"Everything is in you. You don't want to know. Let God speak in you-otherwise there is no God. He is in you, in me, in everyone." Siva Yogaswami

Yesterday, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami visited Yogaswami's Colombuthurai hut. From 1914 until Yogaswami's mahasamadhi in 1964, the little hermitage in Columbuthurai served as his abode and ashram. Devotees would gather daily to be with the guru, sing, receive his guidance on the path and enjoy his upadeshas and radiant spiritual presence. Yogaswami's hermitage had the simple austerity of a monk's quarters. In the main room there was a neem-wood platform that was his bed at night and his seat during the day. Behind a curtain he kept the sandals of his guru, which he worshiped each day with camphor. It was in his thatched hut in May of 1949 that Yogaswami touched Gurudeva's soul and changed our lives forever.