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 Here is Gurudeva at the yagnasala of the Iraivan Temple. Every week for several years, after the Sun One home we would all parade out to Iraivan and take the fire from Kadavul to light a fire at Iraivan. After the silpis arrived, Gurudeva declared the purpose of the parade had been fulfilled, the temple building had started. Interestingly, the yagnasala was turned into a blacksmith "shop" for the silpis to sharpen their chisels, and today a fire now burns in their forge regularly through the week, almost on the very spot that the small homa pit was made that you see here. In the background ladies wave the flame while all sing the famed "Arati" song, which Gurudeva had requested be translated into English so that all would understand what they were singing.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Cybertalk: Saiva Dharma Shastras talks about the Nartana Ritau and says it is a period of creation. It's key word is planning, it's teaching is Dancing with Siva. We should update our 6-year plan which gives life an updated direction. Look at last year's goals and see if anything needs to be changed.
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Here is Sannyasin Skandanathaswami who is the Talaivar of the Pilliyar Kulam, working on one of only two PC's on our property (all the rest of the computers are Mac's) We need these machines to run a very powerful software that manages all our finances. Bodhinatha was largely responsible for some of these important, complex tasks, and he has been training Skandanathaswami to take over those duties, though even now he stays very close to daily operations. This also follows Gurudeva's tradition, when there were times that Gurudeva personally did all the accounting and banking for the entire organization, teaching the monks carefully how to manage the precious gifts of financial offerings of devotees. That's Saravananathaswami waving from his work station in the background.
Yogi Japendranatha is on the book team and extremely focused these days as the final proofs for the color edition of Merging with Shiva are being printed here and the files are being prepared for shipment to Uma Publications in Malaysia. He has the very large task to see to the organization of 100's of files of art work that need to be present, accounted for an properly placed in our layout software. Here he is going through a draft copy, and checking off his list. Our goal is to send this off to the printer in two weeks time. And then the team will turn around and start on Danciing with Siva.
Gurudeva's master legacy "The Trilogy" of Living, Dancing and Merging with Siva, will all be in full color by 2004, if not sooner. We can feel Gurudeva smiling on us now as this work comes to completion.
Pilgrims Narayanan and Sheela Venkatakrishnan meet with Sannyasin Sivakatirswami. Sheela works with all the transcriptions of audio and is helping Sadhunathan with the Audio data base on our server in San Diego. Sheela is interested in the possibility of putting the transcription of a talk on the same day that the audio is posted. So, we showed her how this daily page is created so that they would get an idea of the work flow and data processing. One key innovation will be to provide secure access from Chennai directly to our servers here on Kauai.
Our pilgrims will be going back to Chennai tomorrow. They have the wonderful dharma to return to India and on their family compound both Sheela's parents and Narayanan's parents are living in separate homes, so they will be fulfilling in such a powerful way, Gurudeva's wish to maintain the ancient joint family system of living.
Thank you Narayanan and Sheela for your fantastic support!
This magnificent stand of "eating" bamboo, adorns the path from the Kadavul temple to Iraivan. Young shoots can be cut and make a delicious vegetable.
The lovely yellow Konrai blossoms, sacred to Lord Siva are blooming wonderfully on this tree-- the Golden Shower Tree. It is an uplifing sight and always a marvel to see, especially in a light breeze when yellow petals will fall down from the sky like the ever-present showering of Lord Siva's Grace within us, if you only stop to be "summa" -- still and surrender to that flowing love that falls eternally from within the center of the Sivaloka, which is also your very own Center/Self out to this earthplane, Bhuloka.
God's grace on another plane: The ants are loving the overflowing nectar that is pouring from the small inflorescences of this tropical wonder.
inflorescence
(1) : the mode of development and arrangement of
flowers on an axis
(2) : a floral axis with its appendages; also : a flower cluster
(3) : a gift from God, Design copyrighted by devas in the second world. Patent: none needed. Impossible to reproduce. Infinitely unique.
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Date: November021998
Topic: Want-to or want-to-want-to Person?
Category: Self Improvement
Duration: 7 min., 23 seconds
Given By: Gurudeva
Date Posted:
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, it is November 2. Sun 5 on our Vedic calendar. Tomorrow and the next day, are our retreat.
Paramacharya Bodhinatha arrives today, late evening with Nilakantha. Bodhinathaswami has been away for 2 months. We'll be very happy to receive him back and then the following 2 days, he will be debriefed. This will mean he will tell us all of the adventures, the ins-and-outs of everything, about the wonderful, worldwide congregation that he has been visiting in the homes of our missionary families in Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius and India. We will get all the information and will be able to move Saiva Siddhanta Church forward.
Also, Sadhaka Thondunatha and Yogi Tapovana are doing very well in their fund-raising mission for the Iraivan Temple foundation. Now, that is a temple that's being made of stone in India, in Bangalore and then the stones are being brought to Hawaii. But, we have to build a $300,000 foundation. They already have pledges and cash, in their first day, of $75000. Congratulations to you both.
Well, on the spiritual path and I am looking out at my cyberspace congregation. I am looking out at cyberspace through yesterday and the day-before and I see your faces, because ... why? You still have what you saw at our cyberspace ashram in your mind. Therefore, your faces are floating in cyberspace, thinking about it.
Now, you may be one of two types of people. You can identify yourself. One type is - "I want to progress on the spiritual path. " Another type is, "I want to want to progress on the spiritual path."
We saw a program on the richest person in the world, Bill Gates of Microsoft. He didn't say, "I want to want to be the richest man in the world." He said,"I want to be the richest person in the world." and, he did it.
There is a small dividing line, so small you can't see it, between "I want to want to" and "I want to". Think about it. If you want to want to do things and then just go ahead and proceed with confidence and don't do them. Are you the kind of person that says to yourself, "I can't", then, " ... but I'll try", and then you proceed and find out that you can't, but you did try.
Look in the mirror. When you turn away from this screen and from my voice, go into the bathroom or your bedroom. Look into the mirror, and ask yourself, "Am I a want-to person? Or, am I a want-to-want-to person?" This is a good sadhana. This is a good test to get to know yourself a little bit better.
Over the past 50 years of my spiritual ministry in the Saiva Siddhanta Church and we are celebrating our 50th Anniversary in 1999, I have seen every kind of a person and listened to every kind of a problem. You know, there only about 50, less than a 100 problems that humankind goes through. They all have a solution. The people who want to find a solution, find the solution and move on through life. The people who want to want to find a solution, find a solution and they want to put it into action, they really, really do. They want to want to do that, but they never do. They don't move on through life. They live with their problems as their closest, dearest friend.
The spiritual path is a razor-edge path. As my Satguru Yogaswami said, "It is at times like walking on a hair, over a river of fire." But also it is a beautiful path, full of bliss and happiness, contentment and well-being, as we work through the karmas and understand the karmas, that we brought with us in this life. There are 3 kinds of karmas - the karmas that we make in this life, that action and reaction are experiences; the karmas that we bring with us in this birth; and the karmas we can't do much about, that we leave in the inner world to be brought forward to another birth.
This might seem like a play upon words to you. "I want to" and "I want to want to". But, it is really, really true. Let's take smoking, for instance. "I want to give up smoking," people say. "I want to want to give up smoking." Well, you talk to people like that. Those who want-to-want-to still smoke and are probably going to die pretty soon. Those who want to and did are probably going to live, a long time.
That's the sadhana for today - November 2. Thank you for coming into cyberspace ashram at Kauai Aadheenam on the beautiful garden island of Kauai. I'll be seeing you in about 3 days, after our retreat. Adios. Ciao. Auf weidersein. Aum Namah Sivaya.
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