Landscape Update

During Mahasamadhi 2017, we had some of our photography members go around with their camaras and get a lay of the land. Here are some updated photos of Iraivan's landscape.

The thirty-six elements dance. Sadasiva dances. Consciousness dances. Siva-Sakti dances. The animate and inanimate dance. All these and the Vedas dance when the Supreme dances His dance of bliss. Rishi Tirumular

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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. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami'

He who teaches us how to renounce and leave the world is not a Guru. He who allows us to understand the tune and frequency of the world - he is the Guru. Morari Bapu

The false belief that this hell-like body is me, is Naraka himself. To destroy that false belief and let the self shine as Self, is Deepavali. Ramana Maharishi

Siva is hiding in our mind like the fire in the firewood, like the ghee which is got from good milk and the brilliance in the big gem. He will appear before us to grant his vision if we churn with increasing force with the churning rope of love fixing the stick of clear discernment. Saint Appar

To gain the kingdom of heaven is to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, and to know the unknowable that is Aloha. All things in this world are two: in heaven there is but One. Queen Lili\

uokalani (1917)'

Virtue is more important than life itself. Yogaswami

Achieving great powers brings with it two possible obstacles to achieving moksha--the thought of utilizing them and pride in having them. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. Rabindranath Tagore

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear. Lama Yeshe

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O Traveler, if you are in search of that, don\

t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that. Rumi'

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. Fridtjof Nansen

If one purifies one\

s mind with unconditional devotion and love, one perceives in oneself the infinite chaitanya that pervades everything like a bright sun. Sri Yuketswar'

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Saying.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt

Slogan for a now out-of-business restaurant in Carmel, California, \"Karma Cafe: We don\

t have a menu. We give you just what you deserve.\"'

As a dream leads only to waking up, television leads only to turning it off. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

The food of the soul is silence. If we don t practice silence, we are starving ourselves. Dada J.P. Vaswani

Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence. Adi Sankara

It is a child, not an old person, who makes progress in life. If you really want to become a child, then you have to feel that there is always something to learn and that God is there to teach you. Sri Chinmoy

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being? Swami Vivekananda

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive, the more treasures you find. Mahatma Gandhi

Learn to be happy alone. If we do not enjoy our own company, why inflict it on others? Swami Chinmayananda

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Religion offered nothing to the point. When I discovered reincarnation ... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Henry Ford

As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life. Dhammapada

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the scriptures in the world, it is the Vedas alone that declare that even the study of the Vedas is secondary. The real study is \"that by which we realize the Unchangeable.\" And that is neither reading, nor believing, nor reasoning, but superconscious perception, or samadhi. Swami Vivekananda

If our country is to produce robust, intellectual, and long-lived children who believe in God, we must, in my humble opinion, learn ways to control our sense organs. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

I just took up meditation. I like to have an espresso first just to make it more challenging. Betsy Salkind

Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything. Sri Ramakrishna

The Natha Sampradaya has revealed the search for the innermost divine Self, balanced by temple worship, fueled by kundalini yoga, charted by monistic theism, illumined by a potent guru-disciple system, guided by soul-stirring scriptures and awakened by sadhana and tapas. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Every moment of your waking life is a chance to make spiritual progress. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

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. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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