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The Guru's Job - Love

This is an excerpt from Gurudeva's 1987 Jayanthi Talk to his devotees at the California Concord Saiva Dharmasala (mission center). At that time the devotees were running a temple and ...
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Forgiveness on Pancha Ganapati

An Upadesha given in Kadavul Temple. Bodhinatha discusses the 2nd day of Pancha Ganapati, explains how we can use that time for the purpose of forgiveness and outlines the importance ...
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How to Live Spiritually 24 Hours/Day

During a seminar at the Hindu Association of West Texas in Midland, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami explains the paradigm shift required in order to look at our entire day as an ...
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Bodhinatha Speaks At Murugan Temple, August, 2009

A Brief Except from Satguru Bodhinathaswami's talk in the Murugan Temple, Maryland, during the annual Nalluran festival: goal of karma is to learn from our mistakes and improve our behaviour ...
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Publisher's Desk: Giving's Secret Gifts

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk article from the Jan/Feb/Mar 2010 issue on camera. He speaks about how consistently contributing to your religion has ...
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Bodhinatha's June 2013 Mid-West Trip Part 6

After Minnesota, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami traveled to Ontario, Canada, to visit the Hindu Temple of Windsor and the home of one of his formal sishyas. Windsor is just across the ...
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Monthly Video - February 2009

Kauai's Hindu Monastery's monthly video for February 2009. In this edition, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. This article ...
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Publisher's Desk: Television as a Tool for Spiritual Progress

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Publisher of Hinduism Today, Talks about television and how it can be used as a spiritual tool. Television can govern and guide actions of the world. ...
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Why Are We Not All-Knowing Like Siva?

The three bonds/pashas, given by Lord Siva: karma, maya and anava, are there to mature the soul. At first it is natural for the soul to be totally involved in ...
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What Is Karma?

"There are three kinds of karma: the karma of all deeds done in our past lives; the karmas we bring into this birth to experience; and the karmas we are making by our actions now." Karma is an automatic system of divine justice. Karma is self-created destiny; a consequence or fruit of action, karmaphala. By accepting not reacting, performing karma yoga, karma can be ...
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Introduction to Hinduism (Part 2/5)

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today magazine, reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 issue.In part 2, Bodhinatha outlines the four basic Hindu beliefs, namely, Karma, reincarnation, ...
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Hinduism: Religion or Way of Life?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Apr/May/Jun 2013 edition of Hinduism Today magazine, confronting a long-standing misapprehension about our faith, showing us why Hinduism is more than a ...
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Noninjury: the Foremost Virtue - Publisher's Desk

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Jul/Aug/Sep 2014 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. Nonviolence or ahimsa is the first and foremost ethical principle of Hinduism and the highest ...
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The Journey to Liberation

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the October/November/December 2015 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. "Though moksha may seem remote, there is wisdom in keeping this ultimate goal in mind as we live our day-to-day life." Bodhinatha explains how daily sadhana which includes worship, introspection, affirmation and study is a ...
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What Is True Success?

Bodhinatha's presentation is based on the Oct/Nov/Dec 2004 Hinduism Today edition and is entitled "What is True Sucess?" Hinduism favors and furthers the pursuit of wealth, pleasure and happiness--all guided by dharma. Happiness ...
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The Journey To Liberation

Bodhinatha's presentation is based on the Oct/Nov/Dec 2015 Hinduism Today edition and is entitled "The Journey to Liberation". Bodhinatha highlights the mystical view that each time a soul takes birth into a ...
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Gurudeva's Toolbox

Gurudeva’s Toolbox for a Spiritual Life was created by the monks of Kauai Aadheenam as the 2005 mahasamadhi souvenir honoring his legacy of teachings. One of the terms that Gurudeva ...
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What Is Karma?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 31 of the Himalayan Academy publication "Path To Siva," explaining the law of Karma which is considered as the automatic system of divine justice. The three ...
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What is Reincarnation?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 33 of the Himalayan Academy publication "Path To Siva," explaining Reincarnation. In essence, it is the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. In each life, we ...
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Deeper Perspectives and Monastic's Realization of the Self

The more you can detach yourself from life the more you can avoid the ups and downs of life, but you don't want to detach too much, or you will ...
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The Roots of Martin Luther King

