Welcome to the 2023 Moksha Ritau!
Aum Namah Sivaya
With the monastery's observance of Sadhu Paksha having come to a close, we enter our next season. Yesterday we began the day with a homa and a parade out to change the flag. Here are reminders from Gurudeva, from his Saiva Dharma Shastras, detailing the significance and sadhanas of this inner season.
112 Introduction
Beginning with Hindu New Year in mid-April, three seasons of the year divide our activities into three great needs of humankind--the learning of scripture in the first season, Nartana Ritau; the living of culture in the second season, Jivana Ritau; and the meditating on Siva in the third season, Moksha Ritau. Thus we are constantly reminded that our life is Siva's life and our path to Him is through study, sadhana and realization. In ritau one, we teach the philosophy; in ritau two, we teach the culture; and in ritau three, we teach meditation.
120 The Third Season: Moksha Ritau
The third period of the year, Moksha Ritau, the cool season, is from mid-December to mid-April. It is the season of dissolution. The key word is resolution. Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics is the focus of study and intense investigation. The colors of this season are coral-pink, silver and all shades of blue and purple--coral for the Self within, silver and blue for illumination, and purple for enlightened wisdom. High above flies the coral flag, signaling Parasiva, Absolute Reality, beyond time, form and space. Moksha Ritau is a time of appreciation, of gratitude for all that life has given, and a time of honoring elders, those in the sannyasa stage of life. Moksha Ritau is excellent for philosophical discussions, voicing one's understanding of the path through an enlightened intellect. In finance, it is the time for yearly accounting and reconciliation. On a mundane level it is a time of clearing attics, basements, garages, sheds, warehouses, workshops and desks, getting rid of unneeded things, of pruning trees, of streamlining life on the physical plane--of reengineering.
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From Our Gurus' Teachings
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December 17th, 2023 at 4:55 pm
“AUM”!.
December 18th, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Happy Moksha Ritau to Satguru and all the sanyasins and all Siva’s devotees
Jai Gurudeva
jai Satguru Bodhinatha
Jai Nandinatha Sampradaya
Jai Kailasa Parampara
May all attain Moksha and may Grandmother’s soul attain oneness with Siva
December 19th, 2023 at 1:33 pm
Aum Namasivayam πππ
December 20th, 2023 at 9:26 am
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