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The Song or Right Living

1. The abode of Wisdom (JnanaVeedu) shall be our gain,
If the discipline of charity and austerity, we espouse.

2. Remember the Lord who's like fragrance in the flower,
And thy tongue shall repeat the name of Namasivaya.

3. Serve Him who is Purity and Life of life
And thou shalt realise Siva's grace.

4. The ignorant know not the flowery Feet of God,
Invoke Him aloud, before the call of Death.

5. If you surrender yourself entirely at His Feet,
He will shelter you like the sweet mother.

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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: January_20_2001
Title: Negative Vibrations, What is imagination?, Give her what she needs.
Category: The Spiritual Path
Duration: 3 min., 58 seconds
Date Given: January 18, 2000

A cyberspace cadet, Kathleen asks, "What is it and why do I pick up negative conditions from other people and I almost become negative too, speak negatively along with them?"

Well, a good answer is, don't be around negative people. Choose your friends carefully. Choose your associates carefully. Always surround yourself with positive people who have good thoughts, who are uplifting. Everyone is connected in a little way to everyone else. But, we do have choices. So, cut the negative people out of your life. Surround yourself with positive people. Pick up their vibrations and make yourself happy by making other people happy.

Rajan in Perak, Malaysia wonders, "What is imagination?"

Well Rajan, imagination is making images in your mind. Everything is created within the mind that you see around you in the very room that you are in today, listening to what I am saying. It starts with an image, an impulse. Then, we proceed with developing that image into more images and finally we have a creation that is manifest in the physical world. Buildings are created like that, as are cities and nations, by the many, many peoples of the world who have positive imagination. Wars are created with negative imagination. So, make the images in your mind positive and beneficial to yourself and all those that surround you.

An e-mail from a cyberspace devotee in Los Angeles, California who wonders about what I have said in the past about the wife. Give her everything that she needs and everything she wants, because the husband has taken her into his life and she has come willingly. Therefore, he must see to her needs and to her desires so that they have a happy life together.

But he asks, "Well, what if she says abusive things? What if she talks to others about him behind his back and doesn't behave properly herself?"

Well now, looking back through your life you might find that you have not always been kind to your wife, given her everything she needs and everything she wants or, even asked her, "What do you want, what do you need?" She is getting back at you. The wife has 84 ways to make a man successful in the world. She also has 84 ways to destroy him too. Verbal abuse is one of those ways. You should get together and talk. Apologize for what you have done and what you haven't done. Often from a man's point of view, it is what he hasn't done to please his wife and keep that union strong. That is what she is complaining about in a very round-about way and getting back at him.

No marriage is perfect. But, it is the responsibility of the husband to take care of his family, to keep them well, happy and strong. The wife has her duties also, but he has to do his first.
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Tour day today brought a number of wonderful people from many parts of the globe to experience the Diamond Dust Darshan of Lord Kadavul Nataraja.

Whether they know it or not, their life pattern will never be the same after experiencing the shakti of the temple.

Lucille Emerick, who is studying Gurudeva's teachings and lives not far away from the temple brought her parents visiting the island.

Famous psychic Dale Schear was invited to the monastery to give a demonstration of her gifts. She is a "credible" psychic unlike most of the "fakes" on TV at the 900 numbers. . .Dale specializes in psychometry: holding objects and "reading" the future for the individual or looking into their current life situation. Many times the police have called her in on mysterious cases and she has solved mysteries, locating lost individuals, as well as pets.

Dale lives with her husband part time in Honolulu and part time in Lake Tahoe. We asked her to talk first about her youth and early experiences. She said that basically she was born with certain psychic gifts and at first it scared her. She prayed to God for gifts of vision and healing in order to help people. She explained that in order to maintain her inner vision she takes 4 hours a day in solitude away from people, just "spacing", a form of meditation in which she is absolutely quiet, letting her mind clear and being open to the inner flow.

Here she does a reading on a watch that young Nutanaya had. Dale said that she felt from the vibrations of the watch that he would one day be a great spiritual leader, and people would bow down and touch his feet.

She said it was often hard to "read" young people because they have so many options open for their future. Dale could hear several languages going on in Nutanaya's mind and asked if he knew more than one language. He knows three, Malay, Tamil and English.

Our monks sit observing in the background, while Dale focused on the family members.

