May 2024 Chitra Puja

This morning we celebrated Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami with our monthly pada puja during the Chitra nakshatra. In Kadavul Temple Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and his monks gathered with local members for an abhishekam. While the monks chanted Sri Rudram Sannyasin Tillainathaswami and Nirvani Tejadevanatha performed the puja, pouring pranic substances such as milk, honey and citrus over Gurudeva's black granite tiruvadi. Following a final arati, the event ended with each attendee prostrating before the shrine. Jai Gurunathan. Aum Namah Sivaya.

\"The greatest thing that a devotee must learn is that all knowing is within oneself. Therefore, go to the great superconscious school within you and bring forth knowledge.\" - Gurudeva

\"You can\

t go into anything with freedom when you need it. You must be desireless and observe.\"'

\"Become perfect in yoga. Your rewards will be great and your future sublime.\"

\"The Hindu considers all of mankind his brothers and sisters, all created by the same Creator, all destined to the same attainment.\"

\"Find the permanency within you that has never changed through the ages, and you will realize that change is only in the ever-changing mind.\"

\"Meditation can be sustained only if one lives a wholesome life, free from emotional entanglements and adharmic deeds.\"

\"Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself. And if you feel that everything happening to you is a play of universal love and you are able to maintain that consciousness of universal love in yourself, then you are beyond the happenings of the world.\"

\"Seeking for God in the depths of one\

s being through control of the mind, control of one\'s thoughts, feelings and emotions, gives birth to the highest qualities of nature.\"'

\"As you know the temple is where everything takes place. Temple is where you get on with it. You come here, you sit down, if you have a problem, you work it out within yourself. A lot of work can be done in the temple, because of the vibration of the temple, that cannot be done elsewhere.\"

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