June 2021 Chitra Padapuja

Jai Gurudeva!

Today our monks began their new week with our monthly puja at Gurudeva's shrine in Kadavul Temple. Yogis Dayanatha and Haranandinatha performed the puja and abhishekam. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and the other monks attended, chanting Sri Rudram and meditating. Aum.

"There is no intrinsic evil. God Siva has created the principle of opposites, which are the means for the soul's maturation--beauty and deformity, light and darkness, love and hate, joy and sorrow." - Gurudeva

\"Prostration at the holy feet of the satguru has been performed in Hindu India and Sri Lanka for thousands of years.\"

\"It\

s an ancient custom and a very valuable one, because it separates the people who can prostrate from those who cannot.\"'

It separates the deeper souls from those still going through the intellectual and instinctive areas of the mind.

It allows the aspirant himself to know where he is on the path, and it allows the satguru to know at a glance, without thought, where the seeker is on the spiritual path by the emanations out of the spine as he prostrates himself face down before him.

Prostration issues forth definite energies when done before the guru or the temple Deity.

The ego is naturally subdued, humility strengthened, and the soul of guru and disciple enjoy deep rapport in that moment.

Saiva Siddhantins have always had blind bhakti for God, Gods and guru. Their mothers and fathers are often included and showered with the same feelings of love.

They are by nature very sweet people.

Jnanaguru Yogaswami said, \"Guru bhakti is the greatest blessing. Cherish it and relish it and be refreshed! Advance on the path of dharma. Call on the name of Shankara Siva...\"

\"...Know that there is not one wrong thing. And proclaim that all is truth. Seek for the grace of God. Repeat Shivaya Namah. You must realize Self by self. In you will peace and patience shine, and you will be your own support. Let like and dislike be snuffed out. Ponder not upon past karma. Resolve to kill the three desires.\"

Devotees often transfer to their guru whatever feelings they have for their mothers and fathers.

This does not mean that they cease to love their mother and father when they accept a guru.

It means that if they have problems at home, they will have similar problems with their guru. If they love and honor their parents, they will love and honor their guru.

Devotees who have true bhakti are filled with love for all beings. Their children will never upset them. They care for their pets and love their mother and father.

They do not go to a guru to escape unhappiness at home. They go to a guru because their mother and father have taught them all they know, and now they must move onward.

Even in this move, the parents\

blessings are sought to either follow the family guru or another. '

This is the traditional way. This is Saiva Siddhanta.

There are emanations that come out of the spine wherever the individual is functioning, different types of instinctive, intellectual feelings or those of superconsciousness.

The meditator works with those forces. He transmutes his energies to the crown chakra.

You must work diligently to get there, and then you have it for eternity.

This is the great heritage that is your right to receive by living on this planet.

Transcendental beings who have nerve systems so highly developed that they do not need a physical body in which to function and help those on Earth, can give a vital and a vibrant darshan which will help and stabilize you on the path.

These are delicate, subtle, actinic beings that have once lived on the Earth

and, just like you, have meditated, worked with their forces, attained Self Realization, brought forth darshan and finally dropped off the physical body,

vowing to serve the people of the Earth.

Hindus call them devas, Gods or Deities.

All of them are right here, because everything is in one place.

Everything of a same or similar vibration is in one place in the akasha

The great actinic bodies of all these evolved beings are right here.

You can invoke the darshan of the Gods, too, if things really get rough for you on the path up the spine.

Aum.

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