How Mathavasis Spend This Time
Description: Gurudeva explains retreat days and how the 25-30 residents of Kauai Aadenam spend this time...
Time: Less than 4 minutes
Attention to The Inner Self
Description: Second retreat day. A guha day. Mathavasi go within themselves in their private guhas. A day to pay attention to the inner self. We are not our mind, body, emotions but a living soul body. We can all take a day to withdraw from the daily activities and go within...
Time: Less than 4 minutes
Live as Pure Souls
Description: Gurudeva speaks about Shri Shri Shri Swamiji Maharaj, how the aadheenam helped him set up a web site, and a talk he gave today at the temple. Gurudeva tells us today about affectionate detachment, and how we should...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Live as an Evolving Indestructible Soul
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about a visit by a local evangelist who thinks the world will end in 2000.Gurudeva then talks about joining Saiva Siddhanta Church and the guidance this will bring. Gurudeva discusses spiritual progress and new...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Lift the Self Up
Description: Gurudeva encourages us all to be involved with Hinduism Today, our outreach and public service, encompassing all of the Hindu Religion. Gurudeva today tells us we are all special, courageous, happy, people. We are here to lift ourselves...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Willpower, Energy, Effort and Discipline
Description: Today Gurudeva tells us we to can do miracles. One of these is to change ourselves. Gurudeva tells us what change and transformation really is and how effort is required. He tells us how we can awaken the energy within ourselves...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Sadhana; Fearlessness
Description: News- The meditation hall has been completed and the spiritual park is open in Mauritius. The Aadheenam has helped the county of Kauai in many ways. Coconut Money Tree has been inaugurated. Today Gurudeva talks about fears, how ......
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Spiritual Path, Solutions
Description: 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 those who want to want to progress. Gurudeva explains the difference and gives...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
How to Avoid Religious Lethargy
Description: Gurudeva tells us not to go into religious lethargy. For the Gods and inner planes beings to help we must pu out effort. We too are devas. In this stage of our evolution...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
The Path to God
Description: Today's inspired talk was given early in the morning with Gurudeva sitting before the Siva Nataraj and giant crystal Lingam of Kadavul Hindu Temple. It is a deeply mystical look at the path...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes
Anger and Sadhana
Description: Today Gurudeva observes that so few of the Hindus of Indian origin who come to the ashram are vegetarians--a lapse of religious observance he attributes to the...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Maintaining Harmony
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about how to maintain harmony in an ashram or large family. The key, he explains, is for the leaders to show no favoritism toward the...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Discouragement on the Path
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about discouragement on the path, how to recognize it, why it happens and how not to succumb to the feelings of giving up, of things...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
The Spiritual Life Described
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about the obstacles on the spiritual path, how you need determination to overcome those obstacles. He explains obstacles as masses...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
What is Sadhana?
Description: Today Gurudeva responds to those who say they don't have enough time to do sadhana. He explains that controlling yourself is sadhana, and that can be in the course of your studies by keeping your mind of what your are studying, and...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Attachment, Desire and the Spiritual Life
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about attachment, desire and the spiritual life. He explains how to analyze your attachments and desires in terms of your highest spiritual goals, and then choose accordingly...
Time: Less than 4 minutes
Mahasivaratri
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about the difference between karma and fate. He explains how bad karma can be mitigated. He explains the principal of sadhana, doing the same practice every day at the same time, striving for...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
The Purpose of Life
Description: Today Gurudeva answers a question about the purpose of life--which he explains as Realization of the Self. In answer to another question, he cautions that religion is not an intellectural study, so one should try to keep it simple...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Superconscious Soul Power
Description: Today Gurudeva describes the morning fire puja in honor of his guru, Sivayogaswami of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and the reopening of the Saiva Siddhanta Church of Sri Lanka. He asks all Sri Lankan devotees of Yogaswami to communicate with him. Dr...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Anger Controlled by Love
Description: Today Gurudeva answers a question about what happens to pets after they die, then goes on to explain more about will power, how we need it to progress on the spiritual path. He talks about anger and how one moment of anger can destroy a month's...
Time: Less than 4 minutes
Anger Management
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about the need for anger management, how anger is one of the biggest barriers on the path. He explains how drugs can open the lower chakras and make one prone to unreasonable angry outbursts, how resentment can ...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes
Caution and Committment to One Path
Description: Today Gurudeva talks about the dangers of rushing into meditation as the result of reading a few New Age books, how without the guidance of a trained teacher, memories and emotions can spring from the subconscious mind and consume the...
Time: Less than 4 minutes
