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November 22, 2003"God Siva is in all things and everywhere simultaneously, at every point in time. And yet, Siva as Maheshvara, the Divine Dancer, Nataraja, has a body not unlike yours or mine, a body in which He can talk, a body in which He can think, a body in which He...
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November 21, 2003Gurudeva walking around Iraivan Temple site several months after the foundation had been completed. We surcharged the foundation with an amount of earth more than the weight of the future temple, to make sure the foundation would settle in advance. The earth was later removed and used to create Muruga...
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November 20, 2003It's a quiet day at Kauai Aadheenam.... here is a little story about how things develop over time. Years ago, in 1990, Gurudeva was contacted by some young people in Chicago, looking for official answers to questions they were getting from their American peers. He answered them and later we...
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November 19, 2003Gurudeva at the homa fire at the Iraivan site. He asked the monks to bring the fire from Kadavul each week and light the fire here and kept up this week after week until the assembly of the temple started, when the life force of the silpis themselves and their...
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November 18, 2003"I look at the mind as a traveler looks at the world. Himalayan Academy students have traveled with me all over the world, in hundreds of cities, in dozens of countries, as we've set up ashrams here and there on our Innersearch Travel/Study programs. Together we have gone in and...
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November 15, 2003Gurudeva at the foundation of Iraivan... bringing the fire from Kadavul and performing arati. Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001Click to read for Details. We are pleased to announce the web release of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's monumental work on Hindu culture and...
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November 14, 2003Gurudeva blessing the foundation of Iraivan. He always described the temple as a metaphor for the global progress of his devotees. As they purified their minds through Vasana Daha Tantra and living a better life in dharma, this comprised the "foundation" and it then manifested... "Charya, literally "conduct," is the...
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November 13, 2003"Willpower is the muscle of the mind. We lift weights, exercise, run a mile, all to develop the muscles of the physical body. The more we perform these practices, the more muscular we become. The process of strain reshapes the cellular properties and the structure of the muscles. Intermittent rest...