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Date: September_03_1998
Topic: Exchange Love in Cyberspace
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Duration: 4 min., 47 sec.
Date Given: September 03, 1998

In our beautiful Garden Island of Kauai, our Island Temple is celebrating today, Thursday, September 3, Swami Sri Sri Sri Pragyananda Maharaj's 54th birthday. There are 108 rudraksha beads in a mala and he is half-way through his mala. He has a tremendous project going in India. To build up that project, he talks to thousands and thousands of people, travels around the world. He has been travelling 19 years, here and there and everywhere.

We have given him a mission to perform. To stop corporal punishment and to raise up the next generation in love. To work with the priests and trustees in temples, so that they work in harmony, one with another. One more mission, to honor the priests of our great religion and lift their status to the heights of engineers, doctors, the priests and ministers of other religions. They deserve it, for they invoke the Gods.

We are here in cyberspace, looking at you. You look really nice today. It is amazing what you can see through cyberspace, just like looking into the akasa, and now through your computer. Sometimes we see things we don't want to see. But, we know they are going to be corrected because we feel that coming to an Ashram everyday is a changing experience, has been for thousands of years in Hindu culture. Now through your computer screen, you can in your mind, break the barriers of time, break the barriers of space and come right here, pick up on the vibration that we generate and live in, every single day.

We will have darshan together tomorrow. Darshan works both ways. I have your darshan, looking at you and you have my darshan, looking at me. We are exchanging feelings of love, back and forth.

Aum Namasivaya.

Swami Pragyananda Maharaj gave a beautiful talk in the Kadavul Hindu Temple this morning, to a large group of devotees, swamis, sadhakas, and yogis. We would like, for him to share just a few words of that inspired lecture, to you today. We don't want to miss this rare opportunity to catch, for cyberspace, what he has to say.

Swami Pragyananda Maharaj : I met Gurudeva in 1981, in Kuala Lumpur. Since that day, I have the feeling that he is always with me. When he blessed me, he just hugged me and told me "I am with you". I was in stress in 1986, I was out. That time also I was here. That was a great challenge to me. I was alone like a Christ, that time. Everybody kicked me out. He knows the history. Palaniswami knows those days, that history. That time also he told me, "Don't worry. I am with you."

That day I thought that I am just like a lion. When the child is with his mother, even if a lion comes, he feels safe. So, when the mother is with me, the father is with me, my Guru is with me, then no one can touch me. Since that day I feel that no one can harm me, no one can touch me, because the blessings of Gurudeva is with me.

Thank you very much, all of you who are here. Gurudeva has blessed me and you are here to convey your best wishes for the long life of not my body, but my life-long project. That project is essential, body is the medium. I want the blessings for my project. Here he has already blessed me for my project. The project is essential, body is immaterial. If this project will remain, I will remain, and Gurudeva's blessings will remain. If project is no more, then I am no more. So, your blessing is with me. Thank you very much.

Aum Namasivaya. Aum Namasivaya. Aum Namasivaya.
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As you can see a lot of progress is being made. The posts for the retaining wall for main sanctum have been erected.

The silpis have completed setting all the stone of the first course of the sanctum and have been working on clean up and getting the next course of stones into position.

Meanwhile another load of sand arrived. It will be used to serve as fill for the retaining wall and to make the mortar rock mix that fills the empty space between the inner and outer walls of the main sanctum

The top of the temporary posts are the same height as the pillars and main roof will be. The sanctum tower will rise another 16 feet above this.

All the stones you see have been leveled, fitted and laid into position. Gigantic four by twelve beams have been set up as posts for the retaining wall.

The dark shadowed space between the inner and outer walls will be the mortar/stone mix and the space between the wooden wall and the outside stone wall will be filled with sand. The stones you see here are all below the actual floor level and will not be seen.

The next course of stone will be the ones that appear just at floor level.

Our dynamic team starts moving these into place. It will be quite interesting to see how they get these giant pieces of granite up onto the next course!

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