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Patanjali Yoga Sutras: an Upadesha by Bodhinatha
Patanjali Yoga Sutras - An Upadesha by Bodhinatha - June 2011 Bodhinatha explains the ancient and revered Yoga Sutras in the light of Gurudeva's insights. He also compares some of ...
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Monthly Video - February 2010
Our monthly video for February 2010. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, spiritual head of Kauai's Hindu Monastery and publisher of Hinduism Today Magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk editorial from the April/May/June 2010 ...
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April/May/June 2010 Issue Summary
The Editor-in-Chief of Hinduism Today magazine highlights the features of the April/May/June 2010 issue. An Interfaith gathering f many swami's took place where HT editors wrote a combined statement for ...
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Can Everyone Benefit from Yoga? Part 1
Our publisher, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, reads his Publisher's Desk editorial from the April/May/June 2010 edition of Hinduism Today Magazine. Part 1 of 2. The Melbourne Interfaith gathering topics are discussed. ...
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Religion and the Media Part 1
Part 1 of 3: Presentation analyzing religions, specifically Hinduism, and their presence in the media, as well as cogent suggestions of what Hindus can do to improve their community's relationship ...
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Which Yoga Should I Follow? - Publisher's Desk
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Jul/Aug/Sep 2012 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. In this edition Bodhinatha focuses on the four main types of yoga,namely, Kama yoga, Bhakti ...
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Can Everyone Benefit from Yoga?
While openly available, yoga is rooted in Hindu scripture, teaches Hindu practices and leads to oneness with God. Yoga is comprised of eight main practices namely yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, ...
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What Are the Path's Four Stages
Naalupadasaivam: "A Saiva doctrine that the initiate should pass successively through charya, kriya, yoga and jnana stages and thence obtain moksha." The charya pada, the dasa marga, path of servitude. Sharing the world of God. The kriya pada, satputra marga, true son's way. Nearness to God. The yoga pada, ...
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What You Can Do
Upadesha by Gurudeva on What You can Do. Gurudeva encourages and urges all initiates and students to put into practice what they have been taught/they have learnt and to be ...
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Can Everyone Benefit from Yoga? Part 2
Our publisher, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, reads his Publisher's Desk editorial from the April/May/June 2010 edition of Hinduism Today Magazine. Part 2 of 2. In part 2 Bodhinatha discusses the benefits ...
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Claiming Your Spiritual Identity Exercise 4
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami teaches the fourth practical exercise in claiming our spiritual identity: we are the experiencer, not the experience. Bodhinatha outlines the concept of being the witness of the ...
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Letting Go of Past & Future - Publisher's Desk
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the July/August/September 2010 edition of HInduism Today magazine. "A peaceful and effective life is waiting for those who undertake the not-so-easy work required to live in the eternal now." Bodhinatha highlights the benefits of living in the eternal now and shares a few ...
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Introduction to Hinduism (Part 4/5)
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 issue. Part 4 focuses on the nature of the soul and the world. ...
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Introduction to Hinduism (Part 5/5)
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 issue. Part 5 is entitled Hinduism in Practice. Bodhinatha outlines the three main ...
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Which Yoga Should I Follow
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a presentation on a topic which festured in the July/August/September 2012 Hinduism Today edition entitled "Which Yoga Should I Folow?" In this presentation, Bodhinatha outlines the nature and purpose of ...
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Letting Go Of Past And Future
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's presentation entitled "Letting Go of Past and Future" features in the Jul/Aug/Sep 2010 Hindusim Today edition. In this presentation, Bodhinatha explains that the restraint of the modifications of the mind or yoga ...
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Six Levels of Practice
Bodhinatha's presentation is drawn from Gurudeva's teachings on daily practice and is entitled "Six Levels of Practice". In this presentation, Bodhinatha explores each of the six practices, namely (1) Making Dharma Your ...
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Surrender is Central to All Yogas
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Jul/Aug/Sep 2017 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. "Individuals who are not religious make progress toward achieving their goals in life by self-effort. Whatever they accomplish is, from their perspective, solely the result of what they do to achieve it." In order to unfold spiritually, one must relinquish his free instinctive nature and surrender ...
