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The art of giving 19
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Siva for September 24
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Mandira Letter to the Editor 36
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Hindu Ideas 46
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Editorial
His Holiness
Sri Selvam Siddhar
(DR. Commander Selvam)
Om Namashivayaa!!
N
amasthe! Vanakkam! To my dear and good souls on the
earth, this is our 5th edition of Siddhi Times coming at
you with Shivji‘s blessings. Every day we are getting
at least 5 to 10 people calling from all parts of the country to
appreciate the content and value of our Siddhi Times. It’s just
not enough to thank the Siddhi Times team, but I should bless
each and every one to long live with good health and wealth.
Now we have started our store front free distribution in
Southern and Northern California. I personally thank Subash
Bhai and Parikh Ji for their timely distribution of the magazine
in California.
The Tri state distribution, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia
is starting from October 2007. The beautiful angel Nilima
Mehra is taking care of this noble task from Virginia, who lives
a very meaningful and dedicated life with her blessed husband
Dr Rajesh Mehra and their 3 beautiful and wonderful children.
They are proud founders and president of Global TV Network
also known as Nilima TV for the Tristate Indians.
I always say that YOU WILL LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR
THOUGHTS, and with the blessings of Shivji, our Siddhi Times
is leading #1, all over USA with more than 250,000 readers.
Approximately 10000 copies are mailed to most influential
Indian Americans in this country and in India. There is a
tremendous welcome for the distribution of Siddhi Times in
India too.
Many people wonder, how all these things are possible in a short
span of time. The answer is very simple. It’s not a one person’s
task. With Lord Shivji’s blessings, all my actions are supported
and protected.
During a Satsang in Virgina, among the crowd of thousands,
one of my devotees asked, ”Swamiji, what is your business?
How do you make money?” My response was that I am working
as a General Manger for the richest and blessed personality in
the whole universe, and He likes me so much and I get the best
salary with all perks. As many were puzzled, I then said that the
“person” whom I work for is, “LORD SHIVA”.
Looking back the path I have traveled so far, it’s like rags to
riches story with absolute blessings from Shivji. There may be
lot of great people, great sanyasis, swamijis, multi-millionaires
and billionaires in this world who can financially do anything
for the spiritual cause and for Gods, but I believe Lord Shiva
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has a greater reason for choosing an ordinary person like me
to venture this unique one and only SHIV MANDIR with 108
Shivjis in this world.
People who know Vedas should admit that this subject was
tried by numerous people for thousands of years; however I am
blessed to have got jackpot of doing this wonderful Historical
venture in this Great nation.
When you see someone who is rich in wealth or anything for
that matter, please learn to appreciate and definitely not to
question the richness. Human mind can do good as well as bad,
why don’t we choose to do good things.
As I say quite often “LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY
IN THIS WORLD, SINCE THEY FEEL SOMEONE ARE
HAPPY.” Those people need to change their attitude and
respect someone to the caliber not to his money. Some one
who has made lot of money in his life should not be assumed
as an intelligent, and at the same time some one who has lost
money should not be felt as an idiot. All our life is karma based.
Destiny cannot be changed. But, we could admit our destiny in
a comfortable way.
It’s like some one has an ugly nose, wishing to be changed.
In today’s technological world, it’s easily possible by plastic
or cosmetic surgery. It’s not a natural process, but still it’s
possible. Right? I can give another example, you could pull the
12”x12” plastic bag couple of more inches bigger by properly
stretching it, and however you cannot convert the same to the
size of 24”x24”.
Many people worry about the financial issues in their life and
it is interesting when somebody wanted to solve their financial
problem and all they wanted was to win a big lotto and willing
to pay $50 for making this possible. If somebody knows the
lotto number for $40 Million, why would they give it for $50?
Make sense?
There is nothing wrong is wishing to be wealthy. There is a
price to be paid for every success. Each and every successful
person in this universe has paid their price in different terms
like money, time, love, hard work etc. Do not look for short term
happiness. What do you gain by bad mouthing others without
knowing the facts and their goals? Jealousy is going to make
one’s own life miserable, may not be in their time, but God’s
time.
What do you think of a person who says “I want to go to heaven;
but I do not want to die’?. Well, I relate the same with the people
who are wishing to be wealthy, but not ready to work for it.
Many lack in the knowledge of their own family responsibilities
and also of their community. Be willing to learn the facts by
seeking the right knowledge. When you appreciate the success
of others, God will bless yours.
This planet earth can provide for everybody. You do your part
and God will do the rest. No one else can make your dreams
come true. You may hear and see commercials to make all your
dreams come true in 7 days and their results are guaranteed.
Who can guaranty God’s creation? Nothing in the spirituality
is guaranteed. Know the good from bad and be aware of your
approach to solve your problems. Don’t be a victim. The good
thoughts and actions would make up or lead our Karma/Destiny
comfortable. Knowing the science and practicing the Atharva
Veda principles, I always insist that one should live a life with
standards. You just can not make any short cuts to win the inner
consciousness. That’s why all our Rishis were praying to Shivji
not to be reborn and to get liberation. None of the great Rishis
prayed to any Gods to reborn as the President or Secretary to
their organization again.
Nothing will come easy in our life. Please do not always expect
anything free. Before you stretch your hands to take anything
free, think twice what have you given to earn that free thing?
Do you really deserve that? Do not use your intelligence for
a wrong reason. Intelligence is like a knife. You could use
to cut the fruits or to take a life away. You choose to do a
good thing! Come out of the rut life of jealousy, misery, bad
mouthing, fighting, group politics etc. No is superior to others.
Live a peaceful life and follow the principles for manifesting
the spiritual destiny. Hindu Temple of Georgia is servicing
people all across the world, providing the spiritual solution and
everyone is welcome to make the service beneficial for their
lives.
Om Shanthi ! Om Shanthi ! Om Shanthi !
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Vol: 5
D
uring the past issues we discussed a lot
about spirituality and the benefits of
leading a spiritual life. In this issue I
wish to discuss more about the works of the great
saint Sri Adhi Sankaracharya. In his great work
named “Bajagovindam” he tells us a lot about the
spirituality. One should be a human being first.
Then only he can become a great soul. This is the
gist of “Bajagovindham. He says no grammar or
anything what you have learnt will never follow
you, when you die. Only the result of the good or
bad things you do will only follow you when you
die. It is widely thought that there is no life after
death, But according to the ancient Vedas and other
epics such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavat
Geeta, Bible and Holy Quran, the life continues
even after death. At the time of death the physical
body becomes vacuum and the air which is called
as “prana” or life only goes away. The air enters
into some other physical body according to the
result of good or bad things it has done in the life
time. It is called as
Karma or Destiny.
As according to
our Swamiji Sri.
Pandit L.V. Sharma
Siddhar, the Karma
or Destiny can’t be changed. It can be only altered
according to the horoscopes of an individual.
How we can make our Destiny or Karma as good?
This is the most valuable question which arises
from the minds of all. The simple and only answer
is “by leading a spiritual life “. The help of a Guru
or teacher is required to practice the spiritual life
We are going to practice spirituality in our life or
we are going to live a spiritual life. What is the
part of a teacher in framing our spiritual life. For
this Adhi Sankara gives a detailed in his great
work Bajagovindam. Govinda Bagavatpada is the
Guru of Sri.Adhi Sankara. Only to inform us not to
forget our guru or teacher he concludes the stanzas
with Baja Govindam.. Only by praising guru or be
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being obedient to the teacher one can
get the blessings of the teacher. By the
blessings we can get the guidance of the
teacher either in this worldly education
or spiritual education.
The saint even gives us a guidance as
how we should respect our parents. We
have not seen any of the divine powers.
The only divine power we see is our
parents. By giving proper respect to our
parents and teacher we can have good
guidance from them. The saint further
says to ignore the caste, creed and the
fight between the religions. Now a days
the quarrel between the religions are
more. If we avoid all these quarrels.
What are the basic things we need to
lead a spiritual life.
First devotion, second is
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selfconfidence. If we show dedication and devotion to all
walks of our life, and if we develop self confidence, we can
have the most beautiful spiritual life. By practicing the spiritual
way of life, we can have the help from all our surroundings
including the natural forces such as air, water etc. The personal
benefit is one can become as”Buddhimaan,Madurabashi,
Poorvabaashi, Priyamvadha”, which means, one can easily
become great having a great knowledge and wisdom. By that
great knowledge and wisdom one can have sweet words. By
having these two, we can have a great oratory skill and we can
speak in a lovely and pleasing manner, which is admired by
each and everybody.
If we start loving each other, the entire human race will have a
very smooth walk of life. We can reach the peaks and achieve
our goals very easily. There is no need to become a monk or
saint to lead a spiritual walk of life but we should have self
confidence. With the blessings of our parents, teacher(guru)
and the almighty we can easily come across all the troubles and
we can be the leader of the entire human race. We can easily
get new powers and we will be forced by our inner conscious
to utilize these powers for the betterment of mankind. We
cannot use them otherwise. In today’s world it is very hard and
at the same time it is very easy to practice the spiritual walk
of our life. Each and everybody wishes to come across all the
problems of the life.
All are ready to accomplish with this. This is so widespread and
fast growing. But nobody knows how to start the mission. Only
to make all happy our Sri Sri Siddhar Swamiji has started this
“Siddhi Times”. We can join in the mission and start a beautiful
walk of life. We can easily develop love, affection, dedication
and devotion.By having all these qualities we can easily become
the best citizen of the world. If each and everybody has all these
aforesaid qualities there will be no quarrel at all. We can have a
beautiful and peaceful atmosphere throughout the universe. By
the peace wecan easily reach our target and goal. We can be a
model to each and everybody.
I humbly request all to join in the mission to lead a spiritual
life and have a very peaceful and beautiful life. If we start the
mission now, we will be very happy and our next generation will
live in a peaceful and hassle free universe. I wish to thank you
all for giving me an opportunity to share my ideas with you all.
I particularly thank Sri Siddhar Swamiji for this opportunity.
We will meet in the next issue with some more new ideas.
Om Shanthi ! Om Shanthi !
Om Shanthi !
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 Philosophy

