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Summer Sadhu Paksha, Day Eight:
Siva Yogaswami said:
One must know one’s own measure.
Remain separate like the five fingers. but when there is work to do, co-operate in doing it like the hand.
Even meditation is work. Practise remaining summa for ten minutes.
Man can remain always doing work, but he must not worry about it after it is finished.
Without being content with what we have, we always want more and therefore suffer.
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Yogaswami: continued:
Just as a surveyor is trained to use a theodolite with ease, so must we learn to train our minds and bodily organs to carry out our service as we want.
Everything will turn out successfully, when the mind is not agitated.
No need to control the breath; no need to do tapas, if you can see yourself everywhere. that is the secret of secrets.
That man (i.e. another devotee) does what I think immediately. So powerful is the mind. One mechanism everywhere. The secret of secrets!
Cybertalk: 2002 Kauai Innersearch Day 2, Part 1: Bodhinatha adds a few more
common misconceptions to his list of common false concepts about the law of
karma, including attributing our karma to astrology. We created our karma,
which determines our time of birth, and our time of birth determines our
astrology, and our astrology governs the release of our karma.
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Jai Maha Ganapati! (in our Kadavul Siva temple here at the monastery.)
Vetri Vel Muruganukku!
Indian guests today all the way from Calcutta! Mr. Shree Dhara and his wife on the right with Paramacharya Palaniswami. Shree Dhar is a plant expert and has been kind enough to share many precious plants from India with us to plant at the Aadheenam.
Acharya Kumaraswami is making progress on Gurudeva’s shrine in the East corner of the temple.
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The massive bases to the pillars are a bit overwhelming as you walk around them on the foundation.
Full of crystals, the sheer mass and volume of stone is awesome. Iraivan will have an extremely powerful inner vibration when it is done.
Additional items in the containers from India: a giant pot.
And some more Indian ceramic work in a more modern style. Here are small flower vases… this one shaped to look like the face of Lord Ganesha.
And these with lovely designs.
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Date: May_07_2002
Title: Nartana Ritau
Category: Hinduism and Tradition
Duration: 4 min., 17 seconds
Date Given: April 29, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha
Giving some thought to the Nartana Ritau today and looking at some of the statements that Gurudeva made about it in the Saiva Dharma Shastras, I thought I would share those. We are about two weeks into the Nartana Ritau, three and a half months left.
“Nartana Ritau, the season of Dancing with Siva, begins on Hindu New Year. This is the period of creation.” That is important, creation. “The warm season from mid April through mid August. Teaching is Dancing with Siva. Keyword of this season is planning.” Skipping the color. “The emphasis is on seeing ahead, planning for future years. It is a time of planning retreats and other activities for youth and adults for the entire year. During this time of looking forward, the Church’s six year plan is updated by the stewards and another year added.”
So we are supposed to update our plan here. Has everyone planned ahead six years? How is your six year plan? A good amount of time to be planned ahead. The reason I read that was to catalyze us to those two thoughts, that it is a creative time a year and it is a good time for planning. It must be the astrology and the sun signs. The sun signs we are going through starting with Aries, is a good time to plan and be creative.
One of the reasons we can run out of inspiration in our life, is we don’t plan far enough ahead. We ran out of plans. We did everything we figured out we wanted to do and we haven’t created anything new to do. We have run out of plans but we don’t necessarily realize that we have run out of plans. We are just going along doing our day to day routines. Coming to the Sun One Homa, doing our daily puja. Everything is great, but we don’t have any plan.
So it is a good time to pull out our plans wherever they are – in our computer, in our drawer, diaries – and to look them over and to update them and as Gurudeva says, to extend them another year.
We always want to be planned ahead. If six years is too much, at least go three. Sometimes our life, we don’t think it is stable enough or determined enough to go six years out. “What will I be doing six years from now? I have no idea!” But it is easy to go three and it is a worthwhile practice. It gives our life updated direction, shall we say. It gives us a chance to look at the goals we created last time. Goals for retirement, goals for career, goals for career advancement, goals for our children’s schooling. See if they are on track, see if they need to be changed.
Gurudeva was a great planner and encouraged everyone to plan ahead and felt it was important not only to plan but to update the plan.
So we can do that, our stewards can do that at their level. The Kulams can look at their six year plan. Pilliyar Kulam, do we need to update it? How is the six year plan in the Lambodara Kulam?
Give that some thought.
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