Observing Sadhu Paksha

Aum Namah Sivaya

Many blessings from Kauai Aadheenam on this Ardra Nakshatra.

Today our monks began two weeks of "Sadhu Paksha," a time of reflection and quietude before the changing of seasons from our harvest season to our winter season, the Moksha Ritau. For these two weeks our monks enjoy the natural beauty that surrounds them. A sunrise stroll reveals flowers, birds, fish, ancient stones, a bright moon above and a fiery sky. Aum.

"All you have to do is to watch your mind think. Then and only then are you experiencing your perfect state of inner being." Gurudeva

\"Detachment involves a great deal of effort. Detachment gives you strength.\" Yogaswami

\"Do your duty as the sun and the moon do theirs.\" Yogaswami

\"Space is an ashram. It is best for one to live as nature prompts.\" Yogaswami

\"All mystical phenomena and deep religious experiences come from the superconscious. It is the mind of light, beautiful and vast\" Gurudeva

\"Not allowing a day to pass without doing some good is a boulder that will block your passage on the path to rebirth.\" Kural 38

\"There is no baser folly than the infatuation that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.\" Kural 331

\"What wondrous greatness this world possesses that yesterday a man was, and today he is not.\" Kural 336

\"The bounty of Heaven and Earth are scant repayment for help rendered though no help was received.\" Kural 101

\"It is our past that colors and conditions, actually creates, the future. We purge the past in the present, and we fashion the future in the present.\" Gurudeva

\"The whole universe is peaceful and silent. There is peace and silence in the midst of noise.\" Yogaswami

\"Nothing is ever destroyed.\" Yogaswami

\"It is all one. Yet there are many names and shapes and appearances.\" Yogaswami

\"Of all duties, none is better than benevolence, whether in this world or that of the Gods.\" Kural 213

\"Are not all persons on this planet driven by desire? Yes, indeed. Then let\

s redirect desire and let our desires perfect us.\" Gurudeva'

\"Death is a most natural experience, not to be feared. It is a quick transition from the physical world to the astral plane, like walking through a door, leaving one room and entering another.\" Gurudeva

\"Holiness begins with the realization that you are the atma.\" Yogaswami

\"Let the Greater Self guide you.\" Yogaswami

\"Live unshaken in the realization that \

all that I see is myself.\'\" Yogaswami'

\"Having thought profoundly and realized fully That which is, one need never think of being born again.\" Kural 357

\"Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.\" Gurudeva

\"Night follows day in unchanging regularity. Can you restrain either the one or the other even for a short time? That is the world. Move as the ants do, slowly, steadily, and in disciplined formation.\" Yogaswami

\"God is with all of us. We are all God. Our normal life is a dream state.\" Yogaswami

\"All things are conscious and I am everywhere.\" Yogaswami

\"The only path I know is the path of virtue.\" Yogaswami

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