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Om Sivaya, to all: Today is the last day of this phase and this TAKA will remain in place until Sunday evening, Hawaii time.
Here is Gurudeva at one of the powerful homas at Kadavul temple. Gurudeva took the Vedic rite of yagna as one of the most important elements of religious culture.
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Here is the small statue of Hariharan in a niche of Kadavul temple. Half Siva, half Vishnu, it is the reconciling murthi between Vaishnavism and Saivism.
Many things happen here in our lives and along various mission fronts for which we have no photos. We plan to start recounting these from time to time… Each morning after meditation Bodhinatha will present briefly what is happening today… and other monks will share appointments, visitors expected, events etc. to help everyone be aware and alert to what is going on during the day.
Our Wailua river pond, seen from the Orchid Mandapam looking back southeast towards Kadavul Temple. The river turns here and moves on down toward the sea which is about five miles away.
Today was the last day of the phase. Swami Ramananda from Southern California came with some of his devotees for the Ardra Nataraja puja. This is the one day each month when Lord Nataraja receives a full milk abhishekam. It is a remarkable sight. Since photographs are not taken of Nataraja, you have to actually be here to see it.
Plans are in the works to build a small mandapam with lava rocks at the top of Muruga hill where a 12 foot Vel will be installed. A member of one of the Tongan tribes on Kauai visited to assess the work. The Tongans are masters at stone wall building. Here you see the irrigation pipes that were used to keep the hill green when the grass was first planted, which will be removed soon.
Wailua Ganga sadhana is in important one given by Gurudeva. Read about it in “Merging with Siva.” “The water is not complaining that it must pass around the rocks. The rocks are not resentfull of the dashing waters. Merge and flow with the river of life.”
Bodhinatha today joined the Kauai Aloha Endowment Board meeting this afternoon. Gurudeva envisioned this important new institution and Bodhinatha originally pioneered its creation guiding some other community leaders in the process which the monastery had already achieved along parallel lines with the Hindu Heritage Endowment. Now the Kauai Aloha Endowment is a reality, growing and flourishing. One day we hope to see the endowment providing much needed funds to nurture and care for our precious island paradise. One day Kauai will be a well known place of pilgrimage and we all need to work to nurture our home community.
Our red clay pots from India, placed here and there….here we are looking down one of the paths from the Aadheenam to the river.
Gurudeva’s spiritual center in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa
Every first Sunday of the month visitors from all over Mauritius turn up at the Spiritual Park for a special Ganesha Homa at the Ganesha Mandapam. The ceremony usually starts at 10.30 am with bhajans to Lord Pancha Mukha Ganapthi. We were honored to have on that day a bhajan group who sang beautiful devotional songs that built up a nice vibration around the Mandapam. Here we see an old friend of the Spiritual Park, Tamanah Appadoo on the left, with his group. Mr. Appadoo is a high official of the Government and has been helping the Park in many ways.
Lord Ganesha is worshipped by Hindus of all denominations. Here we have a nice group seated in the Mandapam.
Suchita Ramdin, second from the left, once did a TV recording for Spiritual Park. She works at Mahatma Gandhi Institute and is also a part time journalist at the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation. It’s now the first time she is coming to worship Lord Ganesha with her family. Suchita gave a wonderful testimony about one of her trips to India during which she worshipped Lord Ganesha at a small temple but in which the shakti power was really big. The Ramdin family enjoyed their stay at the Park and Suchita is coordinating with one of the kulapatis for another TV item at the Park on Gurudeva’s teachings very soon.
Rada Mohun Nunkoo, in the middle, with his daughter and his close friend, Logadassen Peruman, is happy to be at the Park for the Ganesha homa. Rada M. Nunkoo is a barrister (attorney) and is at present an advisor in one of the Ministries of the Government. He has been donating generously during the construction of the Ganesha Mandapam in the past.
After the ceremony, cooked sweet prasadum and fruits are served to all the visitors. This is the time when everyone gets to know each other under the shade of the mango trees.
Here we have the Ramlochun and Prayag families from Vacoas. They are always happy to come to the Park and are like many of the visitors who are coming again for the monthly Ganesha Homa.
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Date: April_07_2002
Title: Passing Your Knowledge On
Category: Good Conduct
Duration: 2 min., 59 seconds
Date Given: March 23, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha
Starting today with our Master Course lesson. Sutra 345, ‘Nurturing New Monastics’.
“Siva’s monastics look upon newcomers to the monasteries as potential, spiritual heirs to care for, tenderly nurture and train. They know it is their duty to pass on wisdom of their years. Aum Namah Sivaya.”
Focussing on passing on the wisdom of the years, this is a concept that not only applies to monastics but, to anyone who is in the vanaprastha ashrama, age 48 to 72. Hinduism has the 4 ashramas, which help understand one’s respective duties. During the first 24, we are the student. During the second 24, we are busy living life. In the third 24, we have enough wisdom from having studied and having lived life, to pass something on to others. So, age 48 to 72 in the Grihastha Dharma, is the same idea that is talked about here, in the older monks passing on their wisdom to the younger ones.
Gurudeva spoke about that on a number of occasions and stressed that it is, ” … everything you know”. In his own fiery way, he said, “It is your duty to pass on everything you know to the younger monks.” You would say, “Oh! What do I know?” What he meant was both your outer skills as well as your philosophical knowledge, your understanding of the devotional tradition, everything, all the knowledge you have acquired about mundane things as well as realizing the Self, the whole gamut. It is your duty to pass on all of that to the younger monks. Gurudeva would be even more forceful and say, “Otherwise you are accruing bad karma.” Just to make sure, we got the point!
It is a duty. It helps life advance, when we take the time to pass on our wisdom. What we have learned about life in the first 48 years of life, we take time to pass that on to those who are younger than us. It is a duty that we have at that point in life, to pass that on.
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