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 The whole Hindu world is in a festive mood as Ganesha Chaturthi is only 9 days away. Read what Gurudeva says about Lord Ganesha in his latest book, Living with Siva: "To know one's dharma is a clear path. To be uncertain is a path of confusion. There is one God who knows the patterns of all humankind, whose superconscious mind is so intricate, encompassing and spanning the yugas of time, that each path for each individual is known, memorized and recorded indelibly in the inner ether of the akashic matter of His mind. Through the worship of this God, Lord Ganesha, the venerable pope of the Hindu religion, the individual's dharmic pattern in this life is unfolded from within. It becomes clear. It becomes known. It is difficult for the modern, twenty-first-century Hindu to consciously know the correct dharma, but this can be made known to him through the worship of Lord Ganesha. "
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Cybertalk: 2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 4, Part 3: Bodhinatha explains the last three principles of Karma Management. Number 8 is "accelerate karma," which is done through performing daily sadhana (religious practices). Number 9 is "resolve dream karma," with the idea that things we do in our dreams and on the astral plane also create karma. Number 10 is "incinerate karma," to burn it up by the fiery power of the kundalini through the practice of yoga.
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Our Sun One Homa was bright and joyful:
More from Gurudeva:
"If someone is not fortunate enough to have been born into a family that perpetuates the Sanatana Dharma, then he must perform sadhana and offer repeated prayers to this first God, Lord Ganesha, whom all Hindus invoke before the other Gods and before any task is undertaken, this God whose knowledge remains supreme, penetrating most deeply through every avenue of the devotee's mind. Once the dharma is clear, is known, it must be faithfully performed throughout the life most willingly, thus destroying the seeds of karma through living out the pattern without creating a new karma, through performing good service, accruing good merit in fulfillment of the totalities of all of our multiple life patterns. This then makes the next life and the one after that joyous, brings good births well earned and well lived, through the graces of Maha Ganapati, Lord Ganesha, who sits upon the four-petaled lotus muladhara chakra within the spine of every person. "
"As the divine being rises within and consciousness expands, a kundalini coil is released and a certain power awakens from deep within. At the same time, conscience awakens, and the mind emerges into the muladhara chakra, there to meet Maha Ganapati, Lord Ganesha, through whose eyes and mind the devotee enters into the joys and happinesses within the Hindu religion, the birthright of all humans. This is how the Sanatana Dharma perpetuates itself and progresses from generation to generation, from age to age. Of course, once well settled into dharma, through Lord Ganesha, we will meet the other Gods. They will help maintain and fulfill our life in all avenues of culture and appreciation of that culture. It is only when each individual finds his own particular pattern in life, and clings to this pattern, that good future births are assured."
Work continues in Kadavul temple on the shrine for Gurudeva, to be completed in time for the week long Mahasamadhi memorial observances that will be held here in November. Here you see the current place we offer flowers to Gurudeva's feet.
The above will be replaced with this beautiful carving of the holy padukas (sandals) in stone.
Preparations are underway for the departure of our team to Mauritius. Traveling with Bodhinatha and Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami is Sadhaka Tyaganatha, our wonderful homa priest, will be going along to take the opportunity to spend some time with his family there whom he has not seen for many years. Yogi Japendranatha helps him set up his computer for remote travel usage.
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If we were amazed to date by what the silpis have done, now they have raised the stakes on wonderment as we watch them deal with these giant stones that form the ceiling of the inner chambers of the temple. The stones are lifted up with the forklift and then moved onto the work site via giant 4 X 12 planks and inched into place.
Despite their size the silpis can move one of these stones into place in 20 minutes, more or less.
The "gangway" formed by the large planks spans the edge of the temple work site to the inner sanctum. Once there, the stone is moved onto wooden rollers to move over the existing stones.
At the bottom of this photo, toward us, is the central chamber, the "garba griham" or "womb chamber" of the temple. This is the "holy of holies" wherein will reside the Maha Spatika Siva Lingam. Just in front of that is the "Mukha Mandapam" which is a second inner chamber just in front of the main one.
This is the all important header stone that spans the opening between the two chambers. On September 3rd a special ceremony will be held for it's placement. A small chamber about 2 inches wide (right foreground of the photo) has been carved into the stone and into this will be placed precious metals and gems before the header stone is placed.
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Our Kauai mission gathered today to prepare for Ganesha Chaturthi/Visarjana, in the yard of the Seyon family.
Durvasa Alahan performs a puja to Lord Ganesha.
Jai Ganapati!
Sitara takes a piece of clay off the block to make her little Ganesha murthi.
Everyone prepares their own small image of Lord Ganesha which will be worshipped everyday until Ganesha Chaturthi.
Meanwhile Durvasa builds the palanquin to transport the murthis to the river.
All set for the big day.
Yajatadeva Nagappan enjoys playing with the slippery clay.
All the small murthis are ready for the daily worship and eventual return to their Mother. Of course our celebration here on Kauai is very small compared to the giant festivals that will be held in India and Mauritius. We expect 1000 people to come to our center in Mauritius!
