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Resolve, Mitigate, Dissolve Karma

Internalizing and externalizing. Turning within, we're uplifting ourselves. Astrology choreographs and spreads out our karma. Purification, focus on karma, dharma, God Realization. Accept karma as our own creation. Don't retaliate; ...
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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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Forgiveness on Pancha Ganapati

An Upadesha given in Kadavul Temple. Bodhinatha discusses the 2nd day of Pancha Ganapati, explains how we can use that time for the purpose of forgiveness and outlines the importance ...
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Publisher's Desk: Television as a Tool for Spiritual Progress

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Publisher of Hinduism Today, Talks about television and how it can be used as a spiritual tool. Television can govern and guide actions of the world. ...
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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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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 Roots of Martin Luther King

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami honors Dr. Martin Luther King's accomplishments and offers insights into his experience and adoption of Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience and the Hindu roots from which the world-changing ...
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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 1

I get many questions about karma that are way off the mark. We need to understand karma and apply it to our life. Here are 4 of the principles Principle ...
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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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Karma Management Part 3

Seventh principleaccelerate karma. Saivite Shastras talk about this in terms of monastic 36-year pattern for training. Within his life he goes through four lifetimes of karma. One in first 12, ...
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Ahimsa in Speech (Part 2)

Ahimsa is a central principle in Hinduism. Let us take a look at the words we use in joking and teasing. These words are hurting. How do we know? Gurudeva ...
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Austerity Part 1

Bodhinatha elaborates on the four-fold concept of austerity, which Gurudeva defined as sadhana, penance, tapas and sacrifice. So, why bother performing austerities? It increases our speed on the spiritual path. ...
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Austerity Part 3

Bodhinatha elaborates on the four-fold concept of austerity, which Gurudeva defined as sadhana, penance, tapas and sacrifice. So, why bother performing austerities? It increases our speed on the spiritual path. ...
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Need for Religion Part 1

Gurudeva said there is a need for religion. Gurudeva at first just taught meditation, but then later he started teaching devotion and had everyone building temples. Gurudeva realized his devotees ...
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Feedback on Words that Hurt

We received some feedback on the last talk on words that hurt. Many found that teasing and joking definitely don't pass the tests. Good motive, but flawed method. How do ...
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Communicating with a Departed Guru

Drawing from the lesson of the day, we can send messages to departed loved ones in the inner worlds. Gurudeva said that chelas (close initiated disciples) communicate with their departed ...
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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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The Power of Consensualocracy

Consensualocracy was conceived by Gurudeva as a system of government or management by intelligent cooperation based on a shared vision and adherence to dharma. It is the preferred way of ...
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Arun Gandhi on Season of Nonviolence

Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, recently visited the Aadheenam and also held an event on Kauai honoring the "Season of Nonviolence." What struck Bodhinatha as most interesting was when his wife spoke ...
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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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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 pt 1

The essence of our being is God. This is a beautiful teaching but it is also important to be grounded in other realities. We are a soul, but our soul ...
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Yamas and Niyamas part 2 Foundation

Today many people interested in a spiritual path say "Forget the basics, let's just start with the end of the path." Of course this approach doesn't work very well because they don't have a foundation. Gurudeva said that the yamas and ...
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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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Noninjury and Brahmacharya

Cybertalk: Bodhinatha speaks on vasudhaiva kutumbakam, "The whole world is one family," in reference to the current problem in India. He discusses the problem of the "my people" concept, that of exclusion, and the division it ...
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Controlling Anger part 3

In part three of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha begins by referring to the Tirukural and its chapter called "Avoidance of Anger," which is right before the chapter on ahimsa, the cardinal ...
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Controlling Anger part 3

In part three of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha begins by referring to the Tirukural and its chapter called "Avoidance of Anger," which is right before the chapter on ahimsa, the cardinal ...
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How to Ease Karma

In a traditional analogy, karma is described in a bow and arrow analogy. The full complement of arrows in quivers represent sanchita karmas, all those possessed by a soul. The ...
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Anger (Cold Shoulder) part 3

In part two of this second talk on anger, Bodhinatha goes into the second rung on the ladder of anger, "the cold shoulder." He summarizes the first two rungs by discussing the ...
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Karma Management

