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Date: August_19_1998
Title: Express Love, Gratitude
Category: Meditation and Yoga
Duration: 2 min., 14 sec
Date Given: August 19, 1998
Given by: Gurudeva

August 19. Greetings everyone. We are really happy to be together again. Also, a lot of things are happening here at Kauai Aadheenam, quite a busy place.

To be centered in the eternal Now, that takes a little bit of doing. No matter what happens around us, we have to realise that the past and the future all exist right now. The past and the future all exist right now. That is a wonderful statement and I have been making that statement for over fifty years. Very hard to convince people. But through cyberspace, talking to you this very moment, I feel that you have caught the idea. The past and the future all exist right now.

The eternity of the moment basically, is the only time. It is a very short time, goes second by second by second. The past and the future exist in the totality right now.

What is the past? Our memory patterns. What is the future? Our hopes and fears. What is now? Sitting among those that we love, sitting among those that support us and that we support, a communication between people and people, animals and people, people and plants, plants and people, love, appreciation, gratitude.

Have a wonderful day, everyone. Expect love today. Give kind words of appreciation and gratitude for all the good that is in your life this very moment, the eternal moment, second by second by second.The past and the future exist right now.
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Today was Sun One homa. The monastery follows the Vedic Panchangam system. Each lunar fortnight is a "paksha" and is divided into two "phases." Sun One will normally always fall on the dvitya tithi (second lunar day of the fortnight) or the ekadasi tithi (10th lunar day of the fortnight). New moon, full moon and Ashtami and the days following each of these are the monastery "retreat" days.

ANNOUNCEMENT--German translation needs your collaboration

A wonderful lady in Germany has begun to translate "Merging with Siva" into German. We are looking for a CyberCadet who can read the first couple of chapters and help us with the language. It will take just an hour of less. If you are a native German speaker with strong English skills, please e-mail us: palani@hindu.org and we will do the rest.

Mr. Nelliappan has been serving Gurudeva and his work with great dedication for many years, acting as our India liason officer and managing a great many business matters for us in South India.

Gurudeva listens as Nelliappan reads his dedication.

Thambynathan Girish Samugam, is the acting priest helper and blows the conch during the final arati of the homa. Girish has aspirations to one day become a monk. He will be with us for another month or so and then return to his family in Singapore.

Wonderful guests joined us today from Boston, Chaya and her daughter Charu.

Dr Ratnasamy and family also made a pilgrimage to the monastery from Florida.

Here is Mr. Thom of Mcees Logistics Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. He is the man who has been contracted to do all the shipping of the Iraivan temple. He takes this work VERY seriously and flew all the way from India to Kauai. He is inspecting the situation at each juncture where the containers carrying the stones for Iraivan will pass through. And he even met with the local trucking firm that delivers the containers from the dock on the island here to the temple. Mr. Thom is very inspired by the project and says: "Years after I am gone, my great grandchildren will remember only one thing.... that I was responsible for bringing this great temple from India to America." Mr. Thom is not only responsible for the shipping but all aspects of moving the stones beginning with the crates in Bangalore. He met with Gurudeva today for blessings and is soon back to India where he faces a challenge to get five more containers to Kauai by September, which he vowed he would do. He is a fine man.

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Last phase there was a lot of progress on the temple construction. The first course of the central sanctum outer wall was all fitted in.

Meanwhile, massive deliveries of sand and lava rock have arrived. Here is the latest delivery of sand.

Yoginathswami and Karttikeyanathaswami watch as the truck unloads beside the temple foundation.

Four loads arrived, two of stones and two of sand. Look closely as the sanctum: the outer stones form the outside of the central chamber. The inside walls of the central chamber are set in about a foot and a half from the outside walls. The space between the walls will be filled with a mixture of mortar and stones, which will be done for this course in about 15 days from now.

You are seeing here the "footing" level of the sanctum. These stones are all below the actual sanctum floor which will be 4 feet higher than the surface of the foundation.

Yoginathaswami inspects the lava rock. Shanmuga Sthapati was very happy with the quality: hard, yet porous enough to absorb moisture and mortar.

The silpis are in the middle of finishing the installation of the inner layer of stones.

The back square and the small pole in the center is the area and point above which the giant Maha Spatika Lingam will eventually be installed.

More stones will be delivered soon and our silpis move the sanctum doorway stones out of the way to make more room on the foundation.

Shanmuga Sthapati stands on the left and softly chants "aiysa, aiysa" and on each note of the quiet song, the silpis bars lift and turn in a small motion that gradually moves the massive pieces across the surface of the foundation.

Please give generously. In order to keep up the pace of our wonderful team, we need to increase the monthly contributions.

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