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Cybertalk: In the second and last part of Gurudeva's New Year talk he urges temple trustees around the world to help eradicate backbiting and other low minded things from the community to create a Hindu community that will be a model community worldwide. Gurudeva says this is a year of will power, aggressiveness and accomplishment and encourages everyone to take advantage of it.

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Date: April_04_2001
Title: Thought Manifestations in Meditation and Life
Category: The Mind
Duration: 1 min., 44 seconds
Date Given: March 21, 2001

A wonderful question from cyberspace devotee, Ron in Arizona, who is studying 'Merging with Siva', the beautiful book, 365 daily lessons. His concern is about thought. "As I watch my thoughts, am I watching the manifestation of the thought or the thought that is about to be manifest?"

In 'Merging with Siva', all answers to all questions are within the 1000 pages of this remarkable book. But in short, I can answer your question by saying that thought is a combined group of pranas that makes pictures in the mind. It has a form, color and sound. It is in itself a manifestation.

People that don't control their thoughts and only half-manifest one thought and then half-manifest another thought are also not controlling their daily life, because the thoughts that they think is the life of tomorrow. So, be careful of your thoughts because that manifests your life tomorrow.

If you have fears and think about your fears, you are manifesting what you are afraid of in the future. If you have worries and think about your worries, you are manifesting what you are worrying about. You will walk right into it and have to live it because you created it. If you think of success, happiness and joy, these thoughts will manifest a wonderful future for you. Get your happiness from making others happy.
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Our neighbors, the Stoddards, brought some friends to join pilgrims from several continents for the monastery tour today.

Raja and Rani Gourinathan and their son Ramanan came for the first time to Kauai. They had met Gurudeva before in California.

Jeeva Rajan from Houston, Texas has been here for a three day pilgrimage to receive New Years blessings from Gurudeva.

Jesvir Mahil from England was visiting Hawaii and heard about the monastery from friends.

Though Jesvir Mahil is of the Sikh tradition, she too was eager to receive blessings from Gurudeva.

Our temple door has this wonderful brass relief of Lord Ganesha. The first God to be worshipped in Hinduism. You can learn all about Ganesha in Gurudeva's wonderful book: Loving Ganesha

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