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Date: May_17_2001
Title: How to love the Gods?
Category: God and Lords of Dharma
Duration: 3 min., 14 seconds
Date Given: May 09, 2001

A cyberspace devotee, Rosina, wants to find the love of God, doesn't have love for God and is wondering how to bring this about.

Well Rosina, judging from your name, you are probably not a member of the Hindu religion. Therefore, your philosophy - and correct me if I am wrong - may be different than ours.

Whatever we love, we have to know where it is. It has to be identified in a place and then, we can either love it or not love it, react to it or fight with it.

Going to Sanatana Dharma, God does have a place. But it is a little more complicated than that. We have to know what God we are talking about. Now, if we are talking about Lord Siva, Lord Siva is everywhere, most strongly felt within a Siva Temple. If we are talking about God Ganesha or God Murugan or any other Gods and Goddesses, they live in the Third world and have many Devas and other Mahadevas that work and serve humanity.

Let us begin with Lord Siva. The energy in your body, and my body and everybody's body, as well as, in animals, bugs, reptiles, fish and birds is the same one prana flowing. Where does it come from? It comes from Siva. So, we can identify Siva in one of His aspects as pure energy and learn to love energy.

The light that lights up my thoughts, that lights up your TV, lights up your thoughts and all the thoughts in all the minds in the world, that light comes from Siva. So, we can identify Siva as light and learn to love light.

On another level, from a psychological point of view, to have love in your heart and love flowing through you, you have to get rid of all the things that you don't love. Maybe you are fighting with somebody in the office, having mental arguments with your family or friends. All that has to stop. So, if you are having a conflict, mentally say, "I love you, you love me" and make the energy between you and the person that you are conflicting with, flow between you in a very wonderful harmonious way.

This is a mental, six-word mantra - "I love you, you love me."

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Guest day brought some wonderful souls and some wonderful rain.

Hindu pilgrims arrived from Singapore, coming by invitation to attend the all important first stone laying ceremonies.

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Iraivan Temple Progress Update

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At long last the historic moment has arrived. Jiva Rajasankara (fourth from the left) our temple carving site manager arrived on Kauai with seven wonderful souls from India: six silpis (stone carvers) and one assistant silpi/cook.

These men will begin the work on the temple that will last 1000 years. This is their first trip out of India.

Please help us keep them working steadily. We have new monthly fund raising goals now. Aside from continuing to maintain the carving site in India and sustain the on-going finishing of the stones there, now we must provide the salary, house payments and operations expenses involved with fitting the stones here on Kauai.

We took them first to the temple for blessings.

Soon we will be posting the exact stones that will be going into the temple and you will be able to sponsor one or more stones and you can make your payments on a monthly basis over a period of a few years.

Here is the whole team with master Architect Ganapati Sthapati in the center, the silpis and Selvanathan, Sthapati's protege on the right. We look forward to working together for many years.

Ganapati Sthapati made this important statement when the men arrived"

This is historic for a number of reasons, one is that this is the very first time that a team of trained stone sculptors have been brought to America. Heretofore, only masons have been sent from India to work on temples." Sthapati also wrote a wonderful article on the temple, elucidating the inner mysticism of a temple built according to the true Saivite Hindu Agama traditions and Vastu Shastra and few days ago which we will excerpt for you in the days ahead.

SAN MARGA IRAIVAN TEMPLE, HAWAII, USA

The Sanmarga Iraivan Temple, visualized and sponsored by H.H. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Gurudeva, of Kauai Aadheenam, USA, is a unique structure being built entirely of granite stones of white variety, procured from Bangalore, South India. The concept behind the temple scheme is based on scientific Vaastu and Agamic science. Design-wise, it is a simple structure but concept-wise it is of a very great significance. Technologically too, it is simple but spiritually it is elevating and satisfying.

The temple complex consists of

1. Garbhagriha, a harmoniously structured cubical cell that would enshrine a crystal Linga, the focal point of worship. The crystal Linga is called Sukshma Linga, subtle.

2. Mukha mandapa, an extended part of Garbhagriha, for providing space for the high priest to stand and perform puja-worship by flowers and waving of camphor and lights called Deeparadhana.

(to be continued next phase....we are going into a two day retreat...see you Sun One!)

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