Tiruvembavai Prep 2017

Ardra Darshana is a festival honoring Lord Siva, the supreme God for Saivites and creator of all that was, is and will be. The monks, and grihasta devotees from all over the world, are gathering to watch Kadavul Nataraja receive abhishekam and blast darshan right back at them.

It is this great being that we seek, that we treasure with all our might. The formless, spaceless, timeless, limitless, un-restricted Mahadeva that dances from one plane to another will move rhythmically as he/she always does and we will be there to see it as we do every year around this time.

The sages have proclaimed that devotion to Ishvara brings samadhi. Saints have shouted His name with five letters and munis silently creep under the protection of this great God's breadth. They live for Siva's shakti, my shakti, your shakti, our shakti.

Siva is love and Siva is our destiny. From Him we came and out into the world we go, on a long path back to Him. A quote from an inner-plane being captures the essence of our journey and will make up the bulk of the slideshow captions.

\"Coming to Earth is about traveling away from our home to a foreign land. Some things seem familiar but most are strange until we get used to them, especially conditions which are unforgiving.

\"On Earth we must learn to cope with intolerance, anger and sadness while searching for joy and love.

\"We must not lose our integrity along the way, sacrificing goodness for survival and acquiring attitudes either superior or inferior to those around us.

\"We know that living in an imperfect world will help us to appreciate the true meaning of perfection.

\"We ask for courage and humility before our journey into another life.

\"Our real home is a place of absolute love. As souls separated from our home we can no longer assume these beautiful features will be present around us.

\"As we grow in awareness, so will the quality of our existence.

\"This is how we are tested. Passing this test is our destiny. \"

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