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Date: October_07_1998
Topic: Preparation for Transition
Category: Death and Dying
Duration: 8 min., 24 seconds

Today at Kauai Aadheenam. October 7. Sun 1 which is our Monday, might not be yours. But, here we are. We finished a 3-day retreat, where we have reflected upon what we did, what we are going to do, and if it is the right thing that we want to remember in our past.

Beautiful Homa today, invoking Lord Hanuman to carry Iraivan Temple - 3,200,000 tons of stone - from Bangalore, India to the garden island of Kauai, and to place it gently down on the foundation, which we hope to be built next April or May.

Well, we have a lot to be grateful for. We are grateful for health, happiness, and sadness. Sadness, because, it teaches us a wonderful message - not to do over again what made us sad or to look at life in a different way. We understand reincarnation, if we understand the law of karma. We send out prana from ourselves, that manifests as good, bad, mixed. Then, it comes back to us, gets us involved with other people, comes back to us through other people. If it is involved with animals, it comes back through animals. If it is involved with situations, we create situations that we have to face in the future. If we accept karma and we accept reincarnation, we can rationalize many of the experiences of life.

Well, we have a wonderful invitation and I am sending our Acharya Palaniswami, to a conference on AIDS, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and he will collaborate with Ma Jaya Sati Bhagawati, a worker for AIDS patients, who has an Ashram of { } and helps AIDS patients.

But, we have a different look at AIDS, or any terminal disease, such as cancer or old age. Well, if you know the end is in view, you are blessed. We are all born with a terminal disease, and that's death. We don't know when it is going to happen. So, when your doctor tells you or when you intuitively know that it's going to happen, you are blessed. To know when the doors open to go into the next world. Therefore, you can prepare yourself, by thinking good thoughts, by mending old hurts and tears. No one who knows that they are going to die - and, that's the "d" word, dirty word - that they are going to make a transition into a new life, that is beyond this life. That's a happy life, that's a free life, because it is a life that has been prepared for.

How do you prepare to move on? Well, how do you prepare to move from an old house into a new house? There are a lot of things that you have to throw away. Maybe, it hurts to throw them away. But, they don't fit into the new house and you buy new furniture. You become nouveau riche, and you are not carrying the past behind you.

Everyone is blessed, who has a terminal illness. They know the day is drawing near, to move into a new house, with new furniture, and old friends. Who are the old friends? Those, who have gone on before you. They will be there to meet you. Mothers and fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers, aunts and uncles and friends of all kinds will be there to greet you.

So, we look at terminal illness, from the Hindu point of view, from the point of view of Sanatana Dharma, as a blessing, a great reward of some kind. A reward that you do not hang on the wall and barely look at, after you have hung it on the wall. But, an award that brings you the energy and brings you the inspiration to pass through that door, out of the old house into the new house. After all, we are not the physical body. We live in it, but we are not it.

We are a soul, that is pure, untouched, unfettered, unmarred, unscarred. We are pure souls, who are somehow or other - don't ask why - living in a physical body, surrounded by emotions, some of which we can control and others which we cannot control. With an intellect, maybe clouded with opinionated knowledge, opinions which say "it may be right or it may be wrong" - that's the intellect. But, the superconscious, the intuitive mind of the soul is released when we prepare for the transition, to move on into that new house.

So, anybody out there in cyberspace, who is with Ma Jaya Sati Bhagawati, great soul, dedicated her life to helping those make that transition, cross that bridge. That means, watching people clean up the past. Don't drag old things along with you, write everything down on a piece of paper, burn it up, and let it go. For some it might take only 5 pieces of paper, others 500. Maybe for others, who have lived a really promiscuous life, 5000 pieces of paper, 8 and 1/2 by 11, sentences very close together. But, do it anyway. Clear the emotion out of the experience.

We are here to have experiences. We are here to understand the experience of how to take the emotion of the experience out of the experience, so that we can understand the experience. That is called the Vasana Daha Tantra. Write the experience down, as many times as it takes, and burn it up. Watch the flame come up. You will know that you are released. Pretty soon you will write the same experience you cried about, or were angry about, or that frustrated you and you will have no frustration, no anger, no tears. You will look at you, as if you were reading somebody else's life. That is the way to unleash the baggage. Let the sandbags go out of the balloon, so that you can soar.

I'm seeing you in cyberspace, so many faces. There's Eileen from { }. Aloha, Eileen. And there is { } and Jiva in Bangalore and oh ... so many wonderful faces. I will be seeing you in cyberspace, in our very familiar place, through your computer screen. I love you and know that you love everyone.
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Guest today go out to the temple site and watch the silpis at work.

Left to right: A family reunion in Hawaii. Mr B. Shivashankar from Ootacamund, South India,
Vishnu Kempraj from the San Francisco Bay area, Mr and Mrs B. Kenpraj from Tonota, Botswaana, Mrs Usha Shivashankar from Ooty and their new acquaintance from Los Angeles. Mrs. Kempraj and her son were here a couple years ago and brought the relatives to check in on the temple progress. She says she uses material from Hinduism Today in her teacher training classes
in Botswana.

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Our silpis are always delighted with guests and have a chance to speak Tamil with them. They are wonderful ambassadors for the temple building project. Here they pause a bit as Shanmuga Sthapati takes stock of some delicate work at a corner point of Course Number Four of the temple.

After nudging the next stone into place, an assessment is made of the "fit." The ideal joint will be perfectly vertical as should be the face of the stone being placed. For this he uses a string and pendulum. Then Sthapati will make a determination of any smoothing or further cutting that is required to make the joint as perfect as the dimensions of the stones will allow.

Sri Abhirami Upasaki is the title Gurudeva gave to the priestess of the temple a number of years ago. Here she is with her mother. She has a 20-acre parcel of land in the Danish countryside where she is building her new Agamic style Abhirami Amman Temple.

The following photos are from the foundation stone laying ceremony.

The ladies spent the day preparing a wonderful feast of prasadam for the ceremony that took place that evening.

This is Abhirami Upasaki's husband, Sivabalan, who performs the pujas in the temple. He is the nephew of Sivabalasingam from Alaveddy, Sri Lanka.

Red velvet and flower petals were laid out for Gurudeva to walk on in the traditional way.

Here Abhirami Upasaki performed a homa invoking the Goddess Abhirami at the site of the upcoming temple.

Gurudeva placed the first stones and sacred items in the pit.

Gurudeva then poured water from the kumbha into the crypt where the sacred items were placed.

Traditional nadaswaram and tavil players from Germany graced the occasion with their sacred temple music.

Innersearchers helped carry the Abhirami Amman utsava murti (festival parade Deity) from the new temple site back into the currently operating temple which is located in a small barn.

Sivabalan and his son, Ashwin, performed pada puja for Gurudeva.

Devika Ajaya took her brahmacharya vrata during the final ceremonies before Gurudeva gave a rousing talk.

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