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Gurudeva answered questions today from the audience at the Sun One homa. One of the devotees asked what was the relationship between the light in the lotus of the heart and the kundalini and which should one meditate upon. Gurudeva replied: "The kundalini is the source of the light within all the chakras. It is best for family people to meditate on the light within the lotus of the heart."
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Date: September_27_1998
Topic: Hospitality and the Importance of People
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Duration: 8 min., 26 sec.
Date Given: September 27, 1998

Today at Kauai Aadheenam, September 27. It is Sunday here and 'Vision Kauai', an island-wide vision group meets. We are a part of 'Vision Kauai 2020'. It is a little group that formed about a year and a half ago. At first we were meeting every month for a year and now, we are meeting every 2 months and we are looking into the future, a vision for the beautiful island of Kauai, of the next 20 years. Shall it be surf-and-sand? Shall it be sugarcane? Shall it be commerce? Shall it be a heartfelt, sustainable society? These are the questions before this group of community leaders and county leaders, who see far enough to find out from within themselves, listening to the superconscious mind, what to do for the next generation and the next one coming up.

We have prepared a 16-inch by 20-inch poster to share, of the Aloha spirit. There is one right now, in every schoolroom on the island of Kauai, over 600 schoolrooms. We have a vision-card for everyone. This is our gift to the community. A vision card, a small card that every resident of the island, over 50000, can write their vision of how they see this beautiful garden island progressing in the next 20 years. That is how we have got a wonderful event of an island vision gathering, when thousands of people will gather around October 11 and share what they need, what they have, and what they want, as a collective community of Kauains.

Sri. Chandrababu arrived today, from India. He is the Vice-President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Kerala. He informed us that he has a beautiful award for Gurudeva, as the 'Voice of Hinduism This Century', as well as an ancient book of Ayurveda, written in grantha, that he wants us to have as a token of esteem from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, in Kerala to us and 'Hinduism Today' here on Kauai.

Today's message, you will appreciate. It is on 'Hospitality'. The guest is God, not an intruder. All Hindus have a heart to receive the guest as God. This is very important for us to remember because guests come and guests go. Often, guests come and never come back, because of subtle inflections in the voice. Because, they forgot to be served even a glass of water, which is traditional in Hindu culture. The guest is God, not an intruder. When someone steps up to you, drop your work. People are more important than paper People are more important than giving oneself to the computer. People are more important than anything else. People are the working-out of your karma.

Computers and other distractions, perhaps, are making new karma, especially if you are into pornography. Naughty, naughty. Especially if you are into pornography which is readily available right now on the internet and flowing through cyberspace. The internet has chakras from the bottom of the feet, way up to the top of the head. You can choose where you want to go and what realm in cyberspace or the astral plane that you want to be in. We advise people who are addicted to pornography, that each time they fulfill that driving force of their addiction, to eat only fruit, yogurt or milk for a 24-hour period, right after. That lets the instinctive body know that there are consequences. Pornography perhaps is an evil force. But, in the freedom of today's world, it is there.

You all have a choice, we all have a choice. We must use that power of choice, not only to benefit ourselves but benefit everyone around us. Let us conclude this about pornography and say that it is not fun for the whole family. It is not fun for the whole family. You do not leave the door open. I am sure there are little catches upon it. Or, if it is unlocked, you know just the key to push to blacken out your screen, if somebody comes in, especially your young son. So, you know it is wrong. You know that. Don't kid yourself. If you were to die watching pornography, according to the laws of karma and reincarnation, you would be born as one of those lustful women or men. You would. Because, our next life is determined by the desires of this life and our last thought upon the moment of death.

Well, back to a more cheerful subject. Put the computer to sleep and turn around to talk to a human being, who might share a little love. A computer is a loveless instrument. It does not return any love, though you might love to watch it. People now are getting kind-of tired of surfing the web, takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of time away from the family.

