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With Bodhinatha traveling… this excerpt from yesterday’s transcript of Gurudeva’ answer to a cyberspace question is very relevant:
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Oh, here’s a wonderful question! “Is it true that the Satguru must reincarnate over and over and over and over and over until all of his disciples reach the portals of liberation and are liberated?
Ours and all satgurus is a successorship. It is my duty to turn over all of my disciples, whether they have realized it or not, to my successor, and then to his successor and then to his successor. Because the guru doesn’t do it for you. You have got to do it for yourself. The Guru points the way. The Guru guides you. The Guru protects you. The Guru keeps you on the right path but he is not a magic pill. You have to live. You have to work. You have to encounter your karmas. If you’ve been a very bad boy, you have to learn to be a very good boy by learning how bad you were, correcting the matter through what we call penance or prayaschitta, and then get on with your life.
So, the system is that I have to be on a lower level plane, until my successor appoints a successor and finishes his tenure on Earth. Then he has to be on that lower level plane until his successor finishes his tenure on Earth and so forth like that. Therefore, it is an ever building, ever passing on of the information, ever passing on of the siddhis, ever passing on of the wonderful life of the Guru-disciple relationship. But nobody is going to do it for you, if that is what your thinking. You have to do it for yourself.
–Gurudeva
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But we go back in time to the 13th, in Singapore… where Bodhinatha has just arrived from malaysia. Sivakumar Saravan writes:
Our beloved Satguru arrived in Singapore on 13 September 2004 at about 1 pm. As always, there was tremendous excitement in the air as everyone eagerly awaited Bodhinatha’s arrival. At the airport Bodhinatha is discussing some details of the day’s program
with Kulapathi Dohadeva. Kulapathi has been busy for the past few days making all the necessary arrangements. Here Mrs. Sakuntala and her nephew Selvan Sivakumaran spend a few minutes with
Bodhinatha.
After getting settled and a short rest at the hotel, in the evening Bodhinatha arrives at Kulapathi Dohadeva’s home which is our mission home. Kulamata Nagavathy and Mrs Bhani perform the arati for Bodhinatha.
The padapuja for our beloved Satguru commences with the abhishekam with pure water. The padapuja was performed by Sivakumar and assisted by Girish.
Abhishekam with sandal paste and arati. The Kularnava Tantra says “There is no mantram higher than that of His (Guru’s) feet, no merit higher than His worship”.
Bodhinatha goes into deep meditation as the padapuja progresses. The room is filled with a strong and peaceful vibration. During these moments of intense devotion we truly see Lord Sadasiva seated before us.
The final arati is performed to conclude the padapuja. Everyone in the room chants the Guru mantra with great fervor. The conch is blown loudly. The vibration in
the room was so strong….it is difficult to explain in words the feeling.
Bodhinatha gave a short wonderful talk sharing some nice stories about the Gurus of our parampara. We got to hear the original story behind Satguru Yogaswami’s
saying “There is one thing Lord Siva cannot do – He cannot separate Himself from us even for a moment.”
After the talk, Bodhinatha gave vibuthi blessings. Here is Himalayan Academy student, Bhani Karthegesu.
Here Girish is presenting Bodhinatha with a vase that he had crafted. Girish has been studying pottery for a while and the beautiful vase speaks of his excellent
craftsmanship. Well done Girish.
Gurudeva’s spiritual center in the island country of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean near South Africa
Meanwhile in Mauritius devotees were working hard to get the Saiva Dharmasala in top shape for Satguru’s arrival.
The Spiritual Park has now a new nicely made wooden sign board at the main gate. Visitors can visit the Park as from 7.00 am.
Preparations are going on for the forthcoming celebration of Ganesha Chaturthi at the Park on which H.H Bodhinatha Veylanswami will be present. A very large crowd, as in previous years is being expected on the 19th September. A big tent is being erected…
This Sunday a big karma yoga (selfless service to God) was organised at the Spiritual Park. many Siva thondars turned up. Early morning Kulapati Kulagen arrived with a few roses plants. Siven and Sivarathna Manick are helped him to load other flowering plants in his car. He is bringing them to the Muruga Mandapam down the property.
The Karma yogis at the Muruga Mandapam had the chance to meet Swami Chitsivananda from the Divine Life Society. The swami is from the Sri Santi Ashram, Hyderabad, India and said the spot at the Muruga Mandapam is wonderful for meditation.
New flowering plants are being planted around the Muruga Mandapam. Kulapati. Kulagan and little Sivarathna are busy with this task…
New tiles have now been laid on the floor of the Muruga Mandapam. The base at the large granite murthi is beautiful and cooling with the sea breeze constantly blowing over it.
Lord Arumuga looks splendid…
More karma yogis turned up at the Mandapam. Kulapati manon and Adi Sankara sets to work immediately… The summer sun overhead is hot!
Elsewhere on th property, near the second gate, Kul. Anba Valaytan, Ravind Doorgiat and Bhram. Vel are putting new coconut plants into the soil. They had to dig large holes for this.
Selvaraj Sanjeevee is polishing the brass letters on the main wooden signpost at the Spiritual Park entrance.
Here is Karthigeyan Manick. His main responsibility was to freshly repaint the main iron gate.
