 Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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 Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA |
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April 21, 2000
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Anuradha Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment" |
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 Gurudeva with Sannyasin Sivakatirswami. Swami had brought a special request to Gurudeva from a man in Michigan who runs a crystal shop and book store. He wanted permission to excerpt portions of Gurudeva's book, Lemurian Scrolls, which details the evolution of mankind. He had written to Gurudeva, "We are proud to carry your books in our store. Last year I read Lemurian Scrolls, and I cannot begin to tell you the impact it had on my awareness. It acted as a major key to correlate a lifetime of learning. Your calculations of the cosmic timelines gave new emphasis and meaning to the changing times we are experiencing." Gurudeva blessed a bracelet for him with the sacred Saivite mantra, Aum Namasivaya, and included a personal note giving permission to take excerpts from the book.
Our video today has a special story behind it. A very spiritual Tamil lady in Denmark became the instrument for the Goddess Abhirami, who comes through her and performs healings. She became the priestess of a small temple in Denmark where Gurudeva visited in 1995. She asked him for his blessings for her work. Gurudeva said, "Henceforth I will keep you under my psychic protection." Gurudeva sent beautiful Ganesha and Amman (Goddess) icons hand-carved to order in South India. Since then the temple has evolved and attracts thousands of devotees from around the world.
Cybertalk: Gurudeva responds to a query about how to avoid negating our successes. A cyber devotee posed that some people seem to have it all together and be confidently on top of their lives and then they suddenly fall apart, self destructing. Why do they do this?
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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks Date: April 20 2000 Title: Fire Worship; Lotus of the Heart Category: Hinduism and Tradition Duration: 1 min., 5 seconds A question from a cyberspace cadet, a very sincere question - "Why do we Hindus do fire-worship? Is it different from worshipping the icon in a temple?" The fire attracts the devas from other temples as well, when a puja of such kind is held. The fire-worship can be done when no temple exists. Worshipping the icon within the temple is the same as fire-worship, but both together. It is extremely, spiritually powerful. Another question from a cyberspace devotee, about the lotus of the heart and meditating upon it, within the center of the chest. This is not the physical heart but, the psychic. The heart of the soul, the astral body. It is also referred to as the anahata chakra. Worshipping the spiritual heart brings great peace to the mind.  Each day after the morning worship and meditation there is time for a class. Presently this time is dedicated to a discipline being performed by all the monastics, young and old, where we are writing down all of life's experiences, good and bad, high points and low points, relationships and experiences, and then burning the paper in an ordinary fire. Writing down and burning experiences in this way releases the emotion from the memory in the subconscious mind. It is emotion coupled with the memory of an experience which causes that memory to be magnetic in the subconscious mind and attract similar experiences in the future.  In this once-in-a-lifetime discipline, we write ten pages for every year of our life and then, after doing that, we go back and write down again all the high points and low points and experiences that still carry an emotional charge. And after that we write down something about each person we know or have known, living or not, going through all relationships and harmonizing them. Burning that up, we will finally be free of the past, able to live blissfully in the moment. Of course, this is a process of constant "mental maintenance," regularly sitting down and writing and burning up experiences in our life as they happen, so they don't go down in the subconscious mind without resolve, later to come up again in our lives.  Sannyasin Yoginathaswami helped today with the monthly San Marga Newsletter. The newsletter updates all donors to the Iraivan Temple with progress on the project and lists the donors for the month.  Brahmachari Saravan from Cananda and Brahmachari Kanesh from Malaysia stand above the most beautiful view in the world...  Three Indian families came today: the Pampati family from Michigan, the Vohra family from Chicago and the Krishnan family from Pennsylvania, and a few local visitors. Two of the families are subscribers to Hinduism Today, our beautiful, full-color bimonthly magazine documenting the modern global renaissance of Hinduism. You can subscribe to Hinduism Today for only $35/year (USA, foreign prices are available).  