Our 51 acres that are currently fed by a major stream from the nearby reservoir, so Saiva Siddhanta Church has a serious interest in making sure the main reservoir remains intact and our stream is maintained.

Gurudeva once told the Siddhidata Kulam that their first duty was to see that the water flowed onto our property. Fortunately we are quite close to the main reservoir, less than 1 mile away. Other farmers and land owners as far away as 15 miles are not so lucky and depend on a complex labyrinth of tunnels, overland flumes and ditches. Many are not even aware one day their water might not be there.

All great civilizations were masters of water and the current system of irrigation on Kauai is one of its greatest assets, channeling water down from the peaks, through huge tunnels ten feet in diameter going through mountains, reservoirs placed below strategic water shed formations, carefully feeding thousands of acres of farmland.

Some of the formations still extant were built over 1000 years ago by the "Menehunes." These were the indigenous Hawaiians, a short-statured powerful people with a high degree of engineering skills in stone works that survive to this day. They were here long before the Polynesians arrived who we know today as "the Hawaiians." Now, we look for ways to follow in their footsteps.

Title: Getting up early for sadhana Category: The Spiritual Path Duration: 1 min., 20 seconds Date Given: October 18th, 2000 Date Posted: December_5_2000

Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee from London wonders how he can get up early in the morning to do sadhana and yet maintain that high energy throughout the day. Gurudeva suggests that the way to do this is to get up early.

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