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Date: March_14_2001
Title: Gurudeva Interviewed by Loni Petranek Part 8
Category: The Guru
Duration: 3 min., 29 seconds
Date Given: August 20, 2000

Loni: Welcome back to 'In Spirit'. We are in conversation with Gurudeva and he is a spiritual leader of the Hindu temple. If you haven't been up there, it is just exquisite and beautiful. I understand you need to make an appointment now, because of so many people.

Gurudeva: Actually, we have visiting days that happen periodically. You telephone and the telephone system will tell you when the visiting days are. They are almost every week and 20, 30, 40 people will come. So, a lot of the island people visit us and we are very, very happy about that.

Loni: So, it is some place! I really believe, if you are a tourist out there and you are listening to this program, you should definitely make an appointment to see it. It is just beautiful, with the waterfalls and the rare, indigenous plants that you have up there also.

Gurudeva: Very large collection and we have visitors nearly everyday.

Loni: Well since we are talking about Kauai and plants and things. It comes to mind about Lemuria, as you well know, many believe that this is remnants of the land of Mur, Lemuria. You have a book, a wonderful book out, called the 'Lemurian Scrolls.' Can you speak about that?

Gurudeva: Well, it is a book that I didn't write, I read it. I read it in the akasa. The wonderful, interesting thing happened to me a number of years ago, about 20 years ago. I was at the Coco Palms Hotel at breakfast time. This is when everyone was smoking a lot, so you would see clouds of smoke around a table. One day I saw a big cloud of smoke and I saw a man there, in the smoke. My third eye opened and he had a book in his hand. I thought, "What is that?" He opened the book and the words kind-of came out of the smoke into my mind and I asked someone, "Write this down, really fast." So next time, I went back to see if it would happen again and it did. That went on for months and months and months and out of it came the 'Lemurian Scrolls', from this akasic library. It wasn't really channeling, as people do channel today. It was reading the akasa, reading a book in the akasa. It was a book - actually from several books - about how people lived in those days, what they did, how they thought, why they came to the planet. It was so fantastic that we didn't let anybody read it. We just put it away and the monks in the monastery would read it occasionally. But, last year we got the impulse, that it should go out to the public. So, we had historians and scholars review the book and make their comments about it. We were really amazed at what they said, about the time sequences and about the content and so forth. We have about ten, twenty scholars and historians with their pictures and their comments, right in the first part of the book, which is very, very interesting. So, it is a book that I read, I did not write.
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Paramacharya Bodhinathaswami makes the "purnahuti" offering into the homa fire.

Mrs. Haridoss (middle) also came to worship. On the right in the photo is Amala Nagappan with her baby, Yajatadeva, who was born in Malaysia.

Ishani Alahan and Mrs. Haridoss perform the Arati as everyone sings the Arati song.

It was a brilliant morning as the sun rises earlier now that spring has arrived. Everyone sings:

"Joy and peace and love
Shine them brightly in our hearts
Swami shine them brightly in our hearts
Shiva when we think of you
Shiva when we think of you
Shed karuna (compassion) on us all
Om Jai Jagdisha Hare..."

"You're our Mother and Father
Who else can we turn to for help
Swami who else can we turn to for help
We can be with no one but you
We can be with no one but you
You're the shakti of our lives
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Om Jai Jagdisha Hare"

Some of the monks meet with one of the participants of the coming Innersearch to Europe. Deva Magdalena, from Honolulu, was born in Hungary and moved to Austria and other European countries and later came to Canada for 20 years and has been living in Hawaii for 30 years. A health care practitioner, Deva has spent about 3 years in India going there for short periods over the years. Lately she has been an avid reader of Gurudeva's books.

Today we experienced one of those incredibly brilliant, clear days when the Waialeale mountain range shines forth in all its majesty.

We continue now with Yogaswami's famous song:

San Marga IX.

Oh Man! Thou art Truth! Thou art Goodness! Can aught harm thee? Thou art omnipresent! In Eternity art Thou. As the lion roams about the forest with mighty mane, so regally do thou too move in the domain of the world. Under no circumstance should you falter. There is nothing unique in this world. Truth abides in All. Goodwill prevails everywhere. Oh Man! Seek not to assert authority over anyone or anything in this world. Always be a witness. Nobility is your heritage. It cannot be inherited by any stratagem. That art. It is so. All else is a mirage. Thou art neither ignorance nor knowledge. Thou art Paramatma. Aum Tat Sat Aum. Oh Man! Practice patience. It is the key to know Thyself. Grieve not! Joy and sorrow are part of the phenomena of the world Thou art Conciousness pure. Nothing need overpower you. Be vigilant and ever wakeful. Use the key of Siva-Dhyanam to open the avenue to everlasting Mukti, the beatific state of liberation. Thereafter everything will be revealed to you.
Aum Santi, Santi, Santi.
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Oh Friend! Who has the perogative to declare thee as a sinner? Art thou not a facet of Siva? Has thou forgotten it? Repeat ceaselessly, Aum Tat Sat and surrender yourself fully at His Feet. Do not neglect meditation on Siva. Ultimately all will be well. Free thyself from the bonds of effort and effortlessness. Of what use is a multitude of words? A rich harvest can result only out of a fruitful soil. Fear not. We are the bondsmen of Siva, Even as Siva is immortal, so too are We. Heat and cold, joy and sorrow, youth and age are but the concomitants of nature. Why need we be afflicted by the reactions of our deeds? Let the tide of cause and effect rise and ebb in the natural process. Remember that we are eternal. We are imperishable. Truth cannot be negated. What is not cannot be equated with what is. There is naught but felicity for us who bide by Siva's Will. When we have surrendered everything at Siva's Feet, we can never suffer from want or greed. We are the multi-colored gems strung to the cord of Siva. The cord shall never be reft asunder, nor shall we suffer any separation. Why expound futher? Aum Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

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One of the wonderments of the San Marga Iraivan Temple will be musical pillars like this one, the likes of which have not been carved in India for centuries.

Carved out of a single column of granite, each internal column when tapped makes a perfect tone. Together they cover one whole octave and are used by musicians in the temple to tune their instruments.

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

The Hirasingh family from Holland (left) rendezvous with their friends from India at the Spiritual Park.

The Comaren and Goinden families singing Tamil hymns in praise of Ganesha.

The Comarens of Rose Hill bring their relatives for Ganesha's blessings on the eve their departure. The Goindens pray for a smooth and safe flight back to their home in London, which is ten hours (across three time zones) to the northwest.

Cousins Sandeep and Sachin and moms Leela Bhandari and Anita Cheetamun. Sandeep's taking a break from his university studies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and visiting his family in Mauritius.

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