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami honors Dr. Martin Luther King's accomplishments and offers insights into his experience and adoption of Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience and the Hindu roots from which the world-changing ...
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Karma is not destiny

If the manifestation of karma is inevitable, why do parents need to discipline their children at all? If something is in the child's karma and it's going to manifest inevitably, ...
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Karma Management Part 1

I get many questions about karma that are way off the mark. We need to understand karma and apply it to our life. Here are 4 of the principles Principle ...
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Karma Management Part 2

Review of part 1 plus... Fifth principle: create no negative karmas. Refrain from actions that will create negative karmas. Promise to. Sixth principle: Mitigate past karma. As long as we're ...
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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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Moksha, Realizing God

There is a misconception that one day we are experiencing zero percent God, then the next moment we are experiencing 100 percent God. Enlightenment doesn't just happen in an instant. ...
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Ahimsa in Speech (Part 2)

Ahimsa is a central principle in Hinduism. Let us take a look at the words we use in joking and teasing. These words are hurting. How do we know? Gurudeva ...
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Nine Beliefs of Hinduism in Ukrainian

Our beliefs determine our thoughts and attitudes about life, which in turn direct our actions. By our actions, we create our destiny. Beliefs about sacred matters--God, soul and cosmos--are essential ...
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Hinduism's Nine Beliefs

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Austerity Part 3

Bodhinatha elaborates on the four-fold concept of austerity, which Gurudeva defined as sadhana, penance, tapas and sacrifice. So, why bother performing austerities? It increases our speed on the spiritual path. ...
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Need for Religion Part 1

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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Malaysia Youth Seminar

The first one-day Master Course youth seminar has been held by Sivaneswaran and Aravidraj in Malaysia. These two young men came to Kauai last year on a Task Force program ...
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Master Course on Moksha

Today's Dancing with Siva lesson is on moksha, which is appropriate considering it is the moksha ritau, the third and final, inwardly drawn time of the year. It is important ...
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Passing Your Knowledge On

The Master Course lesson of the day and the sutra are on the senior monastics accepting new monastics for training. We have a duty to pass the wisdom of our ...
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Relation of noninjury to contentment

Bodhinatha continues his talk on the yamas and niyamas, relating the yama noninjury to the niyama of contentment. If we are content within ourselves, the tendency to disturb or hurt ...
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Controlling Anger part 3

In part three of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha begins by referring to the Tirukural and its chapter called "Avoidance of Anger," which is right before the chapter on ahimsa, the cardinal ...
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Jyotisha, Hindu Astrology

In the Hindu view, the plantes are not mere celestrial bodies circling the Sun. They are also divine beings-shown here as they were positioned on the first morning of the ...
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How to Ease Karma

In a traditional analogy, karma is described in a bow and arrow analogy. The full complement of arrows in quivers represent sanchita karmas, all those possessed by a soul. The ...
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Karma Management

The concept of karma has spread beyond the confines of the asian religions that conceived it to become a core concept of todays yoga and New Age movements. It is ...
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Who Is a Hindu?

Definitions of Hinduisms shared central beliefs were garnered from prominent Hindu organizations and individuals of the 20th century--evidence that the imperative to formalize conviction is a recent phenomenon. Overall, the ...
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Karma and Reincarnation

Swami Vivekananda, a brilliant young Hindu monk from India, preached about the great law of karma in the United States to all who drew near. He explained, "Any word, any action, any thought that produces an effect is called karma. Thus, the law of karma means the law of causation, of inevitable cause and effect." ...
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Ahimsa: To Do No Harm

Hindu wisdom, which inspires humans to live the ideals of compassion and nonviolence, is captured in one word, ahimsa. In Sanskrit, himsa is doing harm or causing injury. The a ...
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Karma and Reincarnation

An inspired talk from Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ...
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Karma Management Day 1 Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 2Bodhinatha discusses some common misconceptions about the law of karma and balances them out with a few very clarifying correct concepts. ...
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What Are Our Five Core Practices?