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The Path's Four Stages
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 30 of the Himalayan Academy publication "Path To Siva," explaining the four stages of our spiritual path, namely, charya, kriya, yoga and jnana. The four paths ...
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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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Need for Religion Part 2
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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Mahasivaratri Talk Part 1 Siva and Muruga
Many devoted pilgrims are coming lately. One who came was focused entirely on the worship of Lord Murugan and doesn't worship Siva. Apparently some Saivites only worship Murugan. Why is ...
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Mahasivaratri Talk Part 3 Realizing the Self
In Part 3 of his Mahasivaratri talk for 2002, Bodhinatha quotes from Living with Siva on "the mission of the mission." A dynamic band of devas in the inner worlds guides and assists our ...
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Yamas and Niyamas part 3 Ashtanga Yoga
The Yamas are the first stage of the spiritual path. It is the first step in ashtanga yoga, followed by niyama. If someone want to follow the traditional yoga path, ...
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Sarvajnanottara Agama Vidya and Yoga Pada in English
Sarvajnanottara Agama Vidya and Yoga Pada or section translated to English by Dr. S.P. Sabharathanam Sivacharyar. One of the most important Saiva Agamas. Subjects include the "direct blissful experience of absolute oneness with Siva," the nature of ...
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Raurava Agama Vidya Pada English
Raurava Agama Vidya Pada or knowledge section translated to English by Dr. S.P. Sabharathnam Sivacharyar. Subjects include Siva tattvas, transmission of scriptures, metaphysical path, mudras, breathing, yoga, initiation, instructions to ...
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Nallupada Saivam
Bodhinatha recalls a segment of his talk on Nalupada Saivam where he compared the Vedanta and Siddhanta paths. He also gives us a preview of his talk about God Siva, ...
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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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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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What Is Japa?
Japa links Siddhanta with Vedanta, being a monist and a theist at the same time. Quieting the mind, Aum Saravanabhava. Repetition of the Panchakshara Mantra, Aum Namah Sivaya "...connects you with millions of Siva's devotees." Distinguish ...
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Mahasivaratri, 2003, Part 3
Mahasivaratri, Part 3 of 3, Being Still. Bodhinatha elucidates some wonderful quotes from Yogaswami on the theme of "summa iru," which means "be still" in Tamil, one of Yogaswami's mahavakyas, or great ...
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What Is Meditation?
Meditation is the study of awareness, of yourself and of the universe, experiencing the soul. The purpose of meditation is to separate awareness from what it is aware of, to ...
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Niyama 4 - Astikya, Faith
Bodhinatha speaks on the niyama of astikya, faith. In Hinduism experience develops faith. Faith starts out as a belief in what we have not yet experienced. This leads to experience ...
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Putting Gurudeva's Teachings to the Best Use, Part 4
Bodhinatha continues his Gurudeva mahasamadhi observances class with this part on the importance of The Master Course Trilogy in helping us establish our foundation of philosophical understanding (Dancing with Siva) ...
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Niyama 6 - Siddhanta Shravana
The niyama of siddhanta shravana involves studying and listening to learned people, our primary scriptures, the Vedas, and other holy texts. This guides us to become more spiritual people. But ...
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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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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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Putting Gurudeva's Teachings to the Best Use, Part 3
Bodhinatha continues his Gurudeva mahasamadhi observances class with this part on ashtanga yoga, which is the teaching of our Nandinatha Sampradaya's Kailasa Parampara. When you go to study yoga somewhere ...
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Equanimity and Inner Consciousness
Yoga is controlling the flow of awareness throughout the day. When meditating remain imperturbable, centered in inner consciousness. The guru helps strengthen the ability to control awareness. Upeksha, equanimity. ...
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Attenuating Obstacles, Meditation
Understanding keys to the mind and transformation. Kriya, the yoga of action, comprised of tapas, svadhyaya and Ishvara pranayama. Living in the soul nature; attenuating the kleshas. Detaching from the ...
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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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Activating Kundalini; Patanjali's Kriya Yoga
Unless kundalini is active, the deepest meditative states are not available to us. But to activate kundalini, Gurudeva tells us we must invoke the grace of Lord Ganesha and Lord ...
