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“When a seeker has unfolded to the power of giving, he doesn’t think about himself so much, because he is spontaneous. He is always looking for an opportunity to do something good for someone else. When someone has not unfolded into giving, he thinks about himself a great deal, and he calculates his giving, because he has to give in proportion to something else. And by giving in proportion to something else, he is creating his future limitation. He is saying “I am just this big, and I will always be just this big because that is as far as my consciousness can go, just that much. So, I will hold my consciousness within this grave.” But it doesn’t work that way. The consciousness is not like that, because by limiting your giving, by limiting your consciousness, as time goes by it will shrink. And it will shrink until you don’t know it. Your friends will notice, but you won’t. It will shrink and shrink and shrink. And that is one of the things your friends won’t tell you, that your consciousness has shrunk, and that you are not the same as you used to be.”
–Gurudeva
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It’s been a very quiet day at the Aadheenam. A cool rain to bring down the high temperatures we’ve had this past week and quench the thirst of our flowers that were beginning to wilt in the heat.
In the news:
- Some one in the UK has ordered 2000 copies of 10 Questions which we recently printed there.
- With the hard work of Sheela Venkatakrishnan and Sadhunathan Nadesan we are closing in on a cherished goal: to have transcribed all of Gurudeva’s audio ever posted on the web… you may note transcriptions below that are from the “deep past” of TAKA…
- Congratulations to Sadhaka Jivanandanatha of the Pilliyar Kulam who has crafted our new http://store.himalayanacademy.com which now lives on our own new server at the OLM data center in Connecticutt, USA.
- Preparations are underway for Bodhinatha’s next trip to Asia in a few weeks.
- Libraries have discovered Bodhinatha’s new book “Yoga’s Forgotten Foundations,” and have started ordering copies.
- More fantastic artwork has arrived from S. Rajam for the new version of the Tirukural and an amazing image of Lord Nataraja by A. Manivel. We will show you one day…
- Forward looking, thinking and planning are underway for a complete make over of our the look and feel of our web sites… watch for it in the months ahead.
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Only one photo today… it was raining such that we wanted to protect our cameras. But, got this one in…
Two recently newly wed Hindu couples visited this morning from Dallas and Kansas. One couple knew about us only from having just read a short article in the Hawaiian Airlines in-flight magazine while taking the inter-island flight.
Despite the nearly constant rainfall, they really enjoyed seeing the Iraivan Temple progress, and one of the couples was so eager to find books clearly explaining Hinduism in English, that they purchased our entire Master Course trilogy before leaving.
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Date: December221998
Title: The Second Day of Pancha Ganapati
Category: Festivals and Sacraments
Duration: 7 min., 0 seconds
Date Given: December 22, 1998
Given by: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, the second day of Pancha Ganapati, the wonderful Hindu festival of the holiday season for five days, worshipping the ever-giving Lord Ganesha. It is December 22 and today we have a celebration of honoring friends and neighbors. Those are the people who live next door to us, showering them with gifts and love.
We hope you are enjoying Pancha Ganapati. In the Ashrams throughout the world, it will eventually take the place of celebrating Christmas. I don’t know why Christmas is celebrated in so many Ashrams that are Hindu Ashrams or Hindu-based Ashrams because they don’t celebrate the Holy days of Islam, the Holy days of Judaism, the Holy days of Zoroastrianism. Only Christmas. Somehow, maybe a lot of Christian subconscious is there that needs to be replaced with Hindu subconscious, a Vedic subconscious of the existence of God everywhere, of the laws of karma, dharma, and reincarnation. According to the Abrahamic religions, of which Christianity is one, that is a false concept, a false doctrine. So says the Pope of Rome!
We have a question. It is about ahimsa and it is from Anchorage, Alaska. Hello up there! Are you getting cold? “I will not harm others by thought, word and deed. Question is, how do we harm others by thought?”
Well, thoughts are sound and color. Hateful thoughts are the darker colors and loving thoughts are the more pastel colors. If somebody holds a grudge against you, you can certainly feel it. Not only by their thought, by their body language, the expression on their face, their aura. The thoughts that come out from their mind can even travel long distances. You will feel those thought forms penetrating your aura and going right into your nerve system. Therefore, be careful of your thoughts because thought is the first thing that you do when you manufacture karma. So, you want to make good thoughts to make good karma.
Another question. This question came up right here on the Island of Kauai. A visitor we had asked, “If someone were to make money from illegal ways, but then gave that money to a good cause; does that make it alright?”
Well, no. There is good money and bad money. Bad money can never do anything good, because it came from an incorrect source. Money is energy because money gives you energy to do something that you would not ordinarily be able to do without it. The more money that you have, the more energy that you have. Of course, people who are up to their necks in debt but have a lot of money and are running ahead of their creditors, are actually poorer than the person who is living on the street that has no money at all. So look at it this way. If five dollars is given to a worthy organization by someone who obtained it from crooked means, it would cause that organization to lose something like five thousand dollars, eventually. Because, bad things cause bad things to happen. On the other side of it, if five dollars were given by a little old lady, perhaps from her pension or from her savings, to a worthy organization, and that is all she had to give and gave it with a full heart, that would cause that organization to which she gave, in its future, five thousand dollars or even more. Because, goodness creates goodness.
So, those who have drug money, money from performing abortions, money from cheating other people are stuck with it. It is never going to do any good, even if you use it on yourself. If you leave it to your heirs, they are going to squander it. It won’t last. It will go away.
Another question from Southern California, from a young man that is seventeen, who would like to join us on the cruise to Alaska. Yes, we are going to send you a brochure. We will do it right away. He would like to know if there is any special mantram or puja to be invoked during the time of Pancha Ganapati.
‘Aum Pancha Ganapati, Aum Pancha Ganapati, Aum Pancha Ganapati Aum’ will invoke the grace of Lord Ganesha. We are looking forward very much to meeting you. So we will see you in Vancouver and spend seven or eight days together among icebergs and whales, big birds and polar bears and going within ourself in the study of the wonderful Shum/Tyaef lexicon, discovering the new you, that is just in, inside of you.
Well, I will be seeing you, each and everyone tomorrow. My phone is ringing now. Maybe it is another question!
Aum Namah Sivaya. Take good care of each other and Happy Pancha Ganapati!
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