of Charles
Schultz

T
he following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the
creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. You don’t have to
actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight
through, and you’ll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss World Contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best
actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade’s worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.

These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their
fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements
are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their
owners.

Here’s another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.

2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult
time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and
special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with Easier?

The lesson: The people who make a difference

in your life are not the ones with the most
credentials, the most money, or the most

awards. They arethe ones that care.

- Gokul
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I
ts Presence of mind and the right answer at right time that
matters!!

Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking
it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack!

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it
take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built.

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four
apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one
hand.

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?

A. No Probs , He sleeps at night.

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that.

Q. What looks like half apple ?

A. The other half.

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?

A . Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?

A . It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?

A . Liquid

“Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is

the master of presence of mind.”

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 “If God were not forgiving, heaven would be empty.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar
The Presence of Hindu Temple of Georgia & Siddhi Times USA at Festival of India (FOI) 2007
T
he Hindu Temple of Georgia and Siddhi Times
USA magazine joined hands with IACA to
participate and celebrate the Festival of India
2007 held at Gwinnett Civic Center on August 11th 2007
from 9am to 7pm. It was indeed a remarkable event to be
a part of India’s 60th Independence Day celebrations.
The day commenced with setting up of our booth for the
Temple and the Siddhi magazine in a 250sqft area on the
aisle. Grand decorations were exhibited with God Shiva
& Goddess Parvathi idols and lot of traditional south
Indian silk saris were hanging at the backdrop to add
multiple colors for the background of the booth. Three
Priests from Hindu Temple of Georgia were exclusively
assigned to take care of the decorations and display of
Art crafts at the booth. The Siddhi Times USA magazine
marketing team headed by Mr. Chandra M. Loganathan
were constantly interacting with the visitors to the booth
and educating them about the magazine. All visitors
and special guests coming to the booths got a copy of
Siddhi magazine and were very much appreciative of the
magazine and its contributions to the society. True to the
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belief “Service to Mankind is Service to God”, Siddhi
magazine team is taking all necessary steps to improvise
on an ongoing basis to serve the spiritually enlightened
community which includes people from all walks of life
such as doctors, engineers, IT professionals, scientists,
home-makers, students, business owners etc. It is also
amazing to earn a readership of 250,000 within a short
span of 3 months and growing rapidly. Additionally, it is
the only Indian magazine to be distributed in 400+ outlets
in Georgia and FREE subscription sent nationwide. Many
Business owners showed interest in advertising in the
magazine due to fact that 80% of Siddhi readers preserve
the magazine as resource/ reference guide and it leads to
high shelf life for advertisements as well. As the Siddhi
Times team is growing steadily, there were a good number
of interested people enquired about job opportunities
with Siddhi Times as Sub-editors, Marketing and Sales
both full and part-time positions.
Almost every visitor and guest who came to the booth had
a chance to look at the Art Crafts and audio devotional/
music CDs display from Hindu Temple of Georgia. Many
of them bought different Art Crafts and CDs. There
was one item that was bought like hot cake was “Baby
Ganesh” idol. It’s a small idol but the handcraft work
was done very meticulously. Some of the people who
visited the booth had a good understanding of what the
“108 Shiva Temple” means and also got an update of the
commencement of the temple project.
Sri Sri Selvam Siddhar, the Managing editor of Siddhi
Times USA magazine came with his entourage to the
booth early afternoon and proactively participated in
greeting and discussing different matters with the visitors
and guests. Coincidentally, the TV Asia team also came
to the booth and did a personal interview with Sri Selvam
Siddhar. He expressed his happiness in participating and
socializing with a huge crowd at the Festival of India
2007. There was also a quick photo shot done with Miss
India Georgia 2007, Roshni Devlia and Dr. Commander
Selvam Siddhar expressed his hearty congratulations for
her accomplishment.
Altogether it was an eventful day to serve the community
and feel a sense of achievement and success.
Contributed by
S.B. Roy & C.M. Loganathan
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 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools a despise wisdom and discipline. -Sri Selvam Siddhar

