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How Do We Prepare For Death?
For our "Great Departure" we prefer to be at home in a religious, uplifting environment, in a clear minded high state of consciousness, having resolved all differences and fulfilled all obligations. ...
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How Do We Prepare for Death?
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads from Lesson 34 of the Himalayan Academy publication "Path To Siva," explaining how Hindus prepare themselves for death. Bodhinatha explains that the soul never dies; only the physical ...
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Life After Death
Death is the most fateful experience of each of our lives. But no Hindu really fears death, nor does he look forward to it. Death for the Hindu is merely ...
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Death and Dying
Lead me from darkness to light, from death to immortality.? This famed Vedic prayer proclaims the human urge to survive, to conquer death and to know the joys of illuminated ...
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How Enlightened Beings Die
There are two indubitable certainties: we were born, and we will die. This is not meant as a morose statement, but as an encouragement to consider the deeper purpose of ...
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Closing Off the Lower Chakras
There is a continuity between the dominant states of consciousness you are in at the time of death and what you experience after death. The goal is to aim for ...
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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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Controlling Sexual Fantasy
Gurudeva answers a question about sexual fantasy, how to replace this by lifting the energy up, warming the heart, and making others happy. Gurudeva tells what he would say to ...
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Controlling Sexual Fantasy
Gurudeva answers a question about sexual fantasy, how to replace this by lifting the energy up, warming the heart, and making others happy. Gurudeva tells what he would say to ...
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Reincarnation
Gurudeva answers questions about reincarnation. Is it possible we were together in a previous birth? Gurudeva tells we reincarnate wherever our mind is, it is an inexpensive way to travel. ...
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Sleep and Dreams: Experiences on The Astral Plane
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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Sleep and Dreams: Interpreting Dreams
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reads this chapter from his book Merging with Siva ...
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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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Sacraments, Scripture, Death
Gurudeva continues his discussion of sacraments, which are a ceremony in honor of you, he says, in all religions. They impress the subconscious mind in a powerful way. Everyone looks ...
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The Mind of Light
Master Course Recording. Chapter 8. Aura, awareness, thought forms, astral body, astral plane. Defining superconsciousness. How to know superconsciousness? Reincarnation. Defining awareness. Study Guide: Allow yourself to absorb the teachings ...
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Fear of Death, Part 1
Gurudeva answers an e-devotee's question: "Why do we fear death?" This is extremely timely as relatives of two of our Saiva Siddhanta Church families decided to leave their physical bodies behind yesterday. Gurudeva mentions ...
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Fear of Death, Part 2
Gurudeva continues today with part to of his answer to the question, Why do we fear death when we know all about the soul, karma and the reincarnation process? Gurudeva ...
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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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Death and Dying
Gurudeva's short view on death as a simple transition from one chapter of life to another. Tamil Translation ...
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There is No Satan or Hell, Focus on the Here and Now
There is no hell. Only "hellish" states of mind. The state of mind in the here and now is the same state of mind you'll be in in the inner ...
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Sacraments, Scripture, Death
Gurudeva continues his discussion of sacraments, which are a ceremony in honor of you, he says, in all religions. They impress the subconscious mind in a powerful way. Everyone looks ...
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Liberal Hinduism; Retreat after death
A cyberspace devotee wants further explaination on the term liberal Hinduism. Gurudeva says that he looks at it as a new Indian creation to sort of be a Hindu and ...
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Retreat after death
A cyber devotee asks if it is alright to meditate in the shrine room during the 31 day retreat after a death in the family. Gurudeva says that meditation is ...
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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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Caring for a Dying Dog
An e-devotee in Arizona asks about the proper way to care for an elderly dog. Gurudeva answers that a domesticated dog which has been in the family for a long ...
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To Bury Or Burn?
A cyber cadet asks why some bury and others burn their dead. It often surprises people to learn that, as Gurudeva describes, the principle behind burial is the belief that ...
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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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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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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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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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Reincarnation, Part 2
Reincarnation: After transition and some time on the astral plane, a new physical birth is entered according to the power of desire in the previous life. Be the being of ...
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Reincarnation, Part 4
The need is for a physical birth to attain nirvikalpa samadhi, the highest realization of God, the Absolute. We have to transmute, refine the physical instinctive forces to help in ...
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Reincarnation, Part 3
"Reincarnation is a refining process, attributing to the evolution of consciousness." Exploring theories of reincarnation from various civilizations. We hold the belief that when prayers are burned in the homa fire, they manifest in the inner worlds. Evolution occurs on ...
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1959, The Self God, the First Temple in America - San Francisco
Gurudeva's creation of the first Hindu Temple in America where he gave, in 1959, an inspired talk "The Self God." "If you visualize above you nothing, below you nothing, to the right of you nothing, to the left of you nothing, in front of you nothing, in back of you nothing, and dissolve yourself into that nothingness, that would be the best way you could explain the realization of the Self." In the Shum Language the idea of dissolving yourself into that ...
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1959, The Self God, Bringing Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Part 2
"We learn that man is not man, man is God and that the inherent nature of his soul is divine, existing in perfect oneness with God." Three devotional practices: austerity-tapas, Self study-svadhaya, and devotion to God-Ishvara pranidhana. Attenuating the five kleshas: ignorance, I-am-ness, attraction, aversion and clinging to life and then coming into the joy ...