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March 26, 2004Gurudeva with an image of Lord Ganesha that has been blessed and is ready to go off to be the first worshipped deity at some small temple somewhere on planet Earth. Most were much larger than this. Innersearcher Rakesh Chandranatha from Colorado was an inspiration for what he had done:...
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March 25, 2004"Through temple worship, the three worlds become open to one another, and the beings within them are able to communicate. By means of the mystical arts of puja, the worlds act in concert, and prayers are received." -- Gurudeva Here is Innersearcher Kulapati Mootoosamy Pareatumbee otherwise known as our dear...
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March 24, 2004"To attain even the permission to perform yoga one must have the grace of Lord Ganesha and the grace of Lord Muruga. Lord Muruga is the God of the kundalini, of the advanced yogic practices. Unfoldment all happens within the kundalini and the chakras within our subtle bodies. Once a...
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March 23, 2004It's tritiya tithi, Sun Three, Ashram Sadhana day and all the monks are cleaning, fixing, getting things in order. "Cleaning the house is an act of purifying one's immediate environment. Each piece of furniture, as well as the doorways and the walls, catches and holds the emanations of the human...
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March 22, 2004From Living with Siva: No Sanction For Terrorism In every country there is the army, the navy, air force, police, the protectors of the country, the collective force of citizens that keep a country a country. This is dharma. In protection of family and nation, in armies and police forces...
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March 21, 2004"All in life that one would want to "get away from" the Hindu takes with him on a pilgrimage to the temple, to the feet of his personal God, to the inner-plane being or Mahadeva, who needs no physical body with which to communicate with people--to the God who has...
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March 18, 2004"Religious learning is the greatest learning, the only permanent learning. All else is transitory and changing. Religion is the knowledge of the soul. God Siva created your soul. Your mother and father created your body, brought you into this world. But you create your own experiences in this life from...
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March 17, 2004"Siva's followers take pride in the fact that the philosophical basis of their peerless lineage lies in the unity of Siddhanta and Vedanta. This mysterious dance of dualism and nondualism is called monistic theism. Aum." --Gurudeva Mrs. Sivayogam from the UK was another of our wonderful elders on the recent...