March 2021 Chitra Puja

Jai Gurudeva!

Yesterday evening our monastics enjoyed their monthly pada puja to Gurudeva an his shrine in Kadavul Temple. Satguru and the monks gathered around to chant Sri Rudram while Yogi Jayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed an abhishekam to Gurudeva's granite paduka.

"If we look at the past and we look at the future as both a series of dreams, and the only thing that we are concerned with is our immediate reactions and what we carry with us now, we see that the past is there to test us and the future is there to challenge us. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we react to what has happened to us in the past, and we can change the future, anytime we want to." Gurudeva

\"The spiritual body of you, which is permanent, has always remained constant.\"

It has always been constant because it\

s directly in tune with the constant central source of all energy of the universe.'

This one source of energy feeds through your spiritual body and out through the intellectual sheath, the astral or emotional sheath, and the physical body.

So, identify yourself as the inner being. Never see yourself as an outer being.

Then experience wont be reacted to. It will be understood from a mountaintop consciousness. Then experience wont be sought for the enjoyment of the experience.

The Self will be sought for, and the experience will be part of the path to you.

Each experience that we have is a good experience, because it molds us. It shapes us, just like an artist would mold a piece of clay.

From an ugly hunk of clay can emerge a divine being, molded by the artist. In that same way, the experiences of life, even those that boomerang back on us and those we think are terrible, mold us.

But they only mold us quickly and benefit us tremendously if we hold our perspective as the inner man, the timeless man, the immortal being. Only in this way can this happen.

Thats the attitude, the thoughts we must have, as we go along on the path of enlightenment.

The mere fact that you want Self Realization in this life means that you have been through hundreds of thousands of experiences. You have been nearly everything that there is to be on this planet.

Life is a series of experiences, one after another. Each experience can be looked at as a classroom in the big university of life if we only approach it that way.

\"Who is going to these classrooms? Who is the member of this university of life? It\

s not your instinctive mind. It\'s not your intellectual mind. It\'s the body of your soul, your superconscious self, that wonderful body of light.\"'
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