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Date: May_09_2001
Title: Group Karma
Category: Karma
Duration: 2 min., 05 seconds
Date Given: April 17, 2001

A cyberspace devotee, Rakesh, is wondering, "If a lot of people die at the same time, such as in the earthquake in Gujarat or a plane crash, where do they go? What do they do? Do the husband and wife meet one another? What happens on the inside of the inner world when this happens?"

This is called a group karma. The same thing happening to many people, in the same way, at the same time. It is a group karma.

The Devas and Mahadevas in the inner world of course know that this is going to happen and they are prepared for the arrival of the group. If you would visualize a busy airport with a lot of people in it all milling around in one building, you get the idea of what happens when the group leaves the physical body and is in the astral body. Often, they don't even know that they are dead.

So, in this big reception hall, everyone is calmed down, talked with and separated out. Husbands meet wives and they collect up their children. It is explained to them what has happened to them and then it is all sorted out. Each one goes to his respective heaven world in which he was prepared for, through his religion, at an early age.

That is one of the big problems of having a husband in one religion, for instance a Sikh and the wife is a Catholic. Each would go into his own respective heaven world and they would be separated. The strength of a good marriage is that the wife join the religion of her husband.
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The "anchor" of our daily life is the morning sadhana period which is one and a half hours to two hours long. Beginning at 5:30 with Siva puja in the temple, this is the most blessed part of our day in the Kadavul temple, which, with it's lights all on truly "shines" like the famed "hall of Chidambaram" which, besides being a real place in India is also considered the mystic chamber of consciousness in which Lord Siva dances. On the right is Lord Muruga, ready for his morning bath and puja which is held at 6:00 am. Meanwhile the monks will go to the meditation room for rigorous Raja Yoga meditation for one hour followed by a talk from Gurudeva at 7:00 am.

Today Arvindraj performs the puja, completing his "graduation" from the Atmartha Puja classes he has been taking.

Arvindraj showed an excellent command of the Sanskrit and "kriyas" or actions for the puja. He will take this into his life as a daily practice in the future for his own life and his future family.

"Arati" is the famed "waving of the lights" that is performed by Hindus of all denominations. Regardless of the extremely diverse forms of rituals and procedures, this one offering of consciousness to the Divine can be seen across all of India, in all ashrams, villages, temples and ceremonies.

After the puja the flames is offered to the feet of the Guru.

We had a busy morning with a wide array of guests. Here is Bob and Bharati Gaitonde from Texas, originally from Goa.

Shashank and Deepti Chitnis from Honolulu. Shashank is an architectural designer, working for Tower Engineering and offered his services to the temple. Deepti is a dentist, working for the US Army. She is an officer in he Dental Corps. The have two boys, Jay, 7yrs, and Om, 4yrs.

This is Marian Yee and her close friend Bruce Barnes. Marian is co-founder and Vice-President of ComTest Technologies a highly successful Hawaii based firm that is vendor for some of the printers used by our own publications office. Born Hawaiian of Chinese and Russian parents, Marian has been a reader of Dancing with Siva and Lemurian scrolls for several years and is very interested in the inner mystical teachings and purchased Merging with Siva today when she came to visit the monastery and temple and see the grounds of the future Iraivan temple.

Bruce is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace in Honolulu where he is actively involved in the dissemination of information on nonviolence. He was recently on Kauai to work with the police force here to find ways to have citizens mediate their differences among themselves.

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Intense discussions continued this morning, with Ganapati Sthapati (center) and his son Selvanathan (rear) on the building of the Iraivan temple.

Attending them is Michael Borden, an architect who lives in Fairfield, Iowa, who has studied principles of Vastu archtecture under Sthapati. Michael is promoting Vastu design in America for residential and commercial building. He came to Kauai to join Sthapati for the stone laying ceremonies.

Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati has been associated with our temple from its inception over 20 years ago. Since then he has become world-renowned as more and more temple communities in many different countries outside of India have created a high demand for his expertise. A man of vast education in the field of sacred architecture, Sthapati is not only a master builder but a master of the mystical sciences behind the outer forms. He contends that there is a hidden connection between the ancient teachings of Vastu, which are contained in books written by one "Mayan" and the Mayan civilization of Central America. He is a fitting person to build the Iraivan temple which on this island of Kauai is the center of the ancient civilization of Lemuria which would have been the link between ancient India and Central America.

Sthapati and his apprentice, Selvanathan who himself can look forward to a growing, successful career as the continuing trend to build Hindu temples shows no signs of abatement.

Please give generously to the temple. Now is the time to donate. Once it is built, your opportunity to participate in this historic project will vanish.

Gurudeva's spiritual center in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa

Is the Spiritual Park a place for pilgrimage only? For a very nice group of Sai Baba devotees led by two dynamic youth leaders, it was the ideal place to have a spiritual retreat. This is what they did one Sunday, leaving aside all mundane activities to concentrate on their inner self. Miss Deepa Hassamal and Mr. Keshav Sobarnath, both youth wing coordinators of the Mauritius Sai Baba organisation carefully planned a one day spiritual retreat for some hundred participants at the park. Their activities, other than a tour on the park in the morning, included religious teachings, meditation and bajans.

Here the sai youth retreat participants in the midst of an animated group discussion under the shade of the mango grove that surrounds the Ganesha Mandapam. This reminds us of the traditional old days when Hindus used to sit under banian trees to attentively listen to mystical teachings from Illuminated Gurus.

Mr. Lee Lan Chong, trader from Montagne Blanche saw a film on the Spiritual Park on television. He was so inspired that he brought his whole family to see the park. He was happy to see a little Oriental style in the design of the Ganesha Mandapam roof which is artistically covered with marine blue tiles made of clay by craftsmen in a province of China.

Some people come from as far as Chemin Grenier a village on the south coast of the island, often by public bus, to spend a whole day at the park. Here we see the Koothan and Doorgiat families, long time devotees of Gurudeva who had a happy time during the day entertaining other visitors at the park. Mr. Siven Koothan, has been a pillar for Saiva Siddhanta Church in the south of Mauritius for many, many years. He is a primary school Head Teacher, and is also organizing 'Positive Discipline' seminars on parenting in his local area. Interested families may contact him on

Tel: 622 7814.

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