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Date: June_27_2002
Title: Anger (Sneaky) Part 2
Category: Good Conduct
Duration: 8 min., 36 seconds
Date Given: June 04, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha
After I gave that talk last phase, I came across some advise on e-mail and a
response. A devotee had written back to some advise that I had given a few
months ago, on expressing anger toward a parent. The problem is that
occasionally, the devotee flares up when the parent says something, kind of
breaks out in anger and angry words on a regular basis, not everyday but at
least every week. Something is said that pushes a button, so to speak and
out come the angry words.
So the devotee wrote in for some advise, a few months ago. When I reread
the advise I gave, I said, "Gee, this is good. It should have gone in the
'Anger Management' talk. So we will add it for future versions." This was
the advise.
"Thank you for sharing the details regarding your sometimes angry encounters
with you parent. I would suggest, you reflect on the seriousness of
inharmony in the home. It is taking a few steps backward in spiritual
progress. When you do sadhana, you move forward. But if anger occurs
regularly, you step backward and as a result, you could end up standing
still. It is like trying to save money for a purpose. You save each week.
Then, becoming angry is like spending what you saved the last month. It is
difficult to make the financial goal. Taking it more seriously, you are
motivated to avoid anger at all cost."
Just a few days ago, the devotee e-mailed back and said the advise helped,
it worked. Not getting angry, not expressing angry words toward the parent
anymore. So it showed that realizing how serious it is in terms of one's
spiritual progress is helpful. Some kind of analogy there, such as saving
money, where you realize your sadhana is putting money in a jar that your
anger is taking out. So consequently you are not really making any
progress. If you realize, "Gee, I am not really getting the advantages of
my sadhana. I am earning it but then I am throwing it away. So I am not
making the progress that I should be." Just have to harness that tongue,
harness those angry words and realize how important it is to do so.
Also in our talk last phase, we went through the eight steps on the ladder
of violence. To review, the first one is sneaky anger followed by the cold
shoulder, blaming and shaming, swearing, screaming and yelling, demands and
threats, chasing and holding, partly controlled violence and, last but not
least, blind rage. Most of these are self evident. But to some of us the
first two, it might not be clear as to what it includes. Sneaky anger in
particular and even the cold shoulder. So I thought we could look at those
for a minute. These are taken from the book 'Angry All the Time', that
Gurudeva drew on for his work on 'Anger Management'.
Sneaky anger is the first rung on the ladder of violence. It is a state of
mind something like this. "I am mad at you for something you did to me and I
am going to get back at you and get you really frustrated. But you are not
going to even find out that I am mad at you. I am not going to let you know
that. I am just going to get back at you and you are going to end up
really frustrated. I am going to do that not by doing something but by not
doing things."
So, that is the nature of sneaky anger, very subtle. It is the not doing of
things to frustrate someone else because you are mad at them for something
they did to you. That is sneaky anger.
We have five versions, according to the book, of sneaky anger. We have a
phrase for the first four.
"I forgot". Not doing something under the guise of forgetting. A familiar
youth chore of taking out the garbage. "I forgot to take out the garbage."
How many times have we heard that? How many times is it really true? I am
not talking about the legitimately forgetting sometimes people do, to do a
simple chore. You remembered and you knew very well that you are supposed
to take it out. But, you are going to say when asked why you didn't take it
out - "I forgot to take it out. It slipped my mind." Sneaky anger, one.
Sneaky anger two. The phrase, "Yes ... But". Purposely not doing something
under the guise of an excuse. "It was raining too hard to take out the
garbage". Or, whatever. We come up with a lame excuse as to why we didn't
do it when we are asked. "You wouldn't want me to get wet, catch cold. It
was raining too hard." Note the fact that it only rains for five minutes
and stops! "It was raining too hard." Yes, ... but.
Number three. "I could not figure it out." Purposely not doing something
under the guise of not being smart enough to figure it out. "I could not
figure out whose turn it was to take out the garbage. Just could not
figure it out, there are four of us and I just could not figure out whose
turn it was. So, I didn't do anything."
Number four. "I didn't remember that part." Purposely not doing something
in part under the guise of forgetting that, that part of it was supposed to
be done. "Took out the garbage but forgot to take out the gardening debris,
sorry." As the book says, "The word sorry usually appears in this one. I
just forgot that part, sorry."
The last part of sneaky anger, whining or whispering complaints while
performing the task, is also sneaky anger. Kind of muttering under your
breath, complaining about it but not loud enough so anyone really knows
what you are saying. But clearly, you are disgruntled. You grumble,
grumble, grumble. Complaining under your breath while you do it, is
another form of sneaky anger.
That is interesting! Never would have figured all that out without the book.
But those of you who are parents are probably closer to this than the monks
are. Very interesting, sneaky anger. That is anger expressed not through
doing something but through not doing something, either fully or in part, in
all the different ways you cannot do something.
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