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Yogaswami says:

"Everything originates in me; everything finds permanence in me; in me everything revolves in
dissolution."

--So must we become suffused with such pure thoughts. Further, we must frequently
meditate as follows:

"Nothing do I lack; everyone loves me and I too love all."

--Meditating thus, one
should endeavour to live up to this ideal. If one can practice spiritual sadhana in this way, the
capacity to know everything and the power to do anything will develop spontaneously.

Continuation: Gurudeva's radio address to Sri Lankan Tamils in 35 countries around the world:

Gurudeva talks about how Kauai Aadheenam has been instrumental in getting temples started around the world and also feeding thousands of people. Gurudeva then mentions the important role the Tamil people have played in building temples in the West. Gurudeva also reassures everyone that he can live as long as he wants.

Cybertalk Ends"
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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: January_04_2001
Title: Everything she Needs and Everything she Wants
Category: Relationships
Duration: 2 min., 05 seconds
Date Given: November 26, 2000

A cyberspace devotee all the way in Nepal, asks the question, "Please clarify, Gurudeva. You have said in order to release the shakti from the wife, give her all that she needs and all that she wants."

Wife abuse in the world today, is a modern sport. Yet, when a young lady marries, she thinks she is going to be the exception of it all.

The shakti coming from the spouse through the husband's nerve system makes him attractive. People want to be with him, buy from him, deal with him, be near him. It is well-known that a woman has eighty-four ways of managing this shakti to make her husband successful in the exterior world. But one harsh word can turn this shakti off. It is like a light switch. You can turn it on and you can turn it off. It is also well known that when the shakti is turned off or pulled in from the husband and is no longer flowing through him, she has eighty-four ways of slowly destroying him, making him unsuccessful, unhealthy, unhappy, tearing him apart on the inside.

When you married your wife you gave her everything she needed and everything she wanted. Her happiness filled and thrilled your being. She will be reasonable. She won't ask for much. She knows the family's means and your ability to give, your finances and all. It is how your fulfill those needs and those requests, that is the important thing.

We asked one lady to make a list of everything she needed and everything she wanted. She said, "I have everything that I need. He is very kind in that way. But the one thing I want is for him to come home for dinner." He changed his habit pattern, starting to come home for dinner. His business began to flourish. He was happy, became a community leader because her shakti was flowed through him, was not inhibited in anyway.

Give the list to me on e-mail. We will look it over and maybe, you will change the way people live in Nepal.
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We want to send out a big Mahalo Nui Loa to Uncle Sadhunathan who sponsored Muruga Hill. This hill was made up of the earth that was excavated around the Iraivan foundation site. Recently the next stage of the project, seeding, commenced when Kauai Hydroseed came in with giant hoses and sprayed the whole hill.

They used an unusual method: grass seed and wild flower seed was embedded in a kind of paper mache mash that was blue in color. Their giant hoses sprayed this all over the hill. It looked like we had a visitation from the Pleiades!

Thank you Sadhunathan!

Today was Sun One and Sadhaka Tyaganatha had build a blazing yagna fire.

This is a lovely hymn from the Rig Veda on shraddha, faith, the power behind all ceremony:

1. By Faith is Fire kindled.
By Faith is offered Sacrifice.
Sing we now Faith, the pinnacle of joy.

2. Bless Faith, the one who gives.
Bless him who wills, but has not.
Bless him who gives his worship unstinting.
Bless this song I sing.

3. As the Gods evoked Faith
from the mighty Asuras,
so may my prayer for the generous worshiper be accepted!

4. The Gods, led by the Spirit,
honor Faith in their worship.
Faith is composed of the heart's intention.
Light comes through Faith.

5. Through Faith men come to prayer,
Faith in the morning,
Faith at noon and at the setting of the Sun.
O Faith, give us Faith!

Paramacharya Bodhinathaswami gave a wonderful talk this morning, continuing his theme of the sadhana of the Moksha Ritau. Today he talked about the famous path of self-inquiry. . ."Who and I?" When you ask yourself that question, what answer do you get? Do you identify yourself as an instinctive being, an aggressive intellectual being, do you have feelings of superiority or inferiority, which are two forms of ego? Who am I? Really?

Arumugaswami meets with Mr. Ranjit Arab. He's journalism major at Kansas University and writes scientific articles for University publications. That's his fiancee Theresa and they will be getting married tomorrow.

At Kauai Aadheenam we have some stones that were previously finished, this is the magnificent [abhishekam spout"] that will be part of the sanctum sanctorum. When the abhishekam (bathing) is done to the crystal Sivalingam, the sacred water will flow out here and devotees will be able to drink some. This is a traditional practice in India.

Brigid Kelso, from Toronto, Ontario is a free lance journalist. She wants to write an article on the Iraivan temple project and the monastery and submit this to travel magazines. She took interviews and went home with loads of material. She stands here next to the capstone of Iraivan.

An eleven acre site in Bangalore, India, where 75 Indian families live and daily carve the sacred white granite edifice of Iraivan Temple which will soon begin to be assembled on the island of Kauai

This is ornamental carver U. Adaikalam working on the set of 7 rings forming a chain in a single granite. This is fixed to the corners of the sunshade. Adaikalam has been selected in the first batch of silpis going to Kauai in early March 2001.

This is another view of the work which shows how the chain is delicately chipped.

Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa

Gurudeva's Jayanthi was celebrated at the Spiritual Park on Sunday, January
7th.
Sadhaka Adinatha and Sadhaka Jothinatha are pictured here preparing for the
Guru Puja. A temporary altar for Gurudeva's sandals and portrait has been
constructed in
the Ganesha Mandapam.

A closeknit group of Gurudeva's long time devotees and students prepare to
offer their love and flowers near the completion of the ceremony.

Final arati to Gurudeva's flower bedecked sandals.
"There is no one greater in the three worlds than the guru. It is he who
grants divine knowledge and should be worshiped with supreme devotion."
Atharva Veda

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Visiting Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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