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June 10, 2003 
Today was the auspicious Chitra Puja day and a beautiful puja to Gurudeva was performed in the temple early this morning.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Bodhinatha prostrates after the puja.
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Title: Yama #6 - Dhriti, Steadfastness |
Cybertalk: Yama number 6 - dhriti, steadfastness. Willpower has to be used to be steadfast. Overcoming fear, and perseverance, are steadfastness. Gurudeva said, "consistency is the key to the conquest of karma." Dhriti is also important to progressing on the spiritual path. A clear purpose and plan is also important before persistence will work.
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Surpassing all finite measure is the Guru,
An embodiment of the highest wisdom."
In the profound and mystical teaching of his Tirumantiram.
In the hearts of the saints in benign grace
So that all may attain liberation.
He is the speechless Guru, the immaculate Sivam."
"The Beauteous boon of 'Siddhi and Mukti,'
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The wealth of Wisdom and Bliss divine,
Can be attained by Grace of God with Form."
Today was ekadasi tithi of the sukla paksha (the 11th day of the waxing moon, four days before the full moon,) and as such was our monthly "Ashram Sadhana" day, which means the day everyone cleans various areas of the monastery. The Ganapati Kulam continued with the temple pool upgrade and became silpis for a day, moving into place a beautiful granite lotus base for St. Sambandar.
The pedastal for Saint Sambandar is in the middle of the pool and the job entailed man handling huge 20-foot long 4 X 12's to form a scaffolding.
The granite lotus was brought to the edge and winched and levered into place.
A very lovely upgrade for the temple tank...
A brief retrospective from last phase. On Sun 5 we had a video editing class conducted by Rama Anand from Chennai who is on island assisting Shankar Nathan with his Iraivan documentary film project.
Shankar, who lives in Koloa, had gone back home to India and needed some video training and found only 50 paces from his home a small studio where Anand worked. Anand is a certified Apple Final Cut Pro instructor. And Wow! He really knows his craft!
Anand takes our team through the key features of the program, bringing in cuts and shares strategies for efficient video editing. It can be an incredibly tedious and frustrating process if you don't know what you are doing.
He explained the basic strategies for bringing raw footage in to match your basic story board, without getting lost in the details of lengths of segments initially, and then once you have all your basic material together, one uses a variety of editing techniques to bringing the raw footage into final form. He is really a pro and in one hour we learned so much that one could otherwise fumble with for many hours on your own.
Shankar Nathan here who was kind enough to share Anand's time and talent with our team. Thanks Shankar!
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Date: February_04_1999
Title: Success from Life to Life
Category: Self Improvement
Duration: 3 min., 29 seconds
Date Given: February 4, 1999
Given by: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, February 4th. The doors of Cyberspace Ashram are open.
Many people in our cyberspace congregation are wondering, "How do you become successful?"
Seems like success is what everybody wants in the world today more than anything else! There are various kinds of success, worldly success. But the success that really matters, the success that you can take into your next birth and the accumulated success that will follow you into the birth after that is the control of yourself under all circumstances. People who can't control themselves are not into spiritual unfoldment, they are into spiritual defoldment. They are going downhill faster than maybe they know. Because, our emotional releases in conflicts accumulate and in the sub-conscious mind, tie into one another and create something very, very different.
Every soul has the power to reverse the situation, to become a calm, happy, controlled person under all circumstances. How do you do that? Regular daily sadhana. Regular daily prayer. Regular daily ... just sitting in one place for twenty minutes without moving. No matter whether your thoughts are going here and there and everywhere. A little bit of control goes a long way and that accumulates within your psyche, within your sub-conscious mind.
The best way to perform this simple sadhana of sitting in one place for twenty minutes is at the same time every day. Same time every day, not different times, not whenever you feel like it. But the same time every day. Then you create a habit and that habit begins to become a good habit. It begins to grow.
Now there may be times when you do not want to perform this sadhana. These are the times when you need to control yourself, when you need to perform this sadhana. These are the auspicious times that will pay great dividends. Try it. Everybody in cyberspace in fifty-seven countries, try this one sadhana today, tomorrow, and the next day. We'll see you again tomorrow in Cyberspace Ashram.
Aum Namah Sivaya.
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