The pancha nitya karmas are spiritual practices for all Hindus: worship, holy days, pilgrimage, dharma and rites of passage. Three forms of worship: the temple, home shrine and on pilgrimage. ...
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Karma Management Day 1 Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 3Karma Management Principle No. 1 is "forego retaliation." Karma often comes through other people, but the first step to managing our karma effectively is ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 1

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 1 Bodhinatha adds a few more common misconceptions to his list of common false concepts about the law of karma, including attributing our karma ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 2 Bodhinatha discusses three correct concepts about karmathat it is a universal system in place which works automatically, that it is divine, created by ...
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Karma Management Day 2, Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 3 Bodhinatha reviews the first two principles of Karma Management and proceeds with number 3, "forgive the offender" and number 4, "consider the consequences." The first three principles ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 1

Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 1Bodhinatha begins this day's talk with a joke about monism, then reads from a Transcendental Meditation (TM) brochure on how to fix your karma by ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 2 Bodhinatha introduces two new concepts about karma, more about astrology and the concept of karmas being active or inactive. ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 3, Part 3 Bodhinatha unveils the 5th principle of Karma Management, "create no new negative karmas." This involves making a promise to ourselves, a vrata of a sort. To fulfill ...
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Tsunami Response

Any major tragedy in the world invokes a three-step response. The first step that is appropriate comes from the heart - compassion, prayer, sympathy. The second step that comes after ...
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Karma Management Day 3, Part 4

Bodhinatha talks about the Seventh Principle: We can lessen the karma we are carrying by doing Karma Yoga. Bhakti yoga: Devotion, worship that is intense enough to recieve the grace ...
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Siva is All Pervasive Love-Yogaswami Stories

Bodhinatha opens his talk with questions from the "Saiva Vina Vidai" and then tells a Yogaswami story- What is the one thing that God cannot do? Another Yogaswami story is then related ...
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God, soul and world

Bodhinatha talks about Pati Pasu Pasam, God, soul and world; the timeless teaching of the oneness of soul with God: Aham Brahmasmi, and the bonds of anava, karma, maya which ...
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Bhashya on Chapter One: Merging with Siva

On the occasion of Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi observance Bodhinatha expands on Chapter One of Merging with Siva counseling devotees not to get caught up in the externalities of the world, explaining ...
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Ahimsa

In his series of talks on Hindu beliefs and practices Bodhinatha presents the third practice, ahimsa. Ahimsa is discussed from the point of view of karma and then from the ...
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Karma Management Day 4, Part 2

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 2 Bodhinatha gives us two final correct concepts about karma, that we are creating our future in the present and that the ultimate future ...
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Karma Management Day 4, Part 3

2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 3 Bodhinatha explains the last three principles of Karma Management. Number 8 is "accelerate karma," which is done through performing daily sadhana (religious practices). Number ...
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Origin of Karma Management

Bodhinatha tells the story of the origin of the Karma Management seminar idea. Additionally he talks about enlightenment and dispels the common misconception that it happens instantaneously. He elaborates on ...
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Ganesha the Lord of Obstacles

Bodhinatha discourses on Ganesha, the Lord of Obstacles and gives effective ways to worship Lord Ganapati as He is presented in the fourth belief of the Saivite Creed. Bodhinatha then ...
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The Nature of Desire

Bodhinatha gives a wonderful discourse on the nature of desire. Gurudeva never asked us to give up desire. Desire is life. However, on the spiritual path it is important to ...
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Gurudeva's Mahavakya Part 1

Bodhinatha welcomes everyone to the first annual observances of Gurudeva's mahasamadhi with a talk on the mahavakya, or great sayings. Citing several classics from the Upanishads, Bodhinatha repeats and elucidates ...
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The World is an Ashram

The world is what we make it. Our Saivite perspective is to make spiritual progress. Television: a tool for karmic cleansing, the softening of prarabdha karmas. School: an opportunity for ...
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Staying in Touch with Gurudeva and Facing Karma

Bodhinatha talks about ways of staying in touch with Gurudeva, such as through our monthly guru puja and reading Gurudeva's teachings. Next he discusses the natural patterns of life's karmas ...
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How Temple Worship Can Help Our Life

How can we improve our behavior? Making good use of the Hindu temple is one of these ways. Bodhinatha also discusses how the worship of Ganesha can help us to ...
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Uplifting Those Who Don't Want to Be Uplifted

