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

November 28, 2000 - Purvashadha
Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment"

Dr and Mrs Chakrapani from Portland, Oregon, who made a pilgrimage here for his 60th birthday. Dr. is a metallurgy scientist.

Title: Heaven and Hell; Keeping Good Company
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 1 min., 12 seconds
Date Given: October 10th, 2000
Date Posted: November_28_2000

Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee from Trinidad asks if there is a heaven and a hell. Gurudeva explains that heaven and hell can be translated into the higher nature and the lower nature. Another cyber devotee from Malaysia wonders why people don't practice what they preach. Gurudeva suggests that a path be chosen and that one associates with those on the same path to do well in life.

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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
November_23_2000
Title: Psychic Intrusion, Looking after Parents
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 2 min., 44 seconds
Date Given: October 6, 2000

A cyberspace devotee, Jonathan from email.com, wonders how to remove a deep-seated psychic intrusion from the subconscious mind.

Jonathan, in 'Merging with Siva', the Vasana Daha Tantra is explained, of writing the experiences that contain emotion and then burning them up in an inauspicious fire. So start doing this and eventually you will reach what is bothering you and it will go away. If you are practicing a Buddhist meditation and you are serious about it, you should have a Buddhist guru guide you, so you do not get off track.

A cyberspace devotee, who is here today on pilgrimage asks about his parents. He has a big family but wonders what he should do in participation."What is the dharma of taking care of parents in their elderly years?"

Well, it is the duty of the parents to give their children an education, participate in arranging their marriage and blending with the family of the spouse. Get them settled in life so that they are happy and secure - that is the dharma of the parents.

In their elderly years, all members of the family should be inspired, by who is inspired to take care of them and share this dharma equally. If they do not want to, that shows that they want to be neglected in their elderly years. That should be explained to them.

Since the Hindu diaspora reached out throughout the world, elderly parents have been travelling from son to son to daughter to daughter, living in their homes and then moving on to another home. We are recommending a home for the aged, within walking distance from a temple. They can all gather together and grow flowers for the temple, go to the temple everyday, take care of the children who come to the temple and enjoy life. Their children can visit them in their own place. This is because in today's world, where husband and wife are both working, they are often alone in a home or an apartment far away from a temple. Often, they do not get to a temple more than once a week or once a month.

A local "senior citizens" group also came to experience the magic of the monastery today.

Mark Twain said of Kauai, "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes." This is a typical tropical show. Just one mile away it is raining but sunny where were are on this side. . .the perfect moment for that special miracle we call a rainbow, where colors are not mixtures of pigment, but where colors are refractions of light. We could not capture the entire rainbow in the lens, but it was exactly over the Iraivan Temple foundation creating a perfect aura encircling the property.

The young silphi apprentices taking prashadam after morning worship before beginning their day. That's Mushi inspecting the silpis one by one. He is a very good watchdog. He doesn't allow anything to be taken outside the house. Visitors are only allowed in the hall. One extra step and he will be on duty.

Mushi posing after attending the puja exclusively for TAKA viewers.

Thats Mushi again amazed at the digital camera. He is a Lhasa-apso breed. This breed is usually kept in the Tibetan monasteries. He is only a year and a half old and one of the rare kind of Lhasa-apso, with golden hair and dark colour at the tip of the tail and ears.

Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa

With a small group of close devotees gathered around in the early morning hours, Sadhaka Jothinatha begins our fire ceremony and our day here in Mauritius with an arati invoking the presence and blessings of inner world beings.

And, on Sunday yet another temple group came for a visit, this one from Shree Krish Mandir in Cluny, Rose Belle.

Giving credit where credit is due is something that does not always happen in this world, and that is why we were a little suprised to see the credits of this CNN TV special, part of a regular series called Perspectives. This show was a documentary about the huge nuclear arsenals which are still maintained on high alert by both Russia and the United States.

It looks like CNN is getting some divine guidance for the production of their TV shows these days!

"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

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