THE GATEWAY.

"Sri Sithi VinayagarThe two gates of breath I closed and lo,
The words of the Guru became my guide,
To cleave the bonds of birth asunder,
And in joy I beheld the gateway divine.
With bated breath, I held fast to God in thought.
In the storied house I saw the void serene.
The excellence of eternal glory was mine.
'Tis the secret of the conquest of Kaalan (Death).
From the fire in the Mulaadhara at the base,
The ghee from the crown did melt--alas!
Subdued is the primacy of the invincible ego,
And fully did I apprehend the ethics of Being.
Golden is his mien, flowing are his locks,
There is no one else like him in meekness.
Oh wielder of woes! That grief may not assail,
Come Thou as Love benign and succor me. "

--Natchintanai. 236.
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Date: May_25_1999
Title: Karma and Soul Power
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Duration: 4 min., 09 seconds
Date Given: May 25, 1999

Today at Kauai Aadheenam, May 25th. This is Gurudeva greeting you in cyberspace. I am having your darshan, you are having mine. We are very, very happy, having completed the first book signing of 'Merging with Siva', here on the beautiful, garden island of Kauai. The very, very first time in thirty years, meeting the public on Kauai. Not only 'Merging with Siva' but, 'Lemurian Scrolls' was autographed, quite a few copies of each, at Borders Book store.

The questions that were asked were insightful. Many asked, "Are you going to have regular classes of study?" We said, "No, we are a theological seminary. Perhaps our families will have classes, if enough ask for them." We always believe in, 'you take one step, we take nine'. When we come to the end of our nine steps, you take another one and we will take another nine. That is a mystical rule of non-proselytization. Yes, we don't proselytize. I explained that very carefully to everyone. We do not proselytize.

We have beautiful books to study and each one can take a year or two to complete. For instance, if you do the 365 daily lessons in 'Merging with Siva', in three or four years - you have to be ready for this - your life is going to change. Are you ready to have your life change for the better? Well, it is going to happen.

Many people, as we were talking yesterday, are driven by arrogance power. But there are many people on the earth that are driven by soul power. Soul power has perfect timing, affectionately detached love, giving to others, finding happiness by making others happy. All those positive qualities, which on this beautiful garden island we call the Aloha Spirit.

Driven by arrogance is selfishness, leading to anger if you don't get what you want, jealously for those that have more than you. All kinds of negative qualities dressed up to look like positive qualities but they are not really, because it is not spiritual. With arrogance power, we make the karmas - bad, good and mixed. The selfish karmas in the many yesterdays, which we have to face in the many tomorrows to come. When we face those karmas, we fight our way through life, always blaming someone else. That is arrogance. "What did I do to deserve this or that?", we ask ourself the question. An unanswerable question, but we ask that question anyway, when we are in arrogance mood.

With soul power, we are able to bear our karma cheerfully, whether it is good, bad or mixed. Not getting too unhappy about the bad, not getting too happy about the good. Knowing all the time that what we experience today in the eternity of the moment, we created in those many yesterdays.

Now, we are going to hear the very same thing in Tamil language, in French language and in Malay. Just press those buttons and see if they got it right.
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Today's tour day brought a rich array of souls as usual. We now have the wonderful opportunity to take everyone out to the temple site.

Among the group was this wonderful family, the Ramkissoon family from New York, originally from Guyana. Doodnauth on the right works on computer networks and his wife Bena on the left is a travel consultant. Their daughter Shivani is in her senior year of high school and nephew Keeshan Sayroo, is a strapping tall strong young man for only twelve years of age. Doodnauth and Bena were proud to say "We have been subscribing to Hinduism Today since 1979 and we have kept all the back issues!" They had pledged to visit one day and we were delighted to give them a tour of our publications facility.

It was a remarkable experience for the Innersearchers to find a Sri Lankan Tamil culture thriving intact in Denmark. Gurudeva and the staff and some of the Innersearchers stayed in Brande and visited on the first night the Sri Sithi Vinayagar Ganesha temple in a nearby city. Here are photos from Ganesha Chaturthi there.

Ladies making modaka for Ganesha

Oisin Thompson our youngest Innersearcher playing in the temple chariot

Innersearchers helped carry Ganesha around the main sanctum.

The parading of the Deity is always a joyous and uplifting experience as the Lord who is usually sequestered deep inside the temple sanctum, comes out to give darshan to the whole congregation.

The Deity will be paraded in the streets if possible...if not then it is paraded around inside the temple itself. It is always a special time and inner plane blessings are showered upon all who have the opportunity to witness the event.

Gurudeva with the temple priest

Sri Sithi Vinayagar in His sanctum. Who would ever have dreamed that Hindu culture would have come to Denmark in all its wonderful glory!

Innersearchers after the events.

Innersearchers having some prasadam at the Ganesha temple

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