The Master Course is a life-transforming study organized in 365 daily lessons.

Internet Study
The Internet Study can be begun immediately at any time. The current lesson of the day is found here, which you can read online or receive via email. The Internet course begins anew on the first day of the astrological calendar year, April 13th, but can be commenced on any day during the year. You need not wait for day one of the calendar year to roll around. Start with the current lesson, which might be number 132--and consider your year complete when you reach lesson 131. You will find the lessons filled with philosophical, practical and soul-stirring information potent enough to inspire even a skeptic to change his ways of thinking about life and the ultimate goal of existence on this planet. Begin now. Today is the most auspicious time.

Home Study
The Master Course Home Study requires the ownership of the three books of the trilogy. Begin your daily reading with Dancing with Siva, shloka one and its bhashya. Then open Living with Siva and read Lesson One. Next, turn to the Nandinatha Sutras in Part Four of Living with Siva and read the first sutra. Finally, open Merging with Siva and read the first lesson. Reading each day's lesson from the three books of the trilogy takes about twenty minutes. Because there are only 155 lessons (shlokas and bhashyas) in Dancing with Siva, when you complete lesson 155 of this book, begin again at the beginning. Then, when you complete the second reading, totalling 310 days, begin again with lesson one, and continue reading until lesson 55, to coincide with lesson 365 of Living with Siva and Merging with Siva. If you study these lessons each day for a year, you will have completed a profound sadhana, a personal odyssey into the interior of you and on into the depths of Hinduism, a practice sufficient to transform your life by transforming the way you look at life itself. The Master Course trilogy of Dancing, Living and Merging with Siva can be enjoyed by the entire family year after year after year, studied personally and read aloud at breakfast, dinner or in the shrine room after the morning puja. Proceed with confidence and without delay. Order the books!

Self-Evaluation Study
The Master Course Self-Evaluation Study is for those who seek a self-assessment approach. This is a service offered by Himalayan Academy since 1957. The physical Master Course trilogy books are required to follow this program.

If you would like to evaluate your understanding and progress over one year while reading the daily lessons of Dancing with Siva, Living With Siva and Merging With Siva, the Master Course Self-Evaluation Study Level One is for you. There are thirteen digital PDF worksheets giving you the opportunity to: 1) chart your consistency in reading the Master Course daily lesson; 2) answer intriguing multiple choice questions on the basics of Hindu philosophy, and 3) examine your character through reflecting on the yamas and niyamas and becoming familiar with the Nandinatha Sutras. At the end of each month, you email the completed worksheet to Himalayan Academy in Hawaii.

Enrolling in Level One is also the first formal step for those who wish to become a shishya of Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami in his Saiva Siddhanta Church.

It is required that you read the daily lesson from physical copies of the three Master Course books when following this Self-Evaluation Study. Therefore, you must have purchased the books before ordering this study program, or at the same time. If you have any questions before enrolling in the Master Course Self-Evaluation Study, please email mastercourse@hindu.org.

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