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Shum Class by Gurudeva on Innersearch
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami gives a class in the mystical meditation language called Shum during the 2000 Caribbean Innersearch travel-study program. ...
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Claiming Your Spiritual Identity Exercise 5
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami refers to Merging wih Siva Chapter 6. He teaches the fifth practical exercise in claiming our spiritual identity: awareness traveling through the mind. He explains that Gurudeva ...
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Claiming Your Spiritual Identity Exercise 4
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami teaches the fourth practical exercise in claiming our spiritual identity: we are the experiencer, not the experience. Bodhinatha outlines the concept of being the witness of the ...
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Color Meditation
Simple five minute color meditation with 12 sadhanas; auric circle, affirmation such as "I am all right right now", pranayama, flooding the aura with colors [ red light, orange aura, yellow aura, green aura, ...
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Twelve Shum Meditations
Basic Maps of the Inner Mind is published by Himalayan Academy. Gurudeva, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, discovered within superconsciousness the Shum-Tyeif language as a result of his desire to give precise ...
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Gurudeva and the Shum Language
The story of Gurudeva's unfoldment of the Shum language is related. Some effects and uses of the Shum language are outlined such as: vibration of the inner areas of the ...
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Four perspectives mentioned in the Shum language
Bodhinatha begins with a brief history of Chidambaram. He also mentions that we will celebrate Gurudeva's vision which founded Iraivan. Finally, he explains the four inner perspectives: Shumeef, Simneef, Mooleef ...
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The Advaitin: The Beginning of the Shum Language
The transcript for today's talk includes Bodhinatha's "Introduction to Shum" which was given on January 5th. Technical problems prevented recording that day. But the audio for today is on the same subject. ...
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Kaif: Awareness Aware of Itself.
The reading of a talk by Gurudeva on kaif, awareness aware of itself, which includes techniques to achieve this meditative state and intellectual barriers to this attainment. Spiritual interpretation and ...
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Mamsani-Basic Shum Mind Maps
To energize the mamsani, monthly meditations on them to commence shortly. Bhashya on four vibratory rates of our being: La, lam, laf, lamf. Reading from "Merging with Siva" "The Death of The Small Self" Connection between inner ...
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Sustaining and Deepening Meditation Utilizing Shum
Lesson One from Merging With Siva is read with bhashya and emphasis on the externalities of the world, bihaishum and Parasiva. Then further exploration into Shum with the focus of ...
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Awareness in context of the Shum language
Bhashya on "Merging With Siva: The Story of Awareness." "We can put awareness, which we are, into the state of consciousness we choose to put it in if we keep control of our mind." Shum images that describe awareness and awareness traveling in the higher dimensions are discussed with readings from Gurudeva's writings. Experience simshumbisi: "Where you both have a means of travel and a destination." ...
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Being dynamic in meditation
With successful meditation our external point of reference changes and we become aware of ourselves as a spiritual being, a subsuperconscious intelligence -- positive and dynamic. Take that deeper and ...
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The Subsuperconscious: Fourth and Fifth Dimensions.
In superconscious we are functioning in a creative, intuitive manner while maintaining simshumbisi, in a mountaintop consciousness of the external world, free from reactionary conditions of the past. The concepts ...
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Four Perspectives of Consciousness
Perceive with an overview. Detach, move to different perspectives of the mind. Observe like a child. Think a little bit less. Look at the mind from within oneself. The four ...
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Be Simple
Our intellectual mind can make the most simple thing complicated. In Shum we are trying to have a specific experience, trying to go to a specific area of the inner ...
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Shum Mamsani for January
Our own potential attainment is that of the great yogis; for that we should strive. Inner space is clear, transparent. Take the world seriously but realize that beyond the illusion ...
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Shum Kanif, uu, makaif -- Mamsani for February
Awareness can expand into the endless inner space of the seventh dimension: ilimingshum. The experience of kaif: awareness aware of itself. Actinic and odic force, both are needed for light. ...
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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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What Is Meditation?