I
n our past issues, the study about Sun and Moon were
analyzed. In this issue, we are going detail about Lords LORD MERCURY
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Ragu and Kethu. The planet Mercury is
called Budha. In week days,
LORD MARS Wednesday is ruled by
Present world of scientists say that Mars is a red planet. When Mercury. In astrology, by
the astrology was known to the world about 5000 years back, observing the position of
the saints named Mars as “ANGHARAHA” which reveals Mercury, the education,
information of one’s blood and the brother and sister who were brain power, brilliancy,
born along with. Keeping the position and the star in which and the smartness of a
Mars is traveling, the predictions about, elders, youngsters, the person can be found out.
accidents of fire, one’s anger, ill health, landed properties, the The reason for failure
disturbances and the hurdles in married life are calculated. For in any venture, exams,
all such category, the spiritual remedies and ritual practices to disturbed school days
set the things in right way are arranged by the Vedic principles. and career, etc are dealt by
The prayer rituals are done for the selection of life partner’s Budha. In short, He is the Lord
according to their horoscope and especially the position of the for knowledge. If any one is much
planet Lord Mars in their horoscope. We go to see the doctor affected by the matter of knowledge,
to get relieved of sickness. Same way one goes to astrologer there are amazing astrologic ways for
to live comfortably and peacefully for the continuation of life, improvement and progress. We follow
along with society. In week days, Mars is ruling on Tuesday. For certain methods of chanting the secret
peaceful married life and comfort there are several rituals to do words and do the whole-hearted prayers.
for Mars. These divinely rituals are mostly done for many
school going children and the elders who are not capable to
control their activities in proper manner. Every one must get
the practice to rectify the defects. There are several ways to
get the things done in a successful manner. The Mercuric
power in brain of the human permits the aim to the basic and
best way for success.

LORD JUPITER
The most graceful and blessing planet Jupiter, rules the day
of the week Thursday. Astrology calls Him as “Prahaspathi”.
A trouble free life with success and prosperity reaches to the
native of horoscope in which the Jupiter will be accommodated
in train to the Lagna or Rasi. The earth revolving on its axis
goes around all the 12 signs of the zodiac in one day. It takes
about two hours to cross from one sign to the next. The sign
rising on the horizon at the time of one’s birth is the “Lagna”.
The sign of occupation of moon, on that same hour and day is
called “Rasi”.

Total progress of the individual like status, dignity, family

prestige, honor and high position are revealed well as per the
star and sign in which the Jupiter moving in accordance to the
time of birth. So Jupiter’s positions in good signs will lift the
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person for happy life. For those who are suffering, the position
of Jupiter will be on 6th,, 8th or 12th house of either Lagna or
Rasi.
Since, good grace from Jupiter will yield the happy life, how to
get the grace? It’s possible by way of prayers and rituals which
are taught while attending the class of yoga and meditation in
our temple, Hindu Temple of Georgia, Norcross, GA.
The physical exercises, yoga and meditation will relate with brain
concentration and the power of controlling desires. Natural way
of observing self activities and acquiring the power by divinely
prayers are quite possible.
One will be blessed with philosophic nature, high life with
knowledge and wisdom when we do the prayers to Lord
Prahaspathi.
LORD VENUS
Lord Venus rules the week day Friday. The effect of this planet in
astronomical positions can be on matrimonial life, love, affection
and can also be on wind, rain, cyclonic effects. Forecasting can
be done for hurricanes and tornados too. These primeval forces
of Mother Nature are well appreciated and are needed for the
mankind. When it exceeds the limits, we fear. For example,
one glass of water when compared to ocean, the multiple and
enlarged ratios, actually create fears. So, the big we see, we
call it as giant. The giant gives the meaning of superhuman size
and nature. Here comes the astonishment to access the God,
the creator of earth, sun and stars. Even the small creatures like
virus, and mosquitoes which are very small, but they do have
eyes and other sensitive parts. Is it not a wonder? It is really a
matter of deep thinking to reach a conclusion of the Almighty.
In astrology, the job of Venus is several. As far as human being
is concerned, the matter of love to child issues, all are coming to
the account. Will one’s love be a successful one? Will a person
get married early? What is the nature of person? What is the
strength of one to give a child birth? Will one be able to secure
good life mate with chastity? Is there any matter of divorce? If
divorce what is the next to happen? All such things are dealt by
the position of Venus. So, the rituals and pre-cautionary actions
are to be conducted after a complete study of position of Venus
in every horoscope. The compatibility of a male and female
should also be checked for a successful married life.
LORD SATURN
The last of the week, Saturday is for Roman God of agriculture,
Saturn. As per science, Saturn takes 30 years to make one full
round around the sun. Where as earth takes only 365 days to
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 When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water. - Sri Selvam Siddhar
make a circle. Saturn does it in 10,950 days. That counts to
approximately 30 months to cross one zodiac sign. For the
living beings, Saturn stands authority to age and life. Saturn
is considered as a strict teacher. While teaching lessons, the
punishment is also there for one who does wrong. Astrology tells
that the fate is decided by Saturn. The position of Saturn in every
body’s horoscope is deeply checked. Since He is a punisher, one
and all fear for his behavior. Certain zodiac signs are very cruel
and critical when the transit of Saturn happens. Such bad place
will be dealt with fear for life, failure in marriage, unbearable
poverty trouble, some court cases, and demotions in jobs and all
kinds of losses.
Such kind of sufferings may continue for 7 to 8 years. Some
people will have miserable experience. This is noticed as 7½
year-Saturn. The health conditions will grow worse. Medical
expenses will be heavy. Some persons may go mad. Some
will be with fear of devils. Many persons will have to face
the enemies and loose their opportunities. Still further, some
might be suffering with a peculiar type of illness related to
psychotherapy.
With the birth time of a person and analyzing the astrological
positions, it’s possible to get relief from all the struggles to live
with peace and continue the life with happiness. The rituals to
the Lord Saturn are specified in astrology. We can adopt all such
needed measures and live with the piece of mind.
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RAGU AND KETHU
In astrological norms, they are defined as shadows; if one
straight line is drawn from Sun to Earth, once in a year or twice
the moon’s transit will occur in between Sun and Earth. That
day is called Solar Eclipse. Some days, between Sun and Moon,
the traveling route of earth will cross and create Lunar Eclipse.
This long line, infinity to infinity should also possess two edges.
One is Ragu and other one is Kethu. (The contact with orbital
points of moon)
In olden age, the life of a person who sees the crescent moon
(on the waxing period-specifically 3rd crescent) on the 1000th
time from his birth was honored. That comes to the account of
83 years to 84 years of living.
Rahu and Ketu take about 19 months to transit through a sign.
Transit of these planets brings in important changes in the life
of an individual. The impact is not always negative. But the
malefic effects can be loss and pain to the investors, ego clashes,
verbal fights within married couples, problems with bosses,
lack of courage and confidence and many more. Astrological
consultation is needed to identify the various areas of the life
which will be affected by Ragu and Kethu and get remedial
solutions for mitigating the negative affects.
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. - Sri Selvam Siddhar
The thought of giving is the creation of the art of giving.
The act of giving is the art of living.
You may be a bit skeptical, wondering what exactly you have
to give. Unfortunately, in this fastest moving world, the word
‘giving’ is so much intertwined with just financial aspect of
human life. Each and every one of us has something to give
everyone! Everybody has something of value for another person
or community or nation or to the world.
It could be a kind word, a simple smile, some appreciation, the
sharing of some special knowledge, even a helping hand or a bit
of support during a difficult emotional time.
It could also mean being generous philanthropists with few
billions pledged like Bill and Melinda Gates (Microsoft co-
founder), Gordon and Betty Moore (Intel co-founder) and Warren
Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway CEO).
The art of giving for the spiritual guru, divine personality and
Atharva Veda Scholar, Sri Sri Selvam Siddhar, is all about
dedication to the mission and empowering the community with
spiritual transformation.
The act of true giving is something wonderful and amazing. With
most things in this world, there is only a limited amount of what
you can give away. Fortunately, generosity and kindness are not
bound to these same material limitations.
“You have something to give everyone”
Your act of giving doesn’t necessarily have to be limited to an
exchange of presents at Christmas time or Birthdays. You can
treat every person you come into contact with as someone who
you can give a gift to.
A very special act of giving can be in the form of small, personal
acts of kindness. Very often it is not money or belongings that
people need, it’s the things that can’t be seen, such as advice
reassurance, a kind word, compliments or a smile.
The most of basic law of life is “every single act of love, kindness
and generosity will multiply and return to you many times over”.
The more you give, the more you get and the more you will feel
happy. The true art of giving is to give from the heart without any
expectation of its return or results.
What you give out is what comes back in direct proportions to
the feelings you have in the act of giving.
It’s very simple. If you want to experience more joy, give joy
to others, if you want more love, learn to give love, if you want
attention and appreciation, and learn to give appreciation to
others. These are some of life’s most precious gifts and they don’t
cost you anything.
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 Philosophy has no end in view, save truth. Faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar

