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June 27, 2003 
Gurudeva in Alaveddy, Sri Lanka with the Paripalama Sabai (administrative committee) of his Subramuniya Alaveddy Ashram. Now that the peace process in Sri Lanka is moving forward, we all pray for the day when we can go back to our beloved Sri Lanka and resuscitate the work that Gurudeva began there.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Yogaswami sang of his Guru:
Who said that body art thou not.
He illumines my consciousness to the brim,
And bids me give up my desires alluring,
And attain Mukti in desirelessness.
He did enslave my impetuosity,
He who pervades both heaven and earth,
He made me thirst for the waters of grace.
'Twas Truth indeed that I did behold,
Our Gurunathan is He indeed. " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Another wonderful family visited us today. Sandeep and Kshitija Dube from Pennsylvania with their son, Hitesh, and daughter, Shataakshi. Kshitija's parents subscribe to Hinduism Today so they were looking forward to visit the Aadheenam that produces it.
It was also the first visit for Vivek and Sumita Singh from Washington.
Here's Vivek and Sumita doing abhishegam to the Kanappan Lingam.
Sandeep and Shattakshi are next.
Shattakshi also enjoyed touring our Hinduism Today office with her family and new friends and shared with us the website that she is creating. So our Hinduism Today team shared with her a few of our digital aums for her web work.
Suresh and Pooja from Santa Clara, California.
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Date: March_21_1999
Title: The Best Times to Meditate
Category: Meditation and Yoga
Duration: 3 min., 19 seconds
Date Given: March 21, 1999
Given by: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, March 21st.
First, we want to greet Nellaiappan in Chennai, and we want to welcome everybody to Cyberspace Ashram.
A question came up about meditation. "When is the best time to meditate?"
Well, the best time to meditate is before dawn, but there are several other times to meditate too. Just before you go to bed at night, read some scripture. Sit and meditate and lift your energies into the head before sleep. If you wake up during the night, sit and meditate for a few minutes, then go back to sleep in higher consciousness. Upon awakening in the morning, again sit up in bed and seek higher consciousness and visualize a wonderful day ahead. This is a standard practice of meditation that keeps life's karmas smoothed out in a most wonderful way.
Then of course, for longer meditations, before sunrise is the very best time. It is the time when earth is quiet. It is the time when the inner worlds connect with this world in a natural way and you can tune into higher consciousness. Of course, any other time is good too for meditation. It is good any time, 24 hours a day, but these are the best times.
It is very important to stay out of the lower realms of the mind, out of the bad dream areas of the mind. That is why this standard practice of meditation before you go to sleep. If you wake up during the night, meditate a few minutes, and meditate in the morning before you get out of bed. Then you will have a wonderful day. This controls the instinctive mind. When you are a little bit sleepy, the intellectual mind is not a barrier as much as it would be throughout the day. But the instinctive mind is a barrier and it must be controlled, because karma is created even in your dreams. Karma is created. So we want to stay out of the lower areas of the mind. I hope this answers that question on meditation and if not, ask another one.
Well everyone, we'll be seeing you tomorrow, and the next day begins a retreat. The day after that is a retreat; and the day after that, we'll be seeing you again.
Aum Namah Sivaya.
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