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Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee from Singapore wants to know how much he should merge with Siva if he is a householder. Gurudeva says if he gives his wife everything she wants and everything she needs then he is releasing her sakthi and thus helps him in the process of merging with Siva. Being kind, loving and speaking the truth also helps him in the process of merging with Siva.

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Date: April_19_2001
Title: Do we take on karma by watching TV?
Category: Karma
Duration: 2 min., 31 seconds
Date Given: April 11, 2001

A cyber cadet in Atlanta, Georgia, Chudikadevi wonders about television. "Do you take on karma, make new karma by watching television programs in which somebody gets killed or hurt?"

If the television program that you are watching affects you emotionally and you get totally involved within it, but the characters on the screen are not like you at all and very possibly won't experience these experiences in this life, perhaps you are going through experiences, emotionally and mentally, of a previous life and working out that karma.

When you are totally unaffected by what you see on the television screen, it would indicate that you have already worked through those karmas and they no longer affect you, emotionally or mentally.

Should you remember what you saw the night before in the morning, then play it again the next day. You will not be as interested as you were, when you were taken up in the emotion of the program. Now, you are an adult and you can handle your mind in this way. But, children are deeply impressed with, "This is how life is going to be when I grow up. This is how I should live and face experiences, how I should think about things and react."

Our Nandinatha sutra tells us that we are only to watch television two hours a day, no more. Less would even be better.

You can watch the forms on the TV screen and be caught up in the emotion. It will awaken memories of the past and fears of the future. But, if you simply shift your consciousness to the light which shines through those forms, it is the same light that shines through your thinking mind, that lights your thoughts. That light is coming from God. Siva is the light of your mind.
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Our two young couples will go home with a big mission agenda: to organize and pull off large gatherings of young people and inspired them in their faith. Some of the ideas and plans that were brought forward today:

-- Youth Seminars, leading into Youth retreats
-- Preparation for Marriage Classes
-- Developing seminar content modules: Color Meditation, Introduction to Lord Ganesha, hatha yoga, practical sadhana from the book, Merging with Siva, flooding your aura with colors, affirmations, yamas and niyamas

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