Enjoying Sadhu Paksha

During these few weeks of Sadhua Paksha, the monastics have been enjoying a different morning routine. Instead of their usual group Siva puja and meditation they are rising before the sun to walk through nature and perform their sadhana. These are a few images from their mystical wanderings.

"God can only be discovered by God" - Yogaswami

Iraivan at sunrise, and after an over-abundance of digital adjustments to really make the sunrise pop!

Our daily heavenly Hawaiian horizon

\"My God is the melter of my heart of love. Let all adore my God, the Lord of primal love, first of beings, my iva, who again and again melts my heart. May He render me His love in foremost measure! Praise Him but once, the Pure and Holy One, and He will be your escort to heaven. He, Lord iva, decked in honeyed konrai blooms, sits enthroned in my love, steadfast and free.\" Tirumantiram274-275\"

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without and everywhere.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

We need the devotional practice of religion so that the philosophy doesnt make us even more proud or arrogant than we were before we studied it. - Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

The happiness we are seeking, is actually accepting what is.

A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind. -Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Don\

t explain your philosophy. Embody it.'

Silence is the language of God, all else is a poor translation.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Peace is your natural state. It is your mind that destroys it.

The Self indeed is below. The Self is above. The Self is behind. The Self is in front. The Self is to the south. The Self is to the north. The Self, indeed, is all this. Chandogya Upanishad, 7.5

When we look at the world as providing our happiness, life is a constant series of emotional ups and down. When we derive our contentment from within, life is joyous, and we can share that joy with others. - Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

Raise your words, not your voice, it is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

No matter where one is on the path, spiritual advancement comes from learning from ones mistakes in life. - Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

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