Happy Chitra Nakshatra!

Jai Gurudeva!

Yesterday and today the the moon has been passing through the Chitra Nakshatra, one of 27 sections, and starts or constellations along the ecliptic. It was Chitra that was in prominence at Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi, and is thus the nakshatra used to determine our observance of our monthly padapuja. Yesterday evening the monks gathered in Kadavul temple for the event. Yogi Dayanatha and Yogi Haranandinatha performed the puja and abhishekam. Aum.

From Living With Siva: \"In Merging with Siva we embarked on a great study of the mind in its totality. Here we shall review the five states of mind.\"

The conscious mind is our external mind.

The subconscious mind contains our memory patterns and all impressions of the past.

The sub of the subconscious mind holds the seeds of karmas that are not yet manifest.

The subsuperconscious mind works through the subconscious mind, and intuition flows daily as a result. Creativity is there at your bidding.

Your superconscious mind is where intuitive flashes occur. The accomplished mystic can consciously be in one country or another instantaneously, according to his will, once he has, through the grace of Lord Siva, attained a full inner knowing of how to remain in Satchidananda, the superconscious mind, consciously, without the other states interfering.

Yes, sadhana begins in the home, and it begins with you. It must be practiced regularly, at the same time each day--not two hours one day, one hour the next and then forgetting about it for three or four days because you are too busy with external affairs, but every day, at the same time. Meeting this appointment with yourself is in itself a sadhana.

In the technological age nearly everyone finds it difficult to set one hour aside in which to perform sadhana.

Ask yourself what you put first in your daily life.

Do your emotions come first? Does your intellect come first? Do your instinctive impulses come first?

Does your striving to overcome worries and fears and doubt come first inside of you?

Does your creativity, your love for all humanity, your search for God and peace within yourself come first inside of you?

What are your priorities?

Through daily sadhana we shall come to know the body, we shall come to know the emotions, we shall come to know the nerve system, we shall come to know the breath and we shall come to know the mind in its totality.

Each one of you will soon be able to mentally pick up all of the dross of your subconscious, throw it within, into the great cavity of inner knowing at the feet of the Gods, there to be absorbed, dissolved and disappear.

All this and more can be unfolded from within each one of you through your daily practice of sadhana.

Sadhana is one of the great boons given to us in our religion.

Aum Namah Sivaya

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