We continue to take each of the books that Gurudeva authored and create a audio version using his cloned voice. How to Become a Hindu is now complete and available here.
In this upadesha, Satguru shares the second half of Gurudeva’s profound description of the fifth dimension, which relates to the vishuddha chakra. “If we strew clothing from room to room, that disorder is always nagging awareness, bringing us too far out into external consciousness and plunging us into the mire of ‘I should haves’ and ‘Well, it really doesn’t matter.’ Till the outer dimensions are ordered and stabilized in crystal clear patterns of daily life, we never go deep. The foundation must be built first, and it must be strong. It is not advisable to overlook the importance of the most basic and ordinary daily chores and activities. No one wants to build the rest of the house, only to have to take it down later to repair weaknesses in the foundation.”
This morning we conducted pada puja to Gurudeva on Chitra nakshatra. Enjoy this randomly selected Q&A with Gurudeva in his final year, 2001–
What the soul learns; Being on the right path
Author: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Description: A cyberspace devotee from India wants to know if the soul is also learning when the mind is being educated. Gurudeva says we are the soul and anything that is taken in through the layers of the mind the soul will be aware of it. In today’s second question a cyberspace devotee wants to know why there is sin and suffering. Gurudeva says the first thing to do is to define the path that you are on. The Saivite path looks at suffering and happiness as different intensities of the emotions.
We were blessed to have back-to-back special events– Gurudeva Chitra puja in the afternoon, and Ganesha Chaturthi abhishekam the next morning. Here are still photos from both.