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Yogaswami sang:
“Oh Lord, who bides within the hearts of thy servitors
Who call on Thee as Our Father, Dear Father!
Oh Form of Grace divine, descent! O Bliss that fills the eyes! Take me beneath thy sway, for now is the crucial time.”
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Bodhinatha and Yoginathaswami left last evening for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They will be there for two days and then spend two days with the devotees in California and return home on Sun 1 of next phase. For details of the program in Pittsburg. Go to Bodhinatha’s travel page
Cybertalk: In part two of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha refers back to a trip Gurudeva made to Malaysia in June 2000. Before Gurudeva left he was thinking positively about the practice of agnihotra, home fire worship,
which Aboorvass was advocating and selling supplies for. But when Gurudeva
got to Malaysia he found that many of the people involved were angry people
and concluded that it’s not a good idea for angry people to perform such
ceremonies. It invokes the asuras. Gurudeva elucidated seven chakras below
the main chakras in the torso and head. These chakras in the legs and feet
are the realm of the asuras, the instinctive mind, and the second chakra
below the muladhara is that anger. Anger in the Nandinatha Sutras and Living
with Siva say that those who get angry should refrain from meditation, japa
and kundalini yoga practices. These create a certain inner intensity which
would only make anger worse. Bodhinatha elaborates on the different ways in
which men and women express their anger, as well as the effects of alcohol
on the angry person.
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Paramacharya Palaniswami meets with Shankar Nathan who lives on Kauai. Shankar Nathan is starting a new career as a film maker and would like to do a film on Iraivan. And if you missed our digital movie clip of the silpis moving stones, go to the Iraivan site now and click on the movies link.
Dr. Thomas Yarema (left), a holistic doctor with a practice in Kapaa brought Dr. Ishida and his dentistry staff also from Kapaa to experience the monastery and temple. Though Dr. Ishida was born and raised on Kauai, he had never been up to the monastery before.
This is Deepak Krishan with his wife Rachna, son Rishabh and daughter Shefali. They are visiting from Orange County in California. He is an accountant and recently bought some land on Kauai, and would love to eventually retire here.
This is their second trip to Kauai and Deepak first discovered us by thoroughly perusing our website, including these TAKA pages. The family is Jain, and Deepak hails from Delhi originally, while Rachna comes from Jaipur.
They greatly enjoying walking around Iraivan Temple, visiting the rudraksha trees–where the kids especially to delight in trying to eat the blue fruit on the outside of the seeds— and performing personal abhishekam to the Narmada Sivalingam.
The blue flesh on the outside of the rudraksha is just a thin layer, hardly enough for a meal, but it’s sweet astringent taste is intriguing and, for certain types of tongues delightfully refreshing and cooling.
A look out from the Kadavul Siva temple down toward the entrance. The path to the temple starts out at a very humble entrance at the end of Kaholalele Road. A visitor unfamilliar with the place would have no idea what was coming after he came up through the small opening under the banyan tree branches, opening out to our little wonderland by the Wailua River.
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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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From Our Gurus' Teachings
Archives are now available through 2001. Light colored days have no posts. 1998-2001 coming later.
