December 2022 Chitra Puja

Jai Gurudeva!

During yesterday's chitra nakshatra, we observed our monthly padapuja to Gurudeva Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Monks and local members gathered in Kadavul Temple at 6:00am for the puja which was performed by Yogi Dayanatha and Nirvani Tejadevanatha. Aum.

Gurudeva: \"Supreme God Śiva is both within us and outside of us.\"

\"Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death--this is all Siva, nothing but Siva.\"

\"This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Śiva did not--not in the sense that is commonly thought.\"

\"God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.\"

\"In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Śiva in all things, through all things.\"

\"In this striving, as in perfecting any art or science, regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.\"

\"Śiva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality.\"

\"Śiva is a God of love, boundless love.\"

\"He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Śiva is everywhere.\"

\"There is no place where Śiva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too.\"

\"He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe.\"

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