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Here is Gurudeva returning from the last European Innersearch. it was a triumphant journey where he touched and inspired many of the far flung Sri Lankan communites in Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
Announcement: This is Sun 4 of a short phase and we are headed into an “Iraivan day” and a three-day retreat… see you with a new page here on Saturday evening. Note, for travelers… Sadhu Paksha starts Sun 2 of next phase… and we will not be open for tours until April 13th.
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Cybertalk: The weather is beginning to warm up again on Kauai, and more
birds are singing. Some new birds have come to the Aadheenam, and we hear
their unique songs. Bodhinatha talks about how nice it is to stop and listen
to the birds. It’s good to check up on how wrapped up our awareness might
be. Did we notice that beautiful sunset last night? Or how about that new,
fantastically aromatic flower that just bloomed? Observe the beauties of
nature. Stop thinking for a moment and enjoy.
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Above you see, as best we can present it, another amazing work by A Manivel, in Chennai. He calls this piece “Pradosha Siva.” We see Lord Nararaja, with many implements. On the upper left corner is Brahma, the lower left corner is Vishnu. The flute player in the upper right is not Krishna, but Lord Indra and Parvati is in the lower right hand cornder. Here we have a glimpse of A. Manuvel’s forte which is temple deity artwork, a skill he has finely honed through years sitting in front of Deities in temples throughout Tamil Nadu and painting images of murthies that would overwise never be seen in the outside world. In this case, this is from his own vision.
The Pandiya family from Chicago was part of a rainy tour day, but that didn’t dampen their enthusiam for a spiritual experience!
These water lilies have an amazing iridescent yellow, purple center. One of Gurudeva’s teachings was that color, sound, vibration and energy are all the same. In his descriptions of some of the esoteric meanings of portraits of his language of meditation Shum, he would write that the color of a particular sound/image was “purple flowiing and merging into yellow.” And one of the sadhanas he gave the monks was to take a list of these colors and the combinations and then go wandering in nature and find an example of each one.
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Date: December_27_1998
Title: Reincarnation, the Sum Total of Past Lives
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Duration: 5 min., 49 seconds
Date Given: December 27, 1998
Today at Kauai Aadheenam. December 27th. It is Sunday here on the beautiful Garden Island of Kauai. I am so glad you have visited my Cyberspace Ashram.
What are we doing today? A beautiful fire ceremony to invoke Lord Hanuman, Lord Ganesha, Lord Murugan, and Lord Siva to help with the foundation and bringing container-loads of beautifully carved stone that are finished, from Bangalore, India, to the beautiful Garden Island of Kauai.
Well, today is the 80th Birthday of ‘Tutu’. In Hawaiian, ‘tutu’ means grandmother. This is Grandma Sendan. The whole Sendan clan has come to the Island of Kauai to celebrate her 80th birthday. Happy birthday to you, Grandma.
Dennis Wong, our neighbor is working to finish the ‘Aloha Guha’, which is sixty feet long and forty feet wide. It is going to contain and shelter all the carved stones that come from Bangalore to Kauai. The silpi carvers will come with them to finish them here on the Garden Island. When you come to visit, you will also be able to help chip the stones. Won’t that be wonderfull! To create a Temple, as we are creating here on the Garden Island of Kauai, is a wonderful thing. Participation in the creation is a one-time opportunity. Once a temple is built, that opportunity goes away. So, let’s make the most of it. Dennis Wong has a big tractor. He is leveling all the ground and preparing for the foundation of this ‘Aloha Guha’ that will be going up, probably next month.
It is what we call ‘Zip day’ for ‘Hinduism Today’. We start reading next month’s magazine and then it goes to the printer.
We have a question here, about reincarnation. “If we know something about our past lives, should we try to know more about a certain past life? Should we meditate on it?”
Well, if you know something about your past life and it’s come from a reliable source, that is very nice. But, you are the sum total of all of your past lives right now. Before you hear of the divine Self within, before you have the desire to realize the divine Self within, you are quote, “You have been a rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Hindu chief”, unquote. You have been everything. You have gone through all the instinctive experiences. You have gone through all the intellectual experiences. You have gone through all the psychic experiences. You have worn out experience.
So then, what is the final experience? Superconscious experiences, the core of which is the Self, is Siva. Siva is ever-radiating out energy which flows through your body, ever-radiating out light which lights up your thoughts, the creator of the universe, the preserver of the universe, the one who absorbs the universe, the one who gives the big bang to recreate the universe. That is Supreme God Siva to us Saivites. To science, it is not Siva, it is just the way things are. We can agree with that – it is just the way things are.
So, in answer to your question, if you know something about your past life, that is nice. But, you are all of your past lives, sum total, right this very moment. Be happy that your direction is inwardly pointed and not outwardly pointed. You have had the outer, and now you are wanting the inner. That is why you visited our cyberspace Ashram, because you are an inner person.
All inner people are surfing the internet. Some get thrown off their surfboard by a big wave and others manage to stay afloat and enjoy the surfing. Many, many, many wind up on the beach. I am looking at the ocean right now and I am seeing a beach and big waves. They wind up on the beach of the cyberspace ashram. After that, there is nothing more to do but to go in and in and in, and then in and in and in some more, until you have realized God within, the highest realization on this planet. That is why we came to this planet. That is what they said in ‘Lemurian Scrolls’, many, many years ago. Let us make it a reality now.
Aum Namah Sivaya! We will see you again tomorrow at darshan time, while we look through cyberspace and enjoy each other.
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Innersearch 2002 in Hawaii!
Our next Innersearch Travel-Study program will be held right here on the island of Kauai in the summer of 2002. It’s the first such program on the Garden Island since 1974! From July 17 to July 22 we will enjoy daily classes with the swamis, join in the annual Guru Purnima festival, be inspired by local culture, explore the lush tropical island in exciting and non-touristy ways, and more. Be prepared for a wonderful spiritual experience in paradise with meditations, seminars and sacred ceremonies at the Siva temple of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. Many have applied already, and there is a limit of 50 participants, so we recommend everyone apply as soon as possible. Interested? Please request an application from pilgrim@searchbeyond.com |
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Archives are now available through 2001. Light colored days have no posts. 1998-2001 coming later.
