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Gurudeva Padapuja

Recently we celebrated our monthly chitra puja in honor of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, his monks and local members all gathered in Kadavul temple for an early morning padapuja to Gurudeva's granite paduka. Natyam Rajanatha and Natyam Jayanatha performed the abhishekam as other monks chanted Sri Rudram.

Read About Gurudeva in The Guru Chronicles. Download it here
Here's an excerpt:

Marching Through Sri Lanka and South India
The 1982 Indian Odyssey and the all-island tour of Sri Lanka that followed
had no precedent in history. No one, not even S. Shanmugasundaram,
the liason officer for the Church in Sri Lanka who had done the
groundwork for the journey, had an inkling of the overall magnitude of
the receptions that awaited Guru deva there.
It was unprecedented precisely because religious followings in Asia
remain exclusive, and the followers of one teacher or guru do not attend
the lectures of another. When a Rama krishna swami travels, for example,
his audience is, for the most part, Ramakrishna Mission members, plus a
few uncommitted seekers. But here was a rare soul, a guru, not from India,
but from the Wild West, from America, who had no local following and
posed no threat to any movement. After all, he would soon return to his
land and not draw devotees away from the local ashrams. Everyone was,
therefore, free to attend his talks, and they did in numbers that had not
been seen since the legendary saints of yore walked these same lanes to
speak similar thoughts to devotees centuries before.
In this remote part of the world, the village was still the center of life;
and when Guru deva rode through a village, by car or carriage, it came
alive. Thousands of Saivites lined the lanes of Alaveddy, Kopay, Karainagar,
Batticaloa, Hatton, Kokuvil and elsewhere to honor and revere the satguru
and affectionately greet the Saiva pilgrims from the West. A holiday
was declared in Kilinochchi so all the school children of the district could
join in the parade, which wound a full sixteen miles through the region
and took an entire day.
From 9am to 5pm Guru deva was seated on a tall chariot made for the
occasion, drawn through the crowded streets by hundreds of men pulling
two long, stout ropes. At the gate to each family compound, typically
just off the road, nearly every household had set up an elaborately decorated
greeting altar, with brass oil lamps called kuttuvilakku and a kumbha.
Standing around the altar, the entire family (often three generations)
would greet the tall, white-haired, orange-robed, rudraksha-bedecked
satguru with flowers, rosewater, holy ash and arati.
For most, he simply passed by and they rushed forward to throw their
garland into his hands. Now and again, the procession halted, and Gurudeva
got down, approached the family's altar and allowed them to pass
the lighted lamp before him, to pour water on his dusty feet, place the
red pottu on his forehead and garland him. He looked like Siva Himself,
they whispered to one another, so divine, so full of light and love. For
these families, stories would echo for generations.

Happy Pancha Ganapati – Day 4!!!

December 24, green: The sadhana of day four is to draw forth the vibration of joy and harmony that comes from music, art, drama and the dance. Family, relatives and friends gather for satsang to share and enjoy their artistic gifts. Then all sit together before Ganesha, Patron of Arts and Guardian of Culture, discussing Hindu Dharma and making plans to bring more cultural refinements into the home. More gifts are placed before Pancha Ganapati.

THE FOURTH SHAKTI
The fourth shakti, is an outpouring from having held fast to the first three. Green in color, it is a combination of the first two shaktis, stabilized by the third. The fourth Shakti of Lord Ganesa brings through the creative-intuitive mind--the love of culture and all that it brings, religious formalities and the respect and appreciation of discipline. Here we find the vibration of religion, which brings as a boon creativity in music, art, drama and the dance. It is through these refining rays that religious life is adhered to and congested forces are braided together in a harmonious pattern for a glorious future. It is through the fourth shakti that religious practices are performed consistently and the refinements of the past are carried into the future. It also extends to devotion toward one's ancestors and all forms of positive community participation.

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