Many of our members take care of elderly parents, which can be a stressful situation if the parent is in a negative state of mind and refuses to budge from ...
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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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Results of Self Realization

If the Self is nothing, how do you know you have realized it? One way you know is the sense that you have stepped out of time, form and space. ...
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Mahasivaratri, 2003, Part 1, Meditation

Mahasivaratri, Part 1 of 3Meditation and Mahasivaratri. Bodhinatha remarks how special Gurudeva's talk was which we played tonight, then goes on to give a wonderful upadesha about how the inner ...
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Yama 5 - Kshama, Patience

Yama number 5 - kshama, patience. The youth group in Malaysia is focusing on the yamas and niyamas as the basics for successful temple worship. There are many opportunities to ...
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Yama 6 - Dhriti, Steadfastness

Yama number 6 - dhriti, steadfastness. Willpower has to be used to be steadfast. Overcoming fear, and perseverance, are steadfastness. Gurudeva said, "consistency is the key to the conquest of karma." Dhriti is also important to progressing on ...
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Yama 8 - Arjava, Honesty

Yama number 8 - arjava, honesty. Part of the reason for these talks is that there is a high demand in Malaysia. We need to harness the tendency to be ...
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Niyama 1 - Hri, Remorse and Modesty

Bodhinatha speaks on hri, the niyama of remorse, which is needed to resolve problems. Niyamas focus on helping us to express our divine qualities. Criminals will repeat crimes unless they ...
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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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Yama 1 - Ahimsa

Bodhinatha speaks on the first yama, ahimsa, which is noninjury in thought, word and deed. The law of karma decrees that it is wise not to harm or hurt others, ...
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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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Resolving Difficulties with Others

Gurudeva sanctioned the prayaschitta of walking prostrations for pilgrims and members who come to Kauai Aadheenam. The Jivana Ritau is a study of Living with Siva, and of the sutras ...
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Creating and Resolving Karma

Yellow in the human aura. The challenge to learn from our karma. It takes a refined person to learn fully from what someone else tells them. We attract to us ...
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Understanding Karma

Praying only to appease a planet such as Sani (Saturn) is a mis-focus of attention. Pray directly to God. Sanchita, prarabdha and kriyamana karmas manifest in our life, influenced by ...
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Are Souls And World Essentially Good?

The world does contain suffering; it's this way for a reason. If the world was perfect why would we want to transcend it? We're not all in the same place ...
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Harnessing Reaction; Live in the Box of Dharma

Responding and handling karma when feeling mistreated. The goal: insight into our self, get into a more refined cycle of life. Harness instinctive and intellectual reaction and forgive, karma's totally ...
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Nine Ways to Merge with Siva; the Nature of Liberation

The celebration of Mahasivaratri is to have a deeper experience of God. Realization, liberation and merger. Nine progressive ways to merge with Siva. Parasiva, the eighth: becoming and being timeless, ...
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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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Contentment - Santosha, Cultivating Joy and Serenity in Life

Santosha, the second niyama. Find joy in the morning. In the physical world no thing is perfect as it is subject to creation, preservation and dissolution. Perfection is in the ...
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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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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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Stay in the Now, Create Your Future

Bisi in Shum: ["I am aware of the unreality of time and the eternity of the moment."] To quiet the mind for meditation hold your mind no more than 4.5 ...
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It Was All Finished Long Ago

It has been accomplished long ago -- Eppavo mudintha kariyam. The major ebbs and flows of life are already determined. Sadhana and tapas required to step beyond prarabdha karmas. In ...
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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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Visiting the Temple Purifies the Mind, Grants Humility

Religion needs to be of the present. Mankind is evolving spiritually; mass consciousness is rising. When we go to the temple, in the right spirit, contributing devotion and prana, being ...
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Akasha, Karma Leads to Gurudeva

Gurudeva begins cyberspace daily talks with the first daily message. He invites us to come to his eletronic ashram first thing in the morning to tune into the wonderful akasha ...
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Unfailing Law of Karma

We are here on Earth for a certain number of years. We are going to school. We are learning. We are maturing. Life itself matures us spiritually. ...
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Preparation for Transition

