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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.

--372.

Siva Peruman is the non-dual Reality. I glory in contemplating that He and I are inseparably linked in Oneness. Whatever one yearns for, that he becomes. Therefore meditate that Thou and He are in unison. Then shall all thy acts pulsate as His acts. The Supreme Reality Is He. He is immanent everywhere. The One has assumed many forms. He is beyond birth and death, transcending time and timelessness; He is eternal, and ever unchanging. The perfection of Truth illumines All.

--Natchintanai. 373.

Cybertalk: This is part 8 of a radio interview conducted by Loni Petranek with Gurudeva. The interview gives an overview of Gurudeva's worldwide mission. In the eight part today Loni asks Gurudeva to share about his book the "Lemurian Scrolls". Gurudeva tells of how he read the book clairvoyantly about 20 years ago.

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Date: March_05_2001
Title: Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek, Part 2
Category: The Guru
Duration: 3 min., 20 seconds
Date Given: August, 2000

Loni: Now if someone is not familiar with Hinduism or the temple here on Kauai, could you maybe, just give a brief overview, historically, about the lineage and the temple?

Gurudeva: The lineage comes from Sri Lanka, Loni. Basically, 'One God, One world' is the theme of the temple. The Sri Lankan people who were my Guru's devotees and now are my devotees, are scattered throughout the world because of the war in Sri Lanka. There are over two million of them. We have been working very hard through the years, to get them settled in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and built temples. So from our temple here on Kauai, we oversee over 47 temples, not only in America and Canada but other countries too, as well in Sri Lanka and India as well. Overseeing temples means, we help get the temple started. We work out major difficulties with management and with priests that are hired for the temple. Then, once it is rolling along we don't have a lot of contact except on very special festival times.

Loni: So, you are the spiritual leader for forty temples, I have read, as well as the Publisher of 'Hinduism Today'.

Gurudeva: International magazine.

Loni: Yes, yes. So, you are very busy.

Gurudeva: Well, I have a lot of help.

Loni: You have a lot of help.

Gurudeva: If you were to paint a picture of me, you would draw a circle and put a dot in the middle - that would be me. I am trying to always stay in the center and do as much of nothing as I can.

Loni: Sort of the nuclei.

Gurudeva: Yes, that is it.

Loni: Now, you also write?

Gurudeva: Yes, we have just been on the island, not travelling for three years, to put out 'Lemurian Scrolls'. We finished that book. We finished a beautiful translation in American English, of a ancient scripture called 'Tirukural', which teaches us how to live daily life, all aspects of life. 'Dancing with Siva', 'Living with Siva' and 'Merging with Siva' and lots of other books and pamphlets.

Loni: Now, Siva seems to be a central theme for you. Can you explain?

Gurudeva: Sanskrit name for God.

Loni: Oh, okay, okay.

Gurudeva: To explain Siva very simply - the energy in your body, Loni, and my body, comes right from Siva. The light that lights up your thoughts, Loni, and my thoughts, comes right from Siva or right from God. So, there is no place in the Universe where Siva isn't. But, there is one thing He cannot do.

Loni: And what is that?

Gurudeva: He is so powerful. He creates the Universe, preserves the Universe and can absorb it back into Himself. But, He cannot take Himself out of you. That is pretty reassuring, isn't it?

Loni: That sure is.
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Martine Thom, Canadian producer and director for the documentary film being done, sits quietly in the temple (foreground) going over the schedule, her "shot list." Meanwhile a shoot is in progress. Sannyasin Guhanathaswami sits on vigil in the temple meditating by the Crystal Sivalingam and chanting Sanskrit. Tall Zack Green holds the sound boom on the left while Zachary the camera man on the right takes the shots. Zachary is really excited about the footage he has taken: "It's really incredible, I can't stop, there's something to shoot here everywhere. I'm up to 33 hours of raw footage now. We only have 5 days left. We will take a minimum of 50 hours of raw footage and really I think we want to go for 60." The final cut show will only be 45 minutes. Starting tomorrow, Martine begins intensive interviewing for all the voice-overs to run with the images.

Saravananathaswami is about to take his place for a 3-hour vigil in the temple today from 12 noon to 3 pm. The walls of Kadavul Hindu temple have mirrored shelves with the 108 Tandava dance poses of Lord Siva brightly lit.

A Japanese spiritual teacher brought a group of 10 people to the temple today. Only the teacher could speak English. The Japanese spiritual seekers always come with great reverence and deep attunement to our temple.

It is uplifting for us to have such beautiful, joyful souls with us.

Everyone is always awestruck by the view from the monastery, looking across the property to the Iraivan temple site and up the Wailua River toward Mount Waialeale.

Our 11-acre village in India is home to 75 Indian master craftsmen who live there and work each day on the carving of the sacred white granite Siva Temple which will soon be shipped soon to Kauai and assembled. See our latest February 2001 Building Fund Progress Report and join our family of contributors today!

While the carving of the Iraivan temple is underway, some small side projects are also being undertaken. Here is an exquisite lotus peedam (platform, seat, foundation) that is part of the shipment of 6 containers of stone being packed for Kauai. It was carved for the center of a new "Navagraha Mandapam" or Nine Planets Pavilion, to be builit in front of Kadavul Hindu Temple. Around this 6-by-6-foot lotus peedam will be the 12 squares of the jyotish chakra with the zodiac symbols beautifully etched into polished granite. Gurudeva or the swamis will sit on the peedam to speak with guests, explaining how the energies of the planets influence our daily life.

The bronze navagraha or "Nine Planetary Deities" that will sit on the chakra have been specially designed with metal wheels hidden on the bottom so they can be easily moved into the proper zodiac square, according to the planets' true astronomical positions. The statues are 19 inches tall.

Here is "Sani" the deity of the planet Saturn.

The pavilion to house the entire jyotish chakra, lotus peedam and deities will cost US$20,000. We are needing a sponsor to begin the work soon so it is ready for the arrival of the deities. Anyone who would like to sponsor the pavilion or participate with financial contributions by sponsoring one of the nine bronze navagraha, please email Acharya Ceyonswami

Here is Kuja or the deity of Mars. All of the bronze deities have been completed and will also be part of the next shipment of stones to Kauai.

Sukra, the deity of Venus.

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

Two friends, Arvesh Dabedeen and Ashwin Chummin came to visit today. Arvesh is from the Hanuman temple in Cassis. While at Grand Bassin for Sivaratri he received a Gurudeva card from the La Pointe des Lascars kanwar group. Since then he's been tuning into this website every day.

It must be Wednesday! Mr. and Mrs. Dinassing are here again to pay their respects to Panchamukha Ganapati.

Mr. Bucktowar came to purchase a copy of Merging with Siva with Dameeantee Sookur. He's been reading a lot of positive thinking books lately and recognises the potential of a life-changing study in Gurudeva's book.

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