March 3rd Homa

This morning we observed our weekly morning havana in Kadavul Temple. Today we had two special guests, Jayshree Patel from Winnipeg and her friend Anju from Denver. They sponsered the homa this mroning and are active donars to Iraivan Temple. They joined Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Yoginathaswami in providing offering to the sacred flames. Satguru then gave a wonderful upadesha to begin the week, which will be a very festive one as we observe Mahasivaratri on Sun 4 of this phase. Om Namah Sivaya.

From Merging With Siva: \"Most people have not realized that they are and were Siva before they search for Siva.\"

They are confined to their own individual anava, their personal ego and ignorance. When we realize that we have come from Siva, the way back to Siva is clearly defined.

That is half the battle, to realize we came from Siva, live in Siva and are returning to Siva.

Knowing only this much makes the path clear and impels us to return to Him, to our Source, to our Self.

We only see opposites when our vision is limited, when we have not experienced totally. There is a point of view which resolves all contradictions and answers all questions.

Yet to be experienced is yet to be understood.

Once experienced and understood, the Quiet comes.

The only change that occurs is the awakening of the sahasrara chakra and the perspective that a mind has which has undone itself, transcended itself in formless Being and Non-Being, and then returned to the experiences of form.

The experiences are all still there, but never again are they binding.

The fire or life energy, which rises in the normal person high enough to merely digest the food eaten, rises to the top of the enlightened man\

s head, burns through a seal there, and his consciousness has gone with it.'

He is definitely different from an ordinary person.

He died. He was reborn.

He is able and capable of knowing many things without having to read books or listen to others speak their knowledge at him.

His perceptions are correct, unclouded and clear.

His thoughts manifest properly in all planes of consciousness--instinctive, intellectual and superconscious or spiritual.

He lives now, fully present in all he does.

The internal difference that makes a soul a jnani is that he knows who he is and who you are.

He knows Truth, and he knows the lie.

Another difference is that he knows his way around within the inner workings of the mind.

He can travel here and there with his own 747, without extraneous external conveyances. He knows the goings-on in far-off places.

He is consciously conscious of his own karma and dharma and that of others.

For him there is no apartness, due to his attainment within the chakras previously described.

His only gift to others, to the world, would be blessings, an outpouring of energy to all beings from the higher planes where he resides.

It is the jnani, the enlightened being, who sees beyond duality and knows the oneness of all.

He is the illumined one, filled with light, filled with love.

He sees God everywhere, in all people.

He is the one who simply is and who sees no differences.

That is his difference.\"

Om Namah Sivaya

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