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Our Paramaguru Yogaswami says:

SON! THOU ART WITHOUT COMPARE

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Son! Thou art fused in all life;
Know this and live and let live.
Chant thou the auspicious Name
Not forgetting e'en for a split second.
Conquer friction caused by action;
Than That there's no other Reality.
E'en the Three will render you service
If you'll o'ercome the e'er sprouting anger.
There'll not be anyone in this wide world
Who can measure up to thee in goodness.
Let your acts be spontaneous and free
And link thyself to contemplation true.
Realise that Anma has no origination,
Neither can it suffer dissolution.
Know that devas and seers shed lustre
Indwelling in thy consciousness.
Son! Intrinsic evil there is not,
Truth alone is perfection absolute.
These are the words of Gurunathan,
worship with devotion and rejoice.

--Natchintanai. 139.

Cybertalk: Today's cybertalk is a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco. Arthur Pacheco conducts a weekly radio show in Honolulu, Hawaii and is also a trans-medium. This interview is in many parts and in the second part today Arthur asks Gurudeva about the Kumbha Mela and they talk about how often it occurs and the amount of people that attend it.
Title: Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 2
Category: The Guru
Length: 3 min., 10 seconds
Date Given: January 27th 2001

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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Title: Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 1
Date: February_11_2001
Category: The Guru
Duration: 2 min., 37 seconds
Date Given: January 27, 2001

Aloha, thank you for joining us, 'Voices in the Wind'. I will usually have a guest that comes on and the guest will either be with me here, live in the studio or will call in from wherever they are.

We will be guesting today a man, who has contributed quite a bit to my own spiritual growth and development. This man is what we would call a 'Satguru', one of those very rare and wonderful souls, who through the long process of evolution has hit a point where he has been able to move through and break through the layers and levels of human consciousness. Going deeper and deeper and deeper within himself, until he has hit that point of what we call, 'Self-realization'.

So today I have been graced, I don't know what other words to say, to have this man. His name is Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. We affectionately call him 'Gurudeva'. He has consented to call in and so in a few minutes, we are going to hear his voice. He will be calling in from Kauai and of course, we will have him on the air.

Today I will not be taking call-ins, simply because of the nature of the man himself. I feel that the very nature of his presence and what he has got to say is such, that I think it is probably more important than anything I have got to say and, frankly, that anyone else has got to say, that I know of.

I first met him back in, I believe it was 1973 or 1974. At that point, I began to take what is called His 'Master Course', which is a three-month training program that is actually done on cassette tape. There is a certain way to do it. I was fortunate enough to be living in Halava valley, as I have mentioned to some of you, and had two years of uninterrupted time, literally to just sit in this tent and meditate. It was wonderful, probably the best time of my life, in some ways. I would sit and listen to these tapes in the way it was prescribed and had wonderful experiences, breakthroughs, you name it.

As Gurudeva has explained, to seek out the deeper mysteries of life, one automatically moves towards the mystical. What is a mystic? A person who lives one-third in the external world and two-thirds in the internal world. He outlines the mind in a way I have never heard before and I have been in this work since I was a kid. We should have him call in anytime. In fact, I think he might be calling now, is he?
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Retrospective shot from Thai Pusam. . .Thambynathan Nutanaya stands in the shrine with Lord Muruga.

We didn't show the chaos and the paint-covered faces that have been the order of the day for several weeks in our Ekadanta Kulam office. . .Now that the renovation is finished. . .Saravananathaswami stands back blissfully looking at the results of a lot of hard work.

20 years of wall paper were removed and the walls covered with a lovely, natural "halahala" mat.

The newly painted white ceiling makes the whole place bright.

Our guests today. From left to right: Donna, wife of the Producer of the Kevin Costner movie that is being filmed nearby "Day of the Dragonfly", in the middle Ingrid, the daughter of one of the camera men on the set and his wife, Annie Semler, in red. On the right, a Siva bhaktar from Oregon. The ladies said the movie company was spending US$30,000.00 an hour while on Kauai, 24 hours a day. It rained hard the other day and they lost $300,000.00 in one day of down time. All the husbands couldn't leave the set to visit, because they are working hard to catch up on the shoot. In a day or so they will fly back home in a jet loaned to them by good friend Robin Williams. Part of the group of actors were 200 indigenous tribals flown to Kauai all the way from Venezuala.

The movie has a mystical bent as the character played by Kevin Costner looses his wife tragically, but she speaks to him through the near death experiences of the tribals in the rainforests of South America.

Film makers love Kauai and they really are a big help for our small island economy.

Meanwhile things are quiet at home. . .and the fun news is from Mauritius:

Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa

We continue sharing photos of Yoginathaswami's recent whirlwind visit to Mauritius. He and Sadhaka Jivanandanatha brought many blessings on Gurudeva's behalf to share at several satsangs held in famiy homes around the island. Here Swami gives rudraksha beads (from the rudraksha trees at Kauai Aadheenam) to the Koothan family, the brother and sister-in-law of our satsang host in Chemin Grenier.

Sadhaka Adinatha with Parameshvaran Ramsamy (left.) Aroulen Naiken (center) stepped in to help sell Gurudeva's new book, "How to Become a Hindu."

The Doorgiat family greet the swami.

Swami watches the sunrise at the Villas Point aux Roche on the southern coast of Mauritius. There is no coral reef on this side of the island. It's a lovely spot where the waves from the open ocean break on the shore.

Devotees gather at the Rose Hill home of Parmesh Pallanee (center) for a mid morning satsang with swami.

As the homa fire dies down the devotees come for blessings. Swami gives vibhuti and rudraksha on behalf of Gurudeva.

Receiving the symbols of Siva awaken joy in the heart!

Evening finds swami at Manon Mardemootoo's home near Grand Baie on the north coast.

Singing the lovely devotional songs of Yogaswami helps to build a strong spiritual vibration around the homa fire.

Dad is showing her how to express appreciation by offering flowers to swami.

Manon Mardemootoo and his spiritual extended family pose with swami.

Early the next morning swami visits the home of Rajen and Premila Manick in Goodlands.

This day last year was a retreat. No page was archived.

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Visiting Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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Click here for information about Gurudeva's travels. He is presently staying on Kauai and has not immediate travel plans.

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2001 EUROPEAN INNERSEARCH

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