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July 12, 2002Gurudeva walks around the Iraivan temple foundation after the surcharge of earth was applied. Enough soil to equal the full weight of the future stone temple was placed on the foundation. After six months the engineers were unable to detect any shift at all in the foundation. Our Beloved and...
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July 11, 2002Young children everywhere all over the world, for some reason, were not shy of Gurudeva. He had such a "nothing to fear here" aura about him that they would often take the initiative, even without suggestion, to approach him and tell their secrets and ask questions. He always listened very...
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June 30, 2002Gurudeva at the last Guru Purnima, July, 2001. "That became One and It became two--who knows? The Paraparan of five and six forms, doubt not. He loves to dwell in the hearts of the devotees who forever meditate on Him." Siva Yogaswami--Natchintanai. 221-222 Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami...
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June 29, 2002While Gurudeva was a profound rishi and great mystic, working to guide his monks to the highest levels of consciousness through meditation, he was also a master at seeing the working of the mind from the lowest levels and how we had to deal with this also in our work....
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June 28, 2002Gurudeva in New York at the United Nations where he received the U Thant Peace Award for his work through Hinduism Today to build tolerance, harmony and for his mission to promote non-violence through all arenas of life with a special focus on ending domestic violence and corporal punishment of...
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June 27, 2002This song of Siva Yogaswami describes the spirit and activity of the "Siva Thondan" the servant and devotee of Lord Siva. The second paragraph is interesting in that it describes in many ways the life and activities of Gurudeva and now Bodhinatha: "The procession thus moves on. It can never...
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June 26, 2002This wonderful song by Siva Yogaswami describes the life in Siva consciousness that Gurudeva worked so hard to inspire his devotees to follow and which he clarified and preserved in writing through his books: "We are the servitors of Siva. No harm will befall us, if without forgetting we meditate...
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June 22, 2002Gurudeva in 2000 with Janahan Iyer moments after Janahan performed an elaborate a padapuja in Lancaster, California with 300 Sri Lankan Hindus present. Janahan also came to Kauai to conduct the Mahasamadhi rites for our beloved Gurudeva lat November. LAST DAY OF THE PHASE: This was a short, four-day phase...