Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka		Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA

Title: Kauai Aadheenam's Vibration
Category: Temples and Temple Worship
Duration: 8 minutes, 55 seconds
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Date Given: March 23, 2002
Date Posted: April 8, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha

Cybertalk: We have had some recent visitors to the monastery who have been praising us for the experience they have when they come here. Gurudeva's wonderful technique of passing on the praise to someone else as he deferred the praise to Gurudeva's wonderful training of us in the delicate and loving Eastern way of hospitality. Of course, what people experience when they come to the Aadheenam also depends on the strictness of the disciplines that the monks are following, as well as the vibration of our Kadavul Temple, which was established by a vision Gurudeva had. In this monastery temple the monastics have performed puja, meditation and other religious disciplines in three-hour shifts 24 hours a day in unbroken continuity for 29 years. Our Saivite Shastras tell us of guardian devas who protect the vibration of the monastery much like watch dogs would protect an ordinary house from intruders. But the devas keep lower-vibration inner-world people, asuras, out of the monastery. This among many other reasons is why pilgrims have such a wonderful time at Kauai Aadheenam.

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