The concept of karma has spread beyond the confines of the asian religions that conceived it to become a core concept of todays yoga and New Age movements. It is ...
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Karma Management Day 1 Part 1

2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 1This is the first of Bodhinatha's series of talks to more than 100 Innersearch participants and pilgrims gathered during our Satguru Purnima festival ...
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Karma Management Day 1 Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 2Bodhinatha discusses some common misconceptions about the law of karma and balances them out with a few very clarifying correct concepts. ...
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Karma Management Day 1 Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 3Karma Management Principle No. 1 is "forego retaliation." Karma often comes through other people, but the first step to managing our karma effectively is ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 1

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 1 Bodhinatha adds a few more common misconceptions to his list of common false concepts about the law of karma, including attributing our karma ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 2 Bodhinatha discusses three correct concepts about karmathat it is a universal system in place which works automatically, that it is divine, created by ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 3 Bodhinatha reviews the first two principles of Karma Management and proceeds with number 3, "forgive the offender" and number 4, "consider the consequences." The first three principles ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 1

Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 1Bodhinatha begins this day's talk with a joke about monism, then reads from a Transcendental Meditation (TM) brochure on how to fix your karma by ...
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Love, forgiveness

Bodhinatha talks about love and forgiveness illustrating these points through Yogaswami stories and Gurudeva's teachings. A Yogaswami story presents the precept that all are One, no one is separate. Gurudeva's ...
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Resolving Difficult Situations - A Sadhana for the Jivana Ritau

The talk begins with an overview of the sadhanas for the Jivana Ritau, the second of the three seasons. This is a natural time for action and implementation follwoing the ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 2 Bodhinatha introduces two new concepts about karma, more about astrology and the concept of karmas being active or inactive. ...
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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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Tsunami Response

Any major tragedy in the world invokes a three-step response. The first step that is appropriate comes from the heart - compassion, prayer, sympathy. The second step that comes after ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 4

Bodhinatha talks about the Seventh Principle: We can lessen the karma we are carrying by doing Karma Yoga. Bhakti yoga: Devotion, worship that is intense enough to recieve the grace ...
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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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Moksha Ritau

Bodhinatha gives a talk on the Moksha Ritau, the cool season and the third of three seasons or ritaus in the calendar given by Gurudeva. Moksha means release from the ...
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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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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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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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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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Ganesha the Lord of Obstacles

Bodhinatha discourses on Ganesha, the Lord of Obstacles and gives effective ways to worship Lord Ganapati as He is presented in the fourth belief of the Saivite Creed. Bodhinatha then ...
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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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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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The River of Life

Recap of trip to Michigan for the Council of Hindu Temples of North America and receiving the Sanatana Dharma Ratna award along with Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Balagangadharanatha Swami. The ...
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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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Managing your Subconscious

Experiences of everyday life settle in the subconscious. Disagreements are a natural part of life. The subconscios mind, like an animal, is very intelligent within it's own logic, it's own ...
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Reality and Life

The existence of the world, extreme views: The attitude that the world is real, the attitude that the world is illusion. When we look at it the right way, through ...
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The World is an Ashram

The world is what we make it. Our Saivite perspective is to make spiritual progress. Television: a tool for karmic cleansing, the softening of prarabdha karmas. School: an opportunity for ...
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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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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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How Temple Worship Can Help Our Life

How can we improve our behavior? Making good use of the Hindu temple is one of these ways. Bodhinatha also discusses how the worship of Ganesha can help us to ...
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Uplifting Those Who Don't Want to Be Uplifted

Many of our members take care of elderly parents, which can be a stressful situation if the parent is in a negative state of mind and refuses to budge from ...
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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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False Concepts About the Spiritual Path

As is true in many areas of life, there are more false concepts about something than true concepts, and this is certainly true regarding the spiritual path. Here Bodhinatha speaks ...
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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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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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Mahasivaratri, 2003, Part 1, Meditation

Mahasivaratri, Part 1 of 3Meditation and Mahasivaratri. Bodhinatha remarks how special Gurudeva's talk was which we played tonight, then goes on to give a wonderful upadesha about how the inner ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Yama 1 - Ahimsa

Bodhinatha speaks on the first yama, ahimsa, which is noninjury in thought, word and deed. The law of karma decrees that it is wise not to harm or hurt others, ...
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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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Yama 2 - Satya, Truthfulness