Gurudeva talks about karma and reincarnation, being greatful for both happiness and sadness. An invitation was received from the Ford Foundation to attend a conference on AIDS to present the ...
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Karma Management Review

Moksha includes resolving karma. Even if you realize God, if you have karma you haven't resolved, you're going to be here. Ten Principles of Karma Management in three parts: Handle ...
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Karma - What we Give, Returns

Gurudeva has been asked concerning Hindu beliefs about loving kindness, animals, forgiveness. Gurudeva tells us that we are all beggars on this earth and tells us a wonderful story. Gurudeva ...
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Karmic Consequences

Gurudeva asks, "are you ready for the end of the world"? Gurudeva then defines "Spiritual Obedience." Gurudeva discusses this time of year as being a time for confession and prayaschitta, clearing the subconscious mind. Gurudeva continues his talk ...
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Karmic Chain

Gurudeva tells how he goes into his mind into past lives, to determine the appropriate penance for confessions that he receives so that he may help the individual to mitigate ...
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Many Questions Answered

Today is Skanda Shashthi and Gurudeva discusses how this is being celebrated all over the world. The Hawaiian God Ku is related to Lord Muruga. This is a wonderful day ...
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Using retreat days for Reflection

This is the original retreat talk, which is re-iterated on November 18th, where the transcript was done. This is actually the first presentation. but it doesn't matter.... ...
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Spiritual Path, Solutions

Gurudeva tells us how he sees us through cyberspace. We are told we are one of two types of people those who want to progress on the spiritual path, and ...
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Decisions, Consequences of Drug Use

The power of decision, a great power is discussed by Gurudeva. The consequences of drug use including: being in the lower realm of life, violence, harm to body and mind, ...
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What Are Our Saiva Forehead Marks?

The three stripes of vibhuti across the forehead signify trying to purify ourselves from the influence of anava, karma and maya. There are two ways we're attached to the world, ...
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Holiday, Karmic Peaks

Gurudeva tells us karma peaks and inspiration is high during the Holiday Season explaining why we need to be careful. He compares celebrations throughout the world during this season. ...
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Aggressive Action and the Law of Karma

Aggressive action and hurtfullness will not bring a new age or make solutions. Lord Siva is perfect in an imperfect world and He has given us the law of karma. ...
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Karmas Made by Surfing the Internet

Today Gurudeva explains why we need to be careful about violence, that while Hindu scripture allows us to defend ourselves and our homes, and serve our country in an army, ...
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Karma and Violent Video Games

Today Gurudeva explains that the monastery has begun Sadhu Paksha, a two-week retreat for the monastery during which Kauai Aadheenam is closed to guests. He then talks about violent video ...
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How Is All Karma Finally Resolved If We Make Karma in Each Life?

Bodhinatha answers an interesting question: if we are making karma in each life, how can we ever possibly resolve all our karmas so that we can attain moksha? Bodhinatha reads ...
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Reincarnation, Karma and the Purpose of Life

After reading an e-mail from a devotee about a dream of Gurudeva, Bodhinatha tells us about a movie based on reincarnation called Audrey Rose, made in 1977, which the monks ...
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Sadasivanathaswami Innersearch Class - reaction

A class given by Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami during the 2014 Mauritius Innersearch. He discusses reaction and how, while we might not control what happens to us, we are completely in control ...
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Mysticism, Patience, Resolving Karma, Astrology

Mysticism, direct experience of God, is commonly accepted in Hindu tradition. Principles and practices of Hinduism are designed to help us move up to higher levels of consciousness over many ...
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How to Realize God: Defining the Destination

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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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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All Knowing is Within You: Experience Without Reacting

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Patience with karma. Double your Practice.

