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Sadhu Paksha Day Eleven (last day)
“Dreams have been a mystery and a puzzle to people of all ages throughout time. The wonderment of dreams has been apparent in history, philosophy and now even in science. This leads us to assume that the dream state is not unlike the waking state, for especially in this technological age of communication, we live more in our mind than in our physical body. Millions are computer-literate and deal in concepts far beyond the normal state anyone would have found himself in one hundred years ago. The mind never sleeps–only the physical body experiences this indulgence–and the physical brain perceives and records what passes through the mind, but the astral brain perceives and records & oh-so-much more! Therefore, keeping this in mind, there is a continuity of consciousness twenty-four hours a day, but not all of it is perceived or recorded by the physical brain, either through the day or through the night. This is why it is difficult to remember all the details of one’s life and experience, even as short a time as forty-eight hours ago. It is only the important things, those which make the strongest impression within the physical brain’s memory patterns, that are remembered.” –Gurudeva
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Yoginathaswami writes of yesterday’s events in Toronto:
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“Aum sivaya, we went to Nagaposhani Amman temple this morning and greeted by priests, Sambamurti’s nephew and several others and one young priest that just arrived from Pillaiyarpatti who chanted for Bodhinatha during Innersearch. He also knows our future priest. Nice event and about 150 people attended.
“Then we went to TVI Tamil Canadian TV where Bodhinatha addressed the Tamil community (about 250K) here and translated by the local elder. It was a very good talk, excellent translation with a very good ( and long) introduction of Bodhinatha, that he is Gurudeva’s successor, his work such as openings of several Hindu temples in US, Innersearch, our publications HT, HA books and Bodhinatha’s help for local Kauai community to fight drug etc. Even few of the TV station crew gathered outside listening to the talk as it happened. It is mid-day break time here right now, we will heading out to the Varasiddhi Vinayagar Temple in couple hours.”
–Sannyasin Yoginathaswami
TRAVEL NEWS! Bodhinatha is now visiting Toronto and Montreal. His next travel is September 8-23: Malaysia, Singapore and Mauritius. See travel page for more information.
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Gurudeva’s spiritual center in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa
It’s another quiet Sadhu Paksha day at the Aadheenam… so we take you to the beautiful Republic of Mauritius…
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The Ganesha Homa is not only the busy activity going on at the Spiritual Park. On Saturdays classes in music and religion are organized for children there. Here is a group of children following the Saivite Hindu Religion class doing Hatha Yoga under the supervision of kulamata Premila Manick.
The Spiritual Park main private office building looks beautiful tucked away high in the trees.
Here in Mauritius we do not have to make great efforts to get a banyan tree, ficus indicus, so sacred to God Siva. The birds, hovering like devas, bring them to you. Here is one growing on its own on the lava rocks wall separating the office buildings and the Ganesha Mandapam. We see a few more of these plants further ahead.
Some new visitors just going through the main entrance. Most of them are Hindus from South Africa.
We had a large group of some 108 young people from the Curepipe Sai Centre Balvikas (youth group) accompanied by their teachers and parents who came for a one day seminar on their own at the Park. Sangeeta Bobeechurn, one of the leaders of the group said that the Park was chosen for their seminar because of its beauty and spiritual atmosphere.
Now back to our ongoing Muruga Pavilion construction project. Works are almost finished now. We are sending the photos just when the Mandapam was freshly painted.
The Muruga Pavilion looks very beautiful with its orange painted roof and white pillars…
Now our karma yogis are doing their best to make the Muruga murthi look beautiful. They are applying oil on the black granite murthi
Brahmachari Vel Mahalingum from Mahebourg comes to the park on almost every Saturday to take care of the murthis.
Lord Muruga now looks beautiful inside His new Pavilion.
Muruga murthi close up
Everyone has helped to make the murthi beautiful on that day…even the little son of Yudananda did a fantastic job!
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