 Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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 Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA |
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October 11, 2000
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Revati Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment" |
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 Today Gurudeva, Acharya Palaniswami, Acharya Ceyonswami and Sannyasin Yoginathaswami joined the south shore Poipu Rotary club monthly meeting as guest speakers. The event was held this morning at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Hotel in Poipu.
Cybertalk: Gurudeva begins today's talk by giving his shortest answer ever to Tiru, in Singapore, who asks how to teach meditation to a five-year-old child. Then Gurudeva continues with a longer answer to a second question from Tiru about divorce in Hinduism. Gurudeva stresses that marriage is a union of two families. It is not just between two individuals. Gurudeva says that there is no religious ceremony for divorce. The judge and the law handle other matters. Date Given: July 25, 2000
Do you have questions for Gurudeva? A detailed index of past inspired talks is available here. Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks October_10_2000 Title: A Way to Realize Siva Category: Meditation and Yoga Duration: 1 min., 13 seconds A cyberspace question from Penang, Malaysia, "Wanting to know how to Realize Siva in this life, during this time in the Kali Yuga when there are so many temptations and ways of falling off the path? Wants a little help. Not being immediately familiar with your karmic pattern in this life, the best way to Realize Siva is to realize that the source of the energy in your body comes from Siva. The source of the light that lights up your thoughts comes right from Siva. Siva's within you all of the time. Simply meditate on the energy that flows through your body and try to find the source of that energy. If you can do that simple exercise and still maintain what you're doing in daily life, it will be remarkable. Like anything in this world, it takes great effort, a lot of will power and you can't let up on yourself.  Earlier in the day the monastery honored at its early morning puja, Paramaguru Kadaitswami. The day when a great realized sage passes on to the inner planes is a very special event and later celebrated yearly by devotees for many generations as the best day to make contact with them and receive their blessings. This was Kadaitswami's Mahasamadhi day. Kadaitswami was a great siddha yoga master who was initiated in the Bangalore area of South India. His guru sent him to Sri Lanka where he did tapas and later performed a great mission in protecting the Saivite Hindu tradition as a great miracle worker and preacher. He initiated Chellappaswami, who initiated Yogaswami who initiated our Gurudeva. We always remember these great beings, for without them all that we have now would not be, these very words you are reading, this web site, all the great teachings. . .we owe to them. Jai Kadiatswamiji Ki Jai!  About 75 Rotarians were present for Gurudeva's presentation. He shared with the group about his work and his organization as it is manifest in the four areas of service: Saiva Siddhanta Church (which includes Iraivan temple), Himalayan Academy (the educational and publishing arm of the Church), Hinduism Today (a public service to the broader Hindu community and world at large) and the Hindu Heritage Endowment (an independent "stand alone" federally approved foundation dedicated to serving Hindus the world over.)  Gurudeva also spoke about his work on the island as a participant in the Vision Kauai Group and announced about an endowment being set up for the island.  Acharya Ceyonswami introduced the Iraivan Temple Project and here shows some of the architectural plans of the temple to the group.  Gurudeva took questions after the presentation and one person asked him to describe his impressions of the recent United Nations Global Peace Summit in New York. Another asked what Gurudeva saw for the future in regards to the wars he thought were motivated by religions. Gurudeva answered that actually it was not the religions that were to blame, but wars were most commonly fought for land and territory.  Gurudeva introduced Yoginathaswami who showed our island temple magazine and introduced the Drug Free Kauai audio CD and posters which our monks have produced as a service to the island.  Bob, president of the Popui Rotary, presents Gurudeva with a specially inscribed coffee mug.  Dr. Nishimoto (veterinarian for our monastery cows) presented Gurudeva with a special speaker's certificate and announced the Rotary Club was gifting books to the local library in his honor.  Barbara Bennet, editor of "This Week Kauai", presented Gurudeva with an Aloha Week Ribbon. There was a colored ribbon for each of the major eight Hawaiian islands. Kauai's official color is purple, Gurudeva's favorite color.  We had a small but lovely group of guests today for the tour day.  This is the "mushika" mouse, the "Vahana" or vehicle of Lord Ganesha. He holds a favorite sweet called a Modaka, made of jaggery sugar and coconut that is wrapped in rice dough and steamed as a traditional offering to Lord Ganesha.  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  A close up of a "bhuta" in the middle of its carving. The master sculptor will move around the carving work site and draw on the stones with charcoal sticks that the workers make themselves from the fire. They other carvers will begin the work of actually chipping away the rock in ever so thin layers, precisely where the senior artisan has drawn. These masters can stand in front of a bare wall and draw the most intricate and beautiful traditional Hindu images in a matter of minutes, these being the beginnings of what will later be a master piece of carving or base-relief work built up in plaster.  Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean near South Africa  The day began with the sadhakas trekking out in the early morning shadows to the end of our property to perform an arati invoking Lord Murugan. Our spiritual park is the first piece of land that the wind has touched in over 2000 miles, and so it is cool, clear and invigorating. It is a wonderful way to begin a day!  Just the beauty of the statue is uplifting and inspiring.  A suprise on a weekday was this group of senior citizens who arrived from Vacoas, in the central highlands of the island. They started their pilgrimage today with the spiritual park and had more temples to go to, so they did not stay long. This was their first visit, and as they left, the organizer came up to one of the sadhakas and asked, "Would it be all right if we stay all day next time? It is so beautiful and peaceful here." "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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