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March 09, 2003
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 Gurudeva talks about the land across from the temple... the vision is manifesting: today the Ganapati Kulam planted another 900 coconuts. Our total now is 2100 on 30 acres. It will be the largest coconut grove in the state of Hawaii. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Tour day today brought a vibrant crowd of visitors from all over the world.
Kulamata Isani Alahan and her daughters, Sitara and Priya host some of their relatives from San Francisco, California.
One of our guests today is a priestess who is visiting the island from Africa. In her culture the river is considered to be very sacred. When she saw our Bali Hai waterfall she burst into song.
LIfe is beautiful!
Two young girls who live on the island came today with their mother and made a new friend from the mainland.
Sitting on a rock in the Wailua River.
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No silpis at work this afternoon. They have been working very hard recently and we felt 5 days in a row was enough. So we sent them all off to town today to enjoy the Shanghai Acrobat Circus from China who are performing on Kauai.
The temple has an afternoon of quiet....
The top of a pillar that had to be lowered an inch or so... it is almost complete.
This is one of the Shum portraits murals carved into a pillar, Gurudeva's language of mediation:
Anef: to lightly hold attention over the mind and review the events of the day before sleep, dissolving conditions of the day in the inner light.
Nashumef: to observe inwardly and meditate on the basic movements of energy in nature in their pristine simplicity. There are 18 of these which are to be memorized: to spin, to fall, to move upward, to shatter, to come together, to separate, to stop, etc.
Nalef: the thread of spiritual consciousness to be held from one meditation to the next. In the beginning the meditator reaches an inner state and moves awareness to a higher chakra in meditation and comes out from that meditation in bliss... Karma arises through the day and the thread of that spiritual awareness is shattered. Then one meditates again and picks up the thread. Gradually after years of sadhana one is working to hold this thread strong through a whole 24-hour period. That thread of spiritual consciousness held over time is called "Nalef" (pronounced "naleef")
This coconut tree is really pumping this year! Imagine 2000 of these in the future! 1000 plus coconuts a day? Wow.
Golden Gate MissionSatsang in California
Periodically our missions hold open house and invite non-members to join in satsangs.. We have this report with photos from Easan Katir.
At a recent Golden Gate Mission satsang, guest Raja Sivamani played the veena beautifully.Ê He has studied for 12 years, and is in great demand all over the US, playing for concerts and arengetrams almost every weekend.Ê Professionally, Raja is a graduate student at UC Berkeley.
The well-known Oduvar Jothi Param sang for the congregation too.
The Ajaya girls, Devika and Yatrika, sang beautifully too, as little Sandyadevi Param looked on.
A Nepalese family were guests as well.Ê In Nepal, the only Hindu kingdom on earth, it is against the law to kill a cow, or to forceably or through bribery convert someone to an alien faith.Ê The elder gentleman in this photo is a retired police commissioner.Ê During his career, he personally arrested people for each of these crimes.Ê He said the usual punishment for bribery conversion is one year in jail.
The veena player's, Raja's, parents attended as well.Ê Sri and Srimati Sivamani are justly proud of their son's musical talent.Ê They have conducted satsangs at their Sunnyvale, California home every Friday night for many years.
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Date: March_04_2003
Title: State of the Church Address 2003, Part 2
Category: Church Activities
Duration: 4 min., 32 seconds
Date Given: January 5, 2003
Given by: Bodhinatha
Moving on to 2003, this year's focus. Something all of you already have. But the members, unless they were here during the Mahasamadhi Observance, don't yet have their copy of the Gurudeva photo album and the video. So we are sending that out around the world. It is going out this month alongwith the membership cards, specifically to every church head of house, every distinguished unit. If it is a single person, that single person or if it is a family of four, each one get one copy of the photo album. Then, we are sending out a video to each of the Kulapati and they can show it as well copies can be made for the other members if they want to have one. In this way, we are distributing worldwide in the next few days these two beautiful, very special, high quality creations that were done to honor Gurudeva during the Mahasamadhi time and will now be enjoyed by all the members worldwide. So that is our first focus, which is a special gift.
Second focus for the year, special activities. We are getting more ambitious in our Innersearch department. This last year was our simplest Innersearch yet, Hawaii along with Guru Purnima. We did that to fulfill Gurudeva's statement which seemed a challenge at the time. He is sitting there during his fast and says, "Oh, by the way, you should have an Innersearch next year." That was his instruction to us. "Even if it is a small one." We made it as small as possible! At the time, it seemed like a big challenge to do. But we are getting bolder this year. We are up to an India Innersearch, as all of you know. We are scheduling it a few weeks later than we thought. It is scheduled to start in the middle of January 2004. It is about a little over a year from now and it is a little less than three weeks long. It is a program designed to provide a balance of three activities. One, of course, is attending the temples and ashrams. The other is a regular morning class schedule on the Master Course. The third is cultural programs in the evening. We are going to present a variety of music, dance, vedic chanting and other traditional cultural forms of India during the evening program as an introduction. We anticipate a number of people going on this program who have never been to India, as well as many old timers. So we want to show them all aspects of India, including the culture. We are going to have a nice balance for that.
Other special activities. We are continuing to visit the Missions on a regular basis. Once a year for Mauritius at the Ganesha Chathurthi time. They are looking forward to that already, we are planning it out. Once a year for Malaysia and Singapore and then for California at least once a year, more often when possible. So those programs are in the works. We are going off for our yearly visit to Malaysia-Singapore on January 21. We have some wonderful programs coming together for that.
One of the areas we are looking forward to this year is, our Publication/ Editing team will have finished their duties with the Master Course trilogy and will be able to move forward in other areas. Something we have been looking forward to doing for quite a while. Probably the most important publication we will be working on, but it is also long-term, is the stories of the Kailasa Parampara. Those of you who have been around forever know it was originally released as 'Soldiers Within'. Just a very simple portion of it. Since then it has developed a lot plus we have some beautiful, really unique artwork done by Rajam, custom made for the book. We are going to start developing that with the idea in mind that lots of the new members really don't know much about the history of the Parampara. They have never been to Jaffna, may never go to Jaffna. It is quite a different place than when many of us had the opportunity to go there in the 1970s and see for ourselves Yogaswami's hut, Chellappa's hut, Nallur temple and hear all the stories that went along with it. Was a beautiful experience. So we are trying to preserve that experience and pass it on to those that didn't have it in person through this publication, so that everyone who is a student and a member has an excellent feeling for the history of our Kailasa Parampara.
Another definite for this year in our publication area is, we are moving ahead again with the Saivite Hindu Religion Children's Course. We are issuing Book Three of the course in printed form this year. Possibly even more, but at least Book Three will be done. Plus, we are redesigning it a little bit, making it smaller, putting the Teacher guides on computer file in PDF form and keeping the book itself as just the material the children study. This makes it smaller, less expensive to produce, easier to use overseas for classes. Once we issue this, we will have a new energy through them. Some of the teachers stopped just because they ran out of material. Giving them Book three, we already know they will say, "Oh, we will start up again. All I needed was Book three." This is one class but one class is hundreds of people when it comes to Mauritius, Malaysia and Singapore. We get a few classes going, maybe five hundred more children get back in the study of Saivite Hindu Religion.
We have other plans for the publication area but those are the two areas, the Parampara story and Book Three. Book Three will be done and the Parampara we will have made good progress on this year and we are planning a number of smaller books as well.
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