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“The Hindu’s knowledge of reincarnation gives him the hope of attaining a future birth and in that birth making further progress toward the perfection that he intuitively knows is his atman, his soul. He is working in this life to gain enough good merit, enough punya, to deserve welcome into a fine religious family as a good soul that will not upset the family but add to its love and harmony and productivity. That is one aim ever on the mind of the devout Hindu, to live well that he may live even more perfectly in a future life on this planet. That is our aim; and our other beliefs, our accumulated knowledge and the many facets of our religion, give us the strength and the wisdom to believe in such a far-reaching way, to look beyond the immediate day-to-day concerns into our ultimate objective, which is realization and liberation, moksha.”
–Gurudeva
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After wonderful events in Penang, Northern Malaysia (photos may be coming later from Penang) Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami flew down to Kuala Lumpur… Here he is arriving at the airport.
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We have these short captions from Mohana who stayed up late at the end of the day to get these to us…
Departing to the restaurant with Saravananathaswami
Lunch with Dr. Arjunan and few prominent devotees
Satguru takes a group photo with them.
Dr.Arjunan escorts Satguru after the lunch
At Kulapati Appasamy Kuppusamy’s Residence.. Altar decorated for Satguru..
Young devotees eagerly awaits Satguru’s Arrival
Satguru makes his grand entrance with a wide smile
Kulapati washes Satguru’s feet
and Kulamata shows the Arati.
Satguru seated…
Kulapathi performs Padapuja…Vibuthi Offering
… more to come tomorrow.
Bodhinatha sends this short report this morning…
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Om Sivaya, everyone.
It is Sunday morning. Saturday we had a guru puja at Sivaram and Devika’s home in Penang. They were very happy to have their home blessed by our presence. Then lunch in KL with Dr. Arjunan and a group of about twenty of his friends. Satsang at Kulapati Kuppusamy’s home, about one hundred I think, just fit.
Om Namasivaya,
Bodhinatha
At the Aadheenam Today
Linda and her daughter, Mi, were among our visitors this morning. They had heard about the monastery on their vacation here from New York so decided to come pay a visit.
Anjali and Summa from Northern California attended our morning 9am Siva puja and then tour the grounds and Iraivan Temple. They were very much amazed by
the beauty of Iraivan and happy to learn more about their beautiful religion.
This couple from New York only learned about us while reading a guide book on Kauai.
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As the temple takes shape we beginning to have some awesome views.
Work is in progress setting up the bases for the massive Bhadra pillars that will be in front of the sanctum.
The sanctum doorway.
Small sticks that serve as wedges
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Date: May121999
Title: How to Achieve Goals and Duties
Category: Change and Transformation
Duration: 6 min., 16 seconds
Date Given: May_12_1999
Given By: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam. May 12, 1999.
Greetings, everyone in cyberspace! Today, I am on my way to the County Council of Kauai. To open their meeting with a beautiful blessing, we are taking our priest Tyaganatha with us, in his dress of a traditional garb of a turban and dhoti and vibhuti to give a Sanskrit chant to empower the County leaders to do what they have to do to keep this Garden Island nice and safe for us to live on.
We have a question here, from Neeraj, a reader of TAKA. We are very happy that you have communicated with us. Neeraj says, he knows what he has to do and what is expected of him, has goals and objectives in his mind but has difficulty in motivating himself to achieve these goals. He sleeps a lot, eats the wrong food, builds up a lot of anger on the inside. He says, “I know my duties but I cannot carry them out properly. How can I overcome this?”
Well, Neeraj, speaking to you directly and to many others who are tuning in to cyberspace from, at least I would say, ten countries, perhaps your goals and objectives are not your own. Quite often, Asian young people get forced into a position and are given choices like “You can be a computer engineer or a computer engineer or a computer engineer. Those are your three choices.” Or, “a doctor or a doctor or a doctor.”
Is that life on planet Earth? No! Perhaps, you were born to be a great artist. Perhaps, you were born to sing and inspire and uplift people. Perhaps, you were born to express yourself the way you want to express yourself and earn your living in the way you want to earn your living. The healthiest, most productive and easiest, according to the Sanatana Dharma tradition, is to follow the profession of your father. The girl follows the profession of her mother. Hopefully, it is the housewife, living at home and raising up the next generation in dharma, so that they won’t make mistakes and be a burden on society, on the community and the world at large, by creating more unwanted karmas in this life because of lack of parental control and supervision.
I know many young people are beaten by their parents to attain high grades and suddenly they commit suicide. They cannot stand the pressure.
Why aren’t you interested in what you are doing? Because, obviously, you shouldn’t be doing it. When we are enthused and driven by our soul to accomplish what we want to accomplish, we are up in the morning early, we are working late, we are eating the right foods, we have love for everyone. We have no fight going on, on the inside of us.
Neeraj, I hope this helps and all of you out there being forced into doing something that is not your nature to do, think about it. Don’t allow yourself to be forced into a marriage. Don’t allow yourself to be forced into an occupation simply because of some family values. It is unfair, unwise, unhealthy and you won’t be happy for the rest of your life. I know many, many people who can testify to this gnawing unhappiness and sadness in doing something their parents forced them into doing it, be it a profession, whatever it may be. Their own soul(, they are driven) will drive them to express itself and earn its living in its own way.
We have a long question here from Sadhunathan Nadesan. Please give me a telephone call at the Himalayan Complex to talk about today.
When we have dreams of Gods and devas and holy people, it is because our soul is trying to guide us into the right path and dharma. Often, we have fallen off the path and dharma, into negative feelings and emotions. The soul itself is coming forward to help pull us back to that path.
This is an answer to another question that came in on email. Thank you, everyone, for your beautiful questions. If I am giving the right answers, please write and tell me that I gave the right answer and it was very helpful to you.
I am not suggesting that you disrespect your parents but I am suggesting that you respect yourself.
We’ll be back again tomorrow in our cyberspace ashram, looking out through your computer screen, having your darshan as you are looking at my darshan as we communicate through cyberspace.
And, now the beautiful languages – French, Tamil and Malay.
Aum Namah Sivaya!
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