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Purify Subconscious, Let Go of Negative Attachments
With the worship of Lord Karttikeya, the study of Gurudeva's teachings and the practice of daily sadhana awaken kundalini in a gentle controlled way. Through svadhyaya, communion with Ishta Devata ...
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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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Sadhana: Establish Daily Practice
In the past forty years temples and priests have come over to the U.S. from India. The daily spiritual practice of Hinduism, has been left behind. In youth it is ...
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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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Harmony in Relationships with Others.
Yoga is controlling awareness throughout the day. Interpersonal relationships impact our meditations. Mystical way of adjusting relationships. Find, understand, accept, work harmoniously with that quality of others hidden within our ...
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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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Yoga: Restraint of Mental Activity
Yoga is not about the body, it's about nirodhah, restraint of mental activity. When we sit to meditate we transmute force out of the physical into the mental, raising our ...
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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: Practice to Achieve Samadhi
Bodhinatha continues with his commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. We learn to control the mind through practice, detachment, the achievement of steadiness. Progress toward samadhi depends upon interest, priority and ...
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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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Eight Features of Natha Sampradaya (Version 2)
Don't put the search for the innermost divine Self in the future tense. You are Brahman. We're already identical with Siva. Kundalini is a slow awakening. Shum meditation gives you ...
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Muruga, The God of Yoga and the Spiritual Path, Part 2
Part 2 of 3. Next in his talk on Lord Murugan, Bodhinatha spoke about how the worship of Lord Murugan can give success in advanced yoga practices and gave suggestions ...
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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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How to Realize God: Harnessing the Energies
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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How to Realize God: Preparations For True Yoga
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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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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Devotion Is a Prerequisite for Realization
Acquire, cultivate and perfect devotion to God before sitting to meditate. Meditation is intense, dynamic when approached in its depth. Theism leads us into Monism, realizing our inner Oneness with ...
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The River of Life: "Nobody Understands Me"
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Dealing with Past and Future
What we do with our awareness relates to where our energy goes. Purge, through vasana daha tantra, unresolved events we haven't accepted or understood. Affirmations. Redo goals, harness and control ...
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The Conscious Mind: The Donkey And the Carrot
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Conscious Mind: Reason Reigns Supreme
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Conscious Mind: Conscious and Subconscious
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 Subsuperconscious Mind: The Flow of Creativity
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Subsuperconscious Mind: Bursts of Light And Intuition
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 Astral Body: Harnessing Instinctiveness
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Astral Body: The Intuitive Nature
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Astral Body: Soul Body, The Real You
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Jnani's Omniscient Vision
Yogaswami explains: You are all-pervasive; that is your nature. Intellectual concepts: The obstacle to realizing omnipresence. Visualizing: The first step toward experiencing. A jnani can use all-pervasiveness, not just a ...
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Jnana Many Lives Humility
The practice of yoga, well performed, produces the jnani. Believe in future lives but just be sure to achieve in this life. We carry forward, like a prolonged nalif, our ...
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Worship Supports but Differs from Meditation
The theological blending of the two perspectives, theism and monism. Dimfi: Worship of the deity in the temple, wakening a deeper perspective and enlivening the kundalini, interrelates with but is ...
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True Jnana -- the Unspeakable Knowledge of Nirvikalpa Samadhi
An important distinction between Siddhanta and Vedanta. What jnana, divine wisdom is and how we acquire it. In Siddhanta we acquire jnana by practicing charya, kriya, yoga and by doing ...
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Exercise Your Will Power
With a greater interest in spiritual life, use willpower to accomplish everything successfully. Keys for strengthening willpower. The stronger our willpower, the better we're able to harness our thoughts. It's ...
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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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Powers of the Spine: The Ida and Pingala Currents
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Spinning Wheels of Consciousness: 14 Regions of Consciousness
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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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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Cultivating Will Power
Master Course Recording. Chapter 9. Six steps to Self Realization. Gurudeva describes moving awareness from attention to samadhi. Swimming pool metaphor. Cultivate willpower. Discover willpower. Awareness = Willpower = Energy. ...
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Yoga is the Last Step
E-devotee Frank from Austin Texas has been practicing meditation for 28 years and asks Gurudeva how to deepen his experience. Gurudeva stresses the need for a firm foundation of commitment ...
