 Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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 Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA |
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November 13, 2000
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Mrigasira Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment" |
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 Gurudeva meets with the Pilliyar Kulam Talaivar (Skandanathaswami on the back left) Acharya Palaniswami (front left) and Paramacharya Bodhinathaswami (front right) to coordinate some details of the days service to Lord Shiva.
Cybertalk: An e-devotee in Wales wonders why there is so much killing and why Siva put us through all this. Gurudeva explains how this is a question that seekers have asked for thousands of years. He explains the basic principles of maya, karma and dharma, but ultimately he says the answer is one of life's great mysteries.
Do you have questions for Gurudeva? Send to questions@hindu.org.
Please note: Gurudeva only responds to questions from the general public on matters that are suitable for our public cyber audience. Personal or intimate questions sent to this address are not answered. A detailed index of past inspired talks is available here. Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks November_09_2000 Title: You're the Actor on the Stage of Your Life Duration: 4 min., 10 seconds Date Given: August 20, 2000 We've done a lot of research for the Vasana Daha Tantra and we find that this absolutely does not work or have the same effect if you type it on the computer and print it out and burn it up or type it on a type writer. The prana that comes from your hand through the pen, that prana going into the paper as you're feeling these emotions as the memories come up, the paper holds that prana and then you burn it up. So therefore, every time you finish a page you should burn it up immediately before that prana goes away. Don't just stack them up and burn them the next day or something like that. There are many, many people in our congregation worldwide who have gotten a lot of relief, a lot of clarity and then what happens when all the memories are quieted the future is big and and the light of the soul is just there because it's not covered with anything. So if you have a dream, then write down a dream and maybe it will have connections within your mind, your desires and so forth. Then you can keep doing it all through life and at the end of every year you go through the process of the five steps actually. Now there are certain karmas, that's the sixth step that you cannot resolve by writing down. But you can outline what they are. For instance if you didn't pay your taxes in 1996 to the Government, you can't resolve that by writing it down and burning it up. You resolve that by writing a check with interest and giving it to a government agency and that's where the prayaschitta comes in. Like if somebody shoots birds for sport, you can't write that away, your prayaschitta would be to feed twenty-five pounds of bird food to the bird kingdom or five hundred pounds or something like that to balance it within your own mind because that was a physical thing. So prayaschitta is in three parts, mental, emotional and physical happenings. So your Vasana Daha Tantra takes care of the first two. Mental happenings, arguments within people, with people, disagreements. Emotional happenings, hurt feelings, sufferings, happiness' all of that. Even the happy things you don't want to drag those along with you. You want to go into the future for more happy things. Not live in the past of those happy days, but have happy days coming up in the future. Many, many have experienced that. So all the happy things you can also write down too and detach the colors, vibrations from the memory, so it's quiet. So you're the actor on the stage of the great play that you wrote, you're the author, camera person, costumer, make-up artist, director and financier.  We had a wonderful group of pilgrims join us today all the way from United Kingdom. Seventeen in all, who travelled half-way around the earth to worship Lord Shiva in our small temple in the middel of the Pacific ocean. Here they are avidly writing prayers to be burned to the devas.  The Rig Veda says: "With him who lighteth up thy splendour, Agni, excellent, pure, refulgent, Purifier,
Be present, and with us through these our praises."
 "Give strength and power to these my prayers, O Agni; O God, pour blessings on our chiefs and nobles. Grant that both we and they may share thy bounty. Ye Gods, protect us evermore with blessings."  Then we all walked out to San Marga for the weekly Sun One worship and circumambulation at the site of the Iraivan temple. Some of the ladies do "gravel tapas" walking barefoot to the temple site.  The flame is carried from the Kadavul Shiva temple on a tray out to the Iraivan site. . .drummers lead the way.  Nisha Alahan on the right, a sishya of Gurudeva since birth, with our island guest and student, Marianne Thompson and her son Oisin, who are originally from Norway.  Worship of Lord Ganesha at the banyon tree.  Gurudeva instituted a lovely new part of the worship at Iraivan. . .singing the famed "Arati" song while waving a tray with burning camphor. This is a famous North Indian tradition and the ladies here from London area all knew the song and the tradition very well.  They sang and performed the arati while the small homa was performed at the Yagasala site.
"Om Jaya Jagadisha Hare!  Arati, the flame, said to represent among other things, "the offering of our consciousness itself" to God.  Everyone looks on, a colorful group including people from London, Malaysia, mainland USA and Hawaii.  During the "pradakshina" -- the circumambulation of the foundation, the kumbha pots holding the sacred water blessed earlier in the temple are poured on the foundation, investing the monolithic slab of concrete with the spiritual power invoked during the fire worship.  Then parade leads up to walk on the foundation itself. The rainbow devas were doing their part to join in the celebration.  Later in the morning our pilgrims from England had a tour of the publications facility. One of them was none other than the sister of Bharat Gheewala who did a great service years ago printing and distributing Hinduism Today in UK when it was in a newspaper tabloid format.  The mandatory group photos with Gurudeva.  We always find the North Indian Hindu community to be very devotional and reverent and respectful, both of the temple traditions and of the sadhus and Hindu holy men.  An eleven acre site in Bangalore, India, where 75 Indian families live and daily carve the sacred white granite edifice of Iraivan Temple which will soon begin to be assembled on the island of Kauai  We continue with our "blacksmith shop" documentary of the primary tool which is at the "birthing place" of the Iraivan temple: the soft iron chisel. Here is a closer view of the fire place where the blunt chisels are
heated. In one day about 3,500 chisels are sharpened!
 The heated chisels are passed on to the Blacksmith.  Here is Blacksmith Marimuthu sharpening the chisel. They are using a sack to cover their legs for protection.  This is the closeup of Blacksmith Marimuthu. Thank you Marimuthu! You will be one of the historic few who played a part in building this monument for the spiritual future of mankind!  Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean near South Africa  This morning we pilgrimaged out to the far end of our property to perform arati for Lord Muruga. This exquisite face of Arumugam, the six faced Murugan is part of a nine foot statue carved from a single piece of granite. Most Hindu icons or murthis are carved following strict guidelines which were recorded thousands of years ago in mystical treatises called the Agamas.  Next we visited the Panchamukha Ganapati Mandapam with its beautiful blue ceramic tile imported from China. There we listened to a recorded talk from Gurudeva.  Like our brother island of Kauai, Mauritius is a land of sugar cane and beautiful beaches. At the far end of this field of young cane is the pale blue roof of our monastery sticking up through the trees. Along the right side of the photo are the trees of our local river, Riviere du Rempart, which merges into the ocean alongside our monastery land. "How to Become A Hindu"! Gurudeva's latest book release is now available Hot Off the Press! Visit the Himalayan Academy Book Store Web Site get the book and read the incredible testimonies of the early pioneers from the west who chose to make a full and complete conversion to Hinduism, legally change both their first and last names to Hindu names, change their lifestyles, sever their formal connections to previous faiths and joyously face the challenges in joining the tribe of the Sanatana Dharma Visiting Kauai's Hindu Monastery If you are planning to visit Kauai, please go first to our our visitor's page. Thank you. 12 Glorious Days, 8 Enchanting Countries and One Chance in a Lifetime! Join Gurudeva for Himalayan Academy's 17th travel-study program, the 2001 European Innersearch, themed the "Hinduism Today Adventure". Go to www.innersearch.org and for more detailed information, please contact Sadhaka Dandapani. Space is limited and filling up fast! Very Important: Please include your mailing address and telephone number in the body of your message. We will keep you posted as the program develops. Sign our guestbook and we will send you a free issue of our global full-color bi-monthly magazine, Hinduism Today. 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 last forever; they're not a one-time gift. So gifts to this fund have 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, traveled with him or just talked with him over the years. A contribution to this fund is tax-deductible. |
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