While our team of karma yogis were busy outside, a crew from the MBC, the national TV station were making a few video recordings inside the Mini Mela for a documentary on Ganesha Chaturthi.
The ladies are cleaning the dharmasala building, polishing brass puja items, washing and sweeping clean all the rooms.
Anjeenee Devi cleaning the steps…
Mrs Canagasaby and Mrs Sanjeevee polishing the homa kundam…
Then came the long anticipated day. It is 4.30 pm on the 15th and the plane coming from Singapore is about to land at the SSR International Airport. Today’s flight is a special one because there is on board an enlightened soul whom everyone is waiting ….
Bodhinatha is just arriving from the VIP lounge. When alighting from the car His Holiness is garlanded by Kulapaties Koothan and Valaytan…. Welcome to Mauritius Beloved Bodhinatha! Everyone then comes forward to offer flowers and welcome Bodhinatha and swami. The sishyas are so happy to be in the midst of their Guru…
Everyone is looking at his watch. Then someone said: “Bodhinatha is here!”
Everyone is also happy to see Sannyasin Saravananathaswami. Swami who has been regularly communicating with the island’s sishyas over the past is visiting Mauritius for the first time.
After having said a few words to the group, Bodhinatha gets into the car to go to Trou aux Biches in the northern coastal region. It is about an hour drive from the airport.
There is a feeling of contentment in the eyes of everyone as the car drives off. This first meeting with the Guru lasted a few minutes but was like an eternity to all those present. The children are happy too to have met Bodhinatha, but a little sad that the event is now over…
At the Aadheenam Today
Sadhaka Dandapani takes a moment to brush his helper’s fur coat… He’s off to Arizona tomorrow to be at the inauguration of the Ganesha temple there.
The Ganesha at the new temple in Arizona had been gifted by Gurudeva years ago and the devotees there feel very close to the Aadheenam. They extended and invitation to Bodhinatha, but since he was in Asia, Paramacharya Palaniswami is going in his stead to represent the Aadheenam. Here he is getting together some gifts for the temple.
Our Pilliyar Kulam building at the front of 107 Kaholalele Road is undergoing major renovation and the monks serving there have moved into the other kulam offices for a while.. .Here is Sadhaka Jivananandanatha in the Ekadanta Kulam…
Sadhaka packs us bags for Arizona.
An uplifting moment for the blind of the world from Aunti Damara Shanmugam:
These first 5 volumes are propped up on my mother’s player piano. The picture was taken by Uncle Sadhu at our annual meeting of the Board of Directors of The SHIVA Braille Foundation held on September 11, 2004, in my home.
I wanted to thank you and the other members of the HHE Trustees for your generous offer to help with the cost of producing The Master Course in Braille and perhaps another braille embosser. These enlightened lessons, which have made such a tremendous difference in our lives through print, are the only transcriptions of their kind available to the blind.
Aum Namasivaya!
Damara Shanmugan
The SHIVA Braille Foundation
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Date: March221999
Title: ‘Time Out’ for Adults
Category: Relationships
Duration: 4 min., 31 seconds
Date Given: March 22, 1999
Given By: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, March 22nd.
It is a very busy day. We had about twenty business people from the Kapaa business community group come to visit Kauai Aadheenam. They had a wonderful time. They saw everything that we are doing – ‘Hinduism Today’, publishing books, building a temple.
Also, it was ‘Guest Day’. We had a lot of other very beautiful guests come to sit in front of the sphatika lingam. 700 hundred pound, perfect, crystal Sivalingam.
We have a question about maya and we want to thank you for sending this question.
Maya, the grand illusion when in higher consciousness, is very real when in lower consciousness. In higher consciousness, there are no good and there are no bad things. In lower consciousness, we see good and we see bad. It is our choice, where we want to be. I think just in the middle is a good place, between lower consciousness and higher consciousness and see things for what they are when in everyday life.
This was a very good question and you went on to answer the question yourself and you gave a very nice answer for me, and we want to thank you very, very much.
When things get tough in a home, a religious separation is very good. It is called ‘time out’. If a husband and wife are fighting, a religious separation is very good. If children and parents are fighting among themselves, a separation for time to cool off is also very good. But these kinds of separations should not be looked at as punishment. They should be mutually agreed upon. A cooling off time, a time of reflection, of talking to oneself or talking to one’s best friend so the mind can adjust itself to the responsibilities of living in a home, performing the duties that we have to perform while living in the home, and being a good citizen on planet Earth.
Many families are breaking up because of misunderstandings and unresolved problems, and they separate for good. But, I am talking about a religious separation. Going off to an ashram, performing sadhana, taking a pilgrimage to a far off temple, worshiping there, and then returning. That is a religious pilgrimage.
Just to go away with no particular purpose, just to get out of the home or away from another individual, serves no real purpose. So religion plays a very important part in a person’s life because that is higher consciousness and everything else other than religion, is lower consciousness.
Well, here we are again in Cyberspace Ashram and tomorrow and the next day are retreat. We had a film group come from Honolulu today to make a film on Kauai Aadheenam, what we do, how we live here. They were attracted to us and this was their second visit from the University of Honolulu to get to know us better, I guess, and take us in digital cameras over to Honolulu so others can get to know us better.
Aum Namah Sivaya.
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