How often do you expect back from the person you gave
something to a gift of a similar or greater value? Is this true
giving or merely an unvoiced expectation of an exchange of
similar goods?

Have you ever heard anyone saying “I just give and give and
give until I have nothing left”? This behavior is called self
denial or self pity. This is an ego based form of giving. It is
giving with an expectation of something in return. In reality,
this is not giving at all but an un-vocalized form of barter. If,
through the act of giving, you feel that you have “lost something
or are somehow lessened” then the gift was not truly given
from your heart.

It is one of life’s wonderful paradoxes that you limit the power

of your giving by having an expectation of getting something
in return. When you give without any thought or desire for
When you meet someone, you can silently send them a
something back, your returns will be truly limitless.
blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind
of silent giving is very powerful. Do this exercise for the next
Our life is like a river, full of energy, continually flowing. What
21 consecutive days, (with no thought of return) and you will
happens when a river is stopped from moving? It gets very
suddenly find people around you opening to you in joy and
muddy and stagnant. A fast flowing river is full of life and clear
happiness?
water. Where would you rather drink?
Make a decision that wherever you go, to whoever you meet, to
The acts of giving and receiving are a continuous process of
give. As long as you are giving, you will also be receiving. The
circulation that continues the flow of your life’s energies. For
more you give, the more will flow back to you and be returned
one person to receive someone else has to give. It’s a cycle of
many times over. Giving creates a pattern of happiness, joy and
energy that flows continually onwards.
love in your life beyond your wildest expectations.
Pause for as moment as you read this, and take a big, deep
In ancient China, Lao Tsu wrote “Kindness in words creates
breath. Hold it for as long as you possibly can. As you hold it
confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness
inside, notice how uncomfortable you begin to feel when you
in Giving Creates Love.” Many thousands of years ago a great
are holding on to something that is meant to be released. Now,
sage in Babylon said “The reward of charity depends entirely
breathe out, completely and hold your breath with your lungs
upon the extent of the kindness in it.”
fully emptied. Feel how uncomfortable you feel when you are
resisting taking in something that you need.
Truly giving something from the heart is an action which
will fill your life with joy.
True giving, without expectation of anything in return is as
effortless as breathing.
Practice the art of giving in your daily life to the people around
you and extend it to communities, organizations and to countries.
Practice the art and act of giving in your family for a happy,
Start from wherever you are with whatever you have, but with
joyous life and teach the giving spirit to your children. Nurture the
the biggest and greatest heart of kindness in it. Do not think of
thought of giving in their minds through daily simple activities.
lack. If you focus on the lack, lack increases. The joy reduces!
Teachers and parents can be the biggest inspirations for the
This is where the expression to “give whole heartedly” comes
children, to be the best ‘givers’ with love and compassion.
from.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
The intention behind your giving is the most important thing.
what we give.”
The intention should always be to create happiness for both
- Winston Churchill
the giver and the receiver. If you experience resentment and a
feeling of “I don’t really want to give this to this person, but I
Give with abundance mentality and make a life, a life filled and
feel that I have to” or “I really should give them something,” this
blessed with abundance of health, wealth and happiness.
is probably what ultimately will come back to you. Perhaps in
this case, you need to consider not giving the gift at all!
- Suganya Prathap
A gift is something that is enjoyed twice. First by the giver who
enjoys the pleasure of giving something special and then also
enjoyed by the person who receives the gift.

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 h a l
Vi s
H
ow do we make sure that our favourite
person stays by our side at most times? Simple - we frame
their photographs and keep them in a place where we can always
see them. What fun if we could make the photo frames too! And it is not at all
difficult.

The things you need:

1. Ice Cream sticks.

2. Adhesive.
3. Colours.
4. Thick string or wire.

Step 1: Collect around 15 ice cream sticks. For the base of the frame, stick the ice cream sticks
as shown in the picture.

Step 2: Leave half-an-inch space from all the sides and glue four sticks on the base to make the
upper layer of the frame.

Step 3: Slide the photograph through the gap.

Step 4: Take a thick wire or a string to make a loop. Stick the two ends of the loop at the back of
the frame. You can now hang your photo frame.

You can draw a variety of patterns on the side of your photo frame with the help of crayons.