Ashramas in family life keep us busy up to age 72 but then there's more time; double your disciplines in purely spiritual pursuits. Be around others striving spiritually. Have confidence ...
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How Do We Practice Karma Yoga?

ray to Lord Ganesha before beginning work. Turn everything you do into selfless service, seva, karma yoga. Work becomes worship. Hold the perspective of Sivanadiyar that you are the devoted ...
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The Spiritual Life Described

Today Gurudeva talks about the obstacles on the spiritual path, how you need determination to overcome those obstacles. He explains obstacles as masses of prana, or energy, set in motion ...
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Understanding Karma

Mitigate karma by living a religious life, being disciplined, following dharma, being of service, accepting responsibility. We create the future by how we act in the present, wisely, through introspection, ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: The Law of Cause and Effect

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Affirmations - Really Feel It; Watch Out for Worry

Affirmations: Incorporate feeling. Think, visualize, feel. Worry: Consider reasonable opinions, choose and visualize a plan. Place well chosen impressions into the subconscious mind to create a specific future. Everything that ...
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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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Karma, the Natural Law: The State Of Resolve

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: The Role of The Satguru

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Law of Karma

Today Gurudeva talks about karma, how we come to realize that everything that happens to us is the result of some action set in motion by us in the past. ...
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Karma, The Boomerang of Experience

Today Gurudeva answers the question, "What do the members of your ashram do for fun?" Then, Gurudeva talks more about karma, the great "boomerang" of experiences that impact our lives. ...
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How do You Know What You Know?

Today Gurudeva explains the karmic entanglements that arise from blood or organ donation. ...
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Teachings of Hinduism

Today Gurudeva answers a question on how to alleviate painful illness. He recommends Ayurveda, the traditional Indian medicine. He talks about karma and how it impacts our life. Finally, he ...
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Karma, the Natural Law: Categories Of Karma

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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The Fine Art of Meditation: Overcoming Karma

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Achieving Forgiveness

Today Gurudeva talks forgiveness and how to achieve it, lifting the instinctive energies up to the heart chakra. ...
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Family Home Evening

Today Gurudeva talks about gossip, the karma of talking behind someone's back. He explains more about family home evening and the need to always encourage children and others, not tell ...
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Sadhana to Smooth Out Karma

Today Gurudeva about how in the past parents were held responsible for their children's actions, how mothers stayed at home. When children do wrong, the karma comes back on the ...
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Samskaras

Today Gurudeva first answers a question about chronically ill and terminal patients and suffering. He advises that from the Hindu point of view it is best to let the suffering ...
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Karma, Wisdom and Soul Power

Today Gurudeva answers a question from someone who is in love with a girl he hasn't met. He says he should get someone to introduce them, then if the girl ...
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How Do We Observe Pilgrimage?

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 65 of the Himalayan Academy publication Path To Siva, discussing Hindu Pilgrimage ...
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Chakras, Energies, Death and Reincarnation

Master Course Recording. Chapter 10. Defines chakras and moving awareness through them. Kashumlinga, sushumna, simshumbisi. Cycles of man's life every seven years. Defining Aum. Body as temple. Muladhara and memory ...
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Friendship

Today Gurudeva distinguishes between friends and acquaintances. Gurudeva discusses all of the components that are necessary for friendship. Transfusions and transplants, prana and karma are subtopics. ...
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Stop War in the Home, Muruga Watches, Skanda Shasti

Today Gurudeva familiarizes us with the nature of Lord Muruga who puts dharma into action. Gurudeva discusses Lord Muruga in relation to penance, problem solving, suffering and mitigation of karma. ...
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Birth, Karma and Prayer

Gurudeva fields two questions from Malaysia and one from Singapore today. One e-devotee asks if Gurudeva is aware of when we pray to him. ...
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Psychic Intrusion, Looking after Parents

A cyberspace devotee asks how he can remove a deep seeded psychic intrusion in his subconscious mind. Gurudeva explains that in Merging with Siva the Vasana Daha Tantra is explained ...
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Heaven and Hell; Keeping Good Company

A cyberspace devotee from Trinidad asks if there is a heaven and a hell. Gurudeva explains that heaven and hell can be translated into the higher nature and the lower ...
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Predestination

A cyberspace question from Tamil Nadu, India from someone wondering why we should go to the temple if everything is predestined. Gurudeva explains that we create our own destiny, according ...
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Abusive Husband

A cyberspace devotee asks if a husband is abusive should a wife sit back and do nothing or should she let her voice be heard. Gurudeva says this problem is ...
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Sin and Guilt, Part 1

Do you need to hear this? Does the mere mention of the word "guilt" make you cringe just a little? Then you better listen....Gurudeva begins his new talk on this ...
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Sin and Guilt, Part 2

Part 2 of Gurudeva's talk on Sin and Guilt. Gurudeva illuminates the source of guilt, and he will give a way for you to relieve some of the long-held guilt ...
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Merit and Demerit

Gurudeva gives a short insight into Merit and Demerit, called punya and papa in Sanskrit. How do you know which you have or have earned? It has to do with ...
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Past Lives, Why Siva created the universe?

