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Spirit of the Kailasa Parampara

Gurudeva talks on the spirit of the Parampara covering various topics: Spirit of the Guru passed on; Purpose of guru, spirit of sampradaya handed down; Nandinatha Sutras, knowledge of parampara; ...
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Accept the World, Take Responsibility

What is happening in the world is supposed to be happening, not because God wants it to happen but because man created it. There is no advantage, as a normal ...
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How to Live Spiritually 24 Hours/Day

During a seminar at the Hindu Association of West Texas in Midland, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami explains the paradigm shift required in order to look at our entire day as an ...
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Practice Makes Perfect

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a presentation on a topic entitled "Practice Makes Perfect" which featured in the Jan/Feb/Mar 2011 Hinduism Today. In this Presentation Bodhinatha explains that deep inside we are perfect ...
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Letting Go Of Past And Future

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's presentation entitled "Letting Go of Past and Future" features in the Jul/Aug/Sep 2010 Hindusim Today edition. In this presentation, Bodhinatha explains that the restraint of the modifications of the mind or yoga ...
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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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Siva Is the Life of Your Life

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami gives a talk to his monastics reminding them of the simple truth that God Siva is the life of our lives. Holding on to that truth at ...
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Introduction to Hinduism (Part 2/5)

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 issue.In part 2, Bodhinatha outlines the four basic Hindu beliefs, namely, Karma, reincarnation, ...
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The World is an Ashram

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a presentation on a topic entitled "The World is an Ashram" which featured in the Apr/May/Jun 2006 Hinduism Today edition. Our Gurus proclaim that from a Hindu perspective the world ...
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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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Making Dharma Your Own - Publisher's Desk

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the October/November/December 2016 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. "Dharma is a complex and comprehensive term with many meanings, including religion, divine law, law of being, way of righteousness, ethics, duty, responsibility, virtue, justice, goodness and truth." Bodhinatha refers to Auvaiyar's Atti Chudhi verses - first verse focusing on the desire ...
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Making Dharma Your Own

Bodhinatha's presentation is based on the Oct/Nov/Dec 2016 Hinduism Today edition and is entitled "Making Dharma Your Own". Dharma is a complex and comprehensive term for religion, ethics, duty, virtue and is ...
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Appreciation

Many times we don't tell people how much we appreciate them. A bird visited us for lunch a number of days in a row and took some food each day. ...
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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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Deeper Perspectives and Monastic's Realization of the Self

The more you can detach yourself from life the more you can avoid the ups and downs of life, but you don't want to detach too much, or you will ...
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Finding Affectionate Detachment

Bodhinatha describes the various kinds of negative attachment and methods by which to free ourselves from attachments to negative experiences in the past. Moving from negative attachment to "unaffectionate detachment" to ...
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The Lessons of Water

Bodhinatha talks about rain and water and their importance. We live by a river at the Aadheenam and it offers a lot: the mystical teaching of the soul's merger in ...
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The Magic of the High EE

Sometimes we don't hear the high "ee" sound. Gurudeva says it is only there when the subconscious mind is free of problems, conflict and unresolved issues. We know they are ...
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Mistakes are not problems

Cybertalk: Gurudeva said, "Problems are not problems. A problem is a repetition of the past that needs to be adjusted." It means that when we make a mistake, we think that we shouldn't have done what we did; it would be better if it didn't happen. ...
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Karma is not destiny

If the manifestation of karma is inevitable, why do parents need to discipline their children at all? If something is in the child's karma and it's going to manifest inevitably, ...
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Becoming Centered

We welcome Swami Pragyanand from New Delhi, India. Merging with Siva talks about being thrown off center. Being off center is not a negative thing. It is a spiritual opportunity ...
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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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To err is human...

