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 Many guests today and Gurudeva meets them all to sign their books.
Look, it's a movie!
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To submit questions on topics that you would like Gurudeva to elucidate, e-mail questions@hindu.org
A detailed index of past inspired talks is available here.
Thanks to those who are sending questions for future talk subjects. Keep it up, send your questions on important contemporary and spiritual issues to Gurudeva today!
Gurudeva answers questions and covers "acres" of territory in his Sun Five talk. Answering the quesion:
"Why I became a Hindu." He describes how in Hinduism you are often taught something, then you experience it and then you read about it later in a Hindu book. He gave testimony about how he once spent about 6 months at night doing a deep investigation of the all the lower chakras from the waist down to the bottom of the feet.
Then one day someone brought him a book and he opened it to find an illustration of all the lower chakras including their Sanskrit names. This was one of the most dramatic experiences of having a Hindu scripture confirm an inner reality.
A group of fine people came to the Aadheenam today to hear from Paramacharya Bodhinatha about the concept of endowments. Each of these individuals is involved in, or plans to have a non-profit venture that they hope to fund in perpetuity. Bodhinathaswami explained how the Hindu Heritage Endowment works and the principles of endowment.
Guest day today brought a diverse group.
Irene is sister to one of our members, Easan Katir, she sends her "aloha" to her brother in California, from Hawaii.
An entire Hindu family arrived. They were celebrating the wedding of their daughter. They had a Hindu wedding and also a wedding at the Hyatt regency and came to the monastery for blessings.
She is a Hindu Indian marrying an American Mormon. Gurudeva gave the couple a rousing talk and counseled the new young husband: "You are responsible for the family. It is your job to make your wife happy, to give her what she needs and wants. She is your Shakti, if she is happy, then you will feel that, people around you will feel that and want to talk to you, do business with you. If your wife is unhappy, then at work, people will feel that emanote from you. They will pull away."
Later at a meeting with all the swamis, Gurudeva encouraged all the swamis to pass the message to all the husbands. He said recently one of the men in the congregation complained that his business was not doing well, though everything indicated it should. Gurudeva said: "obviously your wife is not happy. Make me a list of a list of all the things your wife wants or needs," (joking) "that can be pretty expensive, but even her knowing that you are trying will help change the vibration."
On the man's list was one item where his wife wanted him home at 6:00 PM to have dinner with the family and talk about things besides his business problems. . ."Now there is one that will not cost you a penny."
Gurudeva signs books. . ..
We are starting a new feature where transcripts of talks will be posted here for those who are unable to download the sound files. If you want to hear the actual audio file, go to the archives for the date listed at the top of the transcript.
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Date: March 17, 2000
Title: Chakra Rotation
Category: Meditation and Yoga
Duration: 2 min, 25 sec
The question is "Should some of the chakras be going counter-clockwise while other chakras are going clockwise?"
Answer - The seven chakras above the Muladhara go clockwise. If you were to look down on the chakras, (you would see them and this is) from within yourself, you would see them spinning clockwise. But, the ones below the Muladhara from the top of the legs to the feet go counter-clockwise.
People who practice mantrams before the time that they should practice mantrams, diaphragmatic breathing and also various forms of pranayama before it is time for them to do that, tear themselves apart because they are going into the chakra spinning clockwise and then in daily life into the chakras spinning counter-clockwise. Those who take drugs lift consciousness a little bit into chakras that spin clockwise and then fall into the chakras that spin counter-clockwise, have great mood-swings.
For the chakras that spin clockwise, the character traits are - wonderful memory, reasoning, will-power, cognition, the ability to look into and see through. Intuition, superconsciousness, peace, bliss comes from the higher chakras. From the chakras of the lower nature that spin counterclockwise come fear, anger, jealousy, selfishness.
Before intense meditation, before intense puja, before intense pranayama, before intense japa, the lower chakras of anger, (and) fear, (and) jealousy, (and) selfishness and self-centeredness must be closed off. If the foundation is built on shifting sands, the building would surely, eventually fall down.
Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody in cyberspace. --Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Photos From Our Branch Monastery On the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius
Brahmachari Rajadeva Alahan recently arrived at our monastery from the United States via India for a six-month stay on our Task Force program (a work-along, live-along and meditate-along with the monks program). He's already ready to work, and he is chipper!
We try another shot, perhaps this one will turn out a bit more serious. No, not quite. Brahmachari is in total bliss! having just spent six months pilgrimaging throughout India.
He's come just in time to help us start a vegetable and herb garden we've wanted to do for a long time.
Sadhaka Haranandinatha is clearing out some very colorful weeds while the photographer holds his hand in front of the lens. Oh, well... everyone's having carefree fun today, welcoming Brahmachari Rajadeva to Mauritius.
Here's some turmeric (kurkuma) already growing in the area. These hearty ones thrive in rocky soil. We'll plant a lot more in this spot since they like it.
A fine young man, Suraj Hurkhoo from the town of Triolet came today to perform karma yoga. He is a great worker and did a fantastic job clearing and cleaning pathways of our Spiritual Park and building a good compost pile near the garden spot. He is a second-year student at the University of Mauritius, majoring in Mechatronics Enginering. Mechatronics is the technology of applying computer control to mechanical systems. Thank you, Suraj.
Lomavadee Moorooven, longtime sishya of Gurudeva, showed the Spiritual Park to her two sisters-in-law, L. Moorooven and R. Moorooven who are visiting Mauritius from Paris. Lomavadee helped organize Himalayan Academy classes in Triolet when she was just sixteen years old.
Later that evening, Mauritian national TV aired a half-hour documentary on our very own Spiritual Park, nicely conceived, produced and narrated by the very talented Ms. Suchita Ramdin. Here, the cameraman is at the ballustrade looking over the merging of the river into the sea. A similar documentary had been aired with narration in the Hindi language a few months ago. Tonight it was in French.
They show and philosophically describe our own Dhakshinamurthi.
And our own Lord Karttikei (Murugan) of the six faces shining in the sunrise.
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If you are planning a visit to Kauai and wish to meet Gurudeva, please note that while he is on the island most of the time, he does travel now and then and you may wish to plan your visit around his travel. We provide here a list of proposed travel times this year, but suggest you call to make sure before you take a long flight to Hawaii.
March 22-April 7 to Florida, the Caribbean and California
July to Edmonton and Toronto
August 26-September 3, United Nations Spiritual Summit in NY,
Lancaster and San Diego, California
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
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Year 2001 Summer European Innersearch
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