Publications

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      July 2015 News Video

      Our July 2015 News Video covers events in June 2015, including: Satguru Bodhinatha's recent travels to Singapore and Malaysia for the Kumbamela festival, the placement of the 8 Satguru lineages' ...

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      Monastery Year in Review 2009-2010, Part 2 of 2

      Part 2 of 2: Important activities and events at Kauai's Hindu Monastery over the past year (August 2009 - September 2010) including festivals, update from the main architect and Sannyasin ...

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      Ramachandran Speaks on the Guru Chronicles

      A summary about the Guru Chronicles from Ramachandran. Under 1 min video. ...

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      My Friend Lord Ganesha

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's presentation entitled "My Friend Lord Ganesha" is based on an article which was published in Mauritius. Bodhinatha reminds us how Lord Ganesha is easily approachable, contacted and introduces us to ...

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      June 2014 News Video

      Our June 2014 news video covers events in May 2014, including: Our new educational movie, based on our book: The History of Hindu India; News of progress from our carving ...

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      November 2011 News Video

      Our November 2011 news video covers events in October, including: two swamis' attendance at the Uberoi Foundation's 2011 Experts Meeting at Loyola Marymount University where they released our book "The History of Hindu India;" ...

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      October 2011 News Video

      Our October 2011 news video covers events in August and September, including: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's travels to Trinidad and Guyana; the release of our latest book, The Guru Chronicles; two ...

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      State of the Church Address 2008 Part 2

      Bodhinatha gives the traditional State of Saiva Siddhanta address, describing the major activities for the current year, mission's progress and plans for the future. Part 1. These include but are ...

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      Deva Rajan Speaks on The Guru Chronicles

      Deva Rajan describes his experience in reading the new book release by Himalayan Academy Publications, titled, The Guru Chronicles. This book describes the life and times of the Kailasa Parampara ...

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      Effort

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's presentation on a topic entitled "Effort" is in two parts. Part 1 focuses on the real spirit of the MasterCourse, as expounded by Gurudeva in his Introduction ...

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      May 2015 News Video

      Our May 2015 News Video covers events in April 2015, including: the annual ladies retreat that took place in Kauai, some recent work of our digital publications team, our progress ...

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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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      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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      Master Course on Moksha

      Today's Dancing with Siva lesson is on moksha, which is appropriate considering it is the moksha ritau, the third and final, inwardly drawn time of the year. It is important ...

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      Yamas and Niyamas part 4 Reference List

      Here is a reference list as to how to self reflect on the yamas and niyamas. For most of the adults we are in contact with, the nonadhereance is going ...

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      Introduction to "What is Hinduism?" found in Hinduism Today.

      Bodhinatha describes the new book "What is Hinduism." He explains all of the reasons behind the production of this book and gives an historical chronological history of its production. Emphasized was the ...

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      The Future of Our Monastery (November 2011)

      Bodhinatha gives a general overview of his travels and the progress of the mission of Kauai Aadheenam in publicaitons and in our missions overseas ...

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      Good Conduct Means to Assist

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

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      Malaysia Conference Part 2

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

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      State of the Church Address, 2003

      Bodhinatha gives the Annual State of the Church Address by the Guru Mahasannidhanam of Kauai Aadheenam. He reviewed the progress of 2002 including new students and members. and presented the ...

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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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      State of the Church Address 2003, Part 1

      Bodhinatha reviews last year's State of the Church message and discusses how each Church focus has been fulfilled. The three focuses were bringing in new members, printing The Master Course ...

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      Focuses for a Malaysia/Singapore Trip

      Bodhinatha discusses his focuses for a nine-day trip to Malaysia and Singapore. In his satsangs, the focus will be on members completing the Maha Vasana Daha Tantra as well as ...

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      Strengthening Hinduism in Your Community

      Bodhinatha delivers a wonderful talk which he will be giving at the Hindu Renaissance 2, the second rally on Hindu Rennaisance organized by the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. Gurudeva encouraged Hindus ...

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      Malaysia-Singapore Visit Report Part 1

      Jai Ganesha! Bodhinatha and Arumugaswami have returned from a very successful program in Singapore and Malaysia. Bodhinatha had a seminar with the teachers of a Master Course seminar in Malaysia, ...

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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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      Mahasivaratri, 2003, Part 2

      Mahasivaratri, Part 2 of 3, Yogaswami as an Example of Saiva Siddhanta. Bodhinatha acknowledges the presence of some special guests from Canada who were close to Yogaswami, Gurudeva's guru, and ...

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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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      Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru - Part 1

      Part 1 of 7 - Bodhinatha gives a class during Guru Purnima on the role of the guru. The guru has five major tasks, to provide encouragement to keep striving, ...

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      Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru - Part 3

      Part 3 of 7 - Continuing Bodhinatha's first Guru Purnima class on the role of the guru, Bodhinatha says that worship and meditation are important in spiritual life, but a ...

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      Niyama 8 - Vrata, Vows

      Bodhinatha speaks on the eighth niyama, vrata, the practice of taking vows to ourselves, to the inner worlds and to family and community. Vows are a sacred trust. There are ...

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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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      Trip to Asia and Colloboration with a Temple

      Bodhinatha shares some observations about his recent trip to Mauritius, Malaysia and Singapore, speaking of the many children, of the youth committee projects and of how the Aadheenam is collaborating ...

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      Putting Gurudeva's Teachings to the Best Use, Part 1

      Bodhinatha holds a class during Gurudeva's mahasamadhi observances about Gurudeva continues to live on in all of our lives since his mahasamadhi. Part 1 is about how Gurudeva influences us ...