Several of audience gave their personal objects and asked her questions. Dale is a very straight forward and grounded person and didn't hesitate to bring up some fairly personal subjects that she really couldn't know about otherwise. She gave some very specific predictions about the future of some of the young people. Everyone was very impressed with her talents. When she was taken out to the foundation of Iraivan Temple she saw the work accelerating in the next three years, with many volunteers coming to offer their services. Several times she remarked about the spirit "guards" walking around the monastery grounds that looked Hawaiian.
"This temple is in a psychic vortex of spiritual energy which will protect it. The temple will be here for generation after generation, after generation..."

Lavender flower. This is one of the lovely colors that one can meditate on for inner upliftment. Take a Lavendar bath!

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

After the abhishekam, puja is performed. My father is placing flowers
while chanting the 108 names of Gurudeva.

Final arati is shown to the Tiruvadi.

Another photo of the arati.

Arati is being passed around to all the silpis.

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

We continue with photos of the kumbhabhishekam ceremony at the Kaylasson temple in Port Louis. Here is Sadhaka Adinatha talking with Kumaren Moorooven (right) and the architect Sthapati Vanmeeganathan (center). Moorooven is a longtime devotee of Gurudeva. He's also the construction manager for the temple's renovation. Sthapati is from Sri Lanka.

Above them you can see the painted ceiling of the temple entrance tower. It's enough to lift anyone's mood, don't you think?

A closeup of one of the entrance pillars and some of the crowd. Many businesses in the capital gave their workers a couple hours off to attend the ceremony.

Before the bathing ceremony the priests and water pots circle the temple accompanied by parade umbrellas and great fanfare. At designated spots chanting and flower offerings are made along the way. Here you can see flower petals tossed into the air.

Here we see the priests, helpers and camera crews up on the roof. Moorooven
is up there too somewhere. They are bathing the temple spires, the domes
over the shrines below, with water that was brought from the Ganges and
other sacred rivers of India and from Mauritius' own sacred lake at Grand
Bassin.

A close up of some of the priests. Officiating priests at this auspicious ceremony were: Sri Nadaraja Iyer Balasubramania Sarma, Head Priest of this temple.

Sri Panchachara Iyer Balasubramania Sarma, Head Priest of the Shri Kathirvelayuda Swami Kovil in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Nadaraja Iyer Mageswara Sarma, Head Priest of the Shri Muruga Moorthi Kovil in Velanai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Sri Tambiah Iyer Santhirasegara Sarma, Head Priest of the Shri Ponnambala Varneswara Kovil, in Jaffna. Sri Somasunthara Iyer Gowriswaran Sarma, Head Priest of the Shri Muruga Moorthi Kovil of Navaali, Jaffna. Sri Nadaraja Iyer Sadasiva Iyer Head Priest of the Shri Nageswaran Kovil of Analaitivu, Jaffna. Sri Paramananda Sarma Vaasudeva Sarma Priest of Siven Kovil Chavakachcheri, Jaffna. Sri Mareemootoo Iyer Ramasamy from Shri Kannanoor Mariammen Kovil, Port Louis, Mauritius. Sri Navidar Sivasankar, Shri Krishnnamoorthi Draupadee Ammen Kovil, Sinatambou, Terre Rouge, Mauritius. Sri Nadaraja Iyer Agileswara Sarma, Shri Siva Sooprmania Kovil, Camp Caval, Curepipe, Mauritius. Sri Nadaraja Iyer Shridara Sarma, Shri Siva Soopramania Kovil Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.

and Special Guest Swami Venkateswarananda of Adi Sankaracharya Mada, Kerala Branch at Ambigalayam, Parakulam.

Gurudeva's message entitled "For World Peace, Stop the War in the Home" was prominently featured in the Kumbhabhishekam's souvenir magazine.

Click here to view this day last year.

"How to Become A Hindu"! Gurudeva's latest book release is now available Hot Off the Press! Visit the Himalayan Academy Book Store Web Site get the book and read the incredible testimonies of the early pioneers from the west who chose to make a full and complete conversion to Hinduism, legally change both their first and last names to Hindu names, change their lifestyles, sever their formal connections to previous faiths and joyously face the challenges in joining the tribe of the Sanatana Dharma

Visiting Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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