June Chitra Puja

This morning we celebrated our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva in Kadavul Temple. As the sun was rising, monks and local devotees gathered around Gurudeva's shrine and observed an abhishekam to his black granite tiruvadi. Natyam Jayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the abhishekam as other monks chanted Sri Rudram and delved within. Jai Gurudeva!

From Gurudeva\

s Master Course\: \"My satguru Siva Yogaswami, was a great siddha, a master and a knower of God. He would say, \'Liberation is within you.\'\"'

\"He would order his seekers to \

See God in everything.\'\"'

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You are in God. God is within you. To realize the Supreme Being within you, you must have a strong body and a pure mind.\'\"'

His words drove deeply into the hearts of all who heard them. \

God is in everyone. See Him there. God is overwhelmingly present everywhere. Regard everything as a manifestation of God, and you will realize the Truth\' were his words.\"'

\"Simple words for a simple truth, but very, very difficult to practice.\"

\"As we go on through life, we see only parts of life. We dont see the whole.\"

\"We cant see the whole. Yogaswami said, \

How can a part see the whole?\' So, we live with a small part, our small part.\"'

\"We seek to avoid the painful areas and attract to us the joyous ones.\"

\"Most people live in this duality life after life, bound in the forces of desire and the fulllment of it.\"

\"Occasionally a more mature soul breaks away from this cycle of desire-fulllment-pleasure-loss-pain-suffering-and-joy and asks questions such as: \

Who is God? Where is God? How can I come to know God?\'\"'

\"God has no names, but all names are the names of God. Whether you call Him this or that, He remains Who He is.\"

\"But in our tradition we call God by the loving name Siva, which is only one of His 1,008 traditional names.\"

\"Supreme God Siva is both within us and outside of us.\"

\"Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death--this is all Siva, nothing but Siva.\"

\"This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Siva did not--not in the sense that is commonly thought. God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.\"

\"In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Siva in all things, through all things.\"

\"In this striving, as in perfecting any art or science, regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.\"

\"Siva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality. Siva is a God of love, boundless love. He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Siva is everywhere.\"

\"There is no place where Siva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too.\"

\"He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe. God Siva is, and is in all things. He permeates all things.\"

\"God Siva is so close to us.\"

\"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.\"

\"Meditate, discover the silent center of yourself, then go deep within, to the core of your real Being. Slowly the purity comes. Slowly the awakening comes.\" Aum Namah Sivaya

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