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 "Let's explore what a family actually is. People seem to have forgotten. In America before the First World War there were wonderful, well-established and large joint families, with twenty, thirty or more people all living as one unit, often in one home. Everyone had chores. And they all knew their place within the family structure. They loved and cared for each other, and mother was always in the home. We may be a long time in rebuilding family togetherness to the point where the extended family is back in vogue, but meanwhile we are still faced with maintaining family unity. Hindus around the world are working hard to rediscover their roots and strengthen family values. Our staff of Hinduism Today had many inspiring interviews with bright young Asian Hindus in America who are working in their communities to make a difference and reestablish the old culture of caring for one another. We congratulate them and welcome their efforts, for they are the leaders of tomorrow. "
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Title: Becoming a More Spiritual Person Part 1
Category: Self Improvement Duration: 14 minutes, 1 seconds Date Given: July 10, 2003 Date Posted:August_07_2003 Given by: Bodhinatha |
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Skies over Iraivan in the early morning.
The morning sun reaches the river pool below.
THE PEERLESS ANMA
The Anma ['atma-soul'] is the rarest of the rare.
It is expansive in its vastness, undifferentiated.
It blends with the colours, black, red and white.
Inseparable not knowing the tempo of before or after.
It is the life of the virtuous who're free from bonds.
It is the Way that surpasseth all other ways.
It is the core of wisdom, from where emanates joy.
Divest of symbols and attributes, It pulsates with energy.
Immaculately pure in the exalted state of bliss,
The excellence of immortality doth It reflect.
The triple centres of Tripuram consumed, It freed the Devas.
It delights in transforming the jackals into horses.
It bides with those who have neither desire nor aversion.
It safeguards me from taking endless birth.
--Natchintanai. 287.
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Date: April_25_1999
Title: Sadhana to Smooth Out Karma
Category: Karma
Duration: 5 min., 41 seconds
Date Given: April 25, 1999
Given by: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam. It is April 25th. Greetings, everyone! We are really so happy to be talking with you.
There are no questions today but the subject did some up of responsibility for one's actions. You know, fifty years ago, this community held the parents responsible for what the children did. There wasn't any delinquency, the parents saw to that. The mother always stayed home and took care of her children and her husband. That is just what happened. Now, in today's world when children can kill other children in schools and parents probably, are not even talked to by anyone, not held responsible for what their children do. Pretty sad situation. But, we cannot ignore the law of karma because the karma comes back on the parents on any game or contraption that influenced the children in what they did. The person who sold the gun is also an accomplice, maybe not according to law, but according to the law of karma. That is the chain reaction of karma. No one gets away with anything.
We were told that in every village in India, they are distributing Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola. There is a fear in the minds of those who know, that it is going to damage the health of the people in the villages. It will certainly damage their pocketbooks. Cigarette companies are going through Asia, distributing their wares. The karmic chain of all those who smoke and die, comes right back on the manufacturers and those who work in the factories. Maybe, not according to man's law but according to the law of karma, every action has a reaction. Not only on the individuals, but everyone concerned with it, manifesting the product that finally causes reaction.
Movie stars cause us to hurt others by what they act out. They have the excuse, of course, that they are just acting out the nature of the times like news-reporters. But, they are not news reporters, they are celebrities. People follow their example. Even a young kid can tell the difference between someone reporting the news without emotion and somebody who is acting out a murder, as if it were absolutely real. That person becomes a hero in the mind of the young person. If that person follows that example and kills or maims, the karma comes back on the actor, the writer, the producer, the investors, and on and on and on.
Why is it that stock brokers have investors if they want to have responsible investing? Many people won't put their money in anything that hurts the environment. Why? Maybe they do not know about the karmic chain. They feel responsible to their own community. They feel responsible to their nation. They feel responsible to the world community.
We could go on and on like this, about all the bad things that are happening. But, it is the responsibility of each person to be responsible to himself and his own conscience. That is why, performing regular sadhana at the same time everyday and going back through the day in reverse, making a sum total of what happened to see if it satisfies your conscience and that lays out the pattern for tomorrow. Everyone inside, knows the difference between right and wrong. It is the soul talking. The soul-driven people are people that make changes in the world.
Now we are going to hear the beautiful Tamil language, the sweet French language and the lovely Malay language. Just press another button if you know any of these languages and see how well they have translated all this.
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