A cybercadet asks why don't we remember our past lives. Gurudeva says that the memory of past lives is available to us and that it is possible to trace back ...
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Crystal Sivalingam, Lottery - good money or bad money

Gurudeva talks about the 700 pound crystal Sivalingam that will be enshrined in the San Marga Iraivan Temple. A cyberspace devotee from Texas asks if running a lottery is gambling ...
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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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Accept Your Karma (with Tamil)

We begin today with a series of Gurudeva's responses to questions he has received from TAKA readers! Hear now about karma, and why not to blame others for your lessons ...
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Caring for the Dying

Gurudeva answers another e-devotee's question today, this one from a doctor. It's about caring for those who are preparing to depart. When attending to a dying person, how do we ...
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Is The Divorce of a marriage like the bankruptcy of a business? Part 1

Another e-devotee's question is answered today"In the analogy of marriage as a business, would it be correct to say Divorce is when the family goes Bankrupt?" Gurudeva responds in detail, ...
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Where do We Let Off Steam? Part 2, Tamil Translation

Gurudeva concludes his response to the question, "Where do we let off steam?" Today he talks about the karma created when said "steam" is indiscriminately released in the home and office. Tamil Translation ...
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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 1

Gurudeva's Last Birthday on a physical body - and a magic mantra he gives us. ...
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Hindu Gods and Vishva Guru

Gurudeva answers two questions today "Why are Hindu Gods portrayed with so many arms?" and "Can marriage work out the second time around?" ...
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Group Prayer; Free Will

Gurudeva answers two questions today. One is about the efficacy of group prayer. The other is about the reality of free will. How free are we, really? ...
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Mitigating Bad Thoughts

"Gurudeva, I was feeling low and had bad thoughts and feelings about other. Now that I feel better, can I do something to cancel out those thoughts?" This is the question posed to Gurudeva from a Yahoo.com devotee. Wouldn't you like to know the answer? ...
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People Running Away from Situations

Today Gurudeva answers a question about why woman refrain from entering the temple or home shrine during their monthly period. He then talks about how all of experience is part ...
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The Three Gurus

Today Gurudeva talks about blaming others for what happens to us, and how we do this only when we don't recognize the law of karma and that what happens to ...
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The Three Gurus

Today Gurudeva talks about blaming others for what happens to us, and how we do this only when we don't recognize the law of karma and that what happens to ...
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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 5

Gurudeva's birthday speech - and a magic mantra revealed. ...
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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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Holy Ash. Do we really have free will? Burn the good memories?

A cybercadet in Canada wonders what to do with the excess holy ash accumulated from daily puja. Cybercadet Rolando from Virginia asks if we really have free will. ...
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Caste System, Karma and Moksha

A cyberspace devotee from Malaysia ask why high caste people do not mix with low caste people and is caste a part of Hinduism. Gurudeva explains that the caste system ...
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Ganesha in the home; Five states of mind; Honoring ancestors

A cyber devotee asks if you have a Ganesha statue in the home which direction should he be facing. Gurudeva said that the Gods should always face you and you ...
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A Karma Poem; Saiva Siddhanta Church Activities

Today Gurudeva first reads a statement about karma from the Winner's Camp program. The word "karma" is not used, but you know it is karma they are talking about. Then ...
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Law of Karma

A cyber cadet from Luxemburg asks Gurudeva a question on karma. Gurudeva says that karma is action. Gurudeva also says that karma can be mitigated and he goes on to ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 6

Today's cybertalk is part six of 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. ...
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Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part IV

This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the fourth part today Loni asks Gurudeva to share ...
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Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part V

This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the fifth part today Gurudeva shares with Loni about ...
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Suffering, Disease, Unhappiness...Oh my!

