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Cybertalk: A cyberspace devotee wants to know what it means when it is said that souls in the third world live in their self-effulgent form. Gurudeva says self-effulgent means full of light and that the souls energy is permeating the astral and physical bodies.

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Date: June_10_2001
Title: Positive Affirmation
Category: The Spiritual Path
Duration: 1 min., 13 seconds
Date Given: May 16, 2001

A cyberspace devotee, Geetha in Chennai, in the beautiful state of Tamil Nadu in South India, is reading 'Merging with Siva'. It is all about affirmations, positive affirmations that are said to strengthen the subconscious mind and improve our self-image. But, somebody told her ,"If you say a positive affirmation, you are reminding yourself of the negative." So, she wonders what to do.

Well Geetha, that is certainly a western psychological approach - if you say something positive, it reminds you of something negative. But, you are a Hindu girl. Listen to me. Do positive affirmations and you will be a very positive person.

Choose one person that you trust to listen to, and then follow the instructions in good faith. They will manifest a positive life for you, as they have manifested for thousands of people in the past.
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Here is a wonderful photo of the priest's "working area," and the important "kumbha" pots that sit between the homa fire and in line with the inner sanctum of our Siva temple, where the main Deity is the never-to-be-photographed giant image of Lord Siva as the Dancing Nataraja. Here Natyam Tyaganatha holds his beads while leading all the temple devotees in the great mantra "Aum Hum Haum Sivaya, Svaha!"

Master Course Annoucement (cont.) The daily Master Course lesson comprises an excerpt for the day from each of the three books of the "Master Course Trilogy." Please click on the Lesson of the Day above to see the new lesson.

Note: Dancing with Siva only has 155 lessons. These run each year from January 1 to the 155th day of the year. Today is day 167 of the year 2001, and you will only find the Lessons from Living and Merging with Siva.

Thambynathan Girish Samugam is our priest's helper for the Sun One homa. Here he performs one of any temple assistant's main duties, to light the lamp just at the right time to pass to the priest for the Arati.

Master Course Annoucement (cont.) Especially historic is that today many people will see for the first time a lesson from Living with Siva, which is another historic landmark publication in the history of the Hindu Renaissance, and a cornerstone in the heritage of Sanatana Dharma for tomorrow's Hindu generations.

Now, the final Arati, which is always a blessed experience. With Fire we worship God Siva as Fire! A channel is opened wide to inner worlds and blessings pour forth to those present, the surrounding community and to the world.

Master Course Annoucement (cont.) We can only reach a limited number of people with printed matter. But with the lesson of the day on the internet people in far off countries can study the Master Course.

After the priest finishes passing the Arati, the priest's helper will then pass it to the congregation.

Here is Gurudeva with Mr Shamuganathan, from Ontario, Canada. He is vice president of the Mississauga Saiva Siddhanta Mandram.

Shamuganathan with his brother, Dr. Kasinathan and family from London.

Gurudeva is frequently asked about the issue of conversion to Christianity. His response is always "Take a leadership position in your community. We have printed many fine resources. Take these and teach the children, teach the youth."

On the other side of "hi-tech" is "earth-tech." June can be a rather damp month on Kauai with much alternation between showers and warm sun. But the plants love it! These new bean plants are thriving "like crazy." The monks produce almost all their own fresh vegetables using only organic methods. We have had to do a lot of experimentation with various species and varieties to find the little plant devas that are happy with our climate and soil conditions and can stand up to pests without a lot of intervention with "bad news" chemicals, which we don't use on our gardens at all.

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Our silpi craftsmen are an inspired team. In the back is their supervisor, Shanmugam Sthapati. To his left is our temple site manager Jiva Rajasankara. Sundaram and Adaikalam are mixing a small batch of mortar by hand.

Stone leveling is tedious work. Shanmuga Sthapati decided it would be more efficient to chip out small sections of the foundation for stones that needed leveling, instead of chipping away any portion of the much harder white granite.

It may take a day or so to prepare the bed for a single stone.

As of today, stones two, three and four have been set. Our monks who work with the team say: "Shanmugam Sthapati is a remarkable man, though he doesn't himself touch a stone he guides his team with gentle precision. He also has an amazing brain for stone work and can calculate in his mind exactly what number stone will be needed in a particular position higher up on a later course."

Sthapati projects that they will be able to install all the stones much faster than our previous projections. Jiva our stone carving site manager will have to leave back for India right away, to speed up work there. The pillars needed to support the ceiling that will be adjacent to the main sanctum were projected to take over two years to carve. But Shanmuga Sthapati projects that we will get to that course in less than 1.5 years. Please give generously. It will take "all hands on deck" to make the monthly financial goals needed to keep up the pace

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