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February 24, 2004During this Moksha Ritau, we bring you quotes from Gurudeva's writings, focused on the ultimate goals of life: "Religious learning is the greatest learning, the only permanent learning. All else is transitory and changing. Religion is the knowledge of the soul. God Siva created your soul. Your mother and father...
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February 23, 2004Nandinatha Sutra 117: Supporting Religious Observances Siva's married followers all encourage their spouses to ardently fulfill sadhana, religious service, meditation, yoga, ritual worship, festivals and pilgrimage. They never discourage such noble expressions of dharma. Aum. Ramamurthi and Lakshmi Iyer visited today from Lake Elsinore in Southern California. It was their...
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February 22, 2004More thoughts on Moksha for the Moksha Ritau: "Moksha comes when earthly karma has been resolved, dharma well performed and God fully realized. Each soul must have performed well through many lives the varna dharmas, or four castes, and lived through life's varied experiences, in order to not be pulled...
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February 21, 2004This is the Moksha Ritau, the season to deepen our sadhana and look up and in toward the goal of Self-Realization. We had our Sun One homa this morning as usual. Bodhinatha gave a wonderful talk, which will be posted in the days to come. He made the point that...
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February 18, 2004Tonight is the great night of Siva and the last day of our phase. We wish you all a profound deepening of your spiritual life on this most sacred day of the year. "Mahasivaratri is the night before the new-moon day in February-March. We observe it both as a discipline...
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February 17, 2004"Changing to a purer life can be so simple. You don't have to give up anything. Just learn to like things that are better. That is the spirit of purity. When you give up something because you think you should give it up, that creates strain. Instead, search for a...
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February 16, 2004"To understand the mysteries of the soul, we distinguish between the soul body and its essence. As a soul body, we are individual and unique, different from all others, a self-effulgent being of light which evolves and matures through an evolutionary process. This soul body is of the nature of...
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February 15, 2004"Then there is the joy of the mysticism of Hinduism. It is the world's most magical religion, offering worlds within worlds of esoteric discovery and perception. The inner worlds are what Hindu mystics tell of in the greatest richness and freedom of expression that exists on the planet. Mysticism in...