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May 26, 2003The Alahan family recently moved into a new home and they had a traditional house blessing. We searched through Gurudeva's books and found this choice piece on the Hindu attitude toward's own's home: "The ideal of Ishvarapujana, worship, is to always be living with God, living with Siva, in God's...
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May 25, 2003"Karma itself is neither good nor bad but a neutral principle that governs energy and motion of thought, word and deed. All experience helps us grow. Good, loving actions bring to us lovingness through others. Mean, selfish acts bring back to us pain and suffering. Kindness produces sweet fruits, called...
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May 24, 2003Gurudeva signing books for guests who have purchase them on tour day. He wrote: "The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. Children are perfect devas until puberty, when so many changes come, when prarabdha karmas--the results of past actions they bring with them to live...
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May 21, 2003Gurudeva blessing the foundation of Iraivan Temple as he did every week for a year or more. Today at the spot where Gurudeva stood, rises up the beautiful and amazing edifice of the Iraivan Temple central sanctum. If you sit there quietly in a still moment, an ancient power emanates...
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May 20, 2003"All motion begins in God and ends in God. The whole universe is engaged in a whirling flow of change and activity. This is Siva's dance. We are all dancing with Siva, and He with us. Ultimately, we are Siva dancing. Aum." -- Gurudeva Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya...
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May 19, 2003Those of you who are wrestling with the mind in your many endeavors to try to concentrate the mind, to try to meditate, to try to become quiet, to try to relax, keep trying. Every positive effort that you make is not in vain. Every single brick added to a...
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May 18, 2003Gurudeva taught that the unfoldment of the soul could be likened to the lotus flower. Starting out in the mud beneath the waters, reaching up for the sun, finally a bud, then a blossom. He also said that spiritual unfoldment could be described as the progressive stabilization of awareness in...
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May 14, 2003"Prana is not air, of course, yet it is contained in the air in a certain manifestation. Much prana is found in the air among the trees or near the ocean. All of nature and the forces of nature are various manifestations of odic prana that have taken visual shape....