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FlashLight!
is a 3-30 minute audio or video snippet of wisdom from Sadguru
Sant Keshavadas (Guruji)
excerpted from his timeless and inspiring satsangs recorded to
video during the years of his service in America.
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Gayatri for Oneness  9 min; 9MB |
Freedom from Fear 6 min; 6MB |
Convert Attachment 10 min; 10MB |
Shraddha and Seva 8 min; 8MB |
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Triumph of Spirit 3  1hr 28 min; 144MB |
Shiva Katha - Ayyappa  1 hr 19 min; 130MB |
Saints of Panduranga 46, Pt. 1  56 min; 93MB |
Saints of Panduranga 46, Pt. 2  58 min; 95MB |
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Whether your connection to the Internet is wireless or
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your computer to a temporary file. When you "exit" or "close" the Player,
the temp file is deleted. If you start to watch and exit, then start again,
then exit (close the RealPlayer program), then start, the Player has to
stream and recreate the temp file with the same data over and over. If,
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Allowing the download to finish arriving to your hard drive before
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