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This is Vijay and Umayal Eswaran visiting from Hong Kong. Today is Umayal's birthday, so they had a special archana in Kadavul Temple. After a wonderful walk around Iraivan Temple grounds, they met with Bodhinatha and visited our Sivayogaswami shrine.

Many years ago when Vijay lived in the US, he met Gurudeva at our temple in San Francisco and was very inspired to reconnect with his Sri Lankan Saivite heritage by meeting Yogaswami's successor. Vijay and Umayal's parents lived very close to Yogaswami's hut. They had a first-time tour of the press facility and then a home-made rice-and-curry lunch with Palaniswami, Deva and Gayatri Rajan in the Cedar Room.

There was another wonderful Murugan puja in the morning as we prepare for tomorrow's crescendo of Skanda Shasthi. Our young lady pilgrim, Chudika Mahadevan is a budding artist. Today she brought us this beautiful hand-drawn mandala. Thank you, Chudaka!

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Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi day was humbly observed by sishyas in Mauritius. They all gathered at the Spiritual Park in the morning of Sunday October 22 to celebrate the event.

Gurudeva's teachings reached Mauritian shores in the 80's. Many are those who have been inspired by Gurudeva's lofty teachings since then...

Gurudeva said: " It is up to you to and you alone to penetrate the veil of illusion and realize the self, the Absolute, beyond desire, beyond all experiences of mind..."

Gurudeva said: " Saiva Siddhanta Hinduism, man's spiritual , philosophical, and devotional laws and guidelines, leads him through practice to the Ultimate within himself...".

After the chanting of the 108 names of Gurudeva, everyone chanted the Guru Chant during the arati.

Gurudeva said: "There is but one mind. It functions in various phases, namely: instinctive, intellectual and superconscious. These phases are manifested consciously as well as subconsciously.

The Tiruvadi is adorned with flowers lovingly brought by sishyas.

Gurudeva said: " For Spiritual unfoldment, we must perform sadhana. Sadhana is a repetition; time and time and time and time and time again of the same spiritual practice. The spiritual practice should be reasonable, should not take up too much time, and should be done at the same time everyday..."

Kulapati Manon Mardemootoo gave a talk drawing from one of Siva Yogaswami's Natchintanai. Kulapati elaborated on the concept of Gurudeva being lion hearted and how He roared like a lion to spread Saivism around the world following Yogaswami's instructions...

Sishya Yudananda Munian gave a nice testimony to share his experience about how Gurudeva's teachings helped him out of a real hard time he had recently.

Gurudeva said: " Do you often ask; Why should this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this? The experience was created and born of your own strength. Any lesser experience would have meant little better than nothing to you because no lesson would have been derived from it..."

Devotees prostrating at Gurudeva's Holy feet...

The Kartigeyan Manick family from the south. They are long time sishyas of the Church.

Back to the Spiritual Park projects underway...The old wooden Ganesha Bridge has now been removed and a new one is being reconstructed.

The Ganesha Bridge is one of the main esthetical attractions of the Spiritual Park with aquatic plants and koi fish underneath...