Meditation is the study of awareness, of yourself and of the universe, experiencing the soul. The purpose of meditation is to separate awareness from what it is aware of, to ...
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How Do We Meditate? Part 1
"Meditation is a long journey, a pilgrimage into the mind itself." In Gurudeva's approach we start meditation with the physical body then get more and more subtle, withdrawing energy into the spine then not utilizing mental activity. Everything we meditate ...
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How Do We Meditate? Part 2
"Adjust yourself to the realization that you are a divine being, a self-effulgent, radiant being of light." Jyoti is the Sanskrit word for inner light. To bestow on devotees terms that were more specific, Gurudeva developed the Shum Language of Meditation. In Shum the word for ...
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Kamsatyamne, Kamshumalinga, Dimensions of the Mind
In kamsatyamne we see patterns, actions and reactions in our life rather than individual events. It is the third eye that sees through the chakra of the dimension you are ...
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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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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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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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Four Steps To Meditation
The four basic steps ito meditation. Shum provides a map going from one place to another place, a map of the inner mind. Experience inner space. The seventh dimension, kaif, ...
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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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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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The Difference in Practice of Theism and Monism
During a puja we're in Theism, to receive the blessings of the Deity. After a puja we can go within our self in meditation, giving up the idea of an ...
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Eight Features of Natha Sampradaya (Version 2)
Don't put the search for the innermost divine Self in the future tense. You are Brahman. We're already identical with Siva. Kundalini is a slow awakening. Shum meditation gives you ...
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The Nature of Thought: Seeking a New Perspective
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Nature of Thought: Become The Watcher
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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Makaif - The Ultimate Practice and Attainment of Siddhanta
Makaif is the shum word defined as the ultimate attainment of Siddhanta. Using the shum language, Gurudeva describes the path to the Self-Realization. How to live a lifestyle dedicated to ...
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Consistency, Continuity, Learning from Mistakes
Nalif: The continuity of vibration from one shumnuhm or puja to another. Regret from making a mistake is the greatest obstacle to intuiting the lesson from an experience. The essence ...
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Strengthen Willpower to Strengthen the Soul
Today Gurudeva talks first a bit more about willpower, then gives a simple explanation of meditation using the Shum language which was unfolded to him 25 years ago in Switzerland ...
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Strengthen Willpower to Strengthen the Soul
Today Gurudeva talks first a bit more about willpower, then gives a simple explanation of meditation using the Shum language which was unfolded to him 25 years ago in Switzerland ...
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Meditation
Today Gurudeva answers a question about on belonging to different Hindu organizations and the same time. He explains the value of following a single parampara, tradition. He explains more about ...
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Yagna and Puja
Today Gurudeva explains the difference between yajna and puja, and then answers a question about how a Westerner can find a guru. He advises that one should first make a ...
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Hatha Yoga
Today Gurudeva answers a question about hatha yoga, whether particular postures can bring up subconscious problems. He replies that if they do, he recommends ways to help clear the subconscious ...
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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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The Making of a Master
Master Course Recording. Chapter 2, Gurudeva describes his catalysts and the systematic process of unfoldment. Yogaswami. Initiation. Study Guide: Cultivate the great art of doing nothing. Before listening to Master, ...
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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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Cultivating Will Power
Master Course Recording. Chapter 9. Six steps to Self Realization. Gurudeva describes moving awareness from attention to samadhi. Swimming pool metaphor. Cultivate willpower. Discover willpower. Awareness = Willpower = Energy. ...
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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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The Language of Meditation
Master Course Recording. Chapter 12. Religion is the result of evolution. Are you a Hindu soul? Saivite lifestyle, Saivite thinking. Tirukural. Summa. Kanif. Become a natye. Meditation as a fine ...
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Mamsani Nuhmimf Meditation for the month of June
Nifmasi, niimf, liunasi. Posture for meditation. Feeling the life force. Four step process. The nadis, the aura, the seven chakras. Effecting a permanent transformation of the entire being. ...
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Meditation
Today Gurudeva answers a question about on belonging to different Hindu organizations and the same time. He explains the value of following a single parampara, tradition. He explains more about ...
