Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's 2016 Mahasamadhi Observance: Day 1

This week begins Kauai Aadheenam's observance of Gurudeva's mahasamadhi. We started off the week with a powerful rudra homa to invoke divinity through fire. Yoginathaswami was our pujari for the morning and the rudram chanters raised their voices loud to get everyone in tune.

During the homa, Gajanan and Bhavani Nataraj took their Arul Sishya vows to Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and all the devas in Kadavul.  They will now begin preparation of their next step towards full membership and initiation.

Later in the day the group watched one of the history movies in the Media Studio. Jai!

The following quotes from Gurudeva will guide you through this homa slideshow:

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ve experienced reincarnation without losing my identity. I experience my identity that goes through the string of beads. And I never became the bead totally.'

Many people experience reincarnation as one bead and then another bead and then another bead. I experience it as a thread.

If you live completely each second, you will experience many days inside each twenty-four hours.

Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

Be free from the past; abide in the present; detach yourself from the future; and live in the eternal now. Evil has no source, unless the source of evil\

s seeming be ignorance itself.'

When the intellect is prominent, arrogance and analytical thinking preside. When the superconscious soul comes forth, the refined qualities are born--compassion, insight, modesty and the others.

When through meditation, we view the universe from the inside out, we see that there is not one thing out of place or wrong. This releases the human concepts of right and wrong, good and bad.

The whole world is an ashram in which all are doing sadhana. We must love the world, which is God\

s creation. Those who despise, hate and fear the world do not understand the intrinsic goodness of all.'

The Saiva Siddhanta perspective is that Siva\

s wonderful universe of form is perfect at every point in time, complete and totally just, and every soul, in all stages of evolution, is an intrinsic part of it, even Siva himself.'

What is the binding force that keeps youths in the home? Love. If you love your children completely, they won\

t want to leave. You won\'t be able to force them out of the house, even if you try. You are bound together by bands of steel made of love.'

Become more humble. Become more self-effacing. Become more loving and understanding.

Our religion tells us that because we love God Siva, we love one another, for God Siva loves all of us. Our religion tells us that God Siva is like a father and a mother, not a vengeful God, but a God of love who helps us.

In the end, the Great Mystery is known as one, as two, as neither one nor two.

Most people try to experience God through other people. Disciples see a guru as God. Wives see their husband as God. Devotees see the Deity in the temple as God. But all the time, behind the eyes of their seeing, is God.

There is no death and there is no birth for the immortal body of the soul that you are, that pure intelligence that goes on and on and on and on and on and on.

Your recognition of what is is the way you create it to yourself. This is deep. This is in the realm of contemplation. And only in the realm of contemplation will you begin to conceive of it.

Contemplation is man\

s power over his mind as he begins to go within himself. Concentration is man\'s power over his mind as he goes through life working out life\'s problems. And meditation is man\'s wisdom. '

The teachings of yoga are so basically simple and so basically concrete. And the most beautiful thing in the world, on contemplation, is the simplest thing in the world. The most beautiful design is the simplest design.

Siva\

s devotees bask contentedly in Siva consciousness, seeing the pure life energy in every person, animal, bird, reptile, fish, insect, plant, tree and even microscopic intelligence as Supreme God Siva Himself. Aum. '

Siva\

s devotees cultivate a contemplative nature by meditating daily, seeking the light, drawing the lesson from each experience and identifying with infinite intelligence, not with body, emotion or intellect. Aum. '

Siva\

s devotees accept all experiences, however difficult, as their self-created karma, without cringing or complaining. Theirs is the power of surrender, accepting what is as it is and dealing with it courageously. Aum. '

Sometimes you may experience stressful moments during your daily sadhana. They will soon pass, never to reappear, so do not be worried.

Never allow yourself to be complacent in your spiritual attainments. Always continue to strive. Even rishis, swamis and yogis who have totally realized Parasiva continue to work on themselves from within themselves.

In the final analysis, we are all doing exactly as we want, as we must, doing what is next on our personal path of evolution. Nothing is wrong. Nothing should be that is not.

Siva is very close to each and every one of us. Siva\

s mind permeates all of us. '

Saivites all over the world love God Siva. God Siva loves His devotees. For each step the devotee takes toward Siva, Siva takes nine steps toward the devotee.

You become everything when you merge in Siva, but you are no longer you.

Siva is the Self of your self. He is closer than your own breath. His nature is love, and if you worship Him with devotion you will know love and be loving toward others. Devotees of God Siva love everyone.

\"Siva\

s will be done\"--the first sadhana on the path. \"Siva\'s will be done\"--the last sadhana on the path, after all others have been perfected. '

Give yourself in to the real you. Turn your mind inward. Turn your will inward and live that glorious spiritual life and be ready as a spiritual being to meet the experience of death.

Yes, the Saivite home is a factory, an intricate mechanism manufacturing spiritual unfoldment for every member of the family.

This is why we are born on this planet, to evolve through challenges. We are here for no other reason.

My advice to parents has always been to stay close to their children, but at the same time give them some space to grow and mature in today\

s world. Today\'s world is not all that bad. Gurudeva
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