Riddles
- By Vishal

Have you heard the saying what goes up must come down? Well What kind of tree do you find in the kitchen?
what goes up and never goes down?
A pantry.
Your age!
There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when today that allows people to see through walls. What is it?
you don’t want to use it?
Windows
An anchor.
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will, what am I?
An onion A Remark.

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Lord Murugan’s lesson for Poetess Avvaiyar
A short story by Abhirami Nathan

O
ne day Avvaiyar Paati, a well known South Indian the dirt off. “Oh the cherries must be very hot that you have to
legendary poetess, was thinking proudly, “Oh! I blow them before eating!
have learnt everything in the world, what else
to learn?” She went and sat under a cherrytree. I thought you got only cold cherries from the tree”, said the
Lord Murugan (an Indian God, son of God Shiva Sheppard boy.
and Goddess Parvathi, also known as Karthik) did not want “Ah!” said Avvai Paati. It struck her mind that there is nothing
Avvai Patti to think that she knew everything because no one in really like a hot or cold cherries and realized “What she learnt
the world knows everything. So, Lord Murugan took form of a so far was only handful and a lot more to learn.” Simply put,
Shepherd boy and appeared on top of the cherry tree. The little “There is no end for learning.”
boy greeted Avvai Paati “Hello!” and asked her
Avvai Paati thanked the Shepherd boy humbly and through her
“Would you like some cherries from the tree?” siddhi knew that the boy is none
Avvai Patti replied back “Thank you for asking. I will have other than Lord Murugan himself.
some.” The moral of the story is “What
The boy asked, “Do you want hot cherries or cold you’ve learnt so far in your life is
cherries?” only a handful and the rest of what
you have to learn is as big as the
“Cold or hot cherries!” wondered Avvai Paati. world.
With some doubt, she replied, “I want only cold So, keep learning and there is no
cherries” The Shepherd boy started shaking the end to learning”
cherry tree branches hard and the cherries started
falling down. Avvai Paati picked some
from the ground and started blowing
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108
A
s according to Hindu beliefs, Lord Shiva is the supreme
most power among the holy trinity. He has got various
shapes according to the Atharva Veda. Each and every
form of him gives remedy to the problems. To say in thee worldly
language, the family physicians take care of minor ailments. The
stomach surgeon cures the stomach and so on etc. Like that Lord
Shiva gives remedy for various ailments and sufferings. In the
past issue we learnt about Nardana Rudra, Swarnaakarshana
Rudra, Agora Rudra, Shatkara Mruthyunja and Kaal maari
aadiya murthy. This month we will see about Sugaasana
Moorthy, Aalingana Chandrasekara Moorthy, Ananda Thandava
Moorthy.
SHUKASHNA MOORTHY
The beginning of the name is explaining the comfort.
The happy with peacefulness is the atmosphere in which the
Lord Shiva gives this appearance. The facet is adorning with
gracefulness and magnanimity.
Lord Shiva is the deity with the name “PRANATHAARTHI-
HARA”. The true meaning is “He is the savior of his devotees”
People use to attend prayers every day. Due to their busy
atmosphere the concentration in chanting the proper “Mantra”
is vibrated. So the practice to utter the “Mantra” in a simplified
form “OM SHIVAYA NAMAHA” will be most convenient and
the same can be followed during crucial times.
Our fore-fathers have shown a proper way to cultivate our habits
in a highly dignified manner. We follow and teach our children
also to follow the same for a peaceful and happy life. In the
initial stages, the worship gives discipline first and step by step
the best character.
Shukashna Moorthy to be worshiped by all the members of
family and specifically the ladies engaged in domestic routines
and all those who are awaiting for their carrier in education,
profession and business.
The Name Shukashna is a combined meaning of shukam and
aashana. Shukam means pleasure. Aasana means chair. This
indicates circumstance of comfort with happiness. Aashana is
involved for firm and right status of sitting. This will also relate
to one’s profession and business.
To be steady and to have a positive development, the devotees
shall have the practice to make separate prayer for Shukashana
Moorthy.
At a glance we can observe from this idol, which gives a lot
of peace and nobility. The people in the rank of head of the
department, elders in family, presidents of associations, captains,
principals and political leaders should devote time to pray this
deity regularly. The result will be with peace and satisfaction in
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their routine of work.
ANANTHA THANDAVA MOORTHY
This is one of the dancing states of Lord Shiva. At the time of the
creation of this universe, Lord Brahma created the creatures and
all kind of beings on this universe. Then the Lord Brahma wanted
Lord Shiva to give the phonetics, languages and their sounds.
Then He started his dance. This is called as “cosmic dance”. He
is having four hands. The first right hand is the blessing hand.
The second right hand is adorned with the small musical drum
which is called as “damarukam” or “udukkai”. The second left is
perpendicular to the first right hand with the palm facing his left
foot. He stand on one leg and lift the other leg with magnificent
appearance. Those who pray Lord Shiva will the blessed with
happiness. This posture indicates Lord Shiva is influencing the
time, earth sky and space.
Just imagine where a stage for her dance could be arranged. All
over the shy and space the marvelous way of dances (Thandavam)
He perform and create the sound, music, languages and ragas
(tunes).
This image is mainly for proper worship to the people of
education and arts.
AALINGANA CHANDRASEKARA MOORTHY.
Aalingana gives the meaning of welcoming guests and also
when they depart. This traditional act is observed as a mark of
respect and gratitude. This connects to love and affection also.
Chandrasekara Moorthy with all his grace and deep love appears
here with his sweet heart Uma Devi. The devotees are blessed
with comprehensive possession of boons from this divinely
appearance.
When we worship Chandrasekara, our needs such as peaceful
life with wife and family will be the awards of the prayer. The
practical example for the boon is the Moon, also called as
Chandra. Even though he had 27 wives, he showed his love and
affection to only two of them. They are Krithika and Rohini.
So, his father-in-law got angry with him and cursed him. Due
the curse, the charming beauty and health of the Moon began
to reduce. He prayed Lord Shiva and got asylum on the head
of Lord Shiva. So, in a month the moon will be diminishing
for 14days and the boon of Lord Shiva will be giving power to
regain strength in the next 14 days. That why the waxing and
vanning of the moon occur in zodiac. People who are in need
of healthy and happy life should pray this lord. As according to
Swamiji Sri Sri Selvam Siddhar, one should understand what
we do and then only we will get the full result out of the affair.
Thatswhy we give the writeups about the various shapes of Lord
Shiva in the form of Rudra. Please understand this and worship
Lord Shiva and come out of all your troubles.
- Ms Azahu Vairavan
Director: Alagappa University & Group institutions, India.
Director: Hindu Temple of Georgia, USA.
 “God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar

Post Modernism,
Hindu Nationalism and
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science must be of great concern not just to the scientific Of course, there is no simple characterisation of

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community, but also to the religious people, for it is a the Enlightenment any more than there is of
distortion of both science and spirituality. postmodernism. A rough and ready

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portrayal might go like this:
THERE are two kinds of claims that feed the notion that the

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Enlightenment is a general
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as scientific within the Vedic paradigm. The first stream seeks heels of

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to establish likeness, connections and convergences between the Scientific
radically opposed ideas (guna theory and atomic particles, Revolution; it aims
for example). This stream does not relativise science: to replace superstition

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and authority of traditions and
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scientists at any given time, and reason represented, above all, by the growth
claims that Hindu ideas are of modern science. The Enlightenment project

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“like that”, or “mean was based upon a hope that improvement in secular
the same” and

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scientific knowledge will lead to an improvement of the human
condition, not just materially but also ethically and culturally.

