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September 20, 2001
Gurudeva's Statement on America Under Attack
Pilgrims came from California today and brought a beautiful gift and garland for Gurudeva.
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Mr and Mrs Anandh Naga, who have lived in California for the past 12 years, originally from Fiji enjoyed the morning Siva puja.
In the front of the monastery courtyard stand two of the earliest pieces of sculpture that Gurudeva commissioned from India. One is of the great Siddha Yogi Sage Tirumular and the other of the great weaver Saint Tiruvalluvar, who is pictured here. These two pieces were originally commissioned shortly after Gurudeva had his visions of Lord Shiva walking on the San Marga land in 1975. The bigger than life size statues arrived on Kauai in February, 1979 and appeared in that month's issue of the publication then called "The New Saivite World" which subsequently was transformed into a public service media instrument for all Hindus around the world, and re-named "Hinduism Today." The arrival of the statues on Kauai marked the beginning of Gurudeva's on-going efforts to nurture the ancient stone arts of India at a time when no traditional Hindu temples existed in the US.
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Today we see the manifestation of Gurudeva's early visions, now manifesting in the form of the Iraivan Temple. Carved in India and transported to America, it will be a monument to Sanatana Dharma to endure 1000 years or more. In the mid-seventies, Gurudeva commissioned Ganapati Sthapati of Mahabalipuram as the architect of the Iraivan Temple. During the '80's when Gurudeva was getting connected with many fledgling temple societies throughout the US and Canada, he would commission small Ganesha statues to be made and sent to the societies to start their worship (this still continues to this day) and he would recommend to more mature societies to contact Ganapati Sthapathi for designs of a formal temple. Now today we have dozens of beautiful temples in the US.
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Date: August_22_2001
Title: Organ and blood donation
Category: Death and Dying
Duration: 2 min., 5 seconds
Date Given: May 28, 2001
A cyberspace cadet, Arumugam Muniandi, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia once thought that donating the organs upon death was good karma. But now, he wonders maybe it is not.
When the body is burned completely intact, the soul is released into higher states of consciousness.
If you donate your organs and they wind up inside other people, you are earthbound in your astral body, probably attached to those people. So, if you don't want to be a ghost, haunting their homes and their lives, then don't donate your organs.
A cyberspace cadet, Lee Austin in Connecticut, in the United States has a similar question about donating organs and donating blood. He wants to know if it is the thing to do, either during his life time or after he passes on.
Gurudeva: Well, they say donating organs could be very lucrative. The kidney is worth $25,000. We have seen villages in various countries in the world where people sell their kidneys, at least one of them, to support their family and perhaps after death too, the heirs could benefit by selling off the organs. But that keeps the soul earthbound, attached to the people that are alive, using the organs.
Donating blood is similar. But, it would only attach you to the people temporarily until the blood passed through and did its duty.
Having said all that, it is an individual decision what one wants to do with one's own body. It is the only one you have. So, use it well.
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