December 2023 Chitra Puja

Today is the Chitra nakshatra, so a padapuja was performed for Gurudeva's granite Tiruvadi in Kadavul Temple. Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Yogi Haranandinatha performed the abhishekam. Jai Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami! Om Namah Sivaya.

\"We have taken birth in a physical body to grow and evolve into our divine potential.\" Gurudeva

\"The Saiva Siddhanta perspective is that Siva\

s wonderful universe of form is perfect at every point in time, complete and totally just, and every soul, in all stages of evolution, is an intrinsic part of it, even Siva himself.\"'

\"You don\

t discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.\"'

\"We may say that love is the heart of the mind. Anything that comes before you in life can be conquered through universal love, a force which is a demonstration of the soul.\"

\"That goal is to realize God Siva in His absolute, or transcendent, state, which when realized is your own ultimate statetimeless, formless, spaceless Truth.\"

\"Your recognition of what is is the way you create it to yourself. This is deep. This is in the realm of contemplation. And only in the realm of contemplation will you begin to conceive of it.\"

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