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“Meditation does not have to be prolonged to accomplish what you want to gain in unfoldment through your perceptive insights. Ten to thirty minutes is enough in the beginning. However, after you have finished with a dynamic meditation, you might sit for a longer time in the bliss of your being and really enjoy yourself as the pure life energy radiates through your nervous system. Meditation is essentially work, good hard work, and you should be willing to work and expend energy so that you can meditate. Karma yoga activity, the ability to serve in the temple selflessly, whole-heartedly and accurately, is a must if you want seriously to amalgamate the instinctive forces that demand reward for work and be able to meditate with full force, vim and vigor. “
–Gurudeva
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Of course the important news of the moment is Bodhinatha giving initiations in Mauritius. It’s Saturday, the 18th…. a day reserved for the members and sishya at the spiritual park.
This is a rare and precious moment: receiving the sacred Panchakshara Mantra, Om Nama Sivaya, from the lips of the Satguru. This is the essence of Sampradaya, the preservation and passage of the power of Saivism from one generation to the next. For the individual sishiya, it is the receiving the spark, the seed, the key to a new beginning on the path of raja yoga and spiritual unfoldment.
This is Kartigeyen Manick
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Bodhinatha is meeting Church members of the different regions of the island on different days. The members living in the north, mainly from the Mardemootoo and Manick kutumbas all met at the residence of Kulapati Manon for a satsang with the Guru last night, Friday evening. Here Kulapati Manon is doing the puja assisted by Brahmachari Vel Mahalingum.
After the puja everyone was invited to prostrate to the Holy Feet of the Guru.
Kulamata Sornumbal receiving vibhuti…Bodhinatha gave a very nice speech on that evening stressing on japa and anger management.
The devotees singing Natchintanai while others are prostrating to the Guru.
The next day, Saturday morning, Bodhinatha was at the Spiritual Park with the Church members and Himalayan Academy students. It turned into a sunny day despite the rainy weather at night on the eve. Children are lined up on both sides of the path leading to the Ganesha Mandapam throwing flowers at Bodhinatha’s Feet.
Kulapati Amba Valayten traditionally washes the Feet of the Guru at the lava rock steps of the Mandapam.
On that day the devotees present had the privilege of having Sannyasin Saravananathaswami performing the homa at the Ganesha Mandapam.
Bodhinatha in meditation while the spiritual vibration is building up…After the chanting and burning of notes to the devas, four sishyas were called forward to receive their samaya diksha.
Jayalaksmee from the south receiving samaya diksha from Bodhinatha…
Tirumati Kannigai Manick, wife of Kartigeyen
Selvaraj Sanjeevee from Goodlands.
Bodhinatha’s Talk was on Mission satsanga and the satguru stressed on the concepts of japa and the Guru. Here is an extract:
“Certainly one very important concept in Gurudeva’s essential teachings is the need for a guru. Here is the example I usually give when asked the question “Is a guru necessary?” I reply by asking the question: Do you need a teacher to learn to sing devotional songs? And then answer the question by saying: Anyone can learn to sing simple devotional bhajans without a teacher. However, if you want to learn to sing the more difficult carnatic songs, a teacher is definitely needed. Is a Guru Needed? By worshipping regularly at a temple and reading scripture you can make some spiritual progress without a guru. But if you want to maximize your spiritual progress in this lifetime, you definitely need a guru.”
After the talk Bodhinatha certificates of completion for the Saivite Hindu Religion Book Two were awarded by Bodhinatha to many students, mostly children who are currently following Saivite Hindu Religion seminars every week at the Spiritual Park. Here is Ulasha receiving her certificate with a rudraksha bead from Bodhinatha.
….More photos of this Saturday Spiritual Park event in next TAKA… stay tuned…
Saravananathaswami also sends us more photos… with his captions:
Now we are visiting some Saiva Siddhanta Church member families at home of Kulapati Kulagan Moonesawmy’s home. This Kulapati Anba Valayten and family.
Kulapati Kulagan Moonesawmy and family. They hold the new Panchakshara Mantra booklet in their hands. This is the booklet Bodhinatha is giving to all sishyas who had diksha in past and those receiving diksha on this trip and into the future. Bodhinatha gave diksha to four sishyas in Mauritius on September 18. You will see photos taken by Rajen Manick of that event
Tiru Youdananda Munian and family. Many bright, young children in our sishya families right now.
Tiru Soobhlall Jeetunsiv
Group photo with Bodhinatha at the end
And then it’s off to Kulapati Mougam Pareatumbee’s Pizza & Tandoori restaurant for a fancy lunch prepared by his expert staff of chefs, shown here afterwards
The children very much enjoying their lunch
This is Inderjeet and Ashwini Munohur visiting Bodhinatha for a few minutes at the bungalow. They are longtime friends of our “Spiritual Park”, or Saiva Dharmasala at La Pointe in the far north. They met Gurudeva in the past
More meetings at the bungalow. This is Dr. Pillay who publishes a newspaper called Vanakkam and regularly includes HPI articles and lessons from Gurudeva’s Master Course trilogy. He really admires Gurudeva’s writings and is very eager for our help to educate Hindus so they become strong enough to withstand enticements to convert to Christianity and other religions
Kulapati Rajen and Kulamata Premila Manick. They are very active in teaching the Saivite Hindu Religion children’s course to young children at the Saiva Dharmasala Spiritual Park
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, who recently visited us in Hawaii, flew to Mauritius all the way from Adelaide, Australia, when they saw on our website that Bodhinatha was coming for Ganesha Chaturti celebrations. They are both retired from their professions and now eager to deepen their spiritual life and take Bodhinatha as their Satguru to guide them. At this meeting at our bungalow, they signed up to follow our Master Course Correspondence Study. We will be arranging to ship the Master Course trilogy to them, and prepare personal study folders, so they can begin
This is the national flower of Mauritius which we photographed outside the Mahatma Gandhi Institute while on our way to a temple event in the town of Rose Hill. Sorry, we don’t remember the name of the flower at the moment.
A full sun shot of the beach outside our bungalow
Here are some photos showing where Bodhinatha is residing most of the days in Mauritius. A family generously donated the use of their beachfront bungalow.
Early morning scene outside the bungalow. Because there is a reef some ways out, the water close by is very calm and clear.
Many little fishing boats and glass-bottomed tour boats. We are on northwest side of the island, which is part of the drier side of the island. The southern areas are more rainy.
Bougainvillea grows well on the island
A nice tree base outside our bungalow
Mr. and Mrs. Perumal, whose bungalow Bodhinatha stayed at the previous two years. Bodhinatha also spoke at his temple last year
Bodhinatha taking his morning walk on the beach…
At Home At Kauai Aadheenam
Back home at the Aadheenam… lot’s of visitors this morning coming for this mornings puja as they thought it was Ganesha Chaturthi…they must have been using an Indian calendar for the date and not the USA/Hawaii panchangam.
Thanks to some generous benefactors we have a new bird aviary out front in the Banyan Mandapam where visitors can enjoy them. The Aadheenam has always kept birds. Gurudeva loved them, but our big aviary that has cockatails, parakeets and finches is in the cloistered area of the monastery, so out of sight of guests.
Paramacharya Ceyonswami has been coordinating the new cage made from a garden gazebo frame… These young Love Birds are stunning in their varied colors (which can’t clearly be seen here) and very sweet and tame.
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