To err is human, to make a mistake only once is divine. Go beyond feeling bad about making a mistake and find out why and prevent it from happening next ...
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What Is Our Code of Conduct? Yamas

"Siva's devotees...move the forces of the world and are not moved or affected by them." We meet and interact with all kinds of people. If we're not following all the yamas it gets difficult to hold spirituality and to meditate. Actions which deviate from ...
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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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Take a Moment to Listen to the Birds

The weather is beginning to warm up again on Kauai, and more birds are singing. Some new birds have come to the Aadheenam, and we hear their unique songs. Bodhinatha ...
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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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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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Malaysia Youth Seminar

The first one-day Master Course youth seminar has been held by Sivaneswaran and Aravidraj in Malaysia. These two young men came to Kauai last year on a Task Force program ...
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Temple Messages

I receive requests to send letters blessing various activities at Hindu temples around the world, just as Gurudeva did. The New Zealand Tiru Murugan Temple is having its kumbhabhishekam after ...
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California Trip April 2002

Bodhinatha begins by talking about his recent visit to our Church mission in Northern California and the Palaniswami Siva-Murugan Temple in Concord. At the mission satsang, he introduced a new ...
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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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Gratitude and Appreciation

Yesterday at the Vision Kauai meeting, the person who created the blue ribbon "Who I am makes a difference", was there. She had an excellent set of stories about appreciation. Gurudeva gave us two ...
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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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Creating a Family Plan Part 1

Nartana ritau, the season from mid-April to mid-August, is the season for planning. Gurudeva put emphasis on the three seasons, as he liked variety, and Bodhinatha tells us all about ...
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Creating a Family Plan Part 2

How do we develop goals as part of our plans? Bodhinatha answers this question in part two of his talk on planning. He gives many sample goals and hopes that ...
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Controlling Anger part 1

In part one of a talk on anger, Bodhinatha speaks of the various levels of difficulty people have with this instinctive state of consciousness. Gurudeva gave some very useful suggestions ...
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Controlling Anger part 1

In part one of a talk on anger, Bodhinatha speaks of the various levels of difficulty people have with this instinctive state of consciousness. Gurudeva gave some very useful suggestions ...
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Jyotisha, Hindu Astrology

In the Hindu view, the plantes are not mere celestrial bodies circling the Sun. They are also divine beings-shown here as they were positioned on the first morning of the ...
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Aging Gracefully

Secrets from India on Soaring Spiritually through Your Precious Senior Years on Planet Earth ...
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Growing Up Hindu

Personal values and character traits instilled when young are the key resources for youth to face the challenges of teen years. Herein are ten stories illustrating the value and power ...
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Nandinatha Sutras in Tamil

This is 100 hundred of the 365 Nandinatha Sutras from Living with Siva, translated into Tamil by Sockalingam ...
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Hinduism's Nandinatha Sutras

A modern compilation of 365 verses summarizing the tradtional way to enlightenment for followers of God Siva. ...
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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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Finding Peace and Contentment

Worried? Burdened? Frustrated? Here are some amazingly effective techniques that can bring shanti into your life. ...
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Peace and Contentment, Talk for Hindu Temple of Atlanta

Bodhinatha's message to devotees at the Hindu Temples of Atlanta puts forth the role of the temple and the home in bringing peace and harmony to the world and the ...
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Patience and Forbearance

Bodhinatha shares with an article he wrote for a religious newspaper published in Mauritius, titled "Patience and Forbearance." In it he gives examples of patience and how one can lead a cultured ...
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Spiritualizing Daily Life -- Six Challenges in Life

Bodhinatha begins a series of talks which focus on the topic of Spiritualizing Daily Life. He includes the themes The World is an Ashram and Work is Worship. Six common ...
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State of the Church

Bodhinatha delivers the annual "State of the Church" message to begin 2006 including information on the future of Hinduism Today and digital enhancements, upcoming travel and Iraivan Temple. Bodhinatha also gives a synopsis ...
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Spiritualizing Daily Life and Opportunities to Serve

