Realm of Knowledge

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    Bondage: Anava, Karma, Maya

    Why aren't we with God Siva? Bondage: anava, karma and maya. The law of karma is teaching us to understand the behavior which is conducive to the unfoldment of the ...

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    Gurudeva clips for Mahasamadhi Celebrations 2008 - Part 1

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami speaks about many wonderful topics about Hinduism and the spiritual path, in a clip shown during the 2008 celebrations of his Mahasamadhi anniversary. ...

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    What Is the Meaning of Siva's Dance

    Initially we're looking at the world. By Siva's revealing grace, anugraha, ultimately we turn toward God. The soul matures, fulfilling dharmas. We reach a point where we see that Siva ...

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    What is the Nama Sivaya Mantra?

    The letter "Ya" in the Panchakshara Mantra, Namasivaya, stands for the soul. Bodhinatha uses the Panchakshara Mantra to show how the soul is initially drawn by Siva's veiling grace, which ...

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    What Are the Beliefs of Saivism?

    In our teachings we're both monistic and theistic. Its good to memorize the twelve beliefs of Saivism, which is our creed. In the beliefs of Saivism the idea of the ...

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    What Is Our Affirmation of Faith?

    "God Siva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality." Devotion is present in each of Saiva Siddhanta's four paths in our relationship to God. When we begin the soul feels God is really far away. As we get ...

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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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    Self & Samadhi

    Echoing the ultimate teachings of Hindu scripture, Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, spoke boldly of the Divinity within us. This book is a collection of those teachings, nine inspired talks in which ...

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    Gurudeva's Mahavakyas on Self Realization

    Part 3 of 4 - Bodhinatha talks on Gurudeva's mahavakyas having to do with Self Realization, part of the focus of the moksha ritau (Winter Season) ...

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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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    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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    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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    Jnana Yoga, Jnana Pada

    Distinguishing Jnana Yoga from the Jnana Pada. A significant component of Jnana Yoga, the path of knowledge, is scriptural study. Jnana Pada, actually achieving the goal of Parasiva, is the ...

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    Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - False Knowledge

    Bodhinatha comments on Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Verses 1.5 through 1.12. The restraint of the mental activities of correct knowledge, erroneous knowledge, fantasy, sleep and memory is achieved through practice and ...

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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 the Natha Sampradaya

    We have to discover that part of us that is the Self. One of the important benefits of temple worship is it softens the ego. Recognize and love a Being ...

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    Protect Your Mind By Turning Within

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's very simple but powerful teaching on protecting your mind through daily meditation. In daily meditation we can correct our thinking, control the feeling nature and stop being ...

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    The Universe of the Mind: Unfolding the Superconscious

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    The Nature of Thought: Thought and Awareness

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    The Nature of Thought: Thought and Manifestation

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    The Human Aura: The Remarkable Human Aura

    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...

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    Attaining the Ultimate

    Hindu scripture: The knowledge God has put into all souls. In meditation go deep enough to have realization of the deepest truths. The experience of Satchidananda is available right now. ...

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    The Two Paths

    Master Course Recording. Chapter 11. Odic and actinic forces. Move awareness into simshumbisi, sushumna. Difference and similarities between man and woman. Ida and pingala. Sannyasin ideals. Attitude toward family life. ...

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    Siva Linga Symbology

    A devotee writes to Gurudeva about his dismay over finding how some authors describe the Siva Linga as a phallic symbol. Gurudeva describes how the interpretation all depends upon where ...

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    Silence, Part 1

    The many meanings of silence. Hear about the power of silence and of just how loud your body language can be. Part 1. ...

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    Committment vs Looking in From the Outside

    Gurudeva shares with a cyberspace devotee the difference between becoming a Hindu and just studying the religion. ...

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    Find That Within That Never Changes

    We think of people, the world, as separate from us. Siva sees only a oneness. He doesn't see anything as separate from Him. Human nature, we identify with what changes. ...

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    Using Intuition

    A good time to use intuition is after worship or meditation. Intuition is direct, "like a bolt of lightning in the inner sky," not having the component of human emotion attached to it. In order to be able ...

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    Defining the Subsuperconscious Mind

    To cause the subconscious mind to quiet and function subsuperconsciously requires consistent reprogramming over a number of years. The subsuperconscious state of mind is not immediate in providing an answer; ...

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    Remold in Subscious Mind to Gain Access to Intuition

    "You are the knower of all that is known." The inner being is already perfect. The subconscious mind contains impressions of this lifetime and from previous lifetimes. As we overcome avidya, we increase our identity with our spiritual ...

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    Intuition Requires Careful Handling of the Intellect

    Who am I? "I am my intuitive mind. I am my inner divine being." The three bodies, the five sheaths and the seven aspects of man work together. Approach the intellect as a tool, make it subservient to the intuitive ...

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    Nine Ways to Merge with Siva, Go As Deep As You Can

    Mahasivaratri, the day before the new moon. Venerating Parasiva, all energies turning within, find through multiple realizations of Parasiva over the years, that the indwelling Self is identical with God ...

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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 Fourth Dimension and the Shum Perspective, Part 2

    The fourth dimension is the home-base for the jnani; living here he is peaceful, alive and balanced. The fourth dimension encompasses the subsuperconscious, intuitive realm of consciousness, a place to ...

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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 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-Awareness, Part 1

    The concept of awareness, claiming your omnipresence is the most central concept in Gurudeva's approach to meditation. The truth that omnipresence resides at the core of our soul must ultimately ...

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    Awareness and Omnipresence-Yoga Sutras, Part 2

    Patanjali: "Yoga is the restraint of mental activities. Then awareness abides in its essential nature." Awareness disunites with mental activities. Disunion also takes place in deep meditation, the sustained experience of pure awareness. Objectless samadhi-asamprajnata samadhi. Pure awareness aware only of itself; kaivalya-liberation, ...

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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-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-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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    Innerversity - Knowledge From Within

    Innerversity: Learning from within through yoga, concentration and meditation. The state of consciousness we achieve in meditation needs to influence us in our daily activities. "The only real, permanent education is your unfoldment into the building of the intuitive mind through the control of the intellect." Gurudeva Master Course Trilogy ...

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    சிவபெருமானுடன் ஐக்கியமாதல்

    Merging with Siva, Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics is a guide for one who is ready to diligently walk the spiritual path. Great new vistas open up throughout its 365 daily lessons ...

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    Insight: Yoga and Human Biology

    The practice of yoga and the science of yoga, or yoga bhyasa and yogavidya, are two of the traditional ways that yoga is described. Yoga is a practice (abhyasa) and ...

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    Power of Affirmation, Part 3; Reincarnation, Part 1

    The Self God is within man. Feel the spiritual force permeating the entirety of your body. All knowing is within oneself. Accept that you are not the body, mind or ...