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Bodhinatha meets with Rajeswari Swami and her son's family.

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Rajeswari's son, Hari Naidu, is on Kauai for an international electrical engineers conference of over 1500 delegates staying at the Hyatt hotel. Hari, and his Chinese wife Sok, pictured in these photos, live with their three little children Dharma, Preeti and Alisha in California. Sok was from Singapore originally. They visited us last in 1999 and met Gurudeva at that time. She really wanted to meet Bodhinatha, so after the family visited the Iraivan site, picked up stone chips and bathed the Narmada Sivalingam on the path of the Tamil Saiva saints, they finally had a chance to meet with Bodhinatha at the end of the morning. They enjoying discussing with Bodhinatha the values of vegetarianism. Sok said that while Hinduism is not her birth religion, she decided that "a family that prays together the same way is best" so she decided to dive into Hinduism and raise her children that way.

Rajeswari grew up in Taiping, Malaysia and finally moved to be with her older son's family in Illinois. Rajeswari was here for the Iraivan Temple Pancha Silanyasa stone-laying ceremony in 1995, and her sister, Uma Devi Swami, attended the 2001 Norther European Innersearch with Gurudeva.

Dharma and Preeti at the temple site next to one of the ceiling beams.

A visit with the silpis.

Picking chips of the white granite home has become an enthusiastic moment for all our visitors.

Rajeshwari baths the Narmada lingam on the Path of the Saiva Saints.

Dharma and Preeti want to offer their worship to Lord Siva also.

Dharma got a big rudraksha mala from our gift shop.

Preeti needs a little help.

Brahmacharini Chudikadevi is now retired from her years of service in the personnel office of a Malaysian company and is happy to pilgrimage to Kauai and not have to rush off home back to work. She sends her love to all the members, students and her friends in Malaysia.

Our tour day visitors..

This orchid has much to say.

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We conclude our fascinating, world-class documentary on Ayudha celebrations in Bangalore with a final series of games. Sentiladhiban who is holding the board is the Game Master and explains what is coming next to the two teams. The ever beloved, worldwide practice "tug of rope."

These men move two-ton stones... I wouldn't want to go up against them in this game.

The middle of the rope is marked and is about to go past the winning point.

These photos are of "pass the ball" game, which we don't know anything about....

My guess is you have to pass the ball without tossing and the first team to get the ball through their chain wins.

Getting close to the end

Quick!

"Boxetball" is a lot easier than basketball. Get ready for your set shot.

Looking very good.....!

Alright! You hit it right on.

Musical chairs for adults is a good laugh for the younger set.

Looks like we are down to six really fast sitters.

Four seats left and five players, the fastest sitters in India.

Ha! Gotcha... you are off!

three chairs and four players

And the winner is the man in the blue shirt, colorful veshti and yellow cap.

Another universal favorite, the sack races.

What! my man fell down?

Sentil explains the rules for the next game, which this writer deems one of the best of all... the fill-the-water-bottle game.

You must hand carry water from a pot to the bottle and pour it in.

Big hands and a steady gate help a lot.

First one with a full bottle of water wins.

And that is the end of our stunning documentary on Ayudha games in Bangalore, where the Iraivan Temple carving project takes excellent care of our craftsmen and their families.

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Date: April_09_2000
Title: I Love Who You Love
Category: Family
Duration: 2 min., 44 seconds

The question is from our island congregation, sitting here before me today, "How can we strengthen the bonds between the parents and the children? The parents send their children to a foreign country for education and they marry outside of their race, outside of their religion. And this creates great tension, with the parents on both sides - the girl's side and the boy's side, as well."

Well, I am always reminded of a very insightful statement of a 16-year old young man, who was being scolded by his mother, for his western ways. He said, "Mother, if you didn't want me to become an American, why did you bring me to the United States?"

The mother and the father are the first guru. I would be the second guru. But, there is another guru also, who is a partner to me, Vishva Guru Maha Maharaj. We work very closely together. If the mothers and fathers send their children to Vishva Guru Maharaj, which is the world, then what can they expect, but the world to take over their child? We hold the parents responsible. They should not complain.

Only recently, a young man who is rather distant from us, wanted to marry a girl that nobody knew. Both families objected and they asked my opinion. Vishva Guru was managing this whole affair and the boy was sent away, off to school. I said, "I love you. Therefore, I love who you love." That should be the attitude.

Before the First World War, in the United States, parents would send their children to University. They would also sell their house and property and buy another house and move close to the University. Breakfast, lunch and dinner was served at home and they could supervise and raise their children properly. We would hold the parents responsible. They should have no complaints.

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