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September 16, 2002Gurudeva placed great stress on the purification of consciousness. Read here what can be the result of this process and realize this is your destiny: "The feeling of the eternity of the moment is experienced upon the first arrival into the subsuperconscious state of mind. This occurs when the subconscious...
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September 15, 2002Here is a wonderful quote from the Master Course: "The Natha Sampradaya has revealed the search for the innermost divine Self, balanced by temple worship, fueled by kundalini yoga, charted by monistic theism, illumined by a potent guru-shishya system, guided by soul-stirring scriptures and awakened by sadhana and tapas.' Our...
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September 12, 2002Here is Sadhaka Tyaganatha performing a puja three years ago at the point on the Iraivan Temple foundation where the temple sanctum has now risen up. The garland you see is the exact point over which the Maha Spatika Lingam will be placed. Sadhaka Tyaganatha is in Mauritius now where...
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September 11, 2002We had a visit from the Kilauea Senior Center today and these words from Gurudeva's latest book, Living with Siva are useful thoughts for us all: Society in the Western world has no tolerance for the aged, only for the young. Therefore, the aged and the aging must look out...
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September 10, 2002This screen saver picture of Gurudeva was designed by Rakesh, one of Gurudeva's devotees in Trinidad who helps with the computer work of Pundit Narendra and Ashwinee Ragoonanand in Trinidad who are great missionaries of dharma in that country and who have been distributing Hinduism Today and Gurudeva's books there...
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August 29, 2002"Faith, astikya, creates the attitudes for the action of worship. We can see that from the soul's conception to its fullness of maturity into the final merger with God Siva Himself, worship, communication, looking up, blending with, is truly monistic Saiva Siddhanta, the final conclusions for all mankind. We can...
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August 28, 2002Gurudeva says: "LESSON 36 from Living with Siva | Santosha: Contentment| Contentment, santosha, is the second niyama. How do we practice contentment? Simply do not harm others by thought, word or deed. As a practitioner of ahimsa, noninjury, you can sleep contentedly at night and experience santosha then and through...
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August 27, 2002Gurudeva: "Therefore, we have to meditate on these things. God Siva is so close to us. Where does He live? In the Third World. And in this form He can talk and think and love and receive our prayers and guide our karma. He commands vast numbers of devas who...