May Chitra Puja

As the busy week unfolds, the monastics and island members invoke and worship Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami for the May chitra puja. In a few days we will invoke Lord Muruga to end this dynamic phase.

Natyam Dayanatha lights the dipa early in the morning before the sun has a chance to warm this side of the planet.

\"Stress in itself is a byproduct of not being secure in what one is doing.\" Gurudeva

Monks pour into the temple before the 5:45am arati. First they offer a flower to their Gurudeva.

Gurudeva is seen here touching the feet of Markanduswami.

\"True forgiveness is the greatest eraser, the greatest harmonizer.\"

Yogi Jayanatha performs the puja, Natyam Dayanatha supports as assistant pujari.

\"Many have asked me whether everyone should worship Siva both inside and out. Yes, that is the ideal according to our Saiva Siddhanta philosophy.\"

\"Parasiva is an experience that can be likened to the hand feeling and the eyes seeing one\

s own face for the first time. But it is not experience of one thing discovering another, as in the discovery of one\'s face. It is the Self experiencing itself.\"'

\"When karma is controlled through yoga and dharma well performed, and the energies are transmuted to their ultimate state, the Vedic Truth of life discovered by the rishis so long ago becomes obvious.\"

\"It is one thing to say \"I am all right, right now,\" and it is another thing to feel it.\"

\"The mind cannot realize the Self. Awareness cannot realize the Self. Consciousness cannot realize the Self. There can be no name for the Self. To name it is to disqualify it into form. This is why in the incomparable Shum language it has no name, only imkaif, awareness aware of itself dissolving.\"

\"What\

s the best way to teach peace to the world? The best way is to first teach families to be peaceful within their own home, to settle all arguments and contention before they sleep at night.\"'

\"I have seen myself, in a certain state of samadhi, as pure life force flowing through a jungle, through trees, through plants, through water, through air. That is superconsciousness. It is so permanent. It is so real.\"

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