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Gurudeva Leads Shum Meditation
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami leads a guided Shum meditation and towards the end speaks from the inner sky, guiding us to see ourselves as a soul that uses it's bodies as ...
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Find Your Divinity Within, Do Sadhana and Service
We don't have to do anything to become God. Religion gives us an age-old, well proven structure to move forward. Daily vigil is the discipline, practice and the maturing of ...
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Dealing with Distraction, Lesson 99 of Living with Siva
The shumif perspective is helpful in detachment. Thoughts are stationary, move awareness to the pattern we want to be in which exists already. Create a pattern of controlling movement. When ...
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Find the Self
Wrapped up in externalities, upset, life in a swirl, we forget about going within. Be sublime, control actions through dharma, thoughts through karma. Learn how to meditate. Imkaif: When the ...
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You Are the Self, Identify with Awareness
Find the right balance in the world that you can sustain. Purify, quiet the mind, transcend externalities. See what's always been the core of you; relax into the inner Self. ...
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Four Perspective, Shumif, Mulif, Simnif and Dimfi
Our style of meditation: You are simply exploring your self. You are awareness...trying to explore your own consciousness. Bodhinatha explores Gurudeva's map to the inner mind from the four Shum ...
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Shum on the Seven Dimensions, Pure Awareness
Gurudeva divides consciousness into seven categories that range from gross to extremely subtle. The fourth through seventh are inner or mystical higher realms and while in meditation the states of ...
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The Sixth Dimension and the Shum Perspective, Part 1
Gurudeva: "Awareness in the sixth dimension has an all-knowing capacity. The sixth dimension is color, sound and vibration as well as subtle form. Temple Deities are sixth dimensional beings. Access is only gained once it is earned." Gurudeva's 1975 vision of Siva and the San Marga; the basis for Iraivan Temple. From the sixth dimension, 'ingmuhlimni' you're looking out, but into, the inner world. Yogaswami: ...
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The Fourth Dimension and the Shum Perspective, Part 1
The fourth dimension is the "...threshold to vaster inner space and spiritual realization." The story of Gurudeva's twelve year, at sunrise, Tamalpais mountain top monthly pilgrimages starting in 1959. Shum words related to mountain top consciousness in ...
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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 Second Dimension and the Shum Perspective
"The second dimension consists of things which can be both seen and touched--the surfaces of objects such as flowers, stones and water...the second dimension is created by the instinctive forces of nature, the instinctive mind of animals and man in conjunction with the memory patterns of the grand mind of nature--created by man according to his needs and desires..." If you just look at the second dimension something exists and then after a while it doesn't exist. Shum perspective: The Second Dimension: Siavumni. "The Seven Dimensions of the Mind," Second Dimension: The Five ...
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The First Dimension and the Shum Perspective
"The first dimension is the inside of things that you cannot see or touch... All dimensions of the mind exist in every cell, every atom in the universe...Within the first dimension of the mind, called 'arehmushum' there are energy flows..." Gurudeva's story of a breakthrough of mambashum in 1969. Shum definitions of Arehmushum, Mumlingmi, Nashumif, and the 18 basic movements of nature. The Seven Dimensions of the Mind. ...
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Awareness and Omnipresence-Kaif, Part 5
Gurudeva created the Shum Tyeif language to be able to have precise descriptions of the realm of meditation. Niif perspective of awareness, fourfold definition. Kaif: pure awareness aware only of ...
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Awareness and Omnipresence-Iif, Part 6
In Shum, Gurudeva's language of meditation, 'iif' is awareness traveling, flowing constantly in the fifth and fourth dimensions. 'Nalif' is holding the vibration continuity between meditations. 'Anif' is finding the ...
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Awareness and Omnipresence-Niimf, Iif, Part 7
Understanding the depths of the teachings, the superconscious mind is putting information into your subconscious mind through the flow of niimf and iif. The superconscious, through the subconscious will give ...