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While the Enlightenment spirit flourished primarily in Europe and
“therefore” are North America, intellectual movements in India, China, Japan,
perfectly modern and Latin America, Egypt and other parts of West Asia were also
rational. The second stream
is far more radical, as it defends
this “method” of drawing likenesses and
correspondences between unlike entities as
perfectly rational and “scientific” within the non-
dualistic Vedic worldview.
The second stream, in other words, relativises scientific method
to dominant religious worldviews: it holds that the Hindu style of
thinking by analogies and correspondences “directly revealed to
the mind’s eye” is as scientific within the “holistic” worldview of
Vedic Hinduism, as the analytical and experimental methodology
of modern science is to the “reductionist” worldview of Semitic
religions. The relativist defence of eclecticism as a legitimate
scientific method not only provides a cover for the first stream,
it also provides a generic defence of such emerging “alternative
sciences” as “Vedic physics” and “Vedic creationism”, as well as
defending such pseudo-sciences as Vedic astrology, palmistry,
TM (transcendental meditation) and new-age Ayurveda (Deepak
Chopra style). In what follows, I will examine how postmodernist
and social constructivist critiques of science have lent support to
both streams of Vedas-as-science literature.
But first, I must clarify what I mean by postmodernism.
Postmodernism is a mood, a disposition. The chief characteristic
of the postmodernist disposition is that it is opposed to the

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influenced by it. However, the combined weight of colonialism
and cultural nationalism thwarted the Enlightenment spirit in
non-Western societies.
Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view
of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better
place.Their despair leads them to question the possibility
of progress toward some universal truth that everyone,
everywhere must accept. Against the Enlightenment’s faith
in such universal “meta-narratives” advancing to truth,
postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely
led by rational and instrumental criteria but make room for
the sacred, the non-instrumental and even the irrational.
Social constructivist theories of science nicely complement
postmodernists’ angst against science. There are many schools
of social constructivism, including the “strong programme”
of the Edinburgh (Scotland) school, and the “actor network”
programme associated with a school in Paris, France. The many
convoluted and abstruse arguments of these programmes do
not concern us here. Basically, these programmes assert that
modern science, which we take to be moving closer to objective
truth about nature, is actually just one culture-bound way to
look at nature: no better or worse than all other sciences of other
cultures. Not just the agenda, but the content of all knowledge
is socially constructed: the supposed “facts” of modern science
are “Western” constructions, reflecting dominant interests and
cultural biases of Western societies.
Following this logic, Indian critics of science, especially those
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“Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar
led by the neo-Gandhians such as Ashis Nandy and Vandana
Shiva, have argued for developing local science which is
grounded in the civilisational ethos of India. Other well-known
public intellectuals, including such stalwarts as Rajni Kothari,
Veena Das, Claude Alvares and Shiv Vishwanathan, have
thrown their considerable weight behind this civilisational view
of knowledge. This perspective also has numerous sympathisers
among “patriotic science” and the environmentalist and
feminist movements. A defence of local knowledges against
rationalisation and secularisation also underlies the fashionable
theories of post-colonialism and subaltern studies, which
have found a worldwide following through the writings of
Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Dipesh
Chakrabarty and others. All these intellectuals and movements
mentioned here have their roots in movements for social justice,
environmental protection and women’s rights - all traditional
left-wing causes.
Social constructivist and postmodernist attacks on science
have proven to be a blessing for all religious zealots, in all
major faiths, as they no longer feel compelled to revise their
metaphysics in the light of progress in our understanding
of nature in relevant fields. But Hinduism displays a special
resonance with the relativistic and holistic thought that finds
favour among postmodernists. In the rest of this two-part paper,
I will examine the general overlap between Hindu apologetics
and postmodernist view of hybridity (part I) and alternative
sciences (part II).
 “The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning.”
use of physical force. Hinduism, in contrast, absorbs the alien
Other by proclaiming its doctrines to be only “different names
for the One Truth” contained in Hinduism’s own Perennial
Wisdom. The teachings of the outsider, the dissenter or the
innovator are simply declared to be merely nominally different,
a minor and inferior variation of the absolute and Universal
Truth known to Vedic Hindus from time immemorial.
Christianity and Islam at least acknowledge the radical
otherness and difference of other faiths, even as they attempt
to convert them, even at the cost of great violence and mayhem.
Hinduism refuses to grant other faiths their distinctiveness and
difference, even as it proclaims its great “tolerance”. Hinduism’s
“tolerance” is a mere disguise for its narcissistic obsession with
its own greatness.
Whereas classical Hinduism limited this passive-aggressive
form of conquest to matters of religious doctrine, neo-Hindu
intellectuals have extended this mode of conquest to secular
knowledge of modern science as well. The tradition of claiming
modern science as “just another name” for the spiritual truths
of the Vedas started with the Bengal Renaissance.

The contemporary Hindu propagandists are inheritors of the The contemporary Hindutva follows in the footsteps of this
19th century neo-Hindu nationalists who started the tradition tradition.
of dressing up the spirit-centered metaphysics of orthodox The Vedic science movement began in 1893 when Swami
Hinduism in modern scientific clothes. The neo-Hindu Vivekananda (1863-1902) addressed the World Parliament
intellectuals, in turn, were (consciously or unconsciously) of Religions in Chicago. In that famous address, he sought to
displaying the well-known penchant of generations of Sanskrit present Hinduism not just as a fulfilment of all other religions,
pundits for drawing resemblances and correspondences between
religious rituals, forces of nature and human destiny.
Postmodernist theories of knowledge have rehabilitated this
“method” of drawing equivalences between different and
contradictory worldviews and allowing them to “hybridise”
across traditions. The postmodernist consensus is that
since truth about the real world as-it-is cannot be known, all
knowledge systems are equivalent to each other in being social
constructions. Because they are all equally arbitrary, and none
any more objective than other, they can be mixed and matched
in order to serve the needs of human beings to live well in their
own cultural universes.
From the postmodern perspective, the VHP justification of
the guna theory in terms of atomic physics is not anything to
worry about: it is merely an example of “hybridity” between
two different culturally constructed ways of seeing, a fusion
between East and West, tradition and modernity. Indeed, by
postmodernist standards, it is not this hybridity that we should
worry about, but rather we should oppose the “positivist” and
“modernist” hubris that demands that non-Western cultures
should give up, or alter, elements of their inherited cosmologies
in the light of the growth of knowledge in natural sciences. Let
us see how this view of hybridity meshes in with the Hindutva
construction of Vedic science.
It is a well-known fact that Hinduism uses its eclectic mantra
“Truth is one, the wise call it by different names” - as an
instrument for self-aggrandisement. Abrahamic religions go
about converting the other through persuasion and through the

