(04/41) (Lecture 1 of 4, Part 4 of 8)
Four lectures by Swami Rama on Saundaryalahari, the Wave of Beauty, which is a prominent text of Sri Vidya Kundalini Tantra Yoga. The wave of creativity, love and bliss of Shakti is one and the same with Shiva. The lectures contain practical advice on advanced meditation practices of Yoga, Vedanta, and Tantra. The 6 hours of talks have been divided into 41 parts of 10 minutes or less.

Lecture 1, Part 4 includes:
Mother
Leading emotion to the highest ecstasy
Organize your thinking process
Emotional process
How to live with yourself
Peace with yourself
Love yourself; admire yourself
Love is giving; learn to give
No right to receive
Children and parents
Teachers and students
Vidya means knowledge
Avidya is absence of knowledge
Mind is clouded
Mind employs ten senses
Mind misleads you
Knowledge through senses is partial knowledge
Truth and lying
Understand yourself
Sri Vidya you don't have to visit temple
Student of Sri Vidya can go to church, temple, synagogue
Shiva temple; Krishna temple
For Sri Vidya person, everything is one and the same
Brahman
Absolute Truth
Not subject to death and decay
Cannot be explained
Body is a shrine
External world inspires you
Teacher, scripture
You are the shrine of the Lord
Don't go here and there to worship
Don't condemn what others are doing
First awareness is that the greatest of all dwells within me
Teacher says Lord is within you
It is everywhere; it is within you
Teacher strengthens that awareness
Lord of life and universe are one and the same
Lord dwells within
Where Lord dwells is temple or church