3. Swayambhu Lingam Darshana Sadhana
Attend the 9am swayambhu lingam puja. Afterwards read Gurudeva’s description of his vision of Śiva and reflect upon it, imagining God Śiva sitting on the swayambhu lingam in front of you and walking in the valley behind you.§
Quote from Gurudeva§
This was the fulfillment of the quest for a vision of what the future might hold, which led me and my followers to the lovely Garden Island of Kauai.§
Supplementary Reading§
San Mārga was established as a result of a three-fold vision that came to me early one morning in 1975. I saw Lord Śiva walking in the meadow near the Wailua River. Then His face was looking into mine. Then He was seated upon a great stone, His reddish golden hair flowing down His back. Astonished, I was seated on His left side. Upon reentering earthly consciousness, I felt certain the great stone was somewhere on our land and set about to find it. Guided from within by my satguru, I hired a bulldozer and instructed the driver to follow me as I walked to the north edge of the property that was then a tangle of buffalo grass and wild guava. I hacked my way through the jungle southward as the dozer cut a path behind me. After almost half a mile, I sat down to rest near a small tree. Though there was no wind, suddenly the tree’s leaves shimmered as if in the excitement of communication. I asked the tree, “What is your message?” In reply, my attention was directed to a spot just to the right of where I was sitting. When I pulled back the tall grass, there was a large rock, the self-created Liṅga on which Lord Śiva had sat. The bulldozer’s trail now led exactly to the sacred stone, surrounded by five smaller boulders. San Mārga, the straight or pure path to God, had been created. All this happened February 15, 1975. §
Worship of the sacred stone with water and flowers was commenced immediately through daily pūjā rites, and a master plan was unfolded from the devonic worlds. Today, visitors to the sanctuary walk the path of the Tamil Nayanars around picturesque lotus ponds and visit the six shrines of the Kailāsa Paramparā on the banks of Saravaṇabhava Lake in Rishi Valley. Across rolling meadows, pilgrims will gaze upon the Iraivan Temple now being hand-carved in Bangalore to enshrine the world’s largest single-pointed quartz crystal—a 700-pound, 39-inch-tall, six-sided natural gem, a sphaṭika Śivaliṅga, acquired in 1987. Iraivan, designed to stand 1,000 years as a spiritual edifice for forty generations, is America’s first traditional, all-stone temple.§
