A Daily Chronicle of Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Satguru Siva Yogaswami
Jaffna, Sri Lanka

A Daily Chronicle of Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA

March 11, 2000 - Rohini

Tour day today. Gurudeva sits with the guests.

Satguru Speaks

Cybertalk: Gurudeva concludes his Sivaratri upadesha by expounding upon the "only real security," the depth of Siva consciousness, never changing, always there. And Gurudeva gives an amusing analogy of devotees on the path to fish caught on a hook, with Siva as the fisherman. Title: Sivaratri 2000, part 5, conclusion

Title: Sivaratri 2000, part 5 conclusion
Category: Meditation and Yoga
Duration: 3 min., 12 seconds

...In English
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...In Tamil
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Gurudeva Speaks on his Guru, Satguru Sivayogaswami from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. (442 KB)

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A lovely group of souls came to the Feet of Lord Shiva.

Surina Mohr, she has known Gurudeva since she was a little girl and now her children have the good karma to be on Kauai.

Gurudeva answered questions from Cyberspace Cadets today during his Sun Five Upadesha.

Giving directions to guests on how to get to our Rudraksha forest . . .

Feature story today is on Brahmachari Tejadeva. He is our new book sales manager and has taken over the big task that was handled by Sadhaka Haranandinatha who is now on mission in Mauritius.

Tejadeva is doing a great job. Every day he posts all the mail, handles our retail mail orders, orders from books stores, and our "Mini Mela Gift Shop" sales to our visitors.

Tejadeva is responsible for the "HAP container" is a large container that was renovated as our Himalayan Academy Publications storage facility and mail room.

Here he is posting the daily mail.

This is no small task as packages and letters will be going out to places all over the world and he has to keep track of all the postal expenses, make sure they are applied to the right budgets and keep up-to-date with the latest internaional postal rates and requirements for all kinds of different packages.

Here he is in the Mini-Mela Gift shop.

Would you like something? A book perhaps?

Tejadeva also took responsibility for EEREH the office mascot cat who he now feeds and cares for.

Tejadeva has a busy life on the phone as he fields calls from book distributors, bookstores and individuals ordering books from all over the country.

A large delivery of grains, seeds, legumes arrives.

As we enter the warm season rains may stay away for days at a time, our irrigation system goes to work, pumping water from an irrigation channel "Narmada Stream" that flows from a nearby reservoir. This reservoir and the water that flows to us from that channel is one of the "life lines" of the Aadheenam.

Two of our sevaks at work in the garden

This is our fully mulched garden. We spend less then 10 minutes a week weeding. Try it yourself!

In the garden we keep a small shring to Lord Ganesha

The timing of our fruit tree pruning this year was good, we finish most of it during the cool, wet winter time. Meanwhile, it rained continuously off and on daily for nearly four months. The earth and the trees were all primed and when the warm sunny weather hit, the trees "went crazy" with blossoms.

Some of our small orange tree have reached their first year of real maturity and are loaded with hundreds of blossoms. This "fruit set" is the biggest we have had in years. But o night of raging winds and everything gets blown off. So everyone now prays that the "Maha Tropical Storm Winds" will stay away at least for another month while the delicate early buds and tiny fruits firm up their stems.

Picking papayas from on high with a pole fruit picker.

Devasiva helps Sadhaka Thondunatha photo copying materials for a San Marga mailing.

Here he works on labels as part of a job to help Sannyasin Karrtikeyanathaswami catalog our growing library of Gurudeva's talks on DAT (Digital Audio Tape).

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GURUDEVA'S BOOK SIGNINGS IN FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA

It's a pleasure to inform you that Gurudeva, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami will stop in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on his way to conduct a travel/study Innersearch cruise in the Caribbean. You are invited to attend his presentation of the newly illustrated 2nd edition of Loving Ganesha, Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-faced God at Borders Books and Music, on March 25 at 12pm. His other books will also be available at the store. For directions and details please contact the bookstore's Events Coordinator, Richelle, at 954-566-6335. View a map of the store location at www.borders.com. Gurudeva will also stop in Northern California on his return from the Innersearch program, presenting Loving Ganesha at Barnes and Noble in San Mateo on April 5 at 7pm. For directions and details please contact Sharon Anderson, at 650-341-5560. View a map of the store location at www.barnesandnoble.com. Don't miss these rare events!

THANK YOU, GURUDEVA!

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 are forever, not a one-time gift, so gifts to this fund have an 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, or traveled or just talked with him, over the years. A contribution to this fund is tax-deductible.

GURUDEVA'S MANY CYBERTALKS ARE NOW ONLINE

All of Gurudeva's Cybertalks are now on this site at:

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You will find here over 200 Inspired Talks, thoughtfully organized, with thorough text descriptions (yes, they are searchable!) so you can find the subjects that are of deepest interest to you. We encourage everyone to go to the page, bookmark it and visit now and again to listed to the wisdom of our beloved Satguru. Wow! What a grand addition to our website this is! Thanks to the many talented hands that made this possible.

Year 2001 Summer European Innersearch

The Caribbean Innersearch 2000 Travel/Study Program is full, but there will be another Innersearch to Northern Europe next summer, where Gurudeva has started several important temple in the last two decades.
For information, contact our wonderful tour agent who will be conducting the Innersearch: Kailash and Indra Dhaksinamurthi of Search Beyond Adventures, Inc. ASAP at
search11@mail.idt.net
Very Important!:
Be sure to include your mailing address and phone number in the body of your message! Kailash will be mailing you information, but if you don't send an address there is nothing he can do.