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June 11, 2001 
Along with the containers of stones that arrived from India there were a number of small Ganesha Deities. These are were ordered by Gurudeva and he will bless them here and then send them off to new, fledgling temple societies. This one is bound for Calgary, Canada, where a new temple society is forming. Gurudeva instructs the community to have the Deity in one of the homes for a month. On full moon day, the deity is ceremoniously moved to another home. During the month, devotees come to the home to see Ganesha and offer worship. Soon, the temple society will find and purchase its land and then the Deity is moved to the site. To date, Gurudeva had participated in initiating the building of many such temples around the world.
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Date: August_25_1998
Title: Sadhana to See Your Soul
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Duration: 3 min., 31 seconds
Date Given: August 25, 1998
In our part of the world, this is the 25th of August and it is a Tuesday. It is the day after my extended families all over the world have met in togetherness, in love and sharing, studying the Sadhanas of the Master Course, which are at this stage learning to teach children the Saivite Hindu Religion on a five to ten year old level.
We have thousands of children all over the world in classes. Like Guhan Sivalingam and his wife have 120 children in their class in Klang, Malaysia, just to mention one and there are many, many more. Classes opening up all the time.
Our beautiful children's course of lessons is an update from the lessons studied in Sri Lankan schools for 20, 30, 40, 50 years. Now it is in action again in many languages - Hindi and Tamil, English and French and French Creole, Italian, Spanish, German, to name but a few.
Today, just to let you know what we are doing just a little bit, all of the heads of the extended families called Kulapatis send in to Kauai Aadheenam, an update of what their extended family did yesterday. They are coming in right now, through e-mail. We are reading them and we are giving advise as how to proceed with their family, to move ahead into a dynamic future of teachers and leaders next Monday night.
The fortune cookie for today is that, you are a soul living in a physical body, just like I said yesterday and I want you to realize that. I want you to look into the mirror and look right into your eyes, deep into your eyes and see your soul. They say the eyes are the windows of the soul. Well, look into the window, look into the mirror, look into your soul. You see it sitting there, shining out. The light within your eye comes from God and that light can never be taken away from your soul. God cannot remove Himself from you.
Our great Vedas and all the scriptures of our great Hindu teachings tell us, that God is the life of our life. Siva is the life of our life. What does that mean?
It means our life comes from Siva. Contemplate that, think about that. It is an eternal truth. The life in your body - you are moving your hands, you are walking - that life comes from Siva and it is the same in everybody.
Today, Siva-consciousness is the fortune cookie for you, to open up and read your future. You are a wonderful soul, you can make a difference in this world. You can, just by being you.
Aum Namasivaya.
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Krishna Raju pilgrimaged with his wife from Canada for his 76th birthday. They heard there was a Hindu temple in Hawaii, but did not know where or even which island. But Mr. Raju was very persistent in his quest and eventually found us by knocking on doors along the way.
Anja Kulovesi on the right is here from Finland. She is participating in hosting Gurudeva when the Innersearch travels through Helsinki in August. She is also collaborating wth our publications team to print in Finland "affirmation cards" which will be packed in a small box. Each box will contain 100 cards or so, each with a selection from Merging with Siva. These will be sold for individuals to use to refer to for inspiration through the day, to keep in their wallets and give to friends. Sivadevanathaswami is doing the pre-press work and our innerseach coordinator, Sadhaka Dandapani is on hand to look over the ground details for the stop in Helsinki. Click to take a look at the details of this "journey of a lifetime!"
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Our silpis have been busy here at the Kauai work site. How deftly they manage these huge stones with apparent effortlessness and easy skill. A slight lift with a bar, insert a roller on both ends and the 1000 pounds of solid granite is. literally, "ready to roll" And our table top smooth "miracle concrete" foundation makes it really easy!
These are stones for the first course that are set in place, but not yet fixed. Very carefully the silpis will establish a straight edge and, with their chisels, work on the tops and bottoms of the stones in the crucial "leveling" process." The Master Architect who designed the temple said that the intention will be to achieve, wherever possible "paper fittings." Which is to say that the stones will fit so precisely together that you will not even be able to slide a piece of paper between them.
The silpis have removed most of the crating from the top and sides of all the stones we have received to date.
This is one of the stones that will form the door frame of the main sanctum. Carved in black granite, when oiled it will turn dark and display the fantastic carving that was done on the face.
This is also on the main door frame.
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