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but also as a fulfilment of all of science. Vivekananda claimed
that only the spiritual monism of Advaita Vedanta could fulfil
the ultimate goal of natural science, which he saw as the search
for the ultimate source of the energy that creates and sustains
the world.
Vivekananda was followed by another Bengali nationalist-
turned-spiritualist, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950). Aurobindo
proposed a divine theory of evolution that treats evolution as
then adventures of the World-Spirit finding its own fulfilment
through progressively higher levels of consciousness, from
matter to man to the yet-to-come harmonious “supermind” of
a socialistic collective.
Newer theories of Vedic
creationism, which propose to
replace Darwinian evolution
with “devolution” from the
original one-ness with Brahman,
are now being proposed with
utmost seriousness by the Hare
Krishnas who, for all their
scandals and idiosyncrasies,
remain faithful to the spirit
of Vaishnava Hinduism.
Vivekananda and
Aurobindo lit the spark
that has continued to fire
the nationalist imagination, right
to the present time. The Neo-Hindu
literature of the 19th and early 20th
centuries, especially the writings of
Dayanand Saraswati, S. Radhakrishnan
and the many followers of
Vivekananda, is
replete with
celebration of
Hinduism as a
“scientific”
religion.
Even
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secularists like Jawaharlal Nehru remained captive of this idea
that the original teachings of Vedic Hinduism were consonant
with modern science, but only corrupted later by the gradual
deposits of superstition. Countless gurus and swamis began to
teach that the Vedas are simply “another name for science” and
that all of science only affirms what the Vedas have taught. This
scientistic version of Hinduism has found its way to the West
through the numerous ashrams and yoga retreats set up, most
prominently, by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his many clones.
ALL these numerous celebrations of “Vedas as science”
follow a similar intellectual strategy of finding analogies and
equivalences. All invoke extremely speculative theories from
modern cosmology, quantum mechanics, vitalistic theories of
biology and parapsychology, and other fringe sciences. They
read back these sciences into Sanskrit texts chosen at will, and
their meaning decided by the whim of the interpreter, and claim
that the entities and processes mentioned in Sanskrit texts are
“like”, “the same thing as”, or “another word for” the ideas
expressed in modern cosmology, quantum physics or biology.
Thus there is a bit of a Brahman here and a bit of quantum
mechanics there, the two treated as interchangeable; there
are references to “energy”, a scientific term with a definite
mathematical formulation in physics, which gets to mean
“consciousness”; references to Newton’s laws of action
and reaction are made to stand for the laws of karma and
reincarnation; completely discredited “evidence” from
parapsychology and “secret life of plants” are upheld as proofs
of the presence of different degrees of soul in all matter;
“evolution” is taught as the self-manifestation of Brahman
and so on. The terms are scientific, but the content is religious.
There is no regard for consistency either of scientific concepts,
or of religious ideas. Both wholes are broken apart, random
connections and correspondences are established and with
great smugness, the two modes of knowing are declared to be
equivalent, and even inter-changeable. The only driving force,
the only idea that gives this whole mish-mash any coherence,
is the great anxiety to preserve and protect Hinduism from a
rational critique and demystification. Vedic science is motivated
by cultural chauvinism, pure and simple.
What does all this have to do with postmodernism, one may
legitimately ask. Neo-Hinduism, after all, has a history dating
back at least two centuries, and the analogical logic on
which claims of Vedic science are based goes back to times
immemorial.
Neo-Hinduism did not start with postmodernism,
obviously. And neither does Hindutva share the
postmodernist urgency to “overcome” and “go beyond”
the modernist fascination with progress and development.
Far from it. Neo-Hinduism and Hindutva are reactionary
 cultural construct of the West as other sciences are of their own
cultures.
This view of science is derived from a variety of American and
European philosophies of science, associated mostly with such
well-known philosophers as Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend,
W.O Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michel Foucault. This
view of science has been gaining popularity among Indian
scholars of science since the infamous “scientific temper”
debates in early 1980s when Ashis Nandy, Vandana Shiva and
their sympathisers came out in defence of local knowledges
and traditions, including astrology, goddess worship as cure
for small-pox, taboos against menstruation and (later on) even
sati. Over the next two decades, it became a general practice
in Indian scholarly writing to treat modern science as just one
way to adjudicate belief, no different from any other tradition of
sorting out truth from mere group belief. Rationalism became a
dirty word and Enlightenment became a stand-in for “epistemic
violence” of colonialism.
modernist movements, intent on harnessing a mindless and even
According to those who subscribe to this relativist philosophy,
dangerous technological modernisation for the advancement of
the cross-cultural encounter between modern science and
a traditionalist, deeply anti-secular and illiberal social agenda.
traditional sciences is not a confrontation between more and less
Nevertheless, they share a postmodernist philosophy of science
objective knowledge, respectively. Rather it is a confrontation
that celebrates the kind of contradictory mish-mash of science,
between two different cultural ways of seeing the world, neither
spirituality, mysticism and pure superstition that that passes as
of which can claim to represent reality-in-itself. Indeed, many
“Vedic science”.
radical feminists and post-colonial critics go even further: they
For those modernists who share the Enlightenment’s hope for see modern science as having lost its way and turned into a power
overcoming ignorance and superstition, the value of modern of oppression and exploitation. They want non-Western people
science lies in its objectivity and universality. Modernists
see modern science as having developed a critical tradition
that insists upon subjecting our hypotheses about nature to
the strictest, most demanding empirical tests and rigorously
rejecting those hypotheses whose predictions fail to be verified.
For the modernist, the success of science in explaining the
workings of nature mean that sciences in other cultures have
a rational obligation to revise their standards of what kind
of evidence is admissible as science, what kind of logic is
reasonable, and how to distinguish justified knowledge from
mere beliefs. For the
modernists, furthermore, modern science has provided a way
to explain the workings of nature without any need to bring in
supernatural and untestable causes such as a creator God, or
an immanent Spirit.
For a postmodernist, however, this modernist faith in science
is only a sign of Eurocentrism and cultural imperialism. For a
postmodernist, other cultures are under no rational obligation
to revise their cosmologies, or adopt new procedures for
ascertaining facts to bring them in accord with modern science.
Far from producing a uniquely objective and universally valid
account of nature, the “facts” of modern science are only one
among many other ways of constructing other “facts” about
nature, which are equally valid for other cultures. Nature-in-
itself cannot be known without imposing classifications and
meaning on it which are derived from cultural metaphors
and models. All ways of seeing nature are at par because all
are equally culture-bound. Modern science has no special
claims to truth and to our convictions, for it is as much of a

