July 2021 Chitra Puja
July 18, 2021Jai Gurudeva!
Jai Kailasa Parampara!
Over their recent 2-day retreat, our monastics enjoyed their monthly Chitra Padapuja to Gurudeva. In the late afternoon, everyone gathered around Gurudeva's corner shrine in Kadavul Temple. Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the abhishekam to Gurudeva's granite sandals, offering milk, curd, honey, citrus and more. All the while, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and the other mathavasis chanted Sri Rudram. Aum Namah Sivaya.
"When the philosophy is properly understood, we possess right thought, right speech and right action, which is proper behavior. This is culture."
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
\"Never allow yourself to be complacent in your spiritual attainments.\"
\"Always continue to strive.\"
\"Even ṛishis, swāmīs and yogīs who have totally realized Paraśiva continue to work on themselves from within themselves.\"
\"They don’t let down,\"
\"because if they did it would be many years before they had the next experience of the timelessness, formlessness, spacelessness of the unspeakable Paraśiva experience.\"
\"The message, therefore, is, at the beginning of meditation and at the end, keep striving.\"
\"Don’t turn back,\"
\"proceed with confidence.\"
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