Bodhinatha describes how the Digital Edition of Hinduism Today will contain rich media audio and video files. Yogaswami said that the world is an ashram. Bodhinatha explains that the world ...
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Facing Life's Challenges: The Fourth Challenge--Disturbed Emotions

Bodhinatha lists many common causes of emotional upsets. He then lists seven obstacles to resolution of the upset. Finally, he lists four keys to handling disturbed emotions. ...
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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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Ananda-happiness

Bodhinatha discourses on the third of five beliefs and five practices; the third belief being ananda-happiness. Many associate happiness with desire. Bodhinatha presents bhashya on Gurudeva's outlook on desire: "Desire is life and the reason we desire things is because we are alive. Desire is energy expressing itself." ...
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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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Karma Management Day 4, Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 3 Bodhinatha explains the last three principles of Karma Management. Number 8 is "accelerate karma," which is done through performing daily sadhana (religious practices). Number ...
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Why Bodhinatha became a Hindu

Bodhinatha talks about the recent symposium on Hinduism at the Pittsburgh temple. Some asked Bodhinatha why he became a Hindu. In addition to a routine response, he came up with ...
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Origin of Karma Management

Bodhinatha tells the story of the origin of the Karma Management seminar idea. Additionally he talks about enlightenment and dispels the common misconception that it happens instantaneously. He elaborates on ...
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Welcome to the Jivana Ritau

Welcome to the Jivana Ritau! Why did Gurudeva give us the three ritau system? Because he liked variety, change, for everything not to just remain the same all the time. ...
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Jivana Ritau Focuses

Bodhinatha speaks a bit about the Jivana Ritau and its focus on looking at areas we are weak in and trying to upgrade. The yamas and niyamas are the ideals ...
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Choose Realistic Goals in Meditation

Bodhinatha talks about the problematic attitude of getting sad when our spiritual experiences aren't as deep as we want them to be or think they should be. He reminds us ...
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When Everything Seems to Go Wrong

Everyone has days when everything seems to go wrong. Bodhinatha emphasizes that we must recognize that days like this happen and not have an unrealistic idea that all days are ...
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Managing Disturbed Emotions, from "Spiritualizing Daily Life".

"Disturbed Emotions" from the "Facing Life's Challenges" list of Spiritualizing Daily Life. Controlling emotions. Causes of emotional disturbances. Seven obstacles preventing management of disturbed emotions. Four keys to handling disturbed emotions. Spiritual progress ...
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Excerpts from prior talks

Bodhinatha distills portions of talks he has given in the past to present various topics: an analogy between waking up from a dream state and the realization of Parashiva, three ...
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Enduring Happiness

Redirecting and transmuting desire is discussed for the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of Yogaswami's Mahasamadhi. How to pass on His wisdom to youth and children to inspire them to ...
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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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The Nature of Desire

Bodhinatha gives a wonderful discourse on the nature of desire. Gurudeva never asked us to give up desire. Desire is life. However, on the spiritual path it is important to ...
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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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The State of the World

Three viewpoints on the state of the world: trying to improve it, being realistic about trying to change it, everything is as it should be. The tendency to divide groups ...
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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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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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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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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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Analyzing from the Fourth Dimension

The third dimension is our emotional reactions to challenging changes in the circumstances of life. We can improve experiences by utilizing the fourth dimension to gain insight and see the ...
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Identify with Pure Awareness

Bodhinatha delves into the nature of awareness, describing that we are not the states of consciousness we experience, rather we are pure awareness that experiences or travels through different areas ...
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The True Sources of Happiness

Bodhinatha describes how harmonious relationships are maintained in grihastha life, in which the natural state is to be surrounded by family and friends. These relationships are important and help us ...
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How Does Moksha Ritau Apply to Family Life?