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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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      The Mission of the Mission - Our Monastic Order

      Bodhinatha comments on lesson 331 from Living with Siva in which Gurudeva describes the spiritual inner work of his monastic order and the general guideline for how they live and ...

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      The Significance of Hinduism Today

      Bodhinatha gives a talk that he just recently gave at a public event in Chennai, India, at the end of our 2004 Indian Odyssey Innersearch Travel-Study Program (Jan 18-Feb 6). ...

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      The Guru Parampara

      Today Gurudeva talks about how his predecessors, his guru parampara, was driven by "soul force," as are all people with a mission in life. Get the teachings from Dancing with Siva ...

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      Lord Ganesha

      Today Gurudeva talks about Lord Ganesha and how He can help you. Then Brahmachari Nanthakumar reads about Lord Ganesha in the Malay language, and Gurudeva explains how each library in ...

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      What Happened on Gurudeva's Retreat

      Today Gurudeva explains what he's done during the three years that he has been on retreat at Kauai Aadheenam and not traveling. It includes turning Hinduism Today into a color ...

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      52 daily sadhanas

      Gurudeva invites you to write in and receive 52 daily sadhanas, a systematic study and practice drawn from his newest book, Merging with Siva. He talks about the Innersearch Alaska ...

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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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      Driving to Work, Chakras and Lotus Flowers

      A cyberspace devotee from Iowa wonders what he can do for his spiritual life when driving to work each day. Gurudeva suggests that he listen to a selection of the ...

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      Merging with Siva, Part 1

      Gurudeva gives an inspired "review" and first-hand account of the creation of his recent masterpiece book, Merging with Siva. He adds insights into how to study, and how you will ...

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      Merging with Siva, Part 2

      Gurudeva delivers part 2 of his very own "review" of his recent masterpiece book, Merging with Siva (with Tamil translation). He explains how the change in perspective its study will ...

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      Merging with Siva, Part 3

      Gurudeva gives the conclusion of his observations about his book, Merging with Siva. He explains how it is a book about realizations. His own are described, and you are led ...

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      Hinduism Today in Tamil

      A cyber-devotee asks if there is some way to bring out an edition of Hinduism Today magazine in the Tamil language for the benefit of the large number of Hindus ...

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      How Hinduism Today Got Started

      Gurudeva speaks at length in response to a question about what inspired him to create the magazine Hinduism Today. Hear about the events leading up to Gurudeva's realization of the ...

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      A Lifetime of Study

      A question about how books are selected for libraries in Hindu temples leads Gurudeva to speak about the choices made by devotees on what to study and why. Gurudeva stresses ...

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      2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 3

      A beautiful telling of Gurudeva's life accomplishments: "I am seventy-five years of age now and when I was twenty-two years of age, Satguru Yogaswami gave me some whispers in the ear, very confidential. But he said, 'Go back to America and build bridges, feed thousands. You will build palaces.' I was very young then, I didn't know. I didn't know that a palace is a kovil, meaning a temple!" ...

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      Genetic Engineering, Can one have two Gurus?, How do we get to the astral plane?

      The first question comes from Holland where a cyber devotee wishes to know Hinduism Today's view on genetic engineering. Gurudeva says that a lot of in depth study and research ...

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      Drugs as a spiritual stimulant. Kumbha Mela. Spiritual unfoldment and college.

      A cyber cadet wonders if it is ok to take certain kinds of drugs to help with one's spiritual journey. A cyber cadet asks if going to a prestigious college ...

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      Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 9

      Today's cybertalk is a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco. Arthur Pacheco conducts a weekly radio show in Honolulu, Hawaii and is also a trans-medium. This interview is ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part II

      This is Part II of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. Today Loni asks Gurudeva to tell a ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part III

      This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the third part today Gurudeva shares with Loni and ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part VIII

      This is part 8 of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the eight part today Loni asks ...

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      Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part IX

      This is the ninth part of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. Today Gurudeva shares more about the ...

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      Nature of the Soul

      A cyberspace devotee wants to know about the nature of the soul. Gurudeva says that the nature of the soul is absolute bliss and perfection. ...

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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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      Escaping the External World; Why the cow knocked Satguru Sivayogaswami?

      Cyberspace devotee wonders if the reading of religious books and the listening to religious music is an escape from the world. Gurudeva says it is an escape from the external ...

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      Escaping the External World; Why the cow knocked Satguru Sivayogaswami?

      Cyberspace devotee wonders if the reading of religious books and the listening to religious music is an escape from the world. Gurudeva says it is an escape from the external ...

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      Understanding the Gods

      A cyberspace devotee wants to know if he has a preference for Lord Siva will the other Gods get jealous. Gurudeva says that such concepts of Gods getting jealous are ...

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      Worshipping the Gods

      A cyberspace devotee wants to know if he should worship all the Gods equally or is there a particular God that he should worship first. Gurudeva explains that Hinduism has ...

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      Affectionate Detachment

      A cyberspace devotee from Luxemborg wants Gurudeva to give him some practical examples of affectionate detachment and how it can help him in his daily life. Gurudeva says many people ...

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      How to progress in meditation?; How to know more about Hinduism?

      A cyberspace devotee wants to know what is the next thing he should do to advance his mediation. Gurudeva says that all we can do is get our awareness quiet ...

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      Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Plans

      Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami presents his July/August/September, 2021, Publishers Desk Editorial from Hinduism Today Magazine. The restrictions imposed by the pandemic can give us time to plan and manifest a positive ...