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Gurudeva says in Merging with Siva:

"To develop a whole new lifestyle takes thought. Our desire has to be transmuted into doing that. In the ordinary lifestyle of human consciousness, our desires generally are for things, for emotional experiences, for intellectual knowing. And that's all good, but they're not organized. We have to organize the tremendous power of desire so that it's transmuted, and we desire the realization of the Self more than anything else. Then you'll have enough desire left over to get things, to get happiness and to get all the getting that humans want. "
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Priya Alahan, a young lady in our Kauai Mission was inspired to do a very beautiful water color rendition of Gurudeva in Samadhi with all the Devonic beings hovering over him... Thank you, Priya for this lovely image...

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"But the tremendous force of desire is transmuted. The perspective is changed. We see ourself as an immortal being, and we work consistently with our lifestyle day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. Each decision that we make is an easier decision to make, and each reaction that we face, we face it joyfully. Each meditation that we hold is more profound than the last, and the spiritual being, the soul body, begins to merge with the physical body, as the elements of the instinct and the elements of the intellect that have been supreme life after life after life begin to give up and transmute their energies into the immortal body of the soul."

Our Lambodara Kulam team is occupying a corner of the Ganapathi Kulam office while the temple office is undergoing major renovations. Here is Acharya Ceyonswami and Sadhaka Thondunatha. The good news is that five new containers of stones are finally on their way from Los Angeles and will be arriving soon on Kauai!

Here is the wonderful young priest visiting from California. His name is Janahan and his wife Saru and their very religious little two-year old daughter, Mangala.

We are sharing with you some of the wonderful work of A. Manivelu in Madras... recently he did new renderings of the Saiva Symbols. This is "Padma" -- the Lotus.

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While a shipload of stones will be arriving soon, back in India work continues. Here is an excellent shot of the very beginnings. This stone from the quarry gets its first markings from the resident Sthapati. Now the silpi carvers will begin the rough cutting. The younger, stronger men do this harder work, as a part of their initial training. This will be a massive piece: the Portico Cap Stone.

Here is an ornamental piece "the Banana Flower" that will eventually be inserted into part of the temple structure.

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Date: December_01_1998
Title: Sivalaya Deepam
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Duration: 4 min., 37 sec.
Date Given: December 01, 1998

Today at Kauai Aadheenam. December 1st. Welcome to our cyberspace, electronic Ashram. We are very,very happy to see all of your faces out there. You look very, very beautiful. Today is the last day of our phase, which is our vedic week, and we are looking forward to a 3 day retreat. The entire team, 25 of us, turns out to clean the ashram on the last day.

Tomorrow is Sivalaya Deepam. This is when Siva turns into a pillar of light, and a big fire is set all over South India. If you were to fly a plane throughout the country on this particular day, you would see many, many fires in every single village, all worshipping Siva. The Sivaness within everyone is emulated by lighting a big bonfire and everybody is so happy. It is a beautiful festival.

Also, today the Mayor of Kauai, First Lady of our Garden Island, has invited us with a special invitation to the inauguration, of herself and our county council. She just won the election. So, we'll be going to that.

Well, here is a question that has come in about conversion."Are there any other ways or things we should do to convert, other than the six steps that you mentioned from 'Loving Ganesa' yesterday?"

Yes, there are. If persons who are very religious and have sort of fallen away from their religion, they come to Hindu festivals, make Hindu pilgrimage and find Hinduism as their religion. In other words, they become religious within Hinduism. Then, if they wish to convert, we always suggest they go back to their previous religion for a month or two, a hundred percent, and test it out to see if it works for them. Often, they never return. They stay there as a religious person, whereas previously they were not religious at all in their previous religion.

Often times also, they find their philosophical concepts no longer agree. They talk to their pastor, priest, or rabbi, tell them that and obtain a release or an 'isto facto' excommunication. It is quite necessary to put someone through this, if they have had a history of going to the synagogue, and going to church, or going to mass, so that they are doubly, doubly sure about the great step they have taken in this life, which will affect their future birth.

Well, enough on that subject. We have a few other questions but time is short and the answers are long. So we'll take them up after the retreat. We will be seeing you after our 3 day retreat.

It is holiday time, be careful. Supervise your children well. Take care of your body. Only you can do that. It is the only one you have got. We'll be seeing you on Sun One, when our retreat is over. You can take the retreat with us too, and reflect upon what you did in the last two or three weeks and what you are going to do in the days to come and get a clear perspective. Our future is created with our mind. We can't do a lot about the past, except quiet the emotions that are carried in past memories. We can create a wonderful future for ourselves based on having learned the lessons from the experiences of the past.
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