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Cybertalk: Bodhinatha reads sloka 2 of Dancing with Siva - "Where am I going? What is my path?" The Hindu spiritual path can be described in three simple ways - becoming a better person, learning from our experiences, and improving our behavior. By holding the attitude that mistakes are wonderful opportunities to learn from our experiences, positive inward strives can be made through self-reflection and we are able to improve our behavior. Bodhinatha conveys the richness of this sloka in a stirring upadesha on karma management, sadhana, and the San Marga.
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The Ganapati Kulam completed the renovation of the Kadavul Temple tank after several months of negotiations with the rain and sun Gods... slipping in on dry days... waiting, waiting through wet ones... Sannyasin Natarajnathaswami completed the painting of an 8-foot-in-diameter Tamil Aum at the bottom of the tank and we filled it up!
This statue of the child Saivite saint Sambandar, dancing, sits on a new lave rock pedestal in the middle of the pool.
We are working to enhance the visitor-pilgrim experience. A set of outdoor binoculars has been installed near the publication facility. It allows visitors to look at the Iraivan temple who may come off hours or who don't have the time to go out to the temple site. You can also get some incredible views of waterfalls on Mount Waialeale.
And waterfalls there are indeed up at the top of the mountain. The Wailua River has been in spate for days now as Mount Waialeale works on getting its annual rainfall count to the top of the worlds' records.
Red earth washes into all our streams during days like these.
A close up of the image of Ganesha in Kadavul temple.
Headdress
Lord Muruga
Crown adorned with Rudrakshas
What visitors see as they approach Kadavul.
Getting ready for lunch... a few of the monks lay out the mats.
Puli kitty is a now a young adolescent and growing fast... in the end he will be the biggest feline among our rat patrol. This new breed Bengali cat is known to grow to 28 pounds!
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Date: March_27_2003
Title: Malaysia-Singapore Visit Report Part 4
Category: Travels, Pilgrimage and Missions Abroad
Duration: 5 min., 30 seconds
Date Given: February 2, 2003
Given by: Bodhinatha
We had a wonderful Satsang in Klang, the first one at Murugesu's house that I can recall. Usually, it is at Guhan Sivalingam's house. We filled up the front room and then we filled up the verandah and then we were out in the street! We had so many people there. Definitely, we don't quite fit into one house anymore for Satsang. There were so many people there that could not hear the talk. I gave the talk twice, so the group that was in the room went outside and the group that was outside came in. I tried the best I could, to say the same thing twice. Unfortunately, I think it was a little better the first time. But anyway I tried to give it with the same enthusiasm.
It had a very nice feeling. Jiva and Kanmani were there from India and they said, "Oh, it had such a nice international feeling to it. It felt like a real International family gathering." We had to go all the way there to see Chellappa and Banu Devi from Arizona, Jiva and Kanmani, of course from India, Vignesh, Murugesu's son, who is in Illinois. Champagne, Illinois I think, is where he works for Caterpillar Tractor, designing very big machines. So he was there too, had to come all the way to Malaysia to see him. Anyway it was a very nice gathering and had a nice spirit to it.
Otherwise, the Iraivan Day was worth commenting on. It was primarily organized by the youth and of course, there youth means anyone up the age of about 30, different concept of youth. The youth organized it. Gurudasnatha's father turns out has a lot of experience in events. So he was instrumental in the displays, all the displays were set up on collapsible pillars, four-sided pillars with photographs. They set it up, so they could collapse the pillars and store it all away and pull it out and it would be reusable. They could move it to another city or bring it out next year.
The cultural performance was of the highest standard, beautiful dancing. They had like nine dancers all at once I think. Nine of the girls were dancing, beautifully choreographed dance to Siva. As well as, Venilla Mardemootoo did the opening dance by herself. Beautiful singing of the highest caliber. It was really, really spectacular and I think everyone who attended was impressed with the quality. It definitely had a stamp of quality on it. This was not just thrown together, they had really practiced and come up to a really high standard and we are all very proud of them. Marvelous event and they felt some 1,200 people attended, counting the comings and goings. Some people didn't stay for the full cultural program, which I guess was about three hours long. So, some came and went. About 1,200 people altogether were introduced to Iraivan Temple and it was a grand success.
Also had Rajiv Malik there. He was running around, getting an article together which is focusing on youth activities. Of course, that was one of our themes during the Hindu Renaissance rally of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam, which had about a thousand people at it. It was Gurudeva's idea to involve the youth with responsibility, not just drag them along. But give them responsibility at the different festivals, make them leaders and make them feel that it is their temple and not just the adults temple. So that spirit was manifested at our own Iraivan event, more than at the Malaysia Hindu Sangam event and that was interesting. The Malaysia Sangam had a similar situation where a few people stayed up all night, till 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning getting ready and the same thing happened for the Iraivan event. The only difference was the age. Ours were in their late teens, twenties, early thirties primarily, whereas their's were elderly people taking care of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam.
So, we were practicing what we were preaching there. That our own youth in this one instance had taken a really nice lead. Of course it is really important for Hindu groups around the world to let the youth lead and in that way feel much more a part of the institution than their parents.
Again, it is wonderful to be back and look forward to having a full phase here without traveling anywhere, no planes!
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