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Look, it's a movie!
Scenes from a pilgrimage to temples in Tamil Nadu.
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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!
This is Reverend Carole Unser who visited us a few years ago. She is a minister in the the spiritualist Universal Church of the Master. She recently moved to Kauai. Her church is based in California. Asked what she had to say to our cyber audience, she said:
"God bless you all."
Now we will show scenes of "monks at work."
Kanesh cleans up the newly installed "cafeteria counter" in the dining hall being renovated. In the back you can see all the walls have been entirely removed. A great deal of work was done recenly removing ancient wiring and getting everything "up to code," and safe from possible electrical fires.
Devasiva is helping with the editorial team. Today he researched the MacCaulay system of education. As a Canadian "born in a white body" Hindu (his parents became Hindus before he was born) he was appalled to learn about how the British had set up an education system in India to "brainwash Indians themselves to look down on their Hindu heritage as something backward and barbaric." Devasiva said: "It's really sad, what a terrible thing they did."
Saravan and Nanthakumar are hard at work in the Pilliyar Kulam business office. With two of the office staff away on Innersearch they are really busy at home, keeping up with the phone calls and all the data entry work.
Muruganathaswami works on deposits.
A good photo of the Ekadanta Kulam . . . Gurudeva's "secretariat" that handles communications with his close students and initiated sishya.
Paramcharaya Bodhinathaswami, our senior Acharya and Gurudeva's first successor.
Skandanathaswami at the Pilliyar kulam.
This picture is taken in the Kadavul Shiva temple. Note the giant picture of Gurudeva. This is a beautiful painting by one of India's foremost portrait artists, Indra Sharma.
Our Shiva temple, fresh after a short shower.
Elee (ee lee ee) our giant Himalayan kitty. Taking a break.
Cabbage and brocolli from our garden are coming in now daily. Are they beautiful or what! Saint Tiruvalluvar, the great weaver saint of South India, author of the famous work "Tirukkural," wrote many beautiful things about farming:
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Wherever it may wander, the world follows the farmer's plow. Thus, despite all its hardships, farming is the foremost occupation.
Farmers are the linchpin of the world, for they support all who take up other work, not having the strength to plow.
Those who live by the plow live in self-sufficiency All other lean on them to simply subsist.
Those who eat food harvested with with their own hand will never beg food and never refuse a beggar's outstretched palm.
Gurudeva's daily schedule while he travels. We will all try to follow him on the inner planes while he is away.
Sadhaka Nilakantha and his right hand man Vickneswaran at work outside in our little run-about called "Chitra."
This is a 20-foot tall flag designed in the Indonesian style, a tall narrow piece of fabric the runs up a long pole. It flutters with a subtle message of "keep your thoughts high, look to heaven."
The entrance to the monastery's Kadavul Hindu Shiva temple.
Sivakatirswami who prepares these captions says hello. Shanti sleeps on his monitor, its so nice and warm and she has the highest vantage point in the room from which to take surveys.
Text Transcriptions of
Gurudeva's Previous Cyber Discourses
(To listen to the actual audio
click on the link to that day.)
Date: March 24, 2000
Title: Hinduism Today in Tamil
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 1 min., 33 seconds
The cyberspace devotee asks the question, "Many, many people in India do not understand the religion. Can we bring out a 'Hinduism Today' edition, in the Tamil language? Even if it is a small one, it would help."
'Hinduism Today' is a public service of our Swami order. It is in English and it is in India. Many people in the Tamil-speaking nations speak excellent English and they don't even avail themselves of 'Hinduism Today', in English.
'Hinduism Today' magazine is a high-level publication for leadership and those that are interested in the Hindu Renaissance. Not for those interested in sending their children to Catholic and Protestant schools and have an ambivalent attitude toward life and religion.
In Holland, for instance, we received a year ago, a request to print 'Hinduism Today' in the Dutch language. The first edition came out last month and it is absolutely beautiful. They take an interest in themselves and society and want to better their society by their own efforts. That is what we look for - leadership.Date: , March21, 2000
Title: Do Gods Accept Bribes?
Category: God and Lords of Dharma
Duration: 2 min, 1 sec
A question from South India, just came in through email, asking, "Do we have to bribe God to answer our prayers by offering our hair, or some precious gift? Can't He just answer our prayers because He loves us?"
A lot of traditions get distorted, a little out of hand, misunderstood. I can understand this question very well. But, the answer is - it is dakshina. If the prayer is answered, then you give something to the temple. That is traditional.
Supreme God, the Gods and the devas are always there to help. They never fail. They don't want anything. They don't need anything. But, if They are successful in answering the prayer, it benefits the individual devotee to open his heart and give something.
Here, at the Kadavul Hindu temple on the garden island of Kauai, we don't have a charge for archana or for homa. Devotees can come and worship and everything that is available, is for free. However, it benefits the devotees, if they are benefited to give back to keep the temple going. That has to do with the spirit of giving, and opening the heart.
So, in making a prayer, you don't have to tell the God what you are going to give. Let it be a surprise. Let God prove Himself and answer the prayer and if He does, then give a surprise gift. But, it should be within your means. It should be from your abundance and not be a strain on yourself or the family.SIGN OUR GUESTBOOK AND RECEIVE A FREE GIFT
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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
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