January 2022 Chitra Puja

Jai Gurudeva!

As a nice end to their previous lunar phase, our monks enjoyed the aadheenam's monthly pada puja to Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Yogi Harandinatha performed the early-morning abhishekam in Kadavul Temple.

"Undisciplined people are generally people whom nobody can tell what to do. They won't listen. They can't tell themselves what to do, and nobody else is going to tell them either!" Gurudeva

\"The sadhana marga leads us into they yoga pada quite naturally.\"

\"But people don\

t study yoga. They are not taught yoga.\"'

\"They are taught sadhana\"

\"and if they don\

t perform it themselves--and no one can do it for them--they will never have a grip strong enough over their instinctive mind and intellectual mind to come onto the yoga marga, no matter how much they know about yoga.\"'

\"So, we don\

t learn yoga. We mature into it.\"'

\"We dont learn meditation. We awaken into it.\"

\"You can teach meditation, you can teach yoga, but its all just words unless the individual is mature and awake on the inside.\"

\"To be awake on the inside means waking up early in the morning. You woke up early this morning. That may have been difficult. But you got the body up, you got the emotions up, you got the mind up, and your instinctive mind did not want to do all that. Did it? No! Spiritual life is a twenty-four-hour-a-day vigil. It means going to bed at night early so you can get up in the morning early. It means studying the teachings before you go to bed so that you can go into the inner planes in absolute control.\"

\"It means in the morning reading from my trilogy to prepare yourself to face the day, to be a strong person and move the forces of the world.\"

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