February 2020 Chitra Puja
February 13, 2020Jai Gurudeva!
This morning we celebrated Gurudeva with our monthly padapuja during the chitra nakshatra. Yogi Dayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the padapuja to Gurudeva's tiruvadi. Aum.
"Unfoldment doesn't take a lot of time. It just takes a lot of willpower." - Gurudeva
\"Simplify life and serve others. Live in spiritual company.
Seek fresh air and sunshine. Drink pure water.
Eat simple, real foods, not animal flesh. Live in harmony with nature.
Consume what you genuinely need rather than desire.
Revere the many forms of life.
Exercise thirty minutes every day.
Make peace, not noise. Make a temple of your home.
Develop an art form or craft. Make your own clothing and furniture.
Express joy through song and dance. Grow your own food organically.
Plant twelve trees a year. Purify your environment.
Leave beauty where you pass.
Realize God in this life. Be one with your guru.
Be nonviolent in thought and action. Love your fellow man.
Rely on the independent energy in the spine.
Observe the mind thinking. Cultivate a contemplative nature by seeking the light.
Draw the lesson from each experience of life.
Detach awareness from its objects. Identify with infinite intelligence, not body, mind or intellect.
Be aware in the eternal now, not in the past or the future.
Do not take advantage of trust or abuse credit. Keep promises and confidences.
Restrain and direct desire. Seek understanding through meditation.
Work with a spiritual discipline.
Think and speak only that which is true, kind, helpful and necessary. Create a temple for the next generation by tithing.\"
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