In our spiritual fellowship, we have a 'Monday evening at home'. All the family gets together. If the family is away, they call in and talk to one another on the speaker phone, share and trade energy. Try it. People are more important than paper. People are more important than computers. People are more important. Why? Because, the guest is God.

So, in cyberspace, I will be seeing you
in all our old familiar places
which is right here
at the computer
looking at you

It is the best we can do right now, when I am not travelling. We are exchanging love together, trading energies together through cyberspace, which is the astral plane, on a certain inner, miraculous level.

Aum Namasivaya, everyone! We'll get together again tomorrow. People are more important than paper.
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Sadhaka Tyaganatha had raised a might fire this morning. During the festival a homa is held every day to bring up the vibration and bless all the devotees who have come from such long distances.

A special treat this year are the presence of Nageswaram and Tavil musicians from Toronto, Canada. There are over 20 temples in the Toronto, Canada area...a place one could call "Little Jaffna" with so many Sri Lankans that the area supports 12 different publications in the Tamil language.

Nothing can beat the "out of this world" power of live nagaswaram and tavil drumming. There is a strong karmic connection here as the young drummer on the right was one of the boys who attended the Sri Subramuniya Ashram classes held at Gurudeva's Alaveddy ashram in the early 1980's. Later he moved to Canada and now joins us in Hawaii. This is a remarkable testimony to the spread of the culture of Tamil Saivism around the world.

Chinnu is the "silpis assistant" who has come with the others from India as the official cook for the team of stone carvers and what a great cook he is too! At the up-and-coming annual Kauai "Coconut Festival," Chinnu will be a "star" and offer various samples of dishes made of Coconut. This will be an unusual opportunity for Kauaian's who, despite the large quantity of coconuts grown on the island, do not make as much use of them as a food item as is done in India and other parts of South Asian.

Aside from the week long Guru Purnima festivities, tomorrow is the grand "Taste of India / San Marga Open House" event where we have invited all our island friends and neighbors for a gathering and Indian feast. We are expecting about 400 guests and for the first time in a long while our quiet monastery is gearing up for a big crowd. Here is the tented area where speeches by the Mayor and local VIP's will be given.

Our family men and monks are all pitching in to get ready. We get a lot of support and cooperation from the local community and we wanted to give all our local friends and supporters an opportunity for a close up inspection of the temple building that has just been started these past two months.

On the right: Rajkumar Manickam is originally from Malaysia, but he moved to the US after marrying Ananda Alahan, daughter of Vel and Valli Alahan--two of Gurudeva's devotees. Rajkumar and Ananda live with Vel and Valli in Vale, Colorado where Raj now works.

On the left: Ravichandram Krishnan from Johor Bahru is a student of Gurudeva and active in the distribution of Hinduism Today in that area of Malaysia.

One of Gurudeva's long time sishya, Jnanideva from New Mexico is with us...here he helps decorate the tent, for the open house tomorrow.

We have never done fund raising on the island of Kauai itself as the community is comprised of a majority of none Hindus. But for this one event we are offering the local people the opportunity to be part of this great project by making a donation. Here two of our silpis move some small stones up to the podium under the tent which will be part of the presentation.

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Meanwhile there has been steady progress at the temple site... Here from a distance we see a tall bamboo pole which indicates the very top of the future central sanctum.

And a lifesize representation of some of the pillars have been mounted and are being placed on the side, showing the height of the pillar and the future temple ceiling.

Thambynathan Girish Samugam who lives in Singapore, is having a wonderful time working outside helping with the team.... This is a representation of the "Badra Pillar" which is one of the very ornate pillars that will be in the temple. These pillars are available for sponsorship and would be a truly great gift. Such work is rarely done these days. If you are interested, please email Iraivan@hindu.org for details

Our silpis get into the act... hanging woven coconut fronts aroud the edge of the tent that sheds off the rain from the work area.

Here we have a look at work in progress. At ground level, retained by sand, you see course number one. Course number two is complete and a few stones of course number three have been placed for display. Please donate generously. We need to raises another 12.5 million dollars.

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