Niyama 10: Tapas
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-01-11
Tapas is to practice austerity, serious disciplines, penance and sacrifice which increases the speed at which we are...
Accepting Mistreatment
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-12-27
Create a vibration of love and harmony. Misunderstandings, not cleared up, build year after year. Karma is in...
See God by Guru's Grace
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-11-12
In Hinduism believing in God is only the first step. Hindus want to move beyond just believing to...
Three Spiritual Goals of Life and Willpower
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-11-03
Three goals of life : realization, liberation and merger. Realization means we have a complete experience of the...
The Many Benefits of Temple Worship
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-10-13
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...
Hindu versus Christian Practice
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-10-05
Doing good works is not enough. Practicing Hinduism, believing that we are all divine beings, we to come...
Let Go of Attachments, Part 2
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-08-30
Achieve the maximum possibilities we can attain in this life inwardly and outwardly. Attachments, regrets about the past,...
Let Go of Attachments, Part 1
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-08-26
The sacredness of rivers. "The River of Life." as inspired by Niagara Falls. Attachment comes in many forms and hinders us...
Siva Meditation Only for Serious Meditators
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-07-31
Shi Va. Two syllable version of the Panchakshara, a monistic version. When we go deep enough in meditation...
Identify God Within
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-07-24
Hold a balance between thinking of ourselves as an immortal soul and realizing that we make mistakes or...
Master Your Energy Patterns Through Meditation
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2011-07-02
Consistent meditation draws energy from the instinctive mind into superconscious, lessening antagonistic forces. Energy is energy although it...