Today at Kauai Aadheenam

From Our Gurus' Teachings

  • Gurudeva's Master Course Lesson of the Day
  • Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas
    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
    Click here to go to an index of all of Bodhinatha's and Gurudeva's online audio.

Announcements

Archives are now available through 2001. Light colored days have no posts. 1998-2001 coming later.

Subscribe to RSS Feed
Audio Video Slideshows Images Publications Web pages