Title: Thought Manifestations in Meditation and Life Category: The Mind Duration: 1 min., 44 seconds Date Given: 03/21/2001 Date Posted: April_4_2001

Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee wonders about the thoughts that manifest during his meditations. Gurudeva says that thought is a combined group of pranas that makes pictures within the mind that has a form, sound and color. And if you have happy and successful thoughts then these thoughts will manifest a wonderful future for you.

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Date: March_27_2001
Title: Karma and Laws of the Land
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 1 min., 08 seconds
Date Given: March 21, 2001

A cyberspace cadet in Singapore wonders about karma and laws. "Do the laws of the land and the laws of schools, such as caning within schools, and jail terms for crimes, serve as a prayaschitta or a penance fulfilled?"

Well, yes. It does. It does serve as a penance, if you fulfill the laws of the land. Caning in schools, though not recommended, is a deterrent to poor behavior. There are many other ways of discipline with kindness. Several schools in Singapore that I have heard about, have stopped caning and find the students are better behaved, because they are not governed by fear. They are governed by intelligent cooperation.

In India, New Delhi have recently passed a law of 'no caning in schools or in homes'. It is against the law, it is a crime. They intend to enforce that law.

Yesterday we observed the Maha Samadhi day of Siva Yogaswami, our beloved Paramaguru, with a beautiful puja done in the Guru Temple at the Yogaswami shrine.

We also put on the altar a copy of Yogaswami's Natchintanai, his great songs. We are very fortunate to have this legacy. There is no better way to say how we felt during this worship than to share with you Yogaswami's own thoughts about his Guru, Sage Chellappaswami.

Yogaswami sang this in the "sing-song" manner of children playing a game where a ball is thrown in the air on a chant. Nallur is the town with the famous Muruga temple outside of which lived, like a beggar, the great sage Chellappaswami...

TOSS AND LET GO

That which is Formless assumed the form of Guru At Nallur to shower His Grace--Toss the ball and chime That Siva is the Self, Toss and let go.

He cut asunder the cluster of desires Praise the Peerless One and toss the ball and chime That there's no birth nor death, toss and let go.

That He is or is not, none can tell, But He did come to Nallur, so toss the ball and chime That I am He--Toss and let go.

He o'er-powered and made me His at Nallur And succoured me--Toss the ball and chime He's the ocean of grace--Toss and let go.

Freed from delusion, they who bide by His will Enjoy limitless bliss--Toss the ball and chime That desire hath no charm--Toss and let go.

He who has no fixed abode nor name, came Of his own accord to entice me--Toss the ball and chime That sorrows have fled--Toss and let go.

The Supreme Being who pervades the whole world, He came to Nallur--Toss the ball for thus Said He, 'that we know not'--Toss and let go.

He cannot be eulogised in definite script, He's acclaimed as Guru in this land--Toss the ball That we lack nothing--Toss and let go.

He's the lord who can subdue my senses five. The beloved of Nallur also is he--Toss the ball That doubts there are none--Toss and let go.

Sublime is He and full of sweetness Is this sage of Nallur--Toss the ball and chime That anxiety is dispelled--Toss and let go.

He who is the essence of the mystic Aum Hast eradicated the I-ness--Toss the ball and chime That delusion's spell is over--Toss and let go.

Incomprehensible to the envious, He showers The bequest of Grace, Toss the ball and chime That He is Guru-Chellappa--Toss and let go.

"Will I ever forget my beloved Gurunathan Will I not melt in Love, recalling the testament of my Guru? To give alms and more alms in a sincere spirit of charity is a means of atoning one's many afflictions. His fragrant feet are our best protecting armour. Thy sheltering hands embracing thy true devotees in oneness of love, how shall I praise? Praise the valiant Vel of Nallur in sea kist Lanka. In the sancturary of Arumugan, my Guru appeared to me as God divine. From this perennial fountain flows the bliss of wisdom. My Guru endearing and more dear than a Mother, made me melt like wax in the majestic, universal vision of the Oneness of God; in his equable and tranquil form, I saw the essence of truth: His words made me realise that all things mean intensely and mean well and that ill-will, enmity, and disharmony have no place in his experience.

--Natchintanai. 155-156

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