Bodhinatha speaks on satya, the second yama. Truthfulness relates to what we say and honesty to what we do. People lie when they are fearful. People also lie to make ...
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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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Creating and Resolving Karma

Yellow in the human aura. The challenge to learn from our karma. It takes a refined person to learn fully from what someone else tells them. We attract to us ...
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Understanding Karma

Praying only to appease a planet such as Sani (Saturn) is a mis-focus of attention. Pray directly to God. Sanchita, prarabdha and kriyamana karmas manifest in our life, influenced 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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Progressive Stages of Practice

The progressive practice of karma, bhakti and raja yogas. Suffering is caused by our own improper, unwise action, bending the rules of dharma. True wisdom, in our tradition, comes from ...
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Sadhana Path of Change

Follow Gurudeva's teachings in a serious way; take up a daily vigil, sandhya vandana, worshiping at the change of days (sunrise and sunset). It takes time to change and master ...
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Uphold Behavior Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Don't let down. Success comes with consistency of conduct. Improve and control our mind and behavior standards twenty-four hours a day. Monistic Theism, our tradition, is a dual approach. Worshiping ...
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Handling Life's Experiences

The three gunas: brightness (satya,) activity (rajas), inertia (tamas). Each soul needs a certain amount of experience before it is ready to transcend the world through achieving liberation. How many ...
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Stay in the Now, Create Your Future

Bisi in Shum: ["I am aware of the unreality of time and the eternity of the moment."] To quiet the mind for meditation hold your mind no more than 4.5 ...
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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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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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Stabilize Consciousness in the Muladhara Chakra and Above

The challenge of not falling below the muladhara chakra. "Achieve freedom with responsibility," living in the box of dharma. Ahimsa and himsa: Patanjali advises: to overcome the propensity to do harm, cultivate the ...
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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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Advancing Spiritually in the World Today.

"I am" is a simple way of defining consciousness. Stretch your mind, meditate on as Yogaswami says: "You and God are the same age." Move awareness through understanding and gaining control. Well conceived actions make life more ...
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Seeing the World as an Ashram for Making Spiritual Progress

Our view of the world is colored by our state of mind. How can one act in an evil way if they are the soul? Do you think as you ...
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Moksha - Resolving Karma, Fulfilling Dharma

The most important aspect of resolving karma is to accept it. Find a way of depersonalizing mistreatment. Everything that happens to us is a pattern we set in motion. Dharma ...
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Overcoming Disappointments in Life and on the Spiritual Path

Disappointment is a natural human emotion which can be overcome if we don't personalize it. Without challenges we do not make spiritual progress. Expect obstacles commensurate with the difficulty of ...
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Bear Cheerfully and Happily

Gurudeva talks about Siva's day, Monday, family home evening Gurudeva tells us about our face, karma, living life joyously. Gurudeva gives information to us about the astral plane, the akasha ...
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Experience, Teach Discrimination

Gurudeva describes his day and how he is working on the finishing touches of Merging with Siva. " Why did we come here" is a question answered by Gurudeva today. Experience, learning, improvement, and how ...
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Experience, Teach Discrimination

Gurudeva describes his day and how he is working on the finishing touches of Merging with Siva. " Why did we come here" is a question answered by Gurudeva today. Experience, learning, improvement, and how ...
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Unfailing Law of Karma

We are here on Earth for a certain number of years. We are going to school. We are learning. We are maturing. Life itself matures us spiritually. ...
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Karma Management Review

Moksha includes resolving karma. Even if you realize God, if you have karma you haven't resolved, you're going to be here. Ten Principles of Karma Management in three parts: Handle ...
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Ahimsa, All is One, See Others As Yourself

The desire to harm comes from discontent. A profound basis for ahimsa is that everything is One and everything is Divine. See the Divine shine forth in all beings, all ...
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Criticism, The Pearl in the Oyster

Gurudeva receives a letter from the Hari Krishnas and discusses the Bhagavad Gita. Criticism is the topic of the day and we are given information about criticism and correction. Gurudeva ...
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Courage, Resolve Conflict

Gurudeva describes upadesha and prayaschitta, how we may learn from mistakes and experiences, and mitigation of karmas. Gurudeva tells how changes in thinking come about as one studies and begins ...
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Courage, Resolve Conflict

