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March 7, 2002
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 He is the Guru who granted me grace to gain Good for the life that is, good for the life to be; Being most worthy to show me true wisdom's way How best to be but the doer of good only; He draws me to him with mother like tenderness And in my heart-temple, He the Guru dwelleth." --St. Tayumanavar. 541.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Cybertalk: Bodhinatha elaborates on the four-fold concept of austerity, which Gurudeva defined as sadhana, penance, tapas and sacrifice. So, why bother performing austerities? It increases our speed on the spiritual path. We resolve karma at a faster rate, and it takes us less lifetimes to realize the Self and attain moksha. Penance is atoning for misdeeds. Our subconscious tells us when there is something to be resolved through penance, for it throws that thing up in front of our awareness over and over again. Sacrifice is giving up to a greater power a possession to manifest a greater good. Tapas literally means "to heat." Tapas is purification through the burning up of impurities. And it all ends in a beautiful way. Tapas in a monastery acts as a magnifying glass on the inside of the person allowing for deeper meditation and forming of deeper psychic ties with the Deities in the temple. [Today's audio is Part 3 of the above talk.]
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Every phase, Sadhaka Tyaganatha carefully decorates the homa altar with vibhuti. Today was Sun One and he prepared a fitting "seat" for the God of Fire, Lord Agni.
During the homa, we invoke the grace of Lord Hanuman (the small gold plated statue on the left) to continue to assist with the Iraivan Temple building. Gurudeva had a close relationship with Lord Hanuman, having received visions and messages from him during his life. Next to Hanuman is Lord Ganesha on his right and the two Kumbha Pots that will carry the power of the homa. Later in the day at the 9 AM morning puja, the water from the pots will be used for the Siva Abhishekam.
Beginning the homa, Tyaganatha does a small arati to the yagna altar and invokes the blessings of Lord Ganesha to remove all barriers to the worship that is about to commence.
Fresh plumerias decorate the Deities that preside over the homa.
During the homa, prayers written by the devotees are put in a basket and Satguru Bodhinatha burns them in the fire as did Gurudeva before him... Today, many of these prayers are to Gurudeva himself who is very present in the inner ethers of our temple. All the monks feel him, just as he said: "I will be all around this place, 24 hours a day."
By now it is about 6:15 am and the worship is well underway. The swamis around the fire chant Sri Rudram and a powerful opening between this and inner worlds is created.
The final offering, called "Purnahuti" .
Fire in which is invoked, Agni the Messenger of the Gods....
With the fire blazing high, now the manifest Divine Presence that has been invoked in the Fire is now worshipped as a God with the traditional puja that is done to other murthis in the temple.
Everyone stand for the final arati.
The assistant Pujari has prepared the lamp and passes it to the priest.
Sadhaka Nilakanta blows the conch shell, a sound which the devas say can be heard in the inner worlds.
Mr and Mrs.R.S. Krishnan from Merced, Ca, were here 10 years ago after Hurricane Iniki and amazed to see the growth of the gardens. On the left Kala Srineevasen from Michigan.
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Date: March_01_2002
Title: Megatrends
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 3 minutes, 57 seconds
Date Given: February 25, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha
Shanmuganathaswami has been working with the Venkateshwara Temple in Pittsburgh for an activity that is occurring in June. They are having an educational event, coordinated by the Educational Committee of the Temple. The theme of the event is 'Hinduism Past, Present and Future'. They have invited me to be one of the speakers. They wanted to know the title
of the talk. That is planning ahead, right? "What is the title of the talk you are giving in June?" I don't even know the title of the talk I am giving on Sun One, let alone the title of the talk in June!! Then, they want a ten page or less write up on the talk, by April 10.
Thinking of a title, I thought, "Well, why not do something challenging ?" and choose as the title 'Hindu Megatrends'. Yeah, 'Hindu Megatrends' ... why not? So, we are asking for help, ideas. Help in the form of ideas, your thoughts on what significant megatrends are in Hinduism, over the next ten years, twenty years. What do we see happening? What does the future hold?
We are going to set up an e-mail, so we can get in e-mail ideas. Wondering if Arumugaswami will want to put out a request on HPI, requesting ideas. We will set up the e-mail account before we do that, something like megatrends@hindu.org. Set that up so that e-mails go to one location and don't get mixed up with anything else.
It is very interesting to think about the future and we want to get ideas from different people. Try to develop something nice as well as, encourage those that attend the event, at the event to express ideas and submit ideas afterwards too, what they think. Then, we can compile all of these ideas and create an article in 'Hinduism Today'. It would be a very interesting article, 'Hindu Megatrends'.
For example, to get you thinking about it, there will be a megatrend of Hindus outside of India marrying non-Hindus. That is what happens, it just takes a few generations. What happens in that instance? Is the non-Hindu spouse going to become a Hindu? Is the Hindu spouse going to become a non-Hindu? How is the Hindu community going to react to mixed marriages? Very interesting subject to think about, which is definitely going to occur. That always happens in a diaspora.
That is 'Hindu Megatrends'! You can get your think-tank turned on to bring some ideas and come up with a very interesting talk and an article for 'Hinduism Today'.
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