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Believe in God; Believe in Him with perfect trust. Consider Him as sweeter than the sweetest of earthly joys. Ponder that He is the incomparable One. Reflect on His glory night and day and at all times. Let the constant remembrance of Him fill the interstices of your being. Meditate that, "I am naught--He alone Is." Let the worship of God be the goal of your life. Whatsoever you think, that you become. Cherish the Lord in the recess of your heart. Everything, everywhere is subject to His Will. Ultimately it will be seen that he is All in All.

Natchintanai --372.

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 fourth part today Arthur asks Gurudeva about the different chakras and if society is moving from one chakra to another as a whole. He also mentions that in his counseling work people often ask him if there is something that they are not seeing or doing in their lives and he asks Gurudeva to shed some light on this.

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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: May_13_1999
Title: The Three Gurus
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Duration: 4 min, 13 seconds
Date Given: May 13, 1999

Today at Kauai Aadheenam, the 13th of May. This is Gurudeva. Our cyberspace ashram doors are open. Tomorrow and the next day, we go on retreat and our cyberspace doors will be closed for two days beginning tomorrow.

Now let us talk a little bit about what people do, but what cyberspace flyers should not do, which is, blaming others for what is happening to them or us.

When we blame someone else for what is happening to us, we are simply denying that we know anything about karma. Most cyberspacers know all about karma and reincarnation, the existence of the all pervasive Siva everywhere, holding this whole universe together. When we blame somebody else for what is happening to us, we are denying that we know about the law of karma, that we realize that everything that happens to us is created by us, thrown out into space and it comes around back to us through other people.

There are three kinds of gurus in the world. Your minister, your priest, your rabbi, your imam, your swami - they are your teachers. But your first guru is the mother and father. If we turn our back on mother and father and we don't have a swami, rabbi, imam, priest or a minister, then we go to the third guru. That is the world. We call him Sri Sri Sri Vishvaguru Maha Maharaj and his school is totally crowded, packed all the time with students. He teaches, 'Learn by your mistakes'. It is kind of a situational teaching, to learn by one's mistakes, to learn of making karma and then working out karma and blaming somebody else. Finally we realize that it was only ourself to blame after all. Vishvaguru teaches the long way around, there are no shortcuts in his school. It is a lifetime study for some, it is a lifetime study.

Vishvaguru doesn't mind if you also go to a priest, minister, rabbi, imam, or swami. He also doesn't mind if you listen to your mother and father occasionally and learn by their mistakes, learn by their lessons and their successes of what to do and not to do. He is very tolerant in this respect.

Why do we have three gurus? Because we are on this planet to learn. The soul is unfolding through experience and understanding the lesson we get out of the experience.

We will expand on this not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow but the following day, when cyberspace doors are open for all our cyber cadets.

This is Gurudeva wishing you a wonderful retreat. Now for French, Tamil language and Malay.
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Today was the regular Sun One Homa. At the very beginning of the homa a small sandalwood paste ball is prepared with a small piece of durva grass. This represents Lord Ganesha and, as in all Hindu ceremonies, He is first worshipped to remove all obstacles to the success of the ritual.

Next the two Kumbha pots are worshipped and the devas are invoked to take their place in the pots.

Then the fire worship.

This is a time when deep meditation in conjunction with the sacred rites brings a confluence of ancient Vedic mantras, the temple rites and the practice of Raja Yoga--authentic Hindu culture. It is quite a contrast to the modern western culture that has adopted Hindu yoga and meditation but which is completely removed from the religious context in which these practices evolved.

Ladies on the other side of the room -- intent on the inner world connection that is gradually opening through the worship.

After the arati is passed, the flame is taken around to the devotees.

Traditionally the devotee passes the finger tips through the flame and touches the eye lids three times. This transfers the blessing of the rites to the worshipper. Esoterically, the devas invoked by the ceremony are able to "follow" the flame from the inner worlds as it passes through the crowd of devotees. Then they can see and bless each one in turn.

The weekly worship at San Marga. Our ladies pass the arati flame as the outdoor homa is raised.