An e-devotee in Selangor, Malaysia asks why there is so much suffering in the world, why people are so different from each other and if it is OK to fulfill ...
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The Gods Do Not Punish

An e-devotee asks Gurudeva for clarification of the statements in Merging with Siva about the Gods working with karma differently for younger souls and older souls. Gurudeva explains that the ...
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It's Deja-Vu All Over Again

Stop me if you have heard this before. A cyber-devotee asks about deja-vu. What is the Hindu perspective on this? Do we really have free will? Gurudeva stresses that you ...
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Mental Illness

A cyberspace devotee from Canada asks, "What is mental illness from the Hindu perspective." Listen in. Gurudeva's explanation, centering on the understanding of the subconscious mind and the eternal truths of the Sanatana Dharma, may surprise you. ...
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The Karma of Healing

An e-devotee asks if a healing power should be used, or whether doing so interferes in the karma of the individual. Gurudeva explains that it is of utmost importance that ...
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Karma and the Jivanmukti

Occasionally a question comes in that inspires Gurudeva to expound deeply upon the subject. So it is today with the intruiging question, "Does the Jivanmukta still make karma?" Gurudeva first talks about those who are ...
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Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part 14

This is a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the fourteenth and final part today Loni and Gurudeva ...
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Karma and laws of the land

Cyberspace devotee in Singapore wonders about karma and the laws of the land. He asks if jail terms serve as a penance. Gurudeva says it does serve as a penance ...
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Organ Donation at Death

A cyberspace devotee from Malaysia wants to know how donating our organs at death can stop our soul from going into higher realms. Gurudeva says that by donating an organ ...
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Do we take on karma by watching TV?

Cyber cadet, Jutikadevi, asks Gurudeva if we take on karma when watching certain television programs. Gurudeva says if you are not emotionally affected by what is going on the television ...
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Physical Injury; Daily Sadhana

A cyberspace devotee asks about the injury that Gurudeva sustained in his back in December 2000 and how one should face physical difficulties. Gurudeva says that if one associated himself ...
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Natural Disaster; Gangs in School

A cyberspace devotee asks how we should view a group of people dying in a natural disaster. Gurudeva says this is a group karma and all the people involved were ...
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Committment vs Looking in From the Outside

Gurudeva shares with a cyberspace devotee the difference between becoming a Hindu and just studying the religion. ...
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Group Karma

A cyberspace devotee by the name of Rakesh wants to know what happens to a group of souls that die at the same time for example in an earthquake. Gurudeva ...
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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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Organ and blood donation

A cyberspace devotee from Malaysia and Connecticut, USA asks about the effects of organ and blood donations. Gurudeva explains how such donations can psychically bond the donor to the donee ...
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Ending the cycle of karma

A cyberspace devotee from Bowie, Maryland, asks about the cycle of karma, how karma seems to be an unending chain of related events. Gurudeva explains the inner nature of karma, ...
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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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Hindu versus Christian Practice

Doing good works is not enough. Practicing Hinduism, believing that we are all divine beings, we to come closer to God, have experiences of God . Good conduct, selfless service, ...
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Accepting and Facing Challenges

Having a sense of who we are, fulfilling the dharma of that person, we're motivated to do certain things in the world. Those change lifetime to lifetime. Find inspiration in ...
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Importance of Associations; Hinduism In the Technological Era

Part 1 of Bodhinatha's Karma Management Course preliminary to a presentation to be given in Singapore including questions and answers from pilgrims/devotees during the 10th Annual Gurudeva Mahasamadhi Celebration. ...
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Importance of Associations; Hinduism In the Technological Era

The inner nature of every person is divine. We need a balance in recognizing the inner divinity but discriminating as to the outer relationship. We learn from own mistakes but ...
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Karma Management Seminar Part 2

Karma Management Seminar day 2 given to pilgrims and devotees at the 9th Annual Mahasamadhi Celebration preliminary to the presentation in Malaysia with questions and answers. ...
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The Third Dimension and the Shum Perspective, Part 1

The third dimension, that most people live in most of the time is the rapidly changing world of thoughts and feelings, emotions and intellectual theory. The meditator watches his actions ...
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Lion Sage

Welcome to Lion Sage, an adventure for children in nine-teen episodes. For the 21st century, the monks of Kauai Aadheenam completely redesigned an earlier work by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, called Mystic ...