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Swami is also our resident Sanskrit teacher and he has a great memory. He knows more chants by heart than the rest of us put together!

Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee wants to know if he has a preference for Lord Siva will the other Gods get jealous. Gurudeva says that such concepts of Gods getting jealous are often brought forth in puranic stories and are not true. He encourages this cyberspace devotee to read the Master Course trilogy of Dancing with Siva, Living with Siva and Merging with Siva to get a clear understanding of Sanatana Dharma.

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Date: August_28_1998
Title: Experience, Lessons and Strength
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Duration: 3 min, 24 seconds
Date Given: August 28, 1998

August 28th, and greeting you in cyberspace! Well, this is the last day of our phase on our moon calendar and it is our guest day. We usually have 20, 30 guests here, at Kauai Aadheenam. Wonderful people, who call in on our telephone system and find out what to wear and how to find us and our mysterious temple-ashram.

We want to say, "Have a good day, Jiva and all the silpis that are working on the Iraivan temple, in Bangalore. You are wonderful people, carving away day after day, year after year on this beautiful temple."

The temple site was given to us to use for a number of years by Sri Sri Sri Balagangadharanathaswami. That is a very long name and he is a very powerful swami in that area. He has established well over a hundred and fifty centers for social service, for religious activities, including a hospital, training center, medical school, engineering college.

The temple project is being guided by Sri Sri Sri Tiruchiswamigal, who has a beautiful Rajarajeshwari temple close by.

All the silpis, under Jiva's spiritual guidance, come for puja every morning before they begin their work and every evening they have bhajan. It is a wonderful, happy group. He with his wife and two sons, and of course, Chidambaram and our Ganapati Sthapati, the main architect, manage the temple site of over 75 carvers, just like an ashram.

We are very happy that so many of you have communicated with us that you had difficulty in finding my voice on the world wide web, on the internet. We have made an adjustment, so now it is very, very easy.

You are a strong person.You are a happy person.You are a person that makes your happiness for yourself because you make others happy. That is real happiness, making others happy you become happy. Even if you are sad, make somebody else happy. Get a smile on their face. That smile can wipe away their tears and your tears too if you have them.

We are here on this planet going through life, a series of experiences one after another. It is not the experience, but the lesson that we gain from the experience that really, really counts. It is the lesson that we gain from the experience that really, really counts. So take the cream, take the ghee out of the experience, whatever it may be and memorize the lesson. Then be guided accordingly, because that is your dharma.

Aum Namasivaya.
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Sadhaka Tyaganatha is our main "homa priest" who performs the Vedic fire rites. He is in the Lambodhara Kulam, which is the group of monastics which handles the kitchen, cooking, animals, monastic health care, astrology, Iraivan temple coordination and fund raising. Sadhaka is also a fantastic cook and a wizard in the sewing room where he makes clothes for Gurudeva and all the monks from raw fabric. It's a big job and he is training one of the older swamis to help him.

Our young Sadhakas, on the left foreground is Sadhaka Tejadeva, in the left background Sadhaka Nilakantha and in the right background, Sadhaka Mahadevan. They are all great dedicated souls who have been with us four or five years now.

• Does the thought of God occupy your mind most of the time?
• Are you a Saivite Hindu? Or want to be one?
• Has the world lost its magnetism for you?
• Do you want to Realize the Self
• Do you want to sacrifice your life in service of God, Gods and Guru and be free of the lower self?
• Are the seeds of "Vairagya" (detachment) firmly taking root in your heart and mind?
• Do you have an aching desire to manifest the Divine within you and overcome all your failings?
• Do you believe there is no greater service than to dedicate your life, 100% of your time, to help protect, preserve and perpetuate the Sanatana Dharma for generations to come.
• Would you probably make a bad husband because you would be paying more attention to God and meditation than to your wife and children?
• Are you relatively free from karmic baggage?

If so, you may be a candidate for monastic life. Go and read the Holy Orders of Sannyasa

The ever elegant and formal antherium flower, it love the cool shade and is a favorite for flower growers and lovers around the world and shaped like a heart it reminds us of Gurudeva's "magic mantra" Look at someone and draw the heart shape in the air and say in your mind:

"I love you
You love me."

Siva Yogaswami said the same thing: "Everyone loves me and I too love everyone....so must we become suffused with such pure thoughts..."

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