Blog Archives

Cybertalk: Today's cybertalk is part ten of 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. Today Gurudeva shares with Arthur the message that he gave when he was at the United Nations recently and that is for world peace we must first stop the war in the home. He also shares with the audience the secret mantra that harmonizes all relationships.

Cybertalk Ends"
For more information about listening to Gurudeva's talks online and to hear them in other formats, click here.

Gurudeva will be happy to hold "Prasnottara Satsang" -- "Questions and Answers" over the telephone with any Hindu religious societies, Hindu youth groups, Radio talk show hosts etc. All you need is a phone with a speaker and an enthusiastic audience. Arrangements may be made in advance by sending email to Sivadevanathaswami

Do you have questions for Gurudeva? Send to questions@hindu.org.

transcription begins

Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: February_16_2001
Title: Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 4
Category: The Guru
Duration: 3 min., 39 seconds
Date Given: January 27, 2001

Arthur: Now, I remember from the Master Course, you would speak in terms of the chakras, the psychic centers in the body. Let us say something like this. Would we be stretching the truth too much to conclude that perhaps, the mass consciousness is starting to work more and more with the different chakras. That would account for this interest?

Gurudeva: Well, I would think so. The higher chakra people are becoming aware that if they want to be in the higher chakras, they have to close off the lower ones. What are the lower ones? They are the ones below the muladhara chakra, that is at the base of the spine. They go right on down to the feet. First one is fear, the next one is anger, the next one is jealousy, the next one is total self-centeredness, selfishness and competition and so forth, right down to killing for the sake of killing and getting a great joy out of it, right at the soles of the feet. Anyone who is angry or jealous or fearful, of course, is not in the higher realms. They are in the lower realms and have to close those doors before. So, we really don't have to awaken spiritually. All we have to do is close the doors of the lower instinctive, intellectual nature. Be Mr. Good Guy and Mrs. Good Girl and all is well. Spiritual comes naturally from the soul, which is spiritual, of course.

Arthur: Yes. In my own counseling work, I find one question comes up more and more. I am really grateful because it shows a lot of conscientiousness. It is this. People will say, "Okay, just tell me. What am I not seeing? I feel like I am missing a point. What is it?" Now of course, it is a very loaded question because there is much they may not be seeing. But I of course, ask for guidance and whatever comes is what I share. If I might, I would like to shift that from the personal to again, the social. What would you say from your very unique point of view, would be something that, let us say, perhaps we as a culture, as a society, or as a nation are not seeing? Where would you direct our attention?
What are we not being or seeing?
Seeing, what are we not seeing? What point are we missing?

Gurudeva: What we are missing is that we gain our happiness by making other people happy. We gain our contentment by making other people content and secure. If everybody would do that, we would have a really nice nation and all the other nations would follow suit.

Arthur: So we are talking of moving away then, from that self-centeredness.

Gurudeva: Exactly. Into a higher nature, which is love, contentment, security and knowledge that comes from within. Like it comes from within you, Arthur, as a wonderful representative of the psychic community, well established in this community and doing a very great job. You get your knowledge and wisdom from within yourself and the great Beings in the Higher world.

Arthur: Thank you.

Gurudeva: So, that will come very, very slowly. Only to a few people, at first. Then, it will begin to spread and spread and spread. Then we will, finally, have a 'New Age'.

Arthur: I see.

Gurudeva: We might have to wait a long time. But, it will eventually come.

Arthur: It will come, won't it? Inevitably, it will come.

Gurudeva: Inevitably!
transcription ends

Gurudeva presided over our Sun 1 ceremonies from his new temple chair. He gave some wonderful, rapid-fire, concise answers to TAKA questions today which you will hear soon on these pages.

Paramacharya Bodhinatha offers the prayers into the temple fire. At temples which are "set up" for this practice, prayers that are burned are received by the devas in the inner worlds and answered.

The Yajur Veda offers this powerful prayer:
"Fire is Light, Light is Fire. Glory!
Sun is Light, Light is Sun. Glory!
Fire is Splendor, Light is Splendor. Glory!
Sun is Splendor, Light is Splendor. Glory!
Light is Sun, Sun is Light. Glory!

Let us, proceeding to the sacrifice,
utter a prayer to the Lord,
who hears us even from afar.

You are sacred drink, may I enjoy your sacred drink!
You are greatness, may I share in your greatness!
You are power, may I partake in your power!
You are treasures, may I share in your treasures!

O shining ones, remain in this dwelling,
stay in this gathering, this place, this spot.
Remain right here and do not stir! "

Kulapati Deva Seyon looks on in thoughtful devotion later at the San Marga site while the Ganesha Puja is performed at the banyan tree. Unlike the Kadavul Siva temple, which can be a very "fiery" experience, the San Marga land, site of the Iraivan "Wish-Fulfilling Temple," is pervaded with a "Great Peace".

Kulamata Nilanai Sivadas performs the arati while all sing the Arati Song.

On the right is Sujay and Komal Shah visiting from Orange, California. On the left is Anju Pundit and her daughter Sheela. They recently moved to Kauai, but were unaware of our monastery. Today they were taking a drive around the island and were intuitively guided right to our doorstep. That may not sound extraordinary, but many people can't find our place even when they are looking for it and have directions!

Gurudeva has set up his "mini-office" in the Cedar Room of the publications building. Here he goes through the daily email.

The grass seeding project for Muruga Hill has been a great success. The mixture of grass seed and wildflower seeds have sprouted and grown to make a gorgeous hill in the middle of the San Marga path.

The collection of wild flowers amidst the seed sprouted to bring an array of colors and fragrance. They will shelter the little grass sprouts from the hot sun and after a year or so, give way as the grass takes over. Now Muruga Hill is secured from erosion and awaits its mandapam (open hall) on top, with a 9 foot granite statue of Lord Muruga as Dandayuthapani (the mendicant holding a staff as at Palani Hills, India), which is awaiting a sponsor to be carved.

Kadavul temple tank (the traditional pool outside Hindu temples for washing prior to entering the temple) has this lovely statue of Saint Sambandar, installed in front of a fountain. Saint Sambandar received the grace of Lord Siva when he was just a baby boy and grew up to be a valiant spiritual leader and revivalist of Saivism through his soul stirring hymns to Lord Siva.

White oleanders have a remarkable fragrance and are sacred to Lord Muruga. It is said that if a devotees offers one such flower every day to Lord Muruga for 30 days with a sincere heart full of love and surrender, then Lord Muruga will grant him a spiritual boon.

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

It seems that recently we are meeting many special souls in children's bodies. Visheshta is one of them. Many months after she first visited the Spiritual Park, little Visheshta, in the yellow hat, started insisting she wanted to go and see God. She finally insisted so much that her father questioned her to find what was on her mind. Visheshta, it turned out, wanted to go see the "Big Ganesha."

Her father brought her back to visit Ganesha and while here, the family received a picture of Gurudeva. When they returned home, little Visheshta went off into a corner with the picture and in her simple way started to worship. Then, at the end of January, tragedy struck the family. Little Visheshta fell down some stairs and fractured her skull. Mauritius is too small a country to support many specialist surgeons, so they have a very intelligent practice of bringing in specialists periodically to handle difficult cases. It so happened that there was a very fine brain surgeon in Mauritius at the time of the accident.

The doctor said that the skull had been pushed in against the brain and had to be pulled back, but there did not appear to be much brain damage. She advised the father, "You pray to your God and I will do what I can."

Now less than four weeks after the accident Visheshta is running around with her friends, as happy and lively as ever. Next to her is little Shiksha and taller Diya, then Sachiraj and Visheshta's brother, Vishay.