Everyone sings the Arati song.

A lovely bronze statue of Lord Shiva as "Vinadhara"--He who holds the musical instrument called the "Vina,"-- the Lord of culture, music and dance.

Meanwhile our next issue of Hinduism Today nears its deadline. Hundreds of photos have arrived from the Kumbha Mela, by photographer Amit Kumar along with pages and pages of interviews that were taken by our intrepid journalist, Rajiv Malik who trekked through the camps, seeking out the saints and sages. He taped their interviews in Hindi and spent hours transcribing them to English. Now with all materials in hand the task of crafting a feature story for the magazine will go on for a week or more. Our managing editor, Arumugaswami (left) on the left reviews the submissions with art director and staff writer Natarajnathaswami who will actually edit and pull together the final article.

Santhanam and Lavanya here for the day from California.

This is a devotee of Amritanandamayi Ma who comes each year from Europe with his wife for a pilgrimage to Ma's center on the big island. On their way through the Hawaiian islands they like to come and worship and meditate at our temple before going home.

Sanjay plucks bilva leaves as his wife Dharmishta looks on. These leaves are sacred to Lord Shiva and are in high demand for the up-and-coming worship of Lord Shiva on Maha Sivaratri night which occurs later this week. Having bilva leaves for worship at the temple makes the ceremony that much more auspicious.

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

At dawn on February 14th. The three resident Sadhakas were invited to attend the kumbhabeshakam at a new temple a "Siva-Shakti Mandir" in the town of Bon Accueil (meaning "Nice Welcome"), not far from our Mauritius Hindu Monastery.

The temple was conceived and made manifest over the past twelve years by Ajay Caholessur, known affectionately as Bhai Shiv, who felt inspired by Gurudeva and his teachings in this pursuit. Indeed, Gurudeva's was quite present during this wonderful day. Here, he looks on from the central altar as a priest performs abheshekam (oblation) to Lord Siva.

The day was full of sweet surprises. Ajay had, for example, managed to bring together for the occasion nine very fine priests who created a truly magical event--among them, six Sivacharyas from Tamil Nadu, India. The beautiful harmony among these fine souls from North and South Indian traditions created a lot of magic in itself.

It was a delight to watch this fine team of priests performing their craft, singing and gradually bringing the divine into the physical realm. The Sivacharya on the right is the head priest at the Murugan Temple at L'Escalier, on the South Coast of Mauritius, and on the left a Sivacharya who was trained near Bangalore at the ashram of Sri Trichyswami--one of India's great saints and mystics, and a long-time friend of Gurudeva.

We were moved to be able to witness and share in such an intimate and precious part of India--one that is living and thriving right here, in our unknown little corner of Mauritius.

The priests performed in such a way that significance of each part of of the consecration. Here, for example, a young lady offers Lord Shiva His first kuthuvillaku (sacred lamp), or dedicate the light that will never go out as long as people live here. One by one, the elements of the living temple come to life. Another wonderful aspect of this wonderful day is that it blends the traditions of two of Mauritius' principal communities--North and South Indian. The three main deities, for example, are Lords Ganesha, Murugan and Siva. And, Bhai Shiv annouced, the three main temple festivals clebrated by this temple will be Ganesha Chathurthi, Skanda Shasti and Maha Sivaratri. It was a historic and happy coming together. AUM Namasivaya.

Now, Bhai Shiv (holding the picture of Siva) symbolically becomes Siva himself and is welcomed as such to His Home, the temple. His feet are washed by the humble Sivacharyas. Now we all witness Lord Siva, for the first time entering this, His new abode.

Now that Lord Siva has entered the place, thereby transforming it into a temple, the devotees follow and thus also play their part in making the place into a living temple.

Now, Bhai Shiv, as the living Siva, faces Siva as the image. Having been one with Shiva, Bhai Shiv has now becomes His priest, and is now the Siva-Shakti Mandir's priest. Tomorrow, we will share with you more photos, people and tales of this beautiful event. AUM Namasivaya.

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