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September 12, 2001 
The giant 12-foot by 24-foot saffron-colored Hindu flag which flies at Kauai's Hindu Monastery lies at half-mast in honor of the victims of yesterday's abhorrent and tragically violent attacks on America.
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Title: Making the Right Choice |
Cybertalk: Mohana Das from Malaysia asks if one passes on is he born into the same lineage. Gurudeva says that this is usually the case for if not it would be confusing for the inner mind. He also asks what he can do to do only good things. Gurudeva says that this is usually based on habit so he suggests making a list of all the good and bad things that he does and then do only the good things.
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Gurudeva's Statement on The Recent Tragedy
In response to many inquiries he has received about yesterday's calamity, Gurudeva has asked his monks to share this view from the Hindu heart and perspective:
"Every high-minded and good soul on Earth has been hurt and shocked by the appalling images of the buildings being destroyed in New York and Washington and the resulting deaths of untold thousands of innocent human beings. Hindus everywhere in the world, of every tradition, are praying for those who have suffered and rightfully calling for the terrorists to be brought to justice and for terrorism itself to be stopped in every nation of the world so people everywhere may live in security. Leaders must be vigilant, and governments have the duty to protect all citizens and to punish the guilty. We must all rely on the integrity of the US leadership to do the right thing to assure a future free from such terrorism.
"Hindus everywhere are reminding themselves and those they meet of the great principle of Ahimsa, noninjury, which Gandhi lived so faithfully and which lies at the heart of all Hindu thought and culture. Not to injure others is the highest path. The ancient South Indian scripture, Tirukural, says, "It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others, even when they themselves have been hatefully injured. Harming others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked, surely brings incessant sorrow." The wise never let hateful people fill them with hate, never give permission to the angry to arouse their own instinctive nature of anger. They cling to the Divine, trust in the Divine in all circumstances and thus are channels for the divine process of human transformation and evolution.
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"As unimaginable as this tragedy is, we must all not respond to violence with more violence in our homes and streets. Trust our government and the governments of the world to perform their military duty to assure our safety in the future. We must be the peacemakers, the arbiters of differences and the protectors of goodness. The world has always been populated by people of the lower nature and those of a higher nature. Immature souls, young souls in spiritual evolution, live in the chakras below the muladhara, where fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, confusion, selfishness and maliciousness without conscience reside. "
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"Old souls live in the higher chakras, where reason, will, understanding and love prevail. Life on Earth has always been happiest, safest and most rewarding when the higher-consciousness people are in control, both of themselves and of those who follow a lower path. Each one can make a choice in the days ahead to remain in the light and illumine the world or be drawn into the darkness of hate, fear and revenge. Our Siva is a God of love, and our traditions and scriptures assure us that this love will overcome every lesser force."
Acharya Palaniswami read cyber questions to Gurudeva. Sadhaka Thondunatha translates.
Mr. and Mrs. Desai from San Dimas, California came to the early morning homa this morning and later had the darshan of Iraivan Temple.
The couple walks the path of the Saiva Saints and fetches water from the stream.
Together they offer water to the Sivalingam, thankful today for their safety and offering prayers for all those who were not so fortunate yesterday.
4 Patel families from various parts of the country who came to Kauai for a family reunion had a tour of San Marga also.
Their faces tell the rest of their experience.
Here are all 4 families together. Second from left in the white shirt is Mr. Babu Patel, an executive for the Bank of America. He looks at his pilgrimage to Iraivan as a miracle. Normally he spends his work day in New York on the 85th floor of the World Trade Center Two, exactly where the second plane hit. He wasn't planning to come to Kauai, but his brother insisted and he finally relented. Now he feels that it is by the Grace of Iraivan that he is still alive today.
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Date: March_16_2000
Title: Don't Just Forgive. Resolve!
Category: Relationships
Duration: 2 min, 52 seconds
The question from the cyberspace devotee is that there is a sutra in the Nandinatha Sutras, saying that "Saivite monastic can take any kind of verbal, or emotional, physical abuse and forgive inwardly." The devotee goes on to say that he has taken a lot of physical and emotional as well as verbal abuse, from his family and has forgiven inwardly but wants to know what the relationship should be now and in the future, now that he is in the middle path of life.
There is another sutra that also advises us to forgive hurts quickly and inwardly, but, not outwardly until the person reconciles. We forgive inwardly because we know it is our karma that we have put it into motion in the past and are now experiencing it. But we hold firm - a friendly firm wall between ourselves and the individual, which means a friendly distance, because we know that it is their karma, too, that must be reconciled in apologies and the assurance that it wont happen again.
To have a happy future with your family and friends, don't ignore them. Sit down with them, stand on your own two feet, head up and spine straight, and bring it all out in the open. Let them know how you feel about what they said and what they did. Especially in Asia, so many things are swept under the carpet, not talked about and left to smolder and mold there. But now, in today's world we must clean up the mess, in order to go along into a happy future.
The basic foundation of Sanatana Dharma is ahimsa, not hurtfulness -
physically, mentally and emotionally. We must always remember this.
Aum Nama Sivaya, Aum Nama Sivaya.
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