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Kundalini
A cyberspace question from San Diego from someone wondering about the kunadlini and whether it can go up the wrong channel. Gurudeva warns individuals not to practice japa, meditation or ...
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Who is the Doer after Realization?
When the soul is young and just beginning, it thinks that it is the doer of all its deeds. After the realization of the Self, do we still feel that ...
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Gossiping, Easiest way to enlightenment
A cybercadet from Texas asks about backbitting and gossip and wonders what to do when at family events that is all that takes place. Gurudeva gives his permission to her ...
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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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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 4
A guru, a Satguru is like a knife. He is like a pen. He is like a pencil. ...
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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 4
A guru, a Satguru is like a knife. He is like a pen. He is like a pencil. ...
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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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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 1
Today's cybertalk is a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco of station K-108 in Honolulu. This interview is in many parts and in the first part today Arthur ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 4
Today's cybertalk is 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. This interview is ...
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Nature of the Soul
A cyberspace devotee wants to know about the nature of the soul. Gurudeva says that the nature of the soul is absolute bliss and perfection. ...
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Energy in the spine
A cyberspace devotee wants to know how we can feel the energy in our spine. Gurudeva says one simple way is to centre awareness in our spine and simply move ...
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Merging with Siva
A cyberspace devotee from Singapore wants to know how much he should merge with Siva if he is a householder. Gurudeva says if he gives his wife everything she wants ...
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Meditation and Yoga
A cyberspace devotee heard that chakras need to be cleaned in order for the kundalini to work properly and wants to know what this process of cleaning the chakras is. ...
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Escaping the External World; Why the cow knocked Satguru Sivayogaswami?
Cyberspace devotee wonders if the reading of religious books and the listening to religious music is an escape from the world. Gurudeva says it is an escape from the external ...
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Escaping the External World; Why the cow knocked Satguru Sivayogaswami?
Cyberspace devotee wonders if the reading of religious books and the listening to religious music is an escape from the world. Gurudeva says it is an escape from the external ...
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Teaching Hinduism to Non-Hindus
Bodhinatha presented his insights on how best to teach Hinduism to non-Hindus, especially students. He likes to share the Hindu understanding of the four purusharthas (goals of life): dharma (duty, ...
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Classical Definition of Yoga
The Yoga Pada of Gurudeva related to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. The goal is to restrain the vrittis. Awareness, I am, the essential nature. Svarupa and vritti sarupa. Restraint through consistent, ...
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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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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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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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The Guru Chronicles Audio Book - Introduction
This is an excerpt (the introduction) from The Guru Chronicles Audio Book. The complete audio book is available on an 8GB USB thumb drive that contains The Guru Chronicles Audio ...
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Four Stages of Vedanta Versus Siddhanta
Gurudeva blends the practices of Vedanta and Siddhanta together in his teachings. Charya, kriya, yoga and jnana: the progressive pada of Saiva Siddhanta. "Jnana is the blossoming of wisdom, of enlightened consciousness, of true being." What makes one a jnani, in ...
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Preparations for True Yoga
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from lesson five of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book, Merging with Siva, discussing the value of theism practiced in tandem with our advaitist, meditative practices. ...
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The Depth of Charya Worship
The more devotion the bhaktar has the stronger the darshan can be perceived. The natural place and time for meditation, to internalize worship in the Saiva Siddhanta Tradition is after ...
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The Yoga Pada: Meditation and Austerity
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru reads from Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's Master Course Trilogy, discussing the Yoga Pada, the stage of austerity ...
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The "Penultimate" Talk On Yoga
"Yoga is the process of uniting with God within oneself...Truly a living satguru is needed as a steady guide to traverse this path." Attaining equanimity, equal mindedness, balanced mindedness under all conditions. Different aspects of awareness: traveling-consciousness stationary, detached, dissolving; when awareness is aware of itself, it's abiding in it's essential form. ...
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The Jnana Pada: The Result of Realization
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly Upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai Aadheenam. Here Satguru reads from Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's Master Course Trilogy, discussing the Jnana Pada, the stage of evolution ...
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The Concept of Awareness Part One
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylaswami gives an upadesha on the concept of awareness from the yogic perspective. ...