Title: When Kids Enter College Category: Family Duration: 3 min., 21 seconds

Cybertalk: First, Gurudeva tells some news about the development of Muruga Hill here at Kauai Aadheenam. Then: E-devotee Lolita@yahoo.com is sending her children off to college soon and she asks Gurudeva for advice on how to keep them close. Along with other advice, Gurudeva suggests she explain clearly to them why they are going to college, to learn, not just to make friends.

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We have a question from Rosita@home.com that has just come in regarding the Tirukural verses that come up every day on her computer and she's wondering about the verses that tell us that we need to have fame and renown to live on planet earth.

On a very simple level, the Tirukural is saying in this particular chapter, that, yes, we need to be a nice person, yes, we have to help the community, yes, we have to help the family, yes, we have to be a person that people can come to and be uplifted. And, in reverse, these verses are saying that if we are a person that no one came come to to be uplifted, that is doing nothing for the community, simply living a selfish life of me and mine, forgetting you and others, that it is a useless life and would be better not even to be born.

Our visiting, Artist Manivelu who has spent his entire life in India in temples, painting all the images. . .said: "I am amazed that you have been doing vigil in this temple, 24 hours a day, 8 pujas a day for nearly 30 years. The vibration in the temple is something wonderful, it brings such bliss, I can't express it. . .how can you tell someone how sweet something is? It is not possible. . .they have to feel it for themselves."

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