 Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
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 Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA |
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April 2, 2001
April 2: Pushya Until 2:01AM Tue HST April 3: Aslesha Until 11:05PM HST Hindu Year 5102: Vikrama, the "Year of Fulfillment" |
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 Today Gurudeva asked the monks to bring distribution of the Nandinatha Sutras to the members and students around the world. Shortly we will have available an email text version, a PDF version and an interactive "multi-media" version you can read on your computer like a little "ebook."
Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee from Mauritius wants to know which God he should choose to worship. Gurudeva says that it works the other way around. He says that the God he should worship chooses him and communicates to him through their image in the temple. Gurudeva will be happy to hold "Prasnottara Satsang" -- "Questions and Answers" over the telephone with any Hindu religious societies, Hindu youth groups, Radio talk show hosts etc. All you need is a phone with a speaker and an enthusiastic audience. Arrangements may be made in advance by sending email to Sivadevanathaswami
Date: March_22_2001 Title: Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part 14 Category: The Guru Duration: 2 min., 14 seconds Date Given: August 20, 2000 Loni: That is a wonderful service. I was just told there was a real challenge now in Afghanistan, with the women there. So I think, the more we get out there and move with things, because violence is violence no matter who it is perpetuated upon. We just can't have that anymore. Gurudeva: Remember the law of karma. If you hit a defenseless child once, the law of karma will bring that slap back five to ten times, later on in life. Or in the next life, you may be beaten professionally. Loni: Well ... you listen out there, okay? That is a lesson now, coming from Gurudeva. Gurudeva: That is a lesson that we have to really take seriously. Loni: Exactly, yes. Gurudeva: Not for the sake of the children, just to protect ourselves. Don't hit them or pinch them or yell at them. Loni: Also before we end, how was your trip to Alaska? Gurudeva: We had a fantastic time. We opened the first Hindu temple in Alaska. It was a temple to Ganesha, God Lono. We brought in the four Chiefs of the Native Alaskan people there to give blessings, which they did. They were very happy to be included. It is moving ahead very nicely. Loni: Oh ... wonderful! Gurudeva: We are opening another temple in Edmonton next year. Another one, we just got property in Vancouver. Another one in Seattle. Another one in Phoenix, Arizona. We have temples all over the place that we have started and they are coming up in the community. Loni: Thank you for the light you bring into the world. Also, to all of your other participants ... well, how should I term them? Your monks? Gurudeva: Yes, they are mathavasis, monks. Loni: Mathavasis, okay. Gurudeva: They are training in our theological seminary. Loni: Well, thank you so much for coming on 'In Spirit' and I hope we will have you again, maybe in the future. Gurudeva: Thank you, Loni. I would like to. You have a wonderful program. Keep it going. Loni: I will. Thank you very much. We have been in conversation with Gurudeva from the Hindu temple here, on Kauai. Thank you for joining me. Aloha and Blessings.
 Here is Bala Sivaceyon, one of our staunch devotees in Malaysia, father of Nutanaya who is staying in the monastery. His wife is back home in Malaysia tending to the rest of the family. She is part Chinese and so Nutanaya is another one of the New Age souls who has crossed the boundaries of race and ethnic cultures.  This is Thamaraiveni Sivanesan, Bala Sivaceyon's sister-in-law. Bala and Thamaraiveni are on their way to Concord to help prepare for the wedding of Thamaraiveni's daughter to Easan Sankara. Thamaraiveni's husband, Ananda is already there, getting to know Easan's family.  Here is Vemalananthan, also from Malaysia, uncle to Thambynathan Gurudasanatha. He will be staying on here at Kauai Aadheenam as part of our Task Force team. A deep soul, this is his first visit to Kauai Aadheenam and he has decided to stay on with us for a while to help get ready for the coming of the silpis from India. We have recently spoken with Sri Ganapati Sthapati, our architect and plans are slowly gelling for the arrival of the first team to come along with the stones.
 Exquisite water lilies have captured our camerman's eye. We will continue now with another section from Yogaswami's Natchintanai: San Marga X
The Soul is eternal; undifferentiated; It is Perfection.
The body is mortal; (differentiated) subject to separation.
When this is so, how then can we equate the two?
If we attempt to do it, can there be anything more sacrilegious?
 The soul is everlasting. It is supreme. The body has a birth and is subject to overlordship. When this is so, can we compare these two? Such comparisons are odious. The Soul is wisdom intrinsic. It is immaculate purity. The body savours of ignorance and is impure. What folly is it to compare these two. --379.
 The Soul is radiance, self luminous. The body is by nature veiled in darkness. Can we draw any parallel between the two? He who conceives himself as a body is like unto a man, who thinks that he is made up of the potter's clay. He is an illumined man, who considers himself perfect, immortal and enlightened. Even the gods cannot equal him in stature. He who tunes himself to be tranquil in the midst of discordant situations, who realises that he is changeless and is of the essence of Purity will be extolled by the sages as a Seer. How can we say that the world is an entity and the body too, when the Vedas and Agamas proclaim that the Supreme One alone is immanent in this universe, and that It alone is all- pervasive, with nothing else beside it or beyond it? It is not Ignorance to think that the objective phenomena and the body can exist independent of the Supreme One?
Sang the Sages of old: "Thou Art One; In many art Thou too."
Thus it is clear that there is nothing apart from the Supreme
One. His Will prevails from everlasting to everlasting.
--Natchintanai. 380.
 We have received nearly 100 photographs from Bangalore and will share these with you in the days ahead. Here is a wonderful overview of stones ready to be loaded into the containers bound for Kauai.  Loading the container... Some of the "plain" floor stones simply sit on a palette. Ornamental stones must be carefully crated.  Though not a single "modern day" tool was used to carve the temple, thanks to the forklift, moving the stones around doesn't require maintaining several elephants as in days of yore!  A careful strategy has to be worked out to utilize the space in the containers. Apparently it went well as we learned last week that they were able to load six entire courses into the containers. All things are "gearing" up for the "first stone laying" ceremony which we hope to hold in a month or two. Our Lambodara Kulam is planning a gala event, including professional nadaswaram horn players from Canada.
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