December 27th Homa

Today the Monastics begin their new phase, following a festive three-day retreat, which included Pancha Ganapati and Ardra Darshanam. This phase will be five days long. During the morning homa, we had many guests who have been on the island for the holidays. The monks chanted Sri Rudram, while Satguru burned written prayers in the havana. Satguru then gave an inspired talk about the importance of our unique approach to philosophy, monistic theism. Aum Namah Sivaya.

"It will not be an over-statement, if I say that man is God." Siva Yogaswami

"My God is the melter of my heart of love. Let all adore my God, the Lord of primal love, first of beings, my Siva, who again and again melts my heart. May He render me His love in foremost measure! Praise Him but once, the Pure and Holy One, and He will be your escort to heaven. He, Lord Siva, decked in honeyed konrai blooms, sits enthroned in my love, steadfast and free."
Tirumantiram 274-275

From Cognizantability: Nonreaction–one must look behind the situation. For instance, the cause is far different than the effect, and when the cause is known, the situation can be duly handled and mastered, for there will be no reaction to it.

In a state of meditation it is possible to view the mind as a series of experiences, reactions and seeds to new experiences that may be planted or destroyed at the hand of the observing Ego in this state of meditation.

Experience involves more than one conscious and subconscious state of mind; it encompasses many. Many can be helped or hurt by a sense experience held in the mind of one individual.

Reactions are lifted through understanding, and understanding gives the wisdom of avoidance of future experiences of like nature.

Understanding does not, however, conquer the subsubconscious minds of \"others\" involved in the same experience or happening or touched by it.

Hence, \"crumbs\" of reaction still linger in the subsubconscious mind, only to retrace through memory the experience from time to time; a lingering shadow hangs over the part of the mind left injured when it should have been healed into education.

How does this last healing process take place? Easy; though most difficult to the unawakened.

Each experience of the past involuntarily remembered must be traced into the subconscious mind of one still reacting to the same experience and, while thus meditating in his subconscious, realize it as experience there.

In other words, become conscious of your soul, or become superconscious in the subconscious mind of all those, one after another, who associated with you as you transgressed through an experience while you, too, were in lower states of mind, and you will calm the waves of worry into the calm of wisdom, not only for yourself but for all those karmically connected to you, associated by reaction through the years.

This can be done with the living or the so-called dead, for those in a reincarnated state have still two reactions, parts of which you carry and can be cleared by you.

So, this is an important part of the play in the lower states of mind and can be mastered by one initiated into raja yoga, stable in meditation and pure in heart.

This is the mystical life, the basis for soothsaying, fortune-telling, psychometry, psychology, crystal-gazing, astrology, numerology and more.

The situation herein discussed means the collective karmas of one or more people in relation to oneself.

When the karmas manifest, we see the effect of previous karmas.

We do not want to psychoanalyze our subconscious mind as to how we had created this situation, or the subconscious cause for it, because the cause is not known within the subconscious mind.

The cause occurred with the collective group in a past life.

When the cause is intuited, emotions quiet, and the effects can be handled rationally and without emotion.

Causes of these kinds of karmic situations when intuited are not always known, because the intuition does not always channel its knowledge through the thinking mind.

But when the premonition or the intuition is felt to be correct, the external mind and emotions will stop reacting to the situation, because the cause is intuitively known.

The intuition, which is the soul\

s mind, will give direct cognition as to how to quickly handle and dispatch the matter.'

It has always been the dedicated aim of the Nandinatha Sampradaya\

s teaching and training to create an individual capable and able to stand on his own two feet, loyal to his God, Gods and guru and the society in which he lives, but incapable of being influenced by anything or anyone other than his own superconsciousness, intuiting the direction of knowledge from God, Gods and guru.'

Jnanaguru Siva Yogaswami always spoke of his inner orders, but they did not conflict with his service to community, relationship with other gurus and swamis, but rather enhanced that service.

Om Namah Sivaya

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