Our 2018 Tiruvembavai Festival
Many many devotees from all over the Earth came to Kauai Aadheenam to celebrate the New Year, worship Kadavul Nataraja and be with Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. On January 1st the long-awaited ceremony took place in the lush tropic setting of Hawaii. Many days and hours of prep took up most of the Siddhidata Kulam work, whilst devotees helped decorate the temple and oil the granite murtis outside.
Please sit back, relax and enjoy a long slideshow of how Kauai Aadheenam celebrates Tiruvembavai.
Path to Siva: What Is Our Heritage of Gurus?
Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas - Commentaries on Path to Siva
What Is Our Heritage of Gurus? Path to Siva, Lesson 36 (December 27,2017)
"Since the beginning of time, the power, or shakti, of God Siva has been carried forth by enlightened beings, satgurus." Spiritual progress is achieved through abhyasa, daily practice, and vairagya, dispassion.
Dispassion is being detached enough to be getting happiness from inside ourself not outside from the world. Control awareness; find and claim joyousness and peace every day in all environments. "Naam ariyom-We do not know." When we get really deep inside to find the deepest truth it can not be explained.
Path To Siva, Lesson 36.
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Path to Siva Commentaries
What Is the Value of Spiritual Friends?
Friends who are fine, positive and good Hindus will help you most of all. It's important for parents of teenagers to know their teenager's friends. Our strength comes from mixing and interacting with others who are practicing sadhana. "The group helps the individual and the individual helps the group."
Path to Siva, Lesson 58
How Do We Practice Karma Yoga
Pray to Lord Ganesha before beginning work. Turn everything you do into selfless service, seva, karma yoga. Work becomes worship. Hold the perspective of Sivanadiyar that you are the devoted servant of God Siva. "Do everything you do as Sivathondu. Give up this 'I' and mine."
Path to Siva, Lesson 59
What Is the Purpose of the Temple?
"As you approach God's home, you can feel the spiritual energy, and as you go inside you are engulfed in peace." Trust in and open up to the deity. God is a very subtle presence. The temple and the murti within it are set up so that anyone can feel God's presence once they have enough devotion. Go to the temple and through the sanctified murti see God. Kumbabishekam purifies the temple, infuses divine energy into the murti. The deity, during puja, resides in the murti. Continuous daily worship perpetuates and over the years strengthens the power of the temple.
Path to Siva, Lesson 60
How Do We Visit the Temple?
Be close to God by going to the temple. By shifting our minds to our religion the flow of positive karma is intensified. Being open and receptive receive the blessings of the deity. Bask in the divine energy radiating out from the murti. Creating a strong tie to the temple, perform a sacred act when you return home. Light a lamp in your home shrine; bring the vibration and summon the devas from the temple.
Path to Siva, Lesson 61 Click here to go to an index of all of Bodhinatha's and Gurudeva's online audio.
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