This is the Pampati family, Narasingrao, his wife Laxmi, son Vinay and daughter Vijayamalini.  Mohan Krishnan family with sons Jayram and Raj.  We want to congratulate Abhinav Publications in New Delhi for printing this fabulous edition of our very own Tirukural. Tirukural is an ethical masterpiece written by a simple weaver saint in South India over 2,200 years ago. This magnificent volume includes the original Tamil couplets, an American English and Modern Tamil translations along with full color art recently commissioned especially for this book. The book was printed entirely by electronic files sent by our publications team here at Kauai's Hindu Monastery to the co-publisher in New Delhi, India, where the book was finally printed. This is perhaps the finest quality printing we have seen from India. We're happy to offer the book for sale to all who are interested, 624 pages of beautiful color and ancient wisdom in three languages, for only $49.55. Send e-mail to books@hindu.org or call 1-800-890-1008 to pre-order your copy.  Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean near South Africa  As Arumugam (six-faced Lord Murugan or Karttikeya) watches his Father (Lord Siva in the form of the Sun) rise out of the sea, the monks in residence at our Indian Ocean Monastery come regularly to worship. Arumugam is located on the extreme eastern point of the property, where the river meets the sea.  On this particular morning the ocean and the river quietly merging with it were unusually calm and very beautiful. They reminded us of the lake of perfect tranquility representing the mind having become still, in which Lord Murugan is born. It was an inspiring moment. Sunrises and sunsets here are always awesome in one way or another, and always different from day to day and moment to moment. They remind us of our spiritual home on the other side of the globe, Kauai's Hindu Monastery which sits at the foot of the extinct volcano, Mount Waialeale, which is ever-changing and also new from moment to moment.  After the ceremony, two of the monks walk along the beautiful riverside promenade back to the monastery.  Later in the day, two wonderful souls from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ramesh Padaruth and Mooghen Chetty, came to advise us on a number of vegetable gardening and landscaping questions. They were extremely helpful and quite willing to spend a long time with us, answering many questions. They even offered various ways they could help us in the future. Mauritius' system of government is quite enlightened in many ways.  Mssrs. Chetty and Padaruth invited us to come to their experimental station and look over various special plants they have on display there. Mr. Chetty, left, once took a class in Saivite Hinduism from Himalayan Academy, many years ago in a tiny Subramaniam Temple in the middle of a sugarcane field at Belle-Vue-Maurel. It was good to meet him again after all this time.  Meet Dr. Vel Pillay of Moka, a retired ophthalmologist, highly considered elder of his community and ardent friend and supporter of our humble Spiritual Park (adjacent our Indian Ocean Monastery in the island country of Mauritius). He brought with him Neelavadee Mootien, a relative visiting him from London to show her the Park so that she may speak about it back home. Dr. Pillay was also imagining more ways that he might help the Spiritual Park, the monks and Gurudeva. What a great and generous soul! Nor would he accept our thanks, saying "No, by helping you, I am only helping myself!" AUM. 12 Glorious Days, 8 Enchanting Countries and One Chance in a Lifetime! Join Gurudeva for Himalayan Academy's 17th travel-study program, the 2001 European Innersearch, themed the "Hinduism Today Adventure". For information, please contact Sadhaka Dandapani. Space is limited and filling up fast! Very Important: Please include your mailing address and telephone number in the body of your message. We will keep you posted as the program develops. Sign our guestbook and we will send you a free issue of our global full-color bi-monthly magazine, Hinduism Today. For those who have been touched spiritually by Gurudeva's work, his books, his guidance, his inspired life and example and even his website, the "Thank You, Gurudeva Fund" has been established within Hindu Heritage Endowment. Proceeds from this fund last forever; they're not a one-time gift. So gifts to this fund have eternal gratitude built into them. They live on in perpetuity. Each month Gurudeva receives the income from the fund to be used at his own discretion to promote his work and mission around the globe. He loves this, for he knows that it comes from all the good souls who have met him and studied with him, traveled with him or just talked with him over the years. A contribution to this fund is tax-deductible. |
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