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Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Gurudeva’s Statement on Sept. 11th
Here is a wonderful tribute from one of the local Rotary Club members. Gurudeva occasionally spoke to the Rotary Clubs on the island and their members would come to visit the monastery from time to time.
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“The island is filled with sadness today as we are to loose one of the most important contributors to our island, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami reverently spoken of as Gurudeva, leader of the Hindu Monastery in Wailua.
There is a realization that Gurudeva will no longer grace this island as the last impending days and hours grow nearer and as he prepares to pass on to The Creator. His wonderful physical presence will no longer be experienced on our beautiful island that he loves so much. His spirit will always hold a presence on this island because he has given so much of his spirit to Kauai.
He has touched the hearts and minds of all that have come in contact with him and his wonderful followers. All that have been fortunate enough to have met him and know him and his work ask, “What can we do for this man that has done so much for us, our island and the world?”
He is family – ohana — to many of us that have left family miles away. He is inspiration to the many of pure hearts longing for peace and love in their lives. He is an example to the world of true acceptance and unconditional love – One God, One World. One Island, Many Peoples, All Kaua`ians. Aloha: It’s Kauai’s Spirit
He will be terribly missed but his work will be carried on. His passing will create “grief’s valleys.” So many people love him and will find it difficult not to feel this great loss.”
We were blessed today with the arrival of Swami Pragyanand who has been visiting the Aadheenam to see Gurudeva many times through the years. When he was a young brahmachari in yellow and struggling with his mission work in early years, Gurudeva befriended and guided him along. He followed Gurudeva’s advice and through the years has become one of India’s prominent spiritual leaders. Here he speaks tearfully of missing Gurudeva, but affirms that Gurudeva will live on with an even more powerful influence than ever.
Cybertalk: If the manifestation of karma is inevitable, who do parents need
to discipline their children at all? If something is in the child’s karma
and it’s going to manifest inevitably, why not let what is going to happen
just happen? This is a 16-17-year-old asking, and it’s really a great
philosophical question. Karma can manifest in a number of ways. Example of
physical injury. The Karma is to break a leg because of actions in the past.
How karma manifests depends on how you live. Ordinary life, karma will
manifest in its grossest form, breaking the leg. If you live a refined life,
karma will come in a more refined way, such as a lot of bruises. If you live
a religious life, karma will come in a very refined way. Example of TV news,
famous person breaking leg, and we can take on the emotion of it and
identify with it intensely if that was in our karma. This way we are going
through the karma in a very subtle way. Karma manifests according to how you
live.
Cybertalk Ends”
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Swami Pragyanand has a cheerful, joyful presence and knows many monks by name.
We greet him in the traditional fashion at the door of the temple with a foot washing.
Arati… Swami is a strong proponent of vegetarianism, Vedic Yagna and the Gayatri Mantra. He has taken these core features of Hinduism and made them powerful planks in his mission work, organizing giant yagnas regularly in various parts of India, preaching to the people, uplifting and inspiring them to follow dharma.
Ramamoorthy and his wife visiting from New York, originally from Andra Pradesh, but have been in US for the past 40 years. They are “temple builders” and avid readers of Hinduism Today.
Thai Pongal was held over the retreat. This is the famous “harvest” festival, held when the Sun enters Capricorn. Our silpis observed the festival at the temple site and all the monks were invited to join. The primary “rite” of the festival is boiling the pot of rice and then observing which side the rice spills over the pot.
The pongal Pot is here mounted over the silpis blacksmith forge.
The ceremony begins just before dawn and the rites coincide with the rising of the Sun. Pongal is always a joyous day of thanksgiving for the precious gift of Life that we receive through our Mother Earth and Father Sun.
Sundaram Achari performs the ceremony in which the fruits of the earth are offered to Surya. He is in charge of the crew while Shanmugam Sthapati is away in India at his son’s wedding.
After the puja, he offers the flame to Satguru Bodhinathaswami. The sun is just rising.
Another mandatory part of the pongal festival is to give respect and honor to the cow. Here is our lovely young bull, Jaya, being all decked out by the silpis.
Honoring the cow is one Hindu way of honoring all of nature.
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