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Gurudeva holds up a sheet with the 12 Mamsane which are basic meditations outlined in the Shum language that are used, one for each month of the year. These are carved into the pillars of Iraivan, providing pilgrims meditations whenever they come. Here is one example:
The Four States of Being meditation:
“law” — the physical body, the external five senses, the conscious mind.
“lawm” — the subconscious, astral, emotional state of being, magnetic forces between people and people and things.
“lawf” — the superconscious, sub-superconscious state of being of living with the soul nature shining through.
“lawmf” — the state of being after Self Realization has occured when the soul body is in a sense “born” and comes to the forefront of the nature… This is the state of God Realized souls like Gurudeva and Yogaswami.
This simple meditation outlines for the intellect and the subconscious the path that we are all on, puts before us the goal of life and helps us to be self aware of where we are in consciousness during the day.
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Yogaswami sang:
“The sight of the Guru grants such insight, Lo!
In the sunrise of the self, peace pervades.”
It’s another quiet day on the outside at the Aadheenam. The Pilliyar Kulam gave their phasely report at lunch. Renovation and construction are in the air as the work on the re-roofing of the Aadheenam continues along with new roofs for some of the publications containers we have to store our books and Jnana Dana literature. The October issue of Hinduism Today is now shipping and you will see your copy soon. We reprinted 20,000 copies of the Insight Section, called “Visiting a Hindu Temple,” as Bodhinatha is wanting to respond to the repeated requests for materials for children. The outreach work done by the teams at the various conferences is bearing fruit as we are mailing out packages of literature to everyone who signed up at those conferences, about 1000 or more people who did not know us before will be getting a copy of Hinduism Today, Island Temple, Ten Questions, Four Denominations of Hinduism.
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A Hindu family walks the Path of the Saiva Saints. Everyone loves to do their own abhishekam to the Narmada Lingam.
The Nandi at the Narmada lingam.
It is always a magical moment for the children to do this form of worship.
Gurudeva covered with marigolds, grown by our Siddhidata Kulam and lovingly put into garlands by one of the monks on vigil.
The trilogy beside him at his shrine.
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Date: December061998
Title: Religious Lethargy
Category: The Ultimate Goals of Life
Duration: 6 min., 12 seconds
Date Given: December061998
Given By: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam. Today is December 6, Sunday here on the beautiful Garden Island of Kauai.
We have a pilgrim here from Texas who has been listening to ‘Today at Kauai Aadheenam’ and ‘Merging with Siva’, the daily lessons. He is an engineer, a middle-aged gentleman, married. He said, “Here I am. I have come on pilgrimage. I was so inspired listening to you, Gurudeva, give these daily talks, reading ‘Merging with Siva’. I could not help myself. I got on an airplane and am here for three days.” Walking the beautiful lands, finding his inner self.
We are all here on Earth to find our inner self. We all know that there is enough of our outer selves. It is in abundance. Television, cement jungles, homes in disarray, contention, argument, deception. This does not occur within nature and our 51 acres here at Kauai Aadheenam is all nature. We live in a jungle. We are growing a jungle and in the jungle you can find no deception, you can find no argument. One tree does not argue with another tree. You can sense Siva’s ever-present, all-pervading force in plants, animals, birds, here and there and everywhere. If you were to look and try to find a place where Siva isn’t, it would be impossible.
Lots of wind and rain today. We had a beautiful fire puja to create the foundation of Iraivan Temple and each time we hold this ceremony, it rains.
Natyam Thondunatha is transferred to our Pillaiyar Kulam, which is the Kulam for raising funds and for a careful expenditure of those funds.
A very important day too, because Surya Kumar and Ford Graphics each sent $25,000 yesterday which is $50,000 in all, for the foundation of Iraivan Temple and we are half-way there in cash! A few more $25,000 checks and boom-dunk, the foundation of Iraivan Temple will be poured. A 3-foot slab about a 100 feet long and about 40 or 50 feet wide. Think of it. 100 cement trucks and it must be poured in one day.
I gave a talk this morning to the congregation about – don’t go into lethargy in religious life and think God and the devas and the Gods are going to do everything for you, simply because you ask. You yourself have to put out energy. You yourself have to put out willpower to fulfill your destiny and then the Gods, the devas, the angels, the inner-plane beings and also outer-plane beings who are not thinking about themselves will turn their head around and seeing your efforts will help you on your way.
Many people pray for money. Money is a commodity. It is merchandise and then they sit back and wait for it to come, for their business to improve without doing anything to improve their business. How about that! The business fails and they wonder why the Gods have forsaken them. My goodness! A certain amount of reason, certain amount of common sense and intelligence tells us that we too are devas, we too are angels, maybe potential Gods, who knows! But, here we are at this particular stage in our evolution and we have to do our part with greater effort to make our dreams manifest and of course, we need a clear concept of our future and, to succeed, the six P’s. Puja and prayer, a purpose, a plan, persistence and push. That is what, I said this morning, should have been there.
Well, today is another day we talk together in cyberspace and I am looking at you and you are looking at me. We are enjoying the feeling of darshan. We’ll see you again tomorrow, which will be December 7.
A very wonderful day to you and a wonderful night! Have beautiful dreams. The next lesson I am reading for you from ‘Merging with Siva’, the next four or five lessons, are all on dreams. You will enjoy them. You will get to know yourself better, that secret self that you experience when no one is watching.
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