New Arulsishya Archana Pillay
During the previous Sun One puja and talk, Archana Pillay was able to read aloud her new vows as Arulsishya. Satguru, devotees and monks were all in attendance to witness the event. Archana is taking a momentous step forward to becoming a formal disciple of Bodhinatha as a member of Saiva Siddhanta Church.
Recent Visitors
Repeat visitors Gyan and Sushila Joshi from Florida, with daughter Seema and son-in-law Ashish family on their first visit
Recent Visitors
Vyramuthu, daughter Mythilie and grandson Vanavan from California. Vyramuthu met Yogaswami as a child.
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Path to Siva Commentaries
How Do We Meditate, Part 2
"Adjust yourself to the realization that you are a divine being, a self-effulgent, radiant being of light."
Jyoti is the Sanskrit word for inner light. To bestow on devotees terms that were more specific, Gurudeva developed the Shum Language of Meditation. In Shum the word for the light that lights up the mind is balikana. During Shum meditation there is an indrawing of forces to realize balikana, a moon-like glow, leading to iftye a deeper kind of inner light which, in turn, leads to milinaka, a sustained iftye which doesn't go away and can be sustained after we've finished our meditation.
Path to Siva, Lesson 47
Twelve Shum Meditations
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