Satguru Siva Yogaswami
Satguru Siva Yogaswami

Jaffna, Sri Lanka
A Daily Chronicle of Kauai's Hindu Monastery Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA
May 8, 2000 - Punarvasu
Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment"


Gurudeva is using his special computer that contains the entire lexicon of his unique language "Shum, the Language of Meditation." Here he meets with the task force team for their daily get together at 12noon.

Title: Interfaith Marriage
Category: Family
Duration: 1 min., 38 second

Today's Video

Gurudeva speaks about anger and how one living in higher chakras doesn't get angry

Cybertalk: What does Gurudeva think about a Hindu man who loves a Christian woman. He wants to remain Hindu, but she wants him to become Christian, but he loves her....sound like a Hindu soap opera? Well, it happens. Gurudeva's advice is, "think of the children" and "go shopping for a good Hindu wife."

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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: March 10, 2000
Title: Sivaratri 2000 Part 4
Category: Meditation and Yoga
Duration: 2 min., 24 seconds

Historians have postulated that Hinduism is not an organized religion. They do not understand it. It is a highly organized religion. Those that take themselves seriously on the spiritual path will follow the rules. A rule only becomes a rule when we fight it, want to get around it, duck under it, or not do it. A rule ceases to be a rule, if it is a gentle way that we live our life. That is why the Saivite Hindu teaches from example.

The Saivite family is a one-family, with one thought, one feeling, one way of worship. They solve all difficulties before sleep, each night and make the pranas flow in love from one to another. They take the yearly pilgrimage together. They join hands, love each other, support each other, and care for each other. They are responsible to the community, that surrounds them, for they know that Siva is in each and every soul and every religion of the world. They also know that all those souls are going through their experiential patterns and the soul is learning and growing. Once we have experienced all the experiences and understand all the understandings, on this planet, then, we attain kaivalya state - moksha - and we are off to other worlds.

Lord Siva has a methodology in teaching His devotees. He reveals to them, and He conceals from them. Through this very simple method, He matures the soul of each devotee individually. This is very easy for Him to do, because He lives within the soul as superconsciousness. Slowly, very slowly, the understanding comes, the realizations come and the love comes.

Gurudeva will select specific inner mystical concepts that he has captured in the shum language and then share insights on these with the monks and print out copies for them to take as guidance in their personal meditations.


Our Ekadanta Kulam here (Gurudeva's "secretariat") has been working hard on his up-and-coming travels. . .here's some news:

GURUDEVA'S SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA YAGNA YATRA

Gurudeva has accepted an invitation to attend a large Agnihotra yagna at Batu Caves June 3-4, organized by Dr. G. Paramasivam, managing director of Aboorvas company. The yagna is called "Aboorvas Anmeega Yathirai" and is expected to draw 50,000 devotees. The Aboorvas company is financing air tickets and accomodations for Gurudeva and two more mathavasi. Gurudeva is also bringing a third. The three traveling with Gurudeva will be Acharya Kumarswami, Sadhaka Thondunatha and Sadhaka Japendranatha. Following is a tentative schedule, meaning it's not confirmed: Gurudeva will first stop in Singapore for two nights. He arrives in Singapore on May 31 afternoon and flys to Kuala Lumpur on June 2 morning. Three temples in Singapore have invited Gurudeva's presence, where he will conduct book signings in the evenings. In Malaysia, Gurudeva will meet on June 2 evening with Academy students preparing to become vratasishya, and any young men interested in the mathavasi path. June 3 and 4 are the two days for the yagna, so Gurudeva will be committed to the yagna during that time. June 5 is yet to be scheduled. Gurudeva leaves Malaysia back to Hawaii on the afternoon of June 6. After the book signings in Singapore, Gurudeva will have a large book release/signing in Malaysia on June 3, Saturday afternoon at the yagna, and at a large hall on Sunday that Brahmacharinis Chudikadevi and Gowri are organizing. We sincerely hope that all Academy students and Church members will help as much as possible to make these events a large success.



Parents of the Kashmera Khanuja (see yesterday's write up on the Khanuja family) had taken a separate car and "got lost" yesterday. Their daughter (on the left) brought them up to the monastery last evening just hours before they flew off the island.


Every three hours the monastics in the Kadavul Siva Temple change "vigils" which is a three-hour period during which they stay in the temple, perform puja, meditate, study, have classes and practice their chanting. At each juncture: 3 am, 6 am, 9 am, 12 noon, 3 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm, 12 midnite, the "changing of the guard" begins with a short arati to Lord Ganesha.


Sadhaka Tyaganatha has the 9am-12noon vigil and does the main Siva puja for the day at 9 am. This lasts until about 10:15 am and finishes with the offering to the bali peedam (pictured here.)


Our bright and energetic taskforcer, Kanesh, from Ulu Behrang, Malaysia. He has been "rotating" through the various monastic deparments, one per month and now is serving in our Siddhidata Kulam, the building, grounds, construction, maintenance and land development team.


Renovation continues on various parts of the monastery, this new "back stairway' to the second floor of the monastery and to Gurudeva's quarters provides him with a second more private entrance and meets the important requirement of a second fire exit to the second floor of the main building.


Another renovation project is underway as the "Nada Guha" sound studio is being moved to another room and being upgraded. On the walls we have installed acoustical foam.


This material will look really cool (just kidding, though it does!) It will control the reverberations within the room and balance out the frequency response for acoustic clarity and accuracy. This will greatly improve input of sound being recorded in the room, mainly for recording Gurudeva speaking. It also increases accuracy of the sound that is being monitored from the speakers as Karttikeyanathaswami listens and makes judgements for digital adjustments to the sound files in the computer.
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