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 “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar

of “critical traditionalism” propounded by Ashis Nandy and

Bhiku Parekh in India and by the numerous admirers of
Homi Bhabha’s obscure writings on “hybridity” abroad. In
the West, this view has found great favour among feminists,
notably Sandra Harding and Donna Haraway, and among
anthropologists of science including Bruno Latour, David
Hess and their followers.
To conclude, one finds a convergence between the fashionable
left’s position with the religious right’s position on the science
question. The extreme scepticism of postmodern intellectuals
toward modern science has landed them in a position where
they cannot, if they are to remain true to their beliefs, criticise
not Hindutva’s eclectic take-over of modern science for the glory of
just to resist the Vedic tradition.
science but to reform
i t by confronting it with their Ms. Meera
holistic traditional sciences. Meera is the author of Prophets Facing Backward
What happens when traditional cultures do need to adopt
at least some elements of modern knowledge? In such cases,
postmodernists recommend exactly the kind of “hybridity”
as we have seen in the case of Vedic
sciences in which, for example, sub-
atomic particles are interpreted as
referring to gunas, or where quantum
energy is interpreted to be the “same as”
shakti, or where karma is interpreted to
be a determinant of biology in a “similar
manner” as the genetic code and so on.
On the postmodern account, there is
nothing irrational or unscientific about
this “method” of drawing equivalences
and correspondences between entirely
unlike entities and ideas, even when there
may be serious contradictions between
the two. On this account, all science is
based upon metaphors and analogies that
reinforce dominant cultures and social
power, and all “facts” of nature are really
interpretations of nature through the lens
of dominant culture.
It is perfectly rational, on this account, for
Hindu nationalists to want to reinterpret
the “facts” of modern science by drawing
analogies with the dominant cultural
models supplied by Hinduism. Because
no system of knowledge can claim to
know reality as it really is, because our
best confirmed science is ultimately a
cultural construct, all cultures are free to
pick and choose and mix various “facts”,
as long as they do not disrupt their own
time-honoured worldviews.
This view of reinterpretation of
“Western” science to fit into the tradition-
sanctioned, local knowledges of “the
people” has been advocated by theories

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 The Significance of Pradosham
A t the time of taking the nectar from the milk ocean, a lot
of things came out from the ocean. First a white elephant
came. Lord Indra took it. The next came is Sri Maha Lakshmi.
“Kanakabishegam” (pouring gold coins) for Lord Shiva. There
are different types of Shiva Lingas. Emerald Linga is the first in
the list. By performing kanakabishegam to the Emerald linga,
Lord Mahavishnu took her. The thing that came next was the we can have a very good wealth.
worst poison named Aalakala Visham. Even if it is smelt it will
kill the person. Nobody wanted to take the poison. So, all the The Pradosha Pooja dates for the month of September are
divine powers went to Lord Shiva to protect them. Lord Shiva 09-08-2007 Saturday and 09-24-2007 Monday. Please mark
took the poison and swallowed it. On seeing this, Lord Shiva’s your calendars and plan on attending this auspicious event and
wife Parvathy put her hands across the throat of Lord Shiva and participate in abishegams to receive the blessing of Lord shiva.
stopped the poison from entering inside the body of Lord Shiva.
On seeing this all the divine powers were stunned. Lord Shiva Sponsors & Donations Welcome
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prayers of all the divine powers Lord Shiva gave a boon to all
as, “I will shower all kinds of wealth and health to all those who
perform poojas and prayers to me on this day”. According to the
words of Lord Shiva, if we pour a drop of water and offer one
leaf named “Vilvam” it grows in the multiples of “n”.

As we all need health and wealth, our Hindu Temple

of Georgia has made very elaborate arrangements
for the Pradosha pooja at our Temple every two weeks
tentatively (Please check the Temple calendar for the
exact Pradosha pooja days). The Pradosha Poojas are
normally performed in the temples without performing
homam. But in our Temple the poojas are performed
with homam by very well learned Sivacharyas. The
biggest Emerald Linga of USA is kept in our
temple. Normally the devotees are not allowed
to perform poojas to Lord Shiva in the
temples. But in our temple the devotees
can perform milk abishegam (pouring
of milk), jala abishegam (pouring
water) and

Pradosham 09-08-2007 Saturday and 09-24-2007 Monday.

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M eaning of adithya hrudayam : the purusha which is in
the innermost part of the soorya mandala.” Please see “
ya yeshontharadithye hiranmaya: purushodrusyathe “ etc..
Before we chant this sthothra with devotion every day ,
we must chant* agasthya bhagavaan as rushi, anushtup as
chandus and brahma as devatha. And use it for warding off
all obstacles to attain brahma vidhya and to succeed in all
our attempts, “ shadanga nyaasa “ is performed by chanting
bhoorbhuvasva: with pranavaand using the three words of
gayathri. “ Jayathu jayathu suryam sapthalokaika dipam
kirana shamitha papam kleshadu:khasya nasham arunanigama
gamyamchadimadithyamurthim sakala bhuvana vandyam
bhaskaram tham namami” is the dhyana sloka.
This sthothra comes in the 107th chapter of sri. Vaathmiki
ramayanam “yuddha kaanda: as taught by the sage agasthya,
to sri rama before he went to wage war against ravana who
was tired in war,
1. “ Thatho yudhha parishrandam samare chindaya sthhitham
Ravanam chagratho drushtwa yudhhaya samupasthhitham
2. Daivathaischa samagamya drashtumabhyagatho ranam
Upagamyabravidramamagastho bhagavanrishi:”
Meaning * sage agasthya who went along with devaas to see
sree raama , who was tiredwaging war with raavana due to war
preparedness and was standing with “chintha”(thoughyfulnes
s) , told sri rama thus :-
3. “ Rama rama mahabaho shrunu guhyam sanathanam
Yena sarvanareen vathsa samare vijayishyasi
4. Adithyahrudayam punyam sarvashathruvinashanam
Jayavaham japennithyam akshyyam paramam shivam
5. Sarvamangalamangalyam sarvapaapapranashanam
Chinthashokaprashamanam ayurvardhanamuththamam”
Meaning : hey vatssa (hey dear) rama who is lokabhirama,
having great and robust shoulders and hands with strength ,
please listen to my words by which you can win war against all
enemies . The secret that adithya hrudaya sthohram is sacred .
And which remains from time immemorial and which endows
success in all attempts, and sanathana
( Continues to be endless ) and which is auspicious and which
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Adithya Hrudaya Sthothram
gives all the best in life and which eradicates all papas (sins),
and which removes all worries and sorrows , and which gives
dirghayus ( long life ) and which is most sacred among all the
manthras should be chanted nithyam (daily or always ) with
devotion.
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G i have seen another version of this meaning that lord rama
was tired of waging war with ravana and was thoughtfully
gazing the war field. If read chapