 Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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 Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA |
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November 30, 2000
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Sravana Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment" |
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 Gurudeva walks around the property with his Siddhidata Kulam team. Talaivar (artisan in charge) Sannyasin Yoginathaswami and his kulam members Sadhaka Nilakantha and Sadhaka Tejadeva. Gurudeva is offering suggestions on what we can do here and there. This team has a huge job managing the grounds, all the vehicle maintenance, overseeing contractors who may come for special construction projects, growing the food, picking the food, and coordinating the entire monastic order on the one day a week when we all leave the offices and work outside. ANNOUNCEMENT!!
Gurudeva will be at Borders bookstore in Lihue, Kauai on Sunday, December 3rd, at 2 pm. for a talk on his masterwork "Merging with Siva" followed by a booksigning. His other titles will also be available for purchase and
autographing. The public is welcome.
Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee from Malaysia read that a seer sees all and wonders what kind of seeing is that. Gurudeva says when you see within your own mind your thoughts you are seeing with your third eye. Gurudeva explains further and says that divine sight is available to all.
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_05_2000 Title: Chaperone Yourselves; A Study in School Success Category: Relationships Duration: 3 min., 15 seconds Date Given: September 19, 2000 A cyberspace cadet from Malaysia, she had several boy friends and wondering how she can correct past mistakes. My advice has always been that the families should arrange marriages for their children. That's part of their Purusha Dharma, that's what they should do early on. But if they don't do that obviously their young people start arranging their own marriages. And very often when they do arrange marriage for them self the family objects. They have no right to object because they didn't perform their duty in the first place. Girls especially should be chaperoned. It's very easy in today's world to meet the wrong kind of people. I'm recommending that mature young ladies chaperone each other. Then they can talk together about the young men that they are double dating with and by-pass the families who have neglected their duties and arrange a good marriage for themselves that will be lasting and raise the next generation by doing their duty by arranging a marriage according to tradition early on. So the experiences that this young lady had in Selangor, Malaysia were part of her birth karmas but they can be controlled by a more intelligent form of dating. A new cyberspace devotee from Sri Lanka now in New Zealand asks his e-Guru, "how can I concentrate on my studies and not forget Siva, while going through the University?" To concentrate on your studies is the reason why you are in school in the first place. Therefore treat everyone the same. The same standard of relationship for everybody. Don't like one person more than another, you're not there to make friends. Joining clubs and joining groups and making friends can use up a lot of unnecessary time. They won't be loyal friends, when schools over, they're be gone. Get a regular routine in your life, up before dawn, perform your puja, study Dancing with Siva, Merging with Siva, Living with Siva, Tirumantirum. Then apply yourself to your studies, go to school, pay attention, get good grades, get out of school, get into your profession and live a good dharmic life. Our Kauai Aadheenam and the Peetam here are participating in building a temple in New Zealand. Get in touch with that group. That will be a good religious connection for you.  Mr and Mrs Koganthi Rao from Irvine, California attended the morning Siva puja.  Acharya Ceyonswami with Sadhaka Jivanandanatha (he's not actually 7 ft tall, but standing on a mound) in our small "Chola Garden" bamboo stand. Gurudeva has encouraged the monks to grow bamboo and we are slowly planting more and more here and there of special varieties that can be used as construction materials (some species are highly rot resistant) and for food.  This is another wonderful recent painting from A. Manivelu, Chennai, India, commissioned for Gurudeva's books. It depicts the wonderful state of "I'm alright, right now" consciousness, wherein the individual, fully cognizant of the path of soul evolution, with full faith in and surrender to the grace of God Siva, accepts himself and his life as a great experience, however challenging and difficult it may be at times, secure that all is well and his eventual destiny to assured: to merge with God. Here-to-fore all this art has "become" black and white in our books. We are currently researching ways and means to have full color books in the future. As you can see, they will be spectacularly beautiful.
 Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean near South Africa  In 1987, after a dream of Lord Ganesha, Gurudeva purchased the property where the Saiva Siddhanta Church Hindu Monestary and Spiritual Park now stand. At the time, there was a large stone wall on either side of the front gate, and one of the first things the monastics did in their new home was to carve a niche in the gate and place a small Ganesha. He is still guarding the entrance to the monastery and is worshipped daily by villagers on their way to work, schoolchildren on their way to school and many of the wives of the village as they come and go. He is truly a village Ganesha.  Early this morning Dayananda Canagasaby was brought to the Spiritual Park by his parents to honor his 4th birthday. An interesting story is that yesterday a car arrived with just a man and a small girl about the size of Dayananda. This is unusual, because a man will rarely bring children without his wife coming along as well. It turned out that the small girl had been asking her father for weeks to take her to see God. He had no idea what she was taking about until yesterday when he came home from work. Again she asked and was quite insistent. Finally she described the big God like an elephant who lives by the sea and her father remembered their visit to the Spiritual Park more than a year ago.  The Senior Citizen's Association of Curepipe brought a wonderful group from the central mountainous part of the island for their first visit to Panchamuka Ganapati.  Thursday is generally a quiet day, and so when a second busload of visitors arrived it was a suprise indeed. We were very happy to have the Women's Association of Highlands come for their second visit, and especially to see so many young children in the group . . . future leaders of Mauritius. "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  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 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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