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Welcome to a new phase at Kauai Aadheenam. At home we had our Sun One Homa today and Bodhinatha and Saravananathaswami arrived this morning after a very long 18 hours of transit-night flights…
We will continue for a few days catching up with news and photos from their mission.
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Here is Bodhinatha at the Gasing Temple in Kuala Lumpur for a public gathering there.
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Here’s one picture from our Ganesha Chaturthi celebration, the milk abhishekam of the beautiful Maha Ganapati murthi in Kadavul….
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami on Mission
Malaysia –September 12th
Here we are back in Malaysia on Day Five of the mission, September 12th. Afternoon and evening.
At 4:00 PM in the afternoon, Back at the hotel…Satguru has a meeting with the youths on the plans for future activities
He also met with a lot of young couples on his journey.
A future Addition to Saiva Siddhanta Church family, Sivanathan Batumalai is welcomed as the new Arulshishya, takes the 3 vratas in presence of Satguru.
Then off to the Dakshinamurthi installation at Gasing Shivan Temple at the top of the hill in the middle of KL.
Satguru arrives, filled with energy and joy…. The temple priest garlands Satguru
and escorts Satguru into the temple….
Satguru at the Siva altar…
and hands the Dakshinamurthi to Satguru to be installed…
Puja is done on the vimanam of the new shrine and the installation takes place..
Get ready everyone…its time for Upadesha!!! Kulapathi introduces Satguru to the devotees who were present there…
Thevaram recital by the temple youths…
Satguru speaks on how we are a part of Lord Siva and
cannot be separated from Him…
The crowd were impressed by his talk…and rushed for
his darshan once the Upadesha was over…
Kailasam and his group sang Natchintanai while
devotees takes their turn for Satguru’s darshan…
Meanwhile, the sales team was doing a great job
propagating Gurudeva’s teaching outside the temple, selling a wide variety of items.
It was almost 11 o’clock when Satguru left the temple…Aloha for the day!
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
In Mauritius — September 21st
On the evening following the wonderful public Ganesha Chaturthi event at the Spiritual Park, Bodhinatha had a COM meeting with all the Mauritius kulapatis at the bungalow at Trou aux Biches. Bodhinatha share with them his plan for the 2005 visit.
While the kulapaties were inside for the COM, our kulamatas were enjoying a nice talk on the terrace overlooking the beach.
Bodhinatha and swami were invited for dinner with all the kulapatis and Kulamatas. Kul. Sivakuman was the host on that evening. It was a rare moment to sit with the Guru and share a meal together.
Kulapati Sivakumaren and Kulamata Kavita….
On Tuesday 21st, Bodhinatha had a last meeting with all the Mauritius sishyas at the residence of Brahm. Vel Mahalingum in Mahebourg. Everyone joyfully attended that farewell meeting. Here Satguru Bodhinatha arrives at Mahebourg.
The sishyas squeezed in to sit and listen to the Guru….
While Bodhinatha was taking his seat the group sang a guru song of Sivayogaswami…
Outside a cold rain is falling, but inside everyone can feel the warmth of the Guru’s darshan.
Bodhinatha’s farewell talk was mainly about His 2005 visit to the island where the Guru wishes to spend some more time on teaching and to organize seminar sessions with different groups in a conference hall environment with overhead projectors etc… Bodhinatha looks forward, too, for more teaching sessions with enrolled Himalayan Academy students.
A nice fancy cake lovingly prepared and offered to Bodhinatha by one new HA student, Krishna from Flacq.
Little Dayananda Canagasaby asks Bodhinatha to sign a Living With Siva for his parents…
Sivarathna Manick has his personal murthi blessed by Bodhinatha. It is a little Ganesha playing the mrdangam. Sivarathna himself is learning mrdangam and prays Ganesha be always by his side…
Moorghen Caremben coming forward for the Guru’s Blessings…
The farewell meeting is over now..Bodhinatha gets into the car and leaves for the airport. Au Revoir Ile Maurice! see you all now in 2005!
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Bodhinatha himself writes, about his final days in Mauritius:
Sept. 20th:
Morning was a satsang at Kulapati SK Moorghen’s home. Then we went to “State House” and spent about half an hour with the President of Mauritius, Sir Jaugnauth, at 2 PM. Manon and SK Moorghen were there also and we presented some information about the Spiritual Park, our talk on Hindu Unity and information on the granite signs that are being carved in Bangalore. He was quite receptive.
We had an unplanned meeting with the Chief Justice at 5:30 PM. He visited Kauai and met Gurudeva some ten years ago and still remembers all the details. He talked a lot about Gurudeva and his greatness, asked philosophical questions and said he hoped next year to join us at the Spiritual Park for Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations.
Then we continued south to our new location for our last night at Point Esny which is near the airport and Vel’s house.
Sept 21st:
This morning we drove south to Koothan’s home for satsang with members, students and devotees in that area. Saw Minister Pritviraj Putten at our bungalow in Point d’Esny and then to Vel’s home in Mahebourgh for a farewell gathering with a large group of members, satsang and departure talk. To the airport and the VIP lounge and VIP check in and then off on the 10:50 PM flight to Singapore.
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Date: May031999
Title: Importance of Samskaras
Category: Festivals and Sacraments
Duration: 5 min, 08 seconds
Date Given: May 03, 1999
Given By: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, it is May 3rd and the doors of our Cyberspace Ashram are open to you. Wonderful to have your darshan and to see you looking at us.
The question has come up about, “What is the value of sacrament in the Hindu religion?”
Well, there are four denominations within the Hindu religion. The Vaishnava denomination, the Smarta, the Sakta and of course the Saivite denomination, which is the oldest.
Sacraments are very important. For a little child, the name-giving sacrament is the first one that it would have, approximately one month after birth. Now, it is true maybe the child doesn’t remember the name given to it until it is reminded later on in life. But, all the ceremony that goes along with the name-giving, deeply impresses the child’s subconscious mind. Children are smarter than you think. A little child one month old may have been an old, wise pundit a few years before. Think about it. Children are smarter than you think.
The first-feeding sacrament means solid food is fed to the child for the very first time. The family gets together and they go to the temple, or hire a priest to come to their home. A grand ceremony happens. The Gods are invoked, the child is blessed. This also adds to the first samskara, within the subconscious mind. Then, the ones that follow are numerous. The ear-boring, the coming-of-age and finally, the marriage sacrament after path-choosing.
What is path-choosing? Choosing the path to be a sannyasin or a family man. Now, we might wonder how many sannyasins are there in the world? Estimates tells us about 3 million, mostly in India. The Swami Narayana order has 652 sadhus or sannyasins, last count. The Ramakrishna Mission over a 1000. In our order, we only have 15, but a good number in-training.
The sacraments given from birth to death – and the last one is called the antyeshti samskara – are very important, all through the life of a Hindu.
What happens if the families neglect to give a samskara or a sacrament to a child? The child may wander off at 20 or 30 thirty years of age into another religion. Because, there are no lasting impressions within the mind of a child, to keep him on the straight and narrow of the Sanatana Dharma, the oldest religion in the world. During teenage years, children forget all the sacraments and all the samskaras, which mean deep impressions in the mind, and are often investigating life and feeling themselves to be more adult than perhaps, they actually are. They are testing their limits, seeing how far they can go, how far they can push. They are learning about life. Nevertheless, vibrating within the subconscious mind are the original, religious impressions. When a young person becomes a little older, and settles down in life, those memories surface, creating him into a very religious person.
Now, we are going to hear the same thing again in the beautiful Tamil language, exquisite French language and the lovely Malay language. We’ll talk again on this tomorrow.
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