Gurudeva describes upadesha and prayaschitta, how we may learn from mistakes and experiences, and mitigation of karmas. Gurudeva tells how changes in thinking come about as one studies and begins ...
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Mitigation Sadhana

Gurudeva tells how the past becomes the future and that the energy of the past can be mitigated. We are given a sadhana to do just before we go to ...
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Karmic Chain

Gurudeva tells how he goes into his mind into past lives, to determine the appropriate penance for confessions that he receives so that he may help the individual to mitigate ...
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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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Human Conduct Within the Home

Human conduct within the home, the extended family is today's topic. How do we work out our karma and work out our faults? Gurudeva says it is through relating with ...
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Human Conduct Within the Home

Human conduct within the home, the extended family is today's topic. How do we work out our karma and work out our faults? Gurudeva says it is through relating with ...
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Take Time Out for Reflection

Reflection, taking time out, and good birth are Gurudeva's topics today. Some feel they are a cork in the ocean, others feel they are the ocean, others feel they are ...
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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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Drawing the Lesson from Each Experience

Today Bodhinatha spoke on facing life's challenges by cultivating a contemplative lifestyle. He read from Gurudeva's teachings on this and stressed the importance of regular worship in the home and ...
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The Art of Giving, Of Doing Nothing; True Perception and Talking Things Over

Gurudeva shares insights about three forms of communication that remove stress and bring harmony into our lives, namely: giving, talking uncomfortable things over, and using true superconscious perception. These three ...
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All Knowing is Within You: Handling Each Experience

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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All Knowing is Within You: No Good, No Bad

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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All Knowing is Within You: Inner States, Outer States

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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All Knowing is Within You: Waiting for Intuitive Flashes

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: Making Wise Decisions

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Purpose of Life: Using the Power Of Observation

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 Sub of the Subconscious Mind: Helpmate or Hindrance?

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Color's Magic: Blessings and Their Opposite

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Color's Magic: Exploring the World of Colors

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Spiritual Life Described

Today Gurudeva talks about the obstacles on the spiritual path, how you need determination to overcome those obstacles. He explains obstacles as masses of prana, or energy, set in motion ...
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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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Sleep and Dreams: Shielding Your Emotional Nature

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Sleep and Dreams: Working with Our Dreams

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: The Law of Cause and Effect

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Detachment from Experiences; Importance of Daily Vigil

All experiences are good experiences, necessary to get us here. Awareness of aspects of ourselves that are constantly changing is a liberating perception, breaking our chains to mundane areas, detaching ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: Working It Out On the Inside

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: The Effect of Self Realization

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: The Role of The Satguru

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

Today Gurudeva talks about the success that carries over from life to life, the control of yourself under all circumstances. He gives advice on how daily sadhana can help you ...
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The Law of Karma

Today Gurudeva talks about karma, how we come to realize that everything that happens to us is the result of some action set in motion by us in the past. ...
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Mahasivaratri

Today Gurudeva talks about the difference between karma and fate. He explains how bad karma can be mitigated. He explains the principal of sadhana, doing the same practice every day ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: Categories Of Karma

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Fine Art of Meditation: Overcoming Karma

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Long Term and Short Term Goals

Today Gurudeva talks about long term and short term goals. He explains how we don't spend enough time planing either kind of goal today. ...
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Vasana Daha Tantra

Today Gurudeva explains the vasana daha tantra, the technique of writing down things that bother you, then burning that paper in a fire. This gets stubborn memories and impressions out ...
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People Running Away from Situations

Today Gurudeva answers a question about why woman refrain from entering the temple or home shrine during their monthly period. He then talks about how all of experience is part ...
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Sadhana to Smooth Out Karma

Today Gurudeva about how in the past parents were held responsible for their children's actions, how mothers stayed at home. When children do wrong, the karma comes back on the ...
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The Three Gurus

Today Gurudeva talks about blaming others for what happens to us, and how we do this only when we don't recognize the law of karma and that what happens to ...
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Perfecting Spiritual Techinques

Today Gurudeva answers a question about keeping the ashes of a departed relative in the shrine room. He talks about clearing the subconcious mind through the vahana dasa tantra, writing ...
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Karma and Soul Power

