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Who is Lord Murugan?
The blessings of Lord Murugan awaken wisdom which resides in his chakra. "Pray to Lord Murugan to unravel the great mysteries of the universe." When we get emotional we lose touch with our wisdom. Murugan inspires penance to soften karmas and ...
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Advancing Through Life's Four Stages
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives a presentation entitled "Advancing Through Life's Four Stages" which featured in the Jan/Feb/Mar 2013 Hinduism Today edition. In this presentation Bodhinatha explains how life is measured in four progressive stages, ...
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Path to Higher Consciousness - Publisher's Desk
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Oct/Nov/Dec 2014 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. In this edition Bodhinatha outlines how virtuous living which consists of performance of dharma, selfless ...
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Mistakes Are Part of The Spiritual Path
Hinduism proclaims that all of mankind is good, that the whole world is one family; that all souls emanate from God and evolve into oneness with God. Each soul starts ...
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Finding Affectionate Detachment
Bodhinatha describes the various kinds of negative attachment and methods by which to free ourselves from attachments to negative experiences in the past. Moving from negative attachment to "unaffectionate detachment" to ...
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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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To err is human...
To err is human, to make a mistake only once is divine. Go beyond feeling bad about making a mistake and find out why and prevent it from happening next ...
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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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Invoking the Forces of Divinity with Lord Muruga
Satguru Bodhinatha presents an informal version of his talk on Lord Muruga, which has been heard around the world . He discusses Gurudeva and his many visions of: "Flying With Muruga." Bodhinatha ...
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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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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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Improving Our Behavior with the Help of the Guru Part 7
Part 7 of 7 - Continuing Bodhinatha's first Guru Purnima class on the role of the guru and his task of helping us improve our behavior, Bodhinatha explains that part ...
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Becoming a More Spiritual Person Part 2
Part 2 of 3 - Bodhinatha continues his second class during Guru Purnima, talking about becoming a more spiritual person and how we can do that through learning from our ...
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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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Sadhana Path of Change
Follow Gurudeva's teachings in a serious way; take up a daily vigil, sandhya vandana, worshiping at the change of days (sunrise and sunset). It takes time to change and master ...
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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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Stabilize Consciousness in the Muladhara Chakra and Above
The challenge of not falling below the muladhara chakra. "Achieve freedom with responsibility," living in the box of dharma. Ahimsa and himsa: Patanjali advises: to overcome the propensity to do harm, cultivate the ...
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Courage, Resolve Conflict
Gurudeva describes upadesha and prayaschitta, how we may learn from mistakes and experiences, and mitigation of karmas. Gurudeva tells how changes in thinking come about as one studies and begins ...
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Courage, Resolve Conflict
Gurudeva describes upadesha and prayaschitta, how we may learn from mistakes and experiences, and mitigation of karmas. Gurudeva tells how changes in thinking come about as one studies and begins ...
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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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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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Face and Accept Karma; Three Ways to Mitigate Karma
Human nature is very strange in that we tend to blame others when things go poorly. Avoid that. Accept whatever happens as our own creation. Karma can be mitigated or ...
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Muruga, The God of Yoga and the Spiritual Path, Part 3
Part 3 of 3. Finally in his talk on Lord Murugan and the spiritual path, Bodhinatha took the topic of desire leading to action leading to wisdom into learning from ...
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Lord Murugan and the Power of Kavadi
A talk given by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami at the Somnath Spiritual Park, Temple and Goshala at Grand Bassin during the 2014 Mauritius Innersearch. Following the installation of a Murti, Bodhinatha ...
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Mahasivaratri
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 ...
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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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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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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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2001, 75th Jayanthi Talk, Part 2
Gurudeva talks about his recent back injury in terms of Kavadi, penance and also about the mission given to him by his Satguru, the Great Sage Yogaswami of Jaffna. He ...
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Fire Ceremony, The Blind
A cyberspace cadet in North Carolina asks about having a priest in India perform a fire ceremony on his behalf. Gurdeva says it is important that he be there for ...
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You're the Actor on the Stage of Your Life
Today we share more of Gurudeva's upadesha explaining some of the esoterics of the Maha Vasana Daha Tantra, the practice of writing down 10 pages of memories for each year ...
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Pictures of God; Adultery
Rajendra Giri from Colorado asks if it is alright to have pictures of Gods in different rooms in the house. Gurudeva says it is fine and that we must be ...
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Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 7
Today's cybertalk is Part 7 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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Selfless Service and Penance
An e-devotee asks if it is better to do a personal penance or to do some kind of selfless service to the community. Gurudeva explains the difference between the two ...
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Iraivan Temple Part 2
Part 2 of Gurudeva's inspired talk about Lord Siva's island home temple. ...
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The Flower Penance
A handsome young man sent Gurudeva a question along with a few digital photos of himself. He asks Gurudeva how to deal with the "big bad world out here" and the people who seem ...
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Niyama 10: Tapas
Tapas is to practice austerity, serious disciplines, penance and sacrifice which increases the speed at which we are moving forward on the spiritual path. Daily sadhanas and penance to atone ...
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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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No Guilt, Do Penance, Live Joyously
Think of heaven and hell as being states of mind, available in the present moment. Live in a heavenly or peaceful, blissful state of mind. The state of mind we're ...
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The Nada Nadi Shakti, Resolve Mistakes
Tracing the nada-nadi shakti to its source carries the seeker's awareness to the brink of the Absolute. Through Shum meditation we end up in the area of the superconscous mind ...
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River of Life, Affectionate Detachment, MWS, Part 2
The River of Life. India has always looked upon it's rivers as divinities. A bath in the Ganga, lifetime's ambition; a pious resolve indicating the desire to destroy one's sins ...