Results for: audio, Bodhinatha
Detachment from Experiences; Importance of Daily Vigil
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-05-03All experiences are good experiences, necessary to get us here. Awareness of aspects of ourselves that are constantly...
Controlling Five Kinds of Thoughts
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-04-30Each category of thought may be controlled in a different way for successful meditation. Emotion causes us to...
True Jnana -- the Unspeakable Knowledge of Nirvikalpa Samadhi
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-03-29An important distinction between Siddhanta and Vedanta. What jnana, divine wisdom is and how we acquire it. In...
Understanding Karma
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-03-21Mitigate karma by living a religious life, being disciplined, following dharma, being of service, accepting responsibility. We create...
Worship Supports but Differs from Meditation
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-03-12The theological blending of the two perspectives, theism and monism. Dimfi: Worship of the deity in the temple,...
Control Your Attachments and Aversions
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-03-06Unexpected synchronicities between people, a sign that the inner timing is going well. Be a little more than...
Jnana Many Lives Humility
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-02-27The practice of yoga, well performed, produces the jnani. Believe in future lives but just be sure to...
To Benefit from Darshan, Open Your Eyes, Look at the Deity
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-02-19Because you're sitting in the temple doesn't mean you actually receive the blessings of the Deity. Be not...
No Divisions in Life, Live Spiritually Every Day, Hour, Minute
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-02-11Following a path of religion that involves theism or worship, not relying too much on philosophy alone, we...
The Jnani's Omniscient Vision
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2013-02-05Yogaswami explains: You are all-pervasive; that is your nature. Intellectual concepts: The obstacle to realizing omnipresence. Visualizing: The...
Remove Five Kinds of Thought Blockages
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-12-30Today, a temple decoration, a banana plant, was blocking the light that normally shines on Bodhinatha when he...
Dealing with the Remnants of the Lower Mind
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-22Awakening superconscious is just a theory unless we control the remnants of the lower nature, detach from emotions....
Dealing with Past and Future
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-15What we do with our awareness relates to where our energy goes. Purge, through vasana daha tantra, unresolved...
Devotion Is a Prerequisite for Realization
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-12-21Acquire, cultivate and perfect devotion to God before sitting to meditate. Meditation is intense, dynamic when approached in...
Discipline Thinking about the Future
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-30Worry, thinking about unnecessary negative patterns, excessive talk: Wastes energy, over-stimulates intellect and desire. Discipline, quiet the mind....
Patience with karma. Double your Practice.
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-31Ashramas in family life keep us busy up to age 72 but then there's more time; double your...
Fulfill Dharma to Attain Realization
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-11-08Bodhinatha comments on excerpts from the book "Self and Samadhi." Worship of Lord Ganesha helps us get settled in our...
You Are the Self, Identify with Awareness
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-23Find the right balance in the world that you can sustain. Purify, quiet the mind, transcend externalities. See...
Find the Self
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-16Wrapped up in externalities, upset, life in a swirl, we forget about going within. Be sublime, control actions...
Affirm Your Divinity
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-09Seeing our shortcomings it's hard to think of ourselves as divine beings. Avoiding that series of memories we...
We Are Not Sinners
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-10-02The idea of redemption is not really the case in Hinduism. Being already exists deep in the soul....
Bhakti, the Foundation, Leads to Humility
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-09-02Attainment beyond anava marga. Acknowledging and coming closer to the Deities. True humility and devotion result from sincere...
No Guilt, Do Penance, Live Joyously
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-08-26Think of heaven and hell as being states of mind, available in the present moment. Live in a...
How God and Gods Come Into the Murti During Puja; Jivana Ritau
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-08-18Three varied Hindu views regarding the Gods and temple images. Gurudeva's perception: During the high point of puja...
Theism and Monism in Saiva Siddhanta
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-27In Gurudeva's teachings both approaches, monism and theism, are found in one tradition: monistic Saiva Siddhanta. Keep them...
Dealing with Distraction, Lesson 99 of Living with Siva
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-20The shumif perspective is helpful in detachment. Thoughts are stationary, move awareness to the pattern we want to...
Importance of the Saiva Agamas
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-07-02This talk was prepared by Bodhinatha as an address to the conference of Adi Saiva priests in Bangalore,...
Conduct, thoughts, life-cycles
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-06-12When 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,...
Classical Definition of Yoga
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-21The Yoga Pada of Gurudeva related to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. The goal is to restrain the vrittis. Awareness,...
Methods for Maintaining Inner Awareness
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-14When going into meditation have a destiny; find the spiritual energy, the power that's within the spine. Learn...
The Soul and Its Five Bodies
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-05-08One of the ways of understanding the soul is to understand what it is not. The faculties of...
Decisions, Discover and Use Your Intuition
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-30As a human race we don't solve problems until we have to; then we get highly motivated. Forget...
Find Your Divinity Within, Do Sadhana and Service
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-26We don't have to do anything to become God. Religion gives us an age-old, well proven structure to...
Life's Experiences Accelerate Our Evolution
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-04-22Most of us need interaction with other people to challenge us, to make spiritual progress. The more we...
No Need to Ponder Past Lives - Look to the future
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-03-23We are the sum total of actions and reactions set in motion in past lives, recorded in the...
Accepting and Facing Challenges
Satguru Bodhinatha VeylanswamiGiven On: 2012-03-13Having a sense of who we are, fulfilling the dharma of that person, we're motivated to do certain...