Many people have soul power, the positive qualities of the soul. In facing our karmas over and over again, we realize what we experience today, we created in the many ...
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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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How Can We Be Strong Saivite Hindus?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 67 of the Himalayan Academy publication Path To Siva, discussing how to be a strong Saivite Hindu ...
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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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Mysticism and Religion

Sadasivanathaswami imparts how mysticism is an integral part of Hinduism and compares Gurudeva's teachings to other religions' views on meditation, yoga and mysticism in general. Master Course Trilogy, Living with ...
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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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Predestination

A cyberspace question from Tamil Nadu, India from someone wondering why we should go to the temple if everything is predestined. Gurudeva explains that we create our own destiny, according ...
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Sin and Guilt, Part 2

Part 2 of Gurudeva's talk on Sin and Guilt. Gurudeva illuminates the source of guilt, and he will give a way for you to relieve some of the long-held guilt ...
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Using drugs for spiritual unfoldment

A cybercadet from Australia wonders what he can do about his 15 year old son that uses drugs for spiritual awakening. Gurudeva warns that there is a consequence to every ...
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Working in the microcosm, Temple repair

A cyberspace devotee puts forth a question to the e-Guru today wanting to know about working in the microcosm and affecting the macrocosm. Gurudeva says that everybody is affecting everybody ...
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Accept Your Karma (with Tamil)

We begin today with a series of Gurudeva's responses to questions he has received from TAKA readers! Hear now about karma, and why not to blame others for your lessons ...
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Everything she needs and everything she wants

A cyberspace devotee from Nepal wants Gurudeva to clarify that in order to release the shakti from the wife we need to give her all that she wants and all ...
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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 1

Gurudeva's Last Birthday on a physical body - and a magic mantra he gives us. ...
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Sivaratri 2000 Part 3

Gurudeva's Sivaratri upadesha explores spiritual solutions to the problems of humanity. Gurudeva stresses that Lord Siva's philosophy teaches that problems are meant to be solved, they are not meant to ...
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Don't Just Forgive. Resolve!

Gurudeva counsels a cyber-space admirer who asks about exactly how to implement the ideal of forgiving inwardly at once insults and injuries received, but outwardly only when the transgressor reconciles ...
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Seeing Yourself in Others

If we see someone doing something that we really dislike, which really disturbs us, is that something that we might ourselves do under the same conditions? This is the question ...
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Mitigating Bad Thoughts

"Gurudeva, I was feeling low and had bad thoughts and feelings about other. Now that I feel better, can I do something to cancel out those thoughts?" This is the question posed to Gurudeva from a Yahoo.com devotee. Wouldn't you like to know the answer? ...
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Anger Management

Today Gurudeva talks about the need for anger management, how anger is one of the biggest barriers on the path. He explains how drugs can open the lower chakras and ...
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People Running Away from Situations

Today Gurudeva answers a question about why woman refrain from entering the temple or home shrine during their monthly period. He then talks about how all of experience is part ...
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Sadhana Controls Unexpected Happenings

Today Gurudeva talks about how we create things with the mind, and how we can control unexpected happenings by daily sadhana, which opens up the subconscious mind to superconscious input. ...
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The Three Gurus

Today Gurudeva talks about blaming others for what happens to us, and how we do this only when we don't recognize the law of karma and that what happens to ...
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Perfecting Spiritual Techinques

Today Gurudeva answers a question about keeping the ashes of a departed relative in the shrine room. He talks about clearing the subconcious mind through the vahana dasa tantra, writing ...
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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 5

Gurudeva's birthday speech - and a magic mantra revealed. ...
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Sacred leaves for pada puja; Should one have a Guru who is alive?

A cyber cadet in Malaysia wonders if it is ok to use sacred leaves for a pada puja. Gurudeva says that it is fine and that he is creating a ...
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Sacred leaves for pada puja , Should one have a Guru who is alive?, Is everything that happens good?

A cyber cadet in Malaysia wonders if it is ok to use sacred leaves for a pada puja. Gurudeva says that it is fine and that he is creating a ...
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Holy Ash. Do we really have free will? Burn the good memories?

