December Chitra Puja

This morning the mathavasis and local members celebrated the Chitra nakshatra with our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva's paduka in Kadavul Temple. Nirvani Tejadevanatha and Natyam Jayanatha performed the abhishekam while other monks chanted Sri Rudram.

"The vibration of darshan knows no time or space. You see darshan when the satguru is around, and you can feel his darshan when he is miles away, even at times stronger. Look at darshan as great wires of communication, much like an open telephone line, enabling you to pick up the receiver and always find someone at the other end of the line." - Gurudeva

The key to this entire study is the discovery of who or what is the \"I am.\" It is the key to the totality of your progress on the path of enlightenment. - Gurudeva

A beginning student cannot feel the darshan. That means he is not inwardly connected or \"hooked in.\" He does not have that open line. That is why the satguru often puts out some sort of intellectual book or pamphlets, to hold the intellect in check until the student goes deeper within.

One can receive darshan through a picture of the satguru. The darshan does not really come from the picture, but from the akasa where the inner guru exists. The picture only acts as a point of concentration, but enough of a focal point to tune the devotee into the akasa at the exact moment, which is \"now,\" when that picture was taken or painted and the exact feeling of the darshan at that particular time and its accumulated effect up to the present moment.

Seeking for God in the depths of one\

s being through control of the mind, control of one\'s thoughts, feelings and emotions, gives birth to the highest qualities of nature. This transformation begins to take place as the light of the soul becomes more and more apparent within the mind.'

The spiritual path is a constant turning within, turning the light of the superconscious into the dark corners and recesses of the mind.

If your world were suddenly to fall down around you, leaving you standing alone with no one to lean on, no finances, no family, no friends, where would your power come from?

Out of the microcosm ever comes the macrocosm. Out of Parasiva--which is timeless, causeless and formless--ever comes all form. This is the great mystery without a reason why. Out of pure consciousness ever comes the light which binds all form together in specific bondage, individualizing forms, souls, one from another. This is ever happening, as simultaneously struggling souls remove their bondage through the grace of God Siva to come into Satchidananda, later to be absorbed into Parasiva. This, too, is a great mystery without a reason why.

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