Part 1 of 4 - Bodhinatha talks about the moksha ritau, the cool season and one-third of the year when we focus on the inside of ourselves and making improvements ...
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The Importance of Controlling Anger

Part 2 of 4 - In Bodhinatha's moksha ritau address for 2002, he continues with a practical explanation of the affects of anger and how important it is to get ...
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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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Staying in Touch with Gurudeva and Facing Karma

Bodhinatha talks about ways of staying in touch with Gurudeva, such as through our monthly guru puja and reading Gurudeva's teachings. Next he discusses the natural patterns of life's karmas ...
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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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The Progression of Self-Concept

Bodhinatha discusses the talk he delivered to a nice metaphysical group that visited from Chicago, describing the 4 self-concepts we evolve through in life - 1) external ego identity (negative) ...
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Engage Positively With the World

To those pursuing the path of selfless service the world takes on a spiritual nature. Engage in the world with a positive spiritual attitude having in mind that actions during ...
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How to See God Everywhere

Bodhinatha continues his exploration of sloka 1 from Dancing with Siva with sentences 2 and 3 - "We came from God, live in God, and are evolving into oneness with God. We are in Truth, the truth we seek." God is our life, the Life of our life, and an important ...
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Positive Attitudes for Positive Spiritual Progress

Bodhinatha reads sloka 2 of Dancing with Siva - "Where am I going? What is my path?" The Hindu spiritual path can be described in three simple ways - becoming a better person, learning from our experiences, ...
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The Importance of Knowing Thy Self

Finding our spiritual identity, "Knowing Thy Self," is not a concept at the forefront of the world's mind. With knowledge so readily available, people fill themselves up with knowledge about so many ...
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Force Fields and Thought

You are much more influenced by those who surround you then you realize. We want to be the changer rather than the changed. We need to be challenged to strengthen ...
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Affirmation Part 1-- Rebuilding Self-Confidence

Rebuilding Self-Confidence through Affirmation, Part 1 of 3. For a gathering recently we were explaining the Hindu spiritual path without any Sanskrit words. It is "becoming a better person, improving our behavior and learning from our mistakes." After we heal from ...
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Affirmation Part 2 -- Remolding the Subconscious

Part 2 of 3 Remolding the Subconscious through Affirmation. This is a two-part process. The first is vasana daha tantra, writing down the past and burning it. The second part ...
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Affirmation Part 3-- Family affirmation. Sharing Life Decisions with God, Gods and Guru

Affirmation Part 3 of 3. Gurudeva developed an affirmation for his married devotees and just finished editing it just a few weeks before his mahasamadhi. Bodhinatha shares this affirmation with ...
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Yama 5 - Kshama, Patience

Yama number 5 - kshama, patience. The youth group in Malaysia is focusing on the yamas and niyamas as the basics for successful temple worship. There are many opportunities to ...
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Yama 6 - Dhriti, Steadfastness

Yama number 6 - dhriti, steadfastness. Willpower has to be used to be steadfast. Overcoming fear, and perseverance, are steadfastness. Gurudeva said, "consistency is the key to the conquest of karma." Dhriti is also important to progressing on ...
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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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Yama 9 - Mitahara, Moderate Appetite

Bodhinatha begins with a note about Mother's Day, Father's Day and Grandparent's Day. He offers the key that we should be openly appreciative of our elders, and the more specific ...
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Yama 10 - Saucha, Purity

Yama number 10, saucha, purity. Purity includes clean clothing, good character, physical surroundings and no foul language. Physical purity is important, especially washing clothes regularly, or putting them in the ...
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Niyama 1 - Hri, Remorse and Modesty

Bodhinatha speaks on hri, the niyama of remorse, which is needed to resolve problems. Niyamas focus on helping us to express our divine qualities. Criminals will repeat crimes unless they ...
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Niyama 2 - Santosha, Contentment

Bodhinatha speaks on santosha, contentment. This niyama is about being content and happy on the inside of ourselves no matter what happens on the outside. Unfulfilled desires keep us from ...
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Niyama 3 - Dana, Giving