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Awareness and Omnipresence-Niif, Iif, Iimf, Part 8
In Gurudeva's language of meditation, Shum, iimf is awareness traveling in the sixth dimension separate and apart from niimf or iif. M'mimf is the observation of awareness traveling, innersearching. Deep ...
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Awareness and Omnipresence, Summary and Conclusion, Part 9
Bodhinatha summarizes his 8 part series of talks on Awareness and Omnipresence begun on 01/07/2021. First talk: Omnipresence and Sat-chid-ananda defined. Second talk: Awareness as found in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, ...
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The Self - Gurudeva On the Multiple Ways To Realize God
Satguru Bodhinatha's Mahasivaratri Upadesh imparting Gurudeva's quintessential early teachings on realizing the Self; worshiping Siva as the source and Self of all that exists, starting with 1959, "The Self God" and 1968, ...
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Mambashum 2, the Map to Inner Light, Part 1
Bodhinatha imparts definitions of several Shum words relating to the second mambashum, a meditation beginning with balikana and leading to the experience of iftye, the clear, white light. Breath and ...
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Mambashum 1, the Map to the Basics of Consciousness, Part 2
Shum maps to the inner mind; meditations upon the Mambashum. The Tyemmuif Mamsani, looking within, first of twelve, with commentaries from Gurudeva's writings. Observing the light and darkness of the ...
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Mambashum 1, the Map to the Basics of Consciousness - Part 2
Satguru Bodhinatha begins a new series of upadesh with exploration of 'Mambashum': Shum concepts describing inner states of mind, maps to guide the meditator. This is the first Mambashum - ...
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Mambashum 2, the Map to Inner Light, Part 2
Satguru Bodhinatha continues imparting Gurudeva's commentaries on Mambashum Two including the Shum definitions of tilimf, astral seeing, and lilif superconscious awareness of vision within the astral higher worlds. These experiences ...
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Mambashum 3, Kaif and a Life Style, Part 1
Gurudeva's commentary on Mambashum Three--Kaif. The way to kaif, being totally aware of being aware and maintaining the inner life and its blissful experiences. The practice of kanif, the religious ...
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Mambashum 3, Four Perspectives, Part 3
Shumif is the perspective one holds when centered within oneself, living two thirds within and only one-third in the external world. The Shum-Tyeif language is used to guide flowing awareness ...
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Mambashum 4, Namutana - First Inner Light
Bodhinatha bestows a meditation from Gurudeva within Shum on Mambashum Four-Imkaif. Now is the time and this is the day to work within yourself to experience namutana, the very first ...
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Mambashum 5, Meditator, Who Has Freedom
Awareness to soar naturally. Yulamf: The fifth Mambashum. Gurudeva: "To be that transparent pure channel of yulamf is the goal of every Saivite on this planet...through tapas and sadhana you release awareness from the external world and allow it to soar naturally within." Shumif perspective is pure advaita; dimfi perspective is pure dvaitist. The Yulamf Mambashum clearly explains the areas of the First-World ...
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Mambashum 6, Simshumbisi, Purified Intellect, Free Flowing
The Sixth Mambashum-Simshumbisii is the home of Lord Skanda. Here namutana, the first inner light is experienced. Becoming karehana. Simply seek for the full being of simshumbisi. The experience and ...
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Mambashum 7, Iinsimliamkasi, Absorb the Odic Energy
Satguru Bodhinatha imparts Gurudeva's sadhana- meditation on the Seventh Mambashum, iinsimliamkasi from where "purification of mind and emotion is attained." This practice involves six steps, detailed here in Gurudeva's writings. Feel the bliss. ...
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Mambashum 8, Niif, Focus On Two Areas, and Seven Dimensions of the Mind
Gurudeva's commentary on the Eighth Mambashum, Niif. Niif shows the relationships between states of awareness and the four states of being. By perfecting this meditation you will realize that you ...
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Mambashum 9 and Apex of Creation
Ingingmasa, the ninth mambashum, is a state of observing inner and outer space. The practices of each mambashum lead into the next, ever progressing, every strengthening. Expand our consciousness and ...