February 2022 Chitra Puja

Jai Gurudeva!
Jai Kailasa Parampara!

Today we celebrate our monthly padapuja to Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. This morning, Satguru, the monks and our two taskforcers Mayuran and Chandipati Muttulingam, all gathered in Kadavul Temple for the puja. Yogi Dayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed today's abhishekam.

"People speak of the light of understanding. Before the bright light of spiritual perception is experienced, the light of understanding must be laid as a foundation of philosophical training and appreciation learning to understand life, for instance, through action rather than reaction. The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant experience of the mind. It is this to which the yoga student aspires." - Gurudeva

\"Living in the light, everything that formerly was hidden becomes revealed. Answers to questions that you had been pondering for many years become instantaneously unraveled in the light of the superconscious.\"

\"But the mind has a way, in its instinctive, intellectual nature, of casting shadows over the natural radiance of the inner light.\"

\"Doubt is the by-product of the intellects inability to cope with light.\"

\"When a person depends upon memory or reason for meaningful answers, the mind will break down in doubt. Only when the higher elucidation of the intuition is sought is doubt dispelled.\"

\"When the instinctive mind becomes lifted into the light, a person is strong enough to be kind when he could have become angry. He generates enough spiritual power to be generous when he might have reacted selfishly.\"

\"Disciplined periods of meditation nurture a magnanimous and benevolent nature. Such a being is naturally in the light of the supreme consciousness.\"

\"His great strength is humility, a shock absorber for the malicious experiences in life. Humility makes one immune to resentment and places everything in proportion and balance within the mind.\"

\"Seeking for God in the depths of ones being through control of the mind, control of ones thoughts, feelings and emotions, gives birth to the highest qualities of nature.\"

\"This transformation begins to take place as the light of the soul becomes more and more apparent within the mind.\"

\"The spiritual path is a constant turning within, turning the light of the superconscious into the dark corners and recesses of the mind.\"

\"As you sit in meditation in a darkened room, practice directing your consciousness inward, to the center of your brain.\"

\"If you are able to perceive light within your body, you are on the path to immortality. But should darkness prevail, work diligently each day to clear out resentment, jealousy, fear, worry and doubt from your nature.\"

\"Then you can sit in a darkened room and be a being of light.\"

\"The next time you are in a state of worldliness—jealous, angry or feeling sorry for yourself—sit down and seek for the light.\" - Gurudeva

Aum Namah Sivaya

Jai Gurudeva!

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