After a short introduction on the progress of our children's course, of efforts to get Gurudeva's teachings to a broader region through classes and camps in various countries, Bodhinatha speaks ...
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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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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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The Role of the Guru

Choose a sect of Hinduism and a guru and dedicate yourself to him. The need for a guru is preeminent in Saiva Siddhanta. A guru focuses on our weakest areas, ...
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Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru Part 5

Part 5 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 tells us that ...
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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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Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru Part 7

Part 7 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 explains that part ...
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Becoming a More Spiritual Person Part 1

Part 1 of 3 - Bodhinatha gives a second class during Guru Purnima on the role of the guru. Beginning with a glorious quote from Gurudeva about the spirit of ...
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Becoming a More Spiritual Person Part 3

Part 3 of 3 - Bodhinatha continues his second class during Guru Purnima, talking more about not making the same mistake twice. Using the yamas and niyamas as a reference ...
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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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Yama 4 - Brahmacharya

Bodhinatha spoke on the yama of brahmacharya, purity and chastity, today. He described it as the harnessing of the instincts, including sexual desire, stressing the value of remaining celibate until ...
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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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Introduction to the Yamas and Niyamas

Cybertalk: Bodhinatha gives his introduction to the Yamas and niyamas, the Hindu Code of Conduct. He explains that a simple look at what it means to be a Hindu is ...
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Resolving Difficulties with Others

Gurudeva sanctioned the prayaschitta of walking prostrations for pilgrims and members who come to Kauai Aadheenam. The Jivana Ritau is a study of Living with Siva, and of the sutras ...
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Putting Gurudeva's Teachings to the Best Use, Part 3

Bodhinatha continues his Gurudeva mahasamadhi observances class with this part on ashtanga yoga, which is the teaching of our Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara. When you go to study yoga somewhere ...
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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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God is Love; Putting This Into Practice

The deepest perception of Love: Love is the ultimate Truth. Our Affirmation of Faith: "God Siva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality." You are also that Love, you are also God Siva. There's only one Being and ...
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Your Self-Concept; You Are A Divine Soul

Focus on being a soul, not the body, mind and emotions. When we think of ourselves as a soul we're able to move forward and get closer and closer to ...
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Jnana. Self Correcting Awareness.

Iccha , Kriya and Jnana Shakti: the pattern of life. We can always use more of the power of wisdom, Jnana Shakti. The power of desire, Iccha Shakti. If it ...
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Making Wise Decisions

Contact intuitional guidance with clarity and detail for important decisions: the answer comes right to you. Postpone key decisions when emotional or upset. Major decisions need to be made by ...
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Harnessing Reaction; Live in the Box of Dharma

Responding and handling karma when feeling mistreated. The goal: insight into our self, get into a more refined cycle of life. Harness instinctive and intellectual reaction and forgive, karma's totally ...
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Control of Thought, Includes Purifying the Subconscious

Mechanism for major change in the subconscious mind from an ordinary to a spiritual state. Vasana Daha Tantra to clear suppressed memories. Be observant of what's going on inside. Devotion ...
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The Summit of All Religions; Regular Meditation

Religion has a oneness in mysticism but has major differences in terms of beliefs and practices. Unrelenting effort, working on the outside with our faults and weaknesses, allows us to ...
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Contentment - Santosha, Cultivating Joy and Serenity in Life

Santosha, the second niyama. Find joy in the morning. In the physical world no thing is perfect as it is subject to creation, preservation and dissolution. Perfection is in the ...
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Challenges Bring Progress

Living through major challenges, gaining better self control, moving in the right direction, trying for improvement not perfection, we progress spiritually. Learn to be peaceful in the midst of intense ...
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Influences in the Conscious Mind

On the spiritual path be careful to not let the worldly approach of others influence us. Take time each day for spiritual practice; turn off the externalizing and limiting conscious ...
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Detach Awareness From the Consious Mind

