The Last Day of Our Year

Aum Ganesha,

Today is the last day of our year of Plava Samvatsara. Tomorrow we move into Shubhakrita, which translates as the year of "auspicious actions," a time for doing good deeds.

Our wandering sadhus send us some photos from their early morning sadhanas. A peaceful end to a quiet day at Kauai Aadheenam.

"Even a great soul faces difficulties, but he does not take them personally. Generally people take problems too personally by identifying closely with them." - Gurudeva

\"When one begins to meditate, he should approach it dynamically, for it is becoming more alive...\" - Gurudeva

He is penetrating his awareness into the very source of life itself, for eventually he hopes to attain the ultimate goal, merger with Siva, the experience of the Self beyond all time, beyond all form, beyond all cause.

The experience of Parasiva is attained only when one has become very simple, direct, uncomplicated.

When a new nerve system has been built within this very body, strong enough to hold awareness within enough so that awareness itself can completely dissolve itself into its own essence, Satchidananda and Paraiva are experienced.

After that dynamic experience, mans heritage in this lifetime, one enters back into the mind which is all form, creating, preserving, destroying, completely finished in all areas of manifestation and moves freely through the mind, seeing it for what it is.

Parasiva is the ultimate goal in merging with Siva, the realization of the Self in its totality.

How does one know that one has experienced such an experience if you cannot speak of it, if it is beyond the mind, thought, cause, time and space?

And yet one does know and vibrantly knows.

There are various signposts.

One is that one could go into Paraiva an ignorant person and come out wise.

Another: the urgency, the goal, the quest, is over.

He loses something:

the desire for Self Realization.

Another signpost is that the Self, the very core of existence, is always his point of reference.

He relates to the exterior world only as an adult relates to the childrens toys.

Parasiva is to be sought for, worked for and finally attained.

But a lot of work must be done first.

Choose a time for your meditation.

Sit up so straight and strong and dynamic that you feel you are at that very moment the center of the universe.

Regulate your breath so precisely that awareness flows freely out of the realm of thought into the perceptive areas of the mind.

Then begin meditating on the two forces, odic and actinic.

Be like the spaceman high above the surface of the Earth looking at the odic forces of the cities.

Look then, too, at the odic forces, the magnetic forces, that motivate your life within yourself and between people and you and things.

Feel the actinic force flooding out from the central source of energy itself.

And then turn awareness in upon itself.

Simply be aware of being aware. Sit in dynamic bliss.

And in coming out of this meditation, next feel the power of the spine, vibrant energy flooding out through the nerve system, the hands, the arms, the legs, the head.

Enter back into life joyfully, joyously.\"

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