A cybercadet in Canada wonders what to do with the excess holy ash accumulated from daily puja. Cybercadet Rolando from Virginia asks if we really have free will. ...
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A Destiny with Suicide; Whose Nada do I hear?

A cyber cadet in Chennai asks if it is in our destiny to commit suicide then what should we do. Gurudeva says that the concept of destiny has nothing to ...
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Law of Karma

A cyber cadet from Luxemburg asks Gurudeva a question on karma. Gurudeva says that karma is action. Gurudeva also says that karma can be mitigated and he goes on to ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 6

Today's cybertalk is part six of 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. ...
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Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part V

This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the fifth part today Gurudeva shares with Loni about ...
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How to love the Gods?

A cyberspace devotee wants to know how one can learn to love the Gods. Gurudeva says to have love in your heart you have to get rid of all the ...
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Good Money, Bad Money

A cyberspace devotee from the US asks about the nature of bad money. Gurudeva explains that there are two kinds of bad money. ...
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Ending the cycle of karma

A cyberspace devotee from Bowie, Maryland, asks about the cycle of karma, how karma seems to be an unending chain of related events. Gurudeva explains the inner nature of karma, ...
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Making the Right Choice

Mohana Das from Malaysia asks if one passes on is he born into the same lineage. Gurudeva says that this is usually the case for if not it would be ...
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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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Three Spiritual Goals of Life and Willpower

Three goals of life : realization, liberation and merger. Realization means we have a complete experience of the transcendent absolute. We have to realize God many times to achieve liberation. ...
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Accepting Mistreatment

Create a vibration of love and harmony. Misunderstandings, not cleared up, build year after year. Karma is in no hurry. If we do not retaliate for negative events the karma ...
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Niyama 10: Tapas

Tapas is to practice austerity, serious disciplines, penance and sacrifice which increases the speed at which we are moving forward on the spiritual path. Daily sadhanas and penance to atone ...
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Explaining Willpower

Meditate well by controling thoughts, directing awareness. Will refers to the strength and ability to carry out decisions and plans. Two keys to strengthen willpower. The nature of willpower is ...
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No Need to Ponder Past Lives - Look to the future

We are the sum total of actions and reactions set in motion in past lives, recorded in the astrologic sign under which we are born. We do not have to ...
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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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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

Part 1 of Bodhinatha's Karma Management Course preliminary to a presentation to be given in Singapore including questions and answers from pilgrims/devotees during the 10th Annual Gurudeva Mahasamadhi Celebration. ...
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Conduct, thoughts, life-cycles

When we think about someone, we're sending a thought form to that person. Start with: "I need to be sending positive thoughts to others." Negative habits, based on recurring cycles, can be avoided by sustaining sadhana. Spiritual practices ...
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Karma Management Seminar Part 2

Karma Management Seminar day 2 given to pilgrims and devotees at the 9th Annual Mahasamadhi Celebration preliminary to the presentation in Malaysia with questions and answers. ...
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No Guilt, Do Penance, Live Joyously

Think of heaven and hell as being states of mind, available in the present moment. Live in a heavenly or peaceful, blissful state of mind. The state of mind we're ...
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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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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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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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The Illusion of the Mind, Self-Reflection, Fulfill Your Duties

This is a classic talk by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami from 1962. He explains the illusion of the mind, karma, meditation, dharma, and Self-Realization from the Advaita perspective. He urges listeners ...
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Story of Our Awareness, Being Afraid

The power of awareness: The inner self, the witness of perception, the inner eye of the soul. Yoga: Control of the mind and senses. Gurudeva's tools for the aspirant on ...
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Spiritual Practice, the World of Life

Overcome the cycle of disappointment, discouragement, depression and despair. Focus on control of thoughts, feelings and emotions, remaining positive and depersonalizing negative experiences in the ebb and flow of life. ...
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The Third Dimension and the Shum Perspective, Part 2

"The third dimension is the essence of duality, the shifting of forces constantly. A constant ebb and flow of the odic forces characterizes this dimension. It is always in flux, always changing. Within the changing world of the third dimension are two basic and intricate energy flows. Shum words associated with the third dimension relating to the first three chakras. Akalyisimbi-the first chakra; in Sanskrit the muladhara. Rehnamtyevum-the second chakra; in Sanskrit svadhishthana. Bivumbika-the third chakra; ...