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We have some pictures from Sri Lanka below today… one of them of the remarkable sage that Gurudeva speaks of here:
“There is a Saivite hermit, the venerable Markanduswami, living in a humble mud hut in Sri Lanka. He is very old, and was for many years a disciple of Jnanaguru Yogaswami. In fact, his every utterance is a quote from his guru. One afternoon at his hut he described Yogaswami’s approach to dealing with thought during meditation. He said, “Yogaswami said, ‘Realize Self by self. You want to read this book, that book and all these books. The Book of Infinite Knowledge is here (pointing to his chest). You’d better open your own book.’ The prescription he gave me to open that book is this: ‘When you are in meditation, you watch the mind. Here and there the mind is hopping. One, two, three, a hundred. In a few seconds the mind goes to a hundred places. Let him be. You also watch very carefully. Here and there this mind is running. Don’t forget Self for a second. Let him go anywhere, but if he goes to a hundred places, you must follow him to a hundred places. You must not miss even a single one. Follow him and note, He is going here. Now he is going there.’ You must not miss even a single one. That is the prescription Satguru Yogaswami gave me to open this inner book. He said, ‘Watch very attentively and learn to pick up things coming from within. Those messages are very valuable. You can’t value them. Realize Self by self and open this inner book. Why don’t you open your own book? Why don’t you make use of it? Why don’t you open your own book? What an easy path I am prescribing for you!’ “
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Bodhinatha in Montreal at the Kandasamy temple, which still seems to be under construction…
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Mr & Mrs Narayana Rao were here again today continuing their week long pilgrimage/engineering conference. Today they toured the grounds and Iraivan Temple after attending the 9am Siva puja.
Mr. Rao who is attending an engineering conference on the island invited another gentleman and his wife who were also at the conference to come visit the monastery. Here they are in front of Dakshinamurthi.
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
in Montreal
Bodhinatha arrived home this afternoon after a comfortable flight from California… we bring the last of the photos from his journey.. this time from Montreal…
He wrote yesterday from Canada:
Naga LingesvaraM
An aside. At the first two temples we visited, the Siva murthi was in the form of Nagalingesvara, a Siva Lingam with a multi headed cobra over it. It struck me that this is what will be in Iraivan which is an interesting form of Siva to meditate upon the significance.
Montreal Murugan Temple
it was a Nallur festival regular night with small palanquin going around the temple with Muruga utsava murthi, at the end of the evening.
A few hundred people attending, more than I expected. Talk went well, a few youth gave excellent speeches in Tamil and English. Happy we were there in Montreal, Gurudeva only went there in 1991.
They have Tamil and Saivism classes for about 150 children each Sunday, so another potential group to use our material.
Saiva Siddhanta Church
Sri Lanka Mission
We take you now to our beloved land of Paramagurus–Sri Lanka, from where we have received photos which we scanned to share with you.
Sivayogaswamigal’s Ashram is now named as Yogaswamigal
Samadhi Temple which is managed/administrated by Sivathondan Nilayam, Jaffna.
His Holiness Chellathurai Swamigal, 92 years of age, still performing “Sivathondu” with spiritual power, for the last 48 years. Administrating Sivathondan Nilayam, Jaffna and Chengaladdy (east of Sri Lanka). Mr. Sivagnanam (80), a long standing devotee of Sivayogaswamigal helps Chellathuraiswamigal in Sivathondu
Chellappaswamigal’s temple shrine
Chellappaswamigal’s temple shrine with devotees (family-in-charge) for the temple. Living opposite to the entrance of the temple. Mr & Mrs. S. Kanagasabapathy of Nallur, Jaffna
Sivayogaswamigal’s Columbuturai Ashram, the original area of the small hut. The white tiled area, where the flowers are on top of, is the place where swami use to sit and also sleep on a wooden plank for many years.
After the mahasamadhi of Sivayogaswamigal, the body was cremated and some of the holy ash from the cremation area was taken and placed underneath of the shrine at the Columbuthurai ashram.
Sivayogaswamigal’s statue was cast in Tamil Nadu, India, with
the idea given by his Holiness Chellathuraiswamigal. It is now placed at the “Purana Mandapam” at Sivathondan Nilayam, Jaffna.
In the later stage of life Sivayogaswamigal resided at Sivathondan Nilayam, Jaffna, for few days and gave some spiritual vibration to Sivathondan Nilayam. This is the bed he used at Sivathondan Nilayam. An oil lamp is lit continuously day and night in the room from the day of his mahasamadhi to date.
Tiruvadi shrine of the meditation hall of Sivathondan Nilayam. The pair of tiruvadi was carved and fixed with silver fifty years ago as per cherishable memory of T. Sivayogapathy
Nallur temple chariot area, in Tamil “Therraddi”. Chellappaswami spent his golden days of his lifetime and also gave his first blessings to Sivayogaswamigal here.
Nallur Kanthan Temple – Jaffna, Sri Lanka
The wheel chair used by Sivayogaswamigal during the later stage of his life.
A picture of another sage of Lanka and disciple of Siva Yogaswami: Markanduswami, who followed the strict discipline of never uttering a word of his own. He only quoted what his Guru Sivayogaswami said.
Back in Hawaii:
A couple of our island friends, Sherwin and Theresa, came for a visit this morning to see the progress on Iraivan Temple.
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Date: September021998
Title: Live as Pure Souls
Category: Soul
Duration: 4 min., 25 seconds
Date Given: September021998
Given By: Gurudeva
September 2, everyone, here on this beautiful Garden Island of Kauai, home of our island temple.
As I mentioned yesterday, Swami Pragyanand Maharaj arrived today. All the younger Mathavasis washed his feet, as he entered the Kadavul Hindu Temple. He worshipped, was seated and gave a beautiful talk, on ‘The Power of Faith’. He commended them for being mathavasis in our Aadheenam, which is the South Indian word for ashram. He told them how fortunate they were. This inspired each and every one. Then, ‘Hinduism Today’ created a home page for Sri Sri Sri Swamiji and this home page is on the internet. If you look at hindu.org and then go to spiritual leaders, you will find Swami Pragyanand Maharaj and click there, you will see him. This is really wonderful.
Well, yesterday, we talked about liking everyone equally, because God is in everyone equally. Looking out through cyberspace, we have nearly 200 of you, and it is building, growing everyday. We have a counter on Today at Kauai Aadheenam. I found that 30 or 40 of you actually took that seriously and are benefitting. Looking out through cyberspace on the astral plane, seeing your soul and seeing you respond to treating everyone alike, having no likes and dislikes, being affectionately detached, with a lot of love in your heart, accepting everyone as they are, not wanting or trying to change them, not asking unanswerable questions such as, “Why didn’t he say that to me? Why did he say that to me? What is he thinking?”
Are you a mind-reader? Why are you asking, “What is he thinking?” Let him think and say, let her think and say, what they think and say. Pay no attention. Be bigger than all that because your soul is greater than all that. Don’t get down into the mish-mash of the lower consciousness where the rest of the world is at this time of the Kali Yuga. Be a New Age leader. Be higher than the masses. Your soul is higher than the masses, who don’t know that they are a divine soul, that they are living in a physical body. They think they are their intellectual mind. They put down others in order to rise up. You are greater than that and I notice that a lot of you have taken this advice and put it into action in your own life. Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! I am proud of you.
Soon we will have 300, as they call it, hits on the Internet and then four and then five and it is an ever-growing situation. We will keep you in touch with ‘Today at Kauai Aadheenam’. Live in the Ashram with us as a pure soul, untouched, untarnished by anything. Shining light, that is who you are!
Aum Namah Sivaya!
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