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September 4, 2002
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 Gurudeva receiving his Aadheenam Kartar ear-rings from the Guru Maha Sannidhanam of Dharmapura Aadheenam in South India in 1983. Gurudeva says:
LESSON 347 from Living with Siva Boldly proclaim your faith to the world. Others proclaim theirs. I will never forget seeing the many spiritual and parliamentary leaders in Moscow at the Global Forum on Human Survival in January of 1991. Many were dressed in Western suits and ties, and it was hard to tell who among them were from the West, or from Africa or India, and harder still to tell who was a religious person and who a politician. But at the Millennium Peace Summit of Religious Leaders at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York in 2000, there were so many, perhaps most, who wore their native dress. I knew instantly who they were, where they were from and what they represented. They carried the stronger message and showed by their clothes that they were proud of their tradition, and that they intended to preserve it. That kind of strength is good to see in a world that has mistaken drab uniformity for security.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Cybertalk: Bodhinatha talks about the recent symposium on Hinduism at the Pittsburgh temple. Some asked Bodhinatha why he became a Hindu. In addition to a routine response, he came up with some nice new points: Hinduism is an experiential religion, it's joyous, and it has a great collection of tools, techniques, that we can follow to cause us to progress on the spiritual path.
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Sannyasin Natarajnathaswami has been very much focused on the art work for the new color edition of Dancing with Siva. He has the responsibility to do color correction for all the scanned images. His creative talents are enormous and he has also generated 100's of beautiful background patterns that will be used throughout the book. Yogi Japendranatha who keeps all the files organized and has done a lot of the initial scanning sits with him as they evaluate colors for a piece of art by S. Rajam in Chennai.
S. Rajam painted his work on wooden boards using an Indian system of guache/watercolors. The resulting work is very stable as a medium but the colors tend to be quite subdued and sometimes even dull. Natarajnathaswami will work very carefully to bring the work to life.
Of course, Lord Siva needs no color corrector for the magnificent displays that Mother Nature provides. Here the lavendar of a flower offers a color that one would love to pour over one's head. Which of course you can do in meditation!
Looking down from the sanctum of Iraivan Temple to the foundation we can see the giant stones waiting in turn to be incorporated into the temple.
Meanwhile you can help in big and small ways. The Golden Gate Mission in the Bay Area of Northern California has made a calendar entitled, "Pilgrimage to Kauai's Iraivan Temple" for the year 2003. This is a professionally produced full-color wall calendar. This calendar includes the Hindu Holy Days, especially our Saivite and Kailasa Parampara festivals and special observances.
These beautiful calendars make perfect gifts. The large pictures are suitable for framing. And, years later, this calendar will be a joy to revisit. Share it with your friends and loved ones, inviting them to come on Pilgrimage to Kauai's glorious Iraivan Temple and to become Temple builders themselves by donating and by influencing others to see this great new home of Siva in the West.
You can receive a calender by mail anywhere in the world for US$17.00. Click here to order (opens new window in your browser.
SATGURU BODHINATHA VISITS MAURITIUS IN SEPTEMBER 2002
One of the most appealing features of the Spiritual Park is its natural beauty, especially the beautiful view one has of the sea on the east. In the morning there is nothing so wonderful like watching the sun rising right at this spot. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami will be at the Park on the 8th and on the 11th September for the Ganesha Chaturthi celebration.
Here our two ladies, Premila and Venilla are happily doing karma yoga, cleaning the interior shrine of the Dharmasala. Everyone is helping to prepare for the visit of beloved Bodhinatha to Mauritius.
The three kutumbas (extended families) from Flacq organised the public Ganesha Homa at the Mandapam recently and as usual there were devotees from all over Mauritius who attended the ceremony. Here we see Prakash, Jeetunshiv, Easan and Kulapati Amba Valaytan seated around the homa pit. The ceremony starts with an arati and prayers are burned to the devas while everyone chants the holy mantra of Lord Ganapati.
Everyone enjoys being so close to Lord Ganesha and the inner worlds through this sacred fire ceremony
A group of ladies concentrating on the fire while hundred of notes are being burnt.
This is the new Saivite generation coming up in Mauritius. These young boys are the children of the membership of the Church. They like being together at the Park and are very good friends too.
Ruben S Appiah is just coming back to Mauritius after 30 years. He has heard of Gurudeva's Lemurian Scrolls in London and wanted to obtain a copy from the Spiritual Park. Ruben is very much involved in ecological activities and has been attending seminars on Atlantis studies in the US. He says there is no greater truth about planet Earth than what we read in the Lemurian Scrolls written by Gurudeva.
This is a group students playing a game at one of the Master Course seminars at the Saiva Dharmasala.
Children are learning Hatha Yoga too at the seminars. Here catalyst Premila is supervising a group doing the various asanas as recommended by Gurudeva. It is unusual to see active little ones sitting so still in padmasana (lotus posture).
This is Joe Dreier from Austria, a business man visiting Mauritius. He heard about the Park and was very impressed by its ecological set up. Joe Dreier has travelled to several countries and is now staying in London. He says he would like to bring his wife and children to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere pervading the Park.
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Date: July_04_2002
Title: Non-stealing or Non-coveting Part 2
Category: Yamas and Niyamas
Duration: 4 min., 10 seconds
Date Given: June 11, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha
The third part of non-stealing, of course, is not coveting and that is even more subtle than inappropriate forms of debt because it is all in the mind. It is not in our actions, it is in what we do with our mind.
Webster tells us, "Covetousness is an excessive desire for wealth or possessions." Not a desire, but an excessive desire. We are really focused, we really want, we want possessions, we want money.
Gurudeva describes it as owning something mentally and emotionally but not actually owning it physically. We want something, it does not belong to us. We are treating it as if we have it but it is not ours.
How does coveting cause problems? As we were talking about, you get into abusive credit because you want something a great deal. You go out and you buy it and you abuse the credit to buy it. If you didn't want it, you wouldn't buy it. So the problem isn't the buying, it is the wanting. We wanted it so much that we were reckless in how we determined we could pay for it. We were not realistic. We were not following the principle of proper use of credit.
Of course, we have all experienced this. A new computer comes out, twice as fast as the one we all have. Of course, we all want it. We can get our work done twice as fast, this is good! The problem, of course, in this example we buy it and sell the one we have. We end up with a monthly payment we really can't afford to make. Our excessive desires caused us to buy something, we can't afford, then we have got a payment we can't make. That is not very good but if we do that a number of more times with other objects, obviously our coveting is going to get us in serious financial trouble.
Not only does coveting lead to abusive credit, it leads to other problems as well. It can lead to envy and even jealousy. What we want isn't owned by a company but happens to be owned by the person next to us at work, person next to us at home, person next to us at school. If they have something that is better than what we have and we want what they have, then our coveting is starting to bring up feelings of envy and possibly even jealousy. Like among brothers and sisters, one has something the other one doesn't, you want it. Pretty soon, a lot of jealousy.
The Tirukural, which is a South Indian scripture, gives us some good advise on avoiding covetousness, as well as, envy. The first one is on covetousness, there is a whole chapter on it. It is a common problem all mankind faces, nobody is exempt. "There is a thoughtless desire for others' things that is destructive. There is a mindful pride that, in refusing to covet, is triumphant."
Then, on envy. "There are no envious men who have risen to prosperity. There are no men free from envy who have fallen from it."
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