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Date: September_26_1998
Topic: One Energy Pervades All
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Duration: 6 min., 08 sec.
Date Given: September 26, 1998

Today at Kauai Aadheenam, it is September 26. We have had a wonderful day. We have had several groups of guests today. They are so devoted. They feel the peace of Kauai Aadheenam.

Why is there peace here at Kauai Aadheenam? Because, every misunderstanding, which rarely comes up anymore, is settled before bedtime. If any conflict of a negative nature arises, all religious service stops. Religious service cannot be done if there is misunderstanding or conflict among the group that is performing religious service.

Well, today we received a letter from the Governor of the State of Hawaii, giving a beautiful endorsement for Iraivan Temple. The entire community is behind this San Marga project. We are very grateful.

Art arrived from the great artist Manivelu in Chennai, showing Lord Hanuman carrying Iraivan Temple on His hand, from India to the Garden Island of Kauai and placing It gently down on the foundation.

We received a very nice report from pilgrims that we sent on a mission to India. Paramacharya Bodhinatha, Yogi Tapodana, Markandeya Sendan and a new monk, Nilakanta Velan. They are in Bangalore now, and overwhelmed with the immense pillars that are being created there. They had no idea of the magnificance. The silpis, professional stone-carvers, commend us for allowing them enough time to perform their art, without rushing them in any way.

Well, I am seeing you and you are seeing me. Here we are. Everyday we have a theme of what we teach. The theme of today is 'Hospitality'. Loving each other enough to treat the guests as God and not an intruder. Often times, in modern society, especially when Mom and Dad are both working, the guests seem to be the intruder. To treat the guest as God is posturing and that posturing has the feeling of being unreal. We must relax with our guests. We must love our guests, for God is inside of them.

Now, how is God inside of a guest? Have any of you wondered about that? God is inside of a guest because all the energy within the body of a guest is coming from God. Just like all the energy in the body of you, is coming directly from God. That is why we can say, "One God, One World." It is people that make up the world that we know of today. But that One energy, flowing through all people and all animals and all fishes and all birds and all kinds of microscopic creatures, is coming from God. It is One energy which pervades the whole universe. One God, One World. The guest is God.

We want to encourage friendliness. We want to encourage hospitality. We want to encourage us to open our hearts to those we know. When they are well, show appreciation. When they are ill, show that you are interested in them, and that you care. Don't turn away. Turning away is not what we should do. We are a one family, living on this planet.

We are one family, living on this planet. All religions are good because they were started with good intentions. The only problem with all the religions of the world - and they do have problems, Hinduism included - is the people within the religion. The people with the closed hearts, the people that are not generous, not caring. The people that flare up in anger over little things, the people that are jealous. They are not really in their religion. They are sort of hanging on to the religion as a lifeline and those of you, who are not angry, those of you who do not experience jealousy, those of you who are generous, and those of you who are hospitable have to pull that lifeline in.You have to help them out of their despair, out of their misery. That is your duty, because your energy is within them and their energy is within you and it is all coming from God.

Tomorrow I'll be seeing you
in all our familiar places
that this heart of ours embraces
in our hi-tech ways
on our internet highways
we'll be together in cyberspace
in every lovely summer's day
I'll always think of you
and be there
right by your side.

That's magical, isn't it? That magic is religion.
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Our new "Himalayan Academy Pavillion" has received a very special and unique version of the traditional "Navagrahas" shrine. In temples in India, outside the temple or off to the side of the main mandapam there is usually a small pedestal with statues of the 9 planets which traditionally have been the Sun, Moon and 7 major planets of the solar system. These small shrines have sometimes taken over the whole purpose of the temple as devotees flock on Saturday to propitiate "Sani" or "Mars" in hopes of warding off negative influences.

Gurudeva decided he wanted a slightly more true to life Navagraha Shrine and ordered brass statues of the Planetary overlords with roller bearings underneath. These are placed on the zodiac and moved to their actual astronomical positions each day so that our Navagraha Shrine is a true representation of the actual Jyotisha (astrological) configuration of the day.

Here is the snake hooded planet of Ketu who is in the house of Sagitarius. Eventually this entire rasi chakra will be a raised platform, three feet high.

Lord of Astrology and representing planet Earth in the center is none other than Lord Ganesha! We had this small Pancha Mukha Ganapati in the temple and a small granite lotus from India and they made the perfect center piece for the Navagraha shrine. Note the big congregation of planets in the upper right house of Gemini: Chandra (Moon), Budha (Mercury), Guru (Jupiter) and Rahu (North Node), while the nearby Surya (Sun) just entered Cancer a few days ago.

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As course two is being wrapped up, materials to fill the "void" spaces are being loaded onto the retaining wall of sand.

The outer retaining wall of sand serves not only to protect the lower courses from damage as the temple rises, but also provides a much needed work platform immediately adjacent to the sanctum.

Time to sharpen chisels again.

The kevlar gloves we had were much appreciated for this blacksmith work, where a slight touch of skin against anything in the immediate proximity of the forge means a serious burn!

A few skillful blows and the hot iron is back in shape.

Then into the water.

Next, into the cooling rack.

This set of chisels is now ready for another day's work. Actually, a single chisel will only be used for a few minutes of chiseling... and will be dulled in a short while. Harder steel could be used, but the force of the hammering is channeled back up the arm and creates too much stress for the worker, so, soft iron continues to serve an ancient craft.

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

Vanessa Maistry and her friend carefully planned a one day retreat and chose the Spiritual Park to hold it. She later emailed us to share her feelings:

" It is a great pleasure to know that in our small island of Mauritius we have such wonderful places....I thank you a lot . We had a nice retreat . We enjoyed our day's work and we hope that we will be back for a next visit soon.....I would like to thank the whole group which is engaged in the maintenance of this Spiritual Park. On behalf of the Eau Coul�e Sai Centre, we wish you all good luck in the work you have been engaged in.

Thank you. Sai Ram
Vanessa."

The participants of the Eau Coul�e Sai Centre are attentively listening to instructions regarding their day's work. The favorite spot for seminars is always in the mango groves because of its refreshing shade and the beautiful sea view in the background. Other spots of natural beauty exist on the park. The next photo speaks of itself.

Visitors can also enjoy the shades in the newly coming up pine forests at the park. This is one of the rare spots in the island where one can see "bengali" birds during the day. These small brownish grey colored beautiful birds are now not so much seen in Mauritius. They like nature and do not usually breed in highly active human settlements. Your kids would enjoy them... Many scriptures in Hinduism associate birds to lovely devas, divine beings that hovers in the atmosphere.

A group of ladies of the local Marathi community led by Mrs. Vidula Babajee, of Coromandel, dropped at the park and were fascinated at the Keralan architecture of the Ganesha Mandapam. They wanted to know more about Lord Ganesha and our host read them many answers to their questions from the the very informative and instructive book, Loving Ganesha, which is also on sale at the Mandapam.

Another dynamic youth, Sailendra Lochan of Quatre Bornes brought a bus full of Sai devotees to the park one Sunday evening. They sang such beautiful bhajans at the Ganesha Mandapam that one would have imagined being on a great festival day there.

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