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Satguru Returns From Travels

Yesterday Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami returned from a 3-week, round-the-world journey to the US mainland, Mauritius, India and Sri Lanka. Both he and Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami arrived at the Aadheenam midday and were greeted by all the monastics as well as mission members, local devotees and a variety of guests who were here for the tour-day. Satguru made his way up the path to Kadavul, at which a short arati was performed by the Natyam. The two travelers then made their way inside where Paramacharya Sivanathaswami performed arati for Ganesha, Muruga and Lord Siva. It's always nice to have the guru's uplifting vibration return to the aadheenam. Aum Namah Sivaya.

From the Kularnava Tantra:
When the entire universe is looked on as pervaded by the Sivaguru, what mantra can fail to achieve its purpose for the sishya?
When the Satguru is present, no tapas is necessary, neither by fasting nor observances, neither pilgrimage nor purificatory bath. What he speaks is as scripture.
Feel one with your guru and not separate from him, and do good to all as your own. Whatever is beneficial to yourself, term that beneficial to him.
Whether moving or standing, sleeping or waking, performing japa or making offerings, carry out only the injunctions of your guru with your inner being dwelling in him.
As in the vicinity of fire, butter gets melted, so in the proximity of the holy Sivaguru all bad karmas dissolve. As lighted fire burns up all fuel, dry and moist, so the glance of the Sivaguru burns up in a moment the karmas of the sishya. As the heap of cotton blown up by a great storm scatters in all the ten directions, so the heap of negative karmas is blown away by the compassion of the Sivaguru. As darkness is destroyed at the very sight of the lamp, so is ignorance destroyed at the sight of the holy Sivaguru.
I tell you now that there can be no Liberation without diksha, initiation. Nor can there be initiation without a preceptor. Hence the dharma, the sakti and the tradition come down the line of masters, called parampara.
Without a Satguru all philosophy, knowledge and mantras are fruitless. Him alone the Gods praise who is the Satguru, keeping active what is handed down to him by tradition. Therefore, one should seek with all effort to obtain a preceptor of the unbroken tradition, born of Supreme Siva.


One Response to “Satguru Returns From Travels”

  1. Rajendra Giri says:

    Jai Satguru!

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