Avoid creating ripples in life, being permanently emotionally disturbed. The English language is a conscious mind language structured to teach us that we are our emotions. Be observant of thought ...
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Meditation Empowers the Mind with Restraint and Intuition

Superconsciousness is always there within us. A simple key to contacting it is relaxation. Step back, become internalized. Meditation requires retraining the way we think. The mind is used to ...
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Staying in Tune with Superconsciousness

By having a strong habit of a daily religious practice we don't lose contact with with superconscious by the demands of the external. Saying and believing, "I'm all right right now," influences the flow ...
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The Practice of Contentment

Reflect on happiness, joy and sorrow. Even when having what we want, suffering is built in. Sometimes we condition our happiness. During morning sadhana claim and move awareness into the ...
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Raise Kundalini Gradually; Strive Continuously

Awakening the kundalini prematurely can have negative consequences. A slow gradual process is favored. Persevere, be consistent, particularly when facing challenging personal situations. If we let down in our sadhana ...
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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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Resentment; Control of Speech; Responding Kindly

"Realize That God Is Love." Resentment is a barrier in spiritual life. Accept the Hindu point of view, that whatever happens to us is our karma to experience even if we are mistreated. Resentment ...
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Nine Ways to Merge With Siva

On Mahasivaratri, February 27, 2014, Satguru Bodhinathaswami comments on Gurudeva's introduction to Merging with Siva, where he elucidates nine different ways that we can merge with God Siva. Everyone on ...
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All Religions Not the Same; Right Beliefs; Accepting

"Truth is one, paths are many." Some religions feel that it's their duty to try and convert, that theirs is the only true path. For someone starting on the path they need to discard the ...
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The Eternal Now

To be centered in the eternal now is discussed by Gurudeva, how the past and the future all exist right now. The eternity of the moment exists in its totality ...
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Describing Our Perfect Souls

Gurudeva describes seeing out into "cyberspace", which is similar to seeing into the astral world, but a slightly different kind of psychic vision. You are perfect, he says, and ...
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Sadhana to Uplift

Gurudeva talks about the work place. We do what we do in love. Love everyone equally. Accept everyone as being on the spiritual path. Higher and lower chakras are discussed, ...
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Understanding Attachment and Affectionate Detachment

If we think about something frequently it means we're attached to it. Attraction is positive attachment; aversion is negative attachment. If we can stay in the present, do what's presented ...
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Yoga: Restraint of Mental Activity

Yoga is not about the body, it's about nirodhah, restraint of mental activity. When we sit to meditate we transmute force out of the physical into the mental, raising our ...
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Separating Awareness From What It Perceives

The preliminary practices of meditation ideally put us into a state where we are not thinking. Then there is no need to control the mind; we just remain summa. We ...
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Change Mind, No to Drugs

Today Gurudeva reads to us a from many years ago, 1959, just before coming to Kauai. concerning the Realization of the Self which begins "The Self You Can't Explain It..." Gurudeva then talks about changing ...
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Penalties, Pitfalls, Prison

Gurudeva continues talking with Sannyasin Arumugaswami about the penalties for drug use and sale, a felony, leading to jail. A felony is defined and the consequences of being convicted described. ...
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Interview of a Prison Warden

Gurudeva introduces a prison warden who gives a talk about the dangers of drugs and distribution, assuring prison and jail time. Prison is not a pleasant place. substance abuse, domestic ...
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Ice, A Mother's Deterioration

Gurudeva goes to the heart of the matter "Drugs, the law, and you" as he invites two mothers in their 20's to tell their stories that we can learn from their experiences. Both are ...
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A Prison Mom's Perspective

Today Gurudeva gives us an opportunity to hear a second mother interviewed in prison to describe her life, drug use, abusive relationship and what drugs did to her mind. Violence ...
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A Father's Story from Prison

Gurudeva introduces men in prison who tell their stories about drugs. Today, Gerald, an inmate tells about crystal meth/amphetamine use and what it did to his life. The cost of ...
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Heartfelt Advice from Prison

