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February 11, 2001 
Gurudeva seated on the Peetham--the seat of the Guru Mahasannidhanam of Kauai Aadheenam. Its a quiet day at the Aadheenam. . .everyone focused on their work. Gurudeva is still working on the "Nandinatha Sutras," for Living with Siva.
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Title: Arthur Pacheco interviews Gurudeva Part 1 |
Cybertalk: Today's cybertalk is a radio interview with Gurudeva conducted by Arthur Pacheco of station K-108 in Honolulu. This interview is in many parts and in the first part today Arthur introduces Gurudeva to his radio show listeners and tells them how much Gurudeva has influenced his life since their first meeting more than 25 years ago.
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Transcription of One of Gurudeva's CyberTalks
Date: February_06_2001
Title: Physical Pain
Category: Soul
Duration: 1 min., 08 seconds
Date Given: February 04, 2001
A question from a cyberspace cadet in Malaysia, wondering about physical pain. "How can we keep reminded that we are a spiritual being, when we have a period of our life going through physical pain, illness and unhappiness?"
Well, we must remember one basic thing. We are not our physical body, not our emotions, not our minds nor our intellect. We are the beautiful soul that is shrouded by external mind, or covered up by emotions. We live in a physical body, live in an astral body. That is who we really are. If we realize we really are the soul, nothing can touch us, the real us.
The real you is living inside, whatever your physical body is going through, whatever the emotions you are going through or whatever your intellect is dealing with.
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Hindu ceremonies and temple culture are rich and full of color, art, nature. . .here are the ladies from our Kauai Mission. Little Sandya sleeps in her mother's lap. Children are always welcome at Hindu events. If they cause a fuss the mother will take the child away for a few minutes and then when the child calms down, bring him or her back to the temple or satsang event. In this way the little ones are immersed in spiritual life from a very young age.
Red and white stripes adorn the side of Kadavul Shiva Temple at Kauai's Hindu Monastery. The red and white stripe motif is a traditional one for Hindu temples. Sometimes painted on massive walls, the white represents Shiva and the red represents Shakti. Easily seen from a great distance it uplifts the heart and guides the pilgrim to his destination.
Thambynathan Nutanaya is very happy here, just about to wind up his "vacation" as all his school books arrive this week and he will be starting Grade 7 studies, right here in the monastery itself. One of his daily chores is to take care of the bird cage.
Natyam Tyaganatha our temple priests introduces him to some of our Cockatails.
They are quite tame and used to human contact.
Hold up your hand with some bird feed and they will fly right down to you.
First hand training for our young man. . ."First learn to love birds, then fish, then animals, then man. . .only in this way will you come to Realize the Self." --a message Gurudeva gave the monks years ago.
Gurudeva's other monastery in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa
While things are quiet at Kauai Aadheenam our team of Yoganathaswami and Sadhaka Jivananandanatha has nearly wrapped up its mission of bringing "light, love and upliftment" from Kauai to our members in Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius.. . .Our monks in Mauritius share with us some of the events that took place there over the past week.
Here is swami being greeted with garland at the base of the steps to
Kulapati Sivan Koothan's home in Chemin Grenier on the south coast of
Mauritius. Swami had just arrived on the island two hours before.
Many of Gurudeva's devotees and old friends have been invited to a satsang
with swami here tonight.
Kulamata Poospawadee Koothan greets swami with the the traditional waving of
the arti lamp at the doorway to her home.
While the guests arrive Grihini Indranee Ramsamy greets Yoginathaswami and Sadhaka
Jivanandanatha. Devarajen Sellamuthu can be seen to her left and Sadhaka
Adinatha to her right.
Sivan Koothan and swami offering ghee, grains, flowers and written prayers
into the homa fire.
By the end of the satsang 40 people had gathered. A good group came from
nearby
Mahebourg and some from Vacoas. Swami gave news about Gurudeva and
introduced all of Gurudeva's books, including the just released "How to
Become a Hindu." Gurudeva's signature was placed in all the books that were
sold that night. In the back you can see the book table.
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