2018 Skanda Shashti

Vel Muruga!

Yesterday the monks ended a wonderful day of Avudaiyar and temple stone moving, with a powerful blessing from Lord Murugan. In the late afternoon Satguru, monks, and local devotees gathered in Kadavul Temple for an abhishekam to the God of Kundalini Yoga. Prana-filled offering such as milk, yogurt and honey were poured over His murti. This prana is later reflected back into the auras of those present, softening karma, uplifting and inspiring all.
Aum Skandaya Namah

MWS 43: \"We are not always sitting down concentrating on a flower in the search for the Self.\"

Once you have decided that Self Realization is the ultimate goal for you, go on living your normal life.

Everything that you do in life can collectively be channeled toward the ultimate goal, for what you need is a dynamic will.

You need a strong willpower.

Willpower is the channeling of all energies toward one given point for a given length of time.

This will can be brought out from within in everything that we do through the day.

Its a powerful will. Its available to everyone.

It is channeling the rarefied energies of the body, of awareness itself, into attention and concentration upon everything that we do through the day.

How do we cultivate the willpower? What do we mean by will?

Will means that if youre going to complete something, you complete it.

Finish that which you begin. Finish it well, beyond your expectations, no matter how long it takes.

If you are going to do something, do it well, no matter if it is a simple task or a complicated one.

If youre going to read a book and intend to finish the book, then read the book, finish the book, and understand what it had to offer you, for that was the purpose for reading it.

It is not developing a strong will by having a lot of half-finished jobs.

It is not developing a strong will by starting out with a bang on a project and then fizzling out.

These only attach awareness to that which it is aware of and lead us into the distraction of thinking the external mind is real.

Then we forget our inner goal of Self Realization

because the subconscious becomes too ramified with, basically, our being disappointed in ourselves,

or the willpower being so diversified, or awareness being so divided in many different ways that whatever we want to do never works out because there is not enough will, or shove, or centralization of energy,

or awareness is not at attention over the project enough, to make it come into completion.

A tremendous will is needed on the path of Self Realization,

of drawing the forces of energy together, of drawing awareness away from that which it is aware of constantly,

of finishing each job that we begin in the material world, and doing it well,

so that we are content within ourselves.

Make everything that you do satisfy the inner scrutiny of your inner being.

Do a little more than you think that you are able to do.

That brings forth just a little more will.\"

Aum Saravanabhava Aum

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