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Today's Guru Purnima activities began with everyone attending the daily San Marga puja at the Svayambhu Lingam site. It was cool morning with light showers blessing us just before the puja.

This puja was inaugurated by Gurudeva in 1975 on the very day he had his vision of Lord Siva walking on this land... That was an historic day, the beginning of San Marga and the Iraivan Temple... nearly 30 years ago.

The vibration at the San Marga Svayambhu Siva Lingam site, is always profoundly peaceful with an inner coolness filled with Satchidananda....

After a short puja everyone sat quietly for a profound guided meditation. The flat rock on the right in this photo is the rock that Gurudeva was sitting on in the vision as he looked up at Dakshinamurti, seated on the center stone.

A group photo at Dakshinamurthi.

Later in the morning Bodhinatha gave another inspiring talk in the Guru Peedam. From the reports, these classes have been really powerful and amazing discourses... we will have them on the web later....

Devotees had darshan with Bodhinatha during the morning... here are long time devotees, Chellappadeva and his wife Bhanudevi from Arizona.

Then later in the morning the group went through the Ganapati Kulam for an update on all our publication, internet, Hinduism Today and art collection activity.

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Pillars and beams in Bangalore ready to come to Kauai. Only a few of these have already been shipped and are up here... but the majority are waiting for funds to be shipped.

We always think of these stones as a gift of India's heritage to Kauai. The stones, the religious culture behind the architecture, the revelations of the Saiva Agamas, the opening between the three worlds that comprise a Siva temple...

All these treasures we remember during this Guru Purnima are only here today thanks to our Guru Parampara and the steadfast loyalty of all the devotees who had committed their lives in service to the mission of the Parampara. This is the core group that, generation after generation, carries the heritage forward to the children of tomorrow. Thank you Bodhinatha, Gurudeva, Yogaswami, Chellappaswami, Kadaitswami, Rishi from the Himalayas, the many Siddhas going all the way back to Tirumular and to Lord Siva! And to all the devotees who helped them fulfill their mission as living embodiments of Saiva Dharma.

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Date: April_04_1999
Title: Willpower and Love
Category: Self Improvement
Duration: 3 min., 51 seconds
Given by: Gurudeva

Today at Kauai Aadheenam. April 4th. Greetings, everyone!

Today, we talked to all the devotees of Lord Muruga and Satguru Yogaswami at the Murugan Temple in Canada. They were having a festival in honor of the great guru of Sri Lanka and we have here today Sadhaka Thondunatha to give my talk in the Tamil language for the youth of Jaffna, who have spread out all over the world now, absorbing new knowledge, having new experiences. Their prarabdha karmas, karmas of their birth, have taken them on a diaspora into many, many countries.

Also, we want to give Ms. Rodriguez, a new name. Gunavati. This is a very beautiful name. I am going to spell it for you. G-u-n-a-v-a-t-i. Gunavati, welcome into Hinduism. This is the first acceptance into the Hindu religion through the Internet. Welcome, Gunavati! We are very, very happy that you have found solace and contentment in the study of 'Dancing with Siva', and also listening to me talk everyday.

Yesterday we talked about willpower. We need very strong willpower to exist in the world these days. This kind of willpower will bring to you many good things in life. But, once you have the willpower, we must use it properly. It is one thing to have will but it is another thing totally to have love in the will. There are many people in the world who have great determination. They build up their willpower from past lives and they are very determined people, they get things done. But, unfortunately, the abusive power. Without love in the will, we can abuse the power and cause more karma in this life to be worked out in other lives, than what one could ever think would happen. People without much willpower cause very little karma in this life to be worked out in the next life. They just glide along through life. But, as the soul advances itself and as we get more control of our instinct, more control of our intellect, we have more possibilities of failure on the spiritual path. That is why, ahimsa - nonhurtfulness physically, mentally, emotionally - is one of the strong cornerstones of Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism.

Keep this in mind when we have built up a strong willpower, as we talked about yesterday by doing just a little bit extra. Walk that extra mile. Climb another mountain. Do more than you think you can do. Putting out that extra effort stores up what we call, willpower, which looks like in the inner worlds, a great mass of energy like a mass of prana, and that willpower stays with you, life after life because that is growing within each and everyone. It helps us through the right use of the willpower. With love in the will, the spirit is free of resentment and hatred and the willpower sits there, is bound and held down. That is the message for today.

Now, we are going to hear this beautiful message in the sweet Tamil language.

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