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April 18, 2003 
Gurudeva wrote: "The three worlds are connected when puja is performed and worship is begun. There are certain rites that can be performed to enable individuals to communicate directly with beings in the inner worlds. Prayers are given and received in many ways. Among the most intimate, personal forms of communication is the written prayer to the devas or to God. Burned in Agni's sacred fire, it disintegrates in the physical world and quickly re-forms in the astral world. When a prayer is burned in a temple wherein this practice is consecrated, its astral image is received and read by the devas, and properly dispatched and answered, within the confines of our karmic pattern. Prayers may also be conveyed by slowly, mentally enunciating the words, visualizing them rising up the spine, through the top of the head, reaching beyond to the feet of God. The devas will not intervene unless asked. This is the inner law."
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Our phase began with a powerful homa this morning. Bodhinatha continued with his discourse on the Yamas and Niyamas, focusing today on the Yama of Dhriti, Steadfastness.
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The monthly Gurudeva Chitra Pada Puja was held on Star 1.
Here is our entire silpis team, soon to return to India. Five of them will be replaced by a new team in the months ahead. Shanmuga Sthapati and our asistant silpi and cook, Chinnu will return with the new group.
Yogi Mahadevan begins the morning rites with a small Ganesha Puja.
The monks all prostrate to Bodhinatha after he has entered the temple.
Aum Namasivaya.
The Vedas avow, "He shines forth at dawn like the sunlight, deploying the sacrifice in the manner of priests unfolding their prayerful thoughts. Agni, the God who knows well all the generations, visits the Gods as a messenger, most efficacious."
Mr. Conklin brought a different crane to handle the huge Dakshinamurthi statue which will be raised up to a prepared pedestal in a few days.
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Iraivan Temple pillars in the morning light.
Sundaram Achari doing some fine work.
He is a very gentle and devotional man and we are going to miss him. His presence here has been a blessing for the temple.
Raman needs to take quite a bit off stone off of this roof beam.
Trimming back the end of a piece of rock this size is no small job!
The old tools still work very well. This is a charcoal pencil taken from the blacksmith forge.
Red colored dye is also use to paint the lines for the carvers.
Today they are using a modern concrete stain for this job.
Hands Across the Ocean
Malaysia Thanks Mauritius
Our devotees in Malaysia and the family of Sivaneswaran Sockanathan who went to Mauritius to wed Venilla, the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Mardemootoo want to thank everyone in Mauritius for their gracious hospitality and for the joyous time had by all. Sivaneswaran's sister Sarkunavathy writes:
" We take this opportunity to wish all our dear loved ones in Mauritius
a wonderful HINDU NEW YEAR & CHITRA POURNAMI!"
So many precious memories linger in our hearts. Our stay in Mauritius was made memorable with the care of all brother and sister devotees there.
The amount of hospitality, love and care that all of you showered upon us is beyond words. How can we forget but to keep thinking of all our moments together.
The way our breakfast, lunch and dinner were taken care, touched our hearts so much. Where else could we have enjoyed such a holiday like this one?
At this juncture, we would like to�extend our heartfelt thanks to Mr. & Mrs Mardemootoo & Family who made all arrangements during our stay despite their busy schedule.
Merci Beaucoup to all the BEAUTIFUL SOULS to the LOVELY ISLAND! From Malaysia with Love.
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Date: April_04_2003
Title: How to See God Everywhere
Category: Soul
Duration: 4 min., 49 seconds
Date Given: February 19, 2003
Given by: Bodhinatha
We have the second sentence, "We came from God, live in God, and are evolving into oneness with God."
Gurudeva elaborates on this in the bhasya. "Vedic rishis have given us courage by uttering the simple truth - God is the Life of our life." As we know in the Tamil language that is 'uyirkkuyir', right in my lexicon. Two 'uyir' with a 'kk' in the middle. 'Uyir-kk-uyir', God is the Life of our life.
"Siva Yogaswami carried it further by saying, "There is one thing God cannot do. God cannot separate Himself from us."This is because God is our life, God is the Life in the birds, God is the Life in the fish, God is the Life in the animals. Becoming aware of this life energy in all that lives and becoming aware of Gods loving presence within us. Each day we should try to see the life energy in trees, birds, animals and people."
I would say, especially people. Again, that is a wonderful philosophy. But unless we figure out a way to practice it, we don't necessarily live it or feel it. It is too high-minded, it does not really connect with the state of mind we are in. So, Gurudeva gave us some simple guidelines for how to practice this, which was to look into the eyes of another person. Don't look at their feet or hands. You look into their eyes. If you look into their eyes deeply enough, you will see God Siva in there as the Life of their life and you will see them as a divine being.
Of course, if we don't like the person this can be hard to do. If we are mad at the person and are not talking to them today, this can be hard to do. We have to get by any kind of external emotional relationship we thought we wanted to create with that person. We have to set that aside. We cannot do it if we are going through those kinds of thoughts about another person. We have to just look deeply into their eyes, deeply enough to see God. By setting aside these concepts of likes and dislikes and emotional tangles with people.
It is a wonderful practice and it is the essence of the idea of namaskaram. Namaskaram is more than just a cultural gesture, at its deepest level. It is explained beautifully in the lexicon in 'Dancing with Siva'. It says, "By joining the left and right hand, we balance the ida and pingala forces putting us into the sushumna or spiritual consciousness in the spine, which allows us to see with our third eye deeply enough into the other individual, to see their divinity."
Oh, what a definition! I love our lexicon, it is really good. That is the idea there.
The third sentence, "We are in truth, the Truth we seek. Aum."
What does that mean? We are in truth, the Truth we seek. Well, Gurudeva says it another way elsewhere, "We are already That which we seek," which is even a little clearer. We don't have to wait, we don't have to do something. At the deepest level, we are already Parasiva and Satchidananda. It is only the soul body that is in a state of becoming or maturing. But the rest is sitting there ready to claim, anytime we want to claim it, as we have talked about. But that is in the future slokas, I don't want to use that all up today. Leave it for the next talk, slokas 3, 4,and 5, that gets more into that. But, this hints at it in a very nice way, that we are already the Truth. Very nice.
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