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Gurudeva said:
Smile when you feel unhappy with someone and say to yourself, “How nice to see you, Siva, in this form.” Animals, beggars, princes, politicians, friends and enemies, holy men, saints and sages are all Siva to the soul that loves God. He smiles and thinks to himself, “How nice to see you, Siva, in this, another of your many forms.”
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We bring you today more photos from the last day of Bodhinatha’s visit to Vancouver where he had a 5-hour function at the Durga Temple in Burnaby.
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At home it was tour day. This is Mr. and Mrs. Yammanuru and Aruna Ramulu from Chicago area. They are devotees Swami Dayananda Saraswati of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam and also attend the Lemont Sita Rama temple, where they met Gurudeva a few times when he was helping the temple get started. They last visited us here on Kauai in the mid-1970s, when we had a little printing press on our property. They are lifetime subscribers to Hinduism Today, receiving it since it was a newspaper. Aruna used to pull out all the Insight Sections from Hinduism Today when it was a newspaper and teach it to her children. Yammanuru worked with our late senior sishya, Dr. Devananda Tandavan, for 17 years in a hospital.
We had a smaller crowd today, about 35 forms of Lord Siva came to see Iraivan on tour day. Many were locals from Kauai. One of these was Carmel Hawn, the only certified Apple Computer repair lady on Kauai. Through the years Carmel has always been there to help us make sure our equipment is up-and-running. She hasn’t been here for a tour in several years
She sent an email after going home: “The tour was wonderful this morning. I met people from Russia, Honolulu, San Francisco, India and some Kauai. They all really enjoyed and appreciated seeing the building of the new temple. What a wonderful thing that you are offering these tours. I won’t forget the look on one young boy’s face as he placed his entire hand inside of the lions mouth and grabbed the stone ball. Everyone rejoiced in meeting the architect, I think we all wanted to meet all of the workers too. When you hear how long the stone workers have been away from their homes and families it makes you want to go home and bake pumpkin pies for them all.”
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Our wonderful family of dedicated volunteers from Queens, New York: Roger Maharaj and his wife Hoolsie with their two bright children, Devi and Shiva. Roger and Hoolsie are originally from Trinidad and have lived in the USA a long time; both children were born here. Several weeks ago, the whole family manned a booth on behalf of Himalayan Academy at the Heritage of India Festival in Edison, New Jersey.
Hoolsie and Devi help present the free Himalayan Academy literature they are offering festival attendees.
A visitor at the booth gives his name and address so we can send him what he wishes from our monastery. Note the balloon–how festive a festival it was! In the booth also helping out is Ms. Monica Sewpaul, originally from Guyana who was a participant in our India Innersearch earlier this year.
The festival was of high quality, with very attractive displays and shows of all kinds.
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami’s
Durga Temple Visit, Vancouver, Canada
Here we are at the Durga temple in Vancouver… being greeted at the entrance. There were about 100 devotees when we arrived at 9am and the crowd grew to about 300 as the morning progressed.
The temple is situated with the entrance right off a main street, with the alters set up in a large building. Alongside the temple building is an adjoining hall for weddings and serving prashadam.
Bodhinatha was honored with a padapuja to begin the events.
Most of the devotees are of Sri Lanka origin.
Bodhinatha sat just to the left of the Ganesha and Durga shrines.
The priest was also born in Sri Lanka, but raised in Malaysia.
Then after an hour of rousing bhajan two young girls gave an introduction to Bodhinatha, one in English and the other in Tamil. This little one had memorized Bodhinatha’s biography from our website word for word in English.
Then this one gave the introduction in Tamil.
Then Bodhinatha gave an hour talk on bringing up Hindu children in Western culture, which was translated into Tamil by Manickam Senthilvel, seated on the right. Bodhinatha made the point that parents should take the responsibility of being the primary teachers of Hinduism to their children.
He gave practical points on how to do this by:
establishing a shrine in the home and having the entire family worship together at the shrine each morning.
Also by having the entire family worship together at a local temple once a week, teaching the main precepts of Hinduism and instilling a pride in their religion.
Bodhinatha emphasized parents should teach their children that the purpose of life is spiritual advancement.
Quoting Anandamayi Ma on this he said: “Man is a human being only so much as he aspires to Self-Realization. This is what human birth is meant for. To realize the One is the supreme duty of every human being.”
After Bodhinatha’s talk he put vibhuti on the forehead of each and every soul. Then there were pujas to all shrines, followed by a traditional Sri Lankan feast.
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