Gurudeva introduces Jonathan a prison inmate who tells his story of forgery, stealing, even from his mother, to support his drug habit. The want for the drug is so strong ...
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Decisions, Consequences of Drug Use

The power of decision, a great power is discussed by Gurudeva. The consequences of drug use including: being in the lower realm of life, violence, harm to body and mind, ...
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Not Getting Upset, Viewing Reaction from Higher Faculties

A measure of how serious we are in making spiritual progress is that we've learned the lesson from experience. Develop the ability to watch the mind think, understand the patterns ...
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Work Is Worship

Bodhinatha gives us a preview of a talk that he will be giving at the Iraivan Temple carving site in Bangalore, India, on the upcoming 2004 Indian Odyssey Innersearch Travel-Study ...
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Patanjali - Overcoming Obstacles with Concentration and Friendliness

Bodhinatha discusses Patanjali's description of the eight obstacles to progress in Raja Yoga. He discusses two of Patanjali's solutions. One is concentration that comes from an intense interest in the ...
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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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Mysticism, Patience, Resolving Karma, Astrology

Mysticism, direct experience of God, is commonly accepted in Hindu tradition. Principles and practices of Hinduism are designed to help us move up to higher levels of consciousness over many ...
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Living a Less Stressful Life Through Dharma

Today Gurudeva answers questions, first about how to live a less stressful life by using the principles of dharma, and how to look at the place of God in the ...
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All Knowing is Within You: Experience Without Reacting

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Purpose of Life: Find the Core Of Your Being

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Purpose of Life: The Path of Unfoldment

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Purpose of Life: On Earth to Realize the Self

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The River of Life: The River, a Symbol of Life

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The River of Life: Subconscious Basement

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The River of Life: Be Like the River Water

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The River of Life: Performing Ganga Sadhana

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Conscious Mind: The Donkey And the Carrot

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Conscious Mind: The Meaning Of Detachment

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subconscious Mind: The Form of the Subconscious

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subconscious Mind: Resolving Past Experiences

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subconscious Mind: A Channel To Intuition

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subconscious Mind: Facing Old Memories

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subconscious Mind: Never Fear The Past

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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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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The Sub of the Subconscious Mind: Where One Plus One Equals Three

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Sub of the Subconscious Mind: Fathoming the Unfathomable

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Sub of the Subconscious Mind: The Mind's Potent Alchemy

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Sub of the Subconscious Mind: Resolution In Dreams

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Superconscious Mind: When Are You Superconscious?

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Color's Magic: Color-Flooding Your Aura

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Color's Magic: Protective Emanations

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Discouragement on the Path

Today Gurudeva talks about discouragement on the path, how to recognize it, why it happens and how not to succumb to the feelings of giving up, of things being too ...
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No Divisions in Life, Live Spiritually Every Day, Hour, Minute

Following a path of religion that involves theism or worship, not relying too much on philosophy alone, we can avoid the abysses of intellectual arrogance and doubt. Religious practice should ...
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Evernew, Evernow

Todays youth face many challenges and complexities as they grow up. They need tools that help them confront their insecurities and fears so they can find a safe and peaceful ...
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Understanding Karma

Mitigate karma by living a religious life, being disciplined, following dharma, being of service, accepting responsibility. We create the future by how we act in the present, wisely, through introspection, ...
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What Is Our Form of Prayer?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 63 of the Himalayan Academy publication Path To Siva, discussing Hindu prayer. ...
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Having a Positive Lifestyle

Today Gurudeva talks about being positive, of approaching projects with a positive attitude, finding how to make them work instead of finding how to make them fail. By a change ...
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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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The Donkey and the Carrot

Master Course Recording. Chapter 5. Five states of mind. Defining conscious mind. Body of the soul.Defining subconscious mind. Programming subconscious. Attention and concentration. Mulingnishum. Study Guide: Breath is life, and ...
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The Faithful Computer

Master Course Recording. Chapter 6. Defining subconscious. Reprogramming subconscious mind. Using affirmation. Reprogram subconscious. Work with the hands. Defines sub-subconscious. Study Guide: Continue to keep your appointment with yourself every ...
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The Illumination of Man

Master Course Recording. Chapter 7. Human aura, subconscious aura and colors. Living a contemplative lifestyle. Defining sub-superconscious mind, soul body. Study Guide: Listening to a guru speak is not an ...
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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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Life the Great Experience

Master Course Recording. Chapter 3. Gurudeva clarifies the meaning of the body of the soul. Face experiences positively. Awareness as a lotus flower. Life as decisions. Eternity of the moment. ...
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The River of Life

Master Course Recording. Chapter 4. Light of spine like Christmas tree. Kundalini shakti. Life as a sacred river. Lean on own spine. Move and detach awareness. Areas of mind. Become ...
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Psychic Intrusion, Looking after Parents

A cyberspace devotee asks how he can remove a deep seeded psychic intrusion in his subconscious mind. Gurudeva explains that in Merging with Siva the Vasana Daha Tantra is explained ...
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Difficulty in meditating, God and Goddesses

A cyberspace devotee has a great difficulty in meditating and wonders what she can do about it. Gurudeva says that Hinduism gives all the basics that lay the foundation for ...
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Friends Vs. Acquaintances

Today Gurudeva explains the difference between a friend and an acquaintance, and why we should seek out true friends rather than rely on acquaintances. ...
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Thought Manifestations in Meditation and Life

A cyberspace devotee wonders about the thoughts that manifest during his meditations. Gurudeva says that thought is a combined group of pranas that makes pictures within the mind that has ...
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Necessity of Daily Meditation

A cyberspace devotee, Vatsala Devi from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, wants to know if it is necessary to meditate daily. Gurudeva says it is important to meditate daily at the same ...
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The Flower Penance

A handsome young man sent Gurudeva a question along with a few digital photos of himself. He asks Gurudeva how to deal with the "big bad world out here" and the people who seem ...
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Tips for Success

Today Gurudeva responds to an e-query about success. Is it ok for Hindus to be successful? Gurudeva offers some brief, but very practical guidelines for those who seek success. ...
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Let Go of Attachments, Part 1

The sacredness of rivers. "The River of Life." as inspired by Niagara Falls. Attachment comes in many forms and hinders us from moving forward. Past unresolved experiences are attachments holding us back from ...
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Life's Experiences Accelerate Our Evolution

Most of us need interaction with other people to challenge us, to make spiritual progress. The more we focus on personalities and differences the harder it is to get along ...
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Decisions, Discover and Use Your Intuition

As a human race we don't solve problems until we have to; then we get highly motivated. Forget worry, blame, past, future. Higher philosophy: Everything that happens to us is ...
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Importance of Associations; Hinduism In the Technological Era

Many people end up in the state of mind that we should be doing something else. Accept reincarnation in all of our mind to avoid the frustrations of the western ...
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Methods for Maintaining Inner Awareness

When going into meditation have a destiny; find the spiritual energy, the power that's within the spine. Learn how to direct where awareness goes. Keep the awareness found in meditation, ...
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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 ...
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We Are Not Sinners

The idea of redemption is not really the case in Hinduism. Being already exists deep in the soul. Part of us is becoming, getting more refined, more spiritual. Get into ...
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Affirm Your Divinity

Seeing our shortcomings it's hard to think of ourselves as divine beings. Avoiding that series of memories we don't meditate. Overcoming that involves better understanding, learning from experience, improving our ...
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Fostering Steadfastness

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from lesson 21 of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book "Living with Siva," which discusses the important quality of "dhriti," or "steadfastness." Satguru elaborates on the application of dhriti in our ...
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From Merging With Siva - The River of Life

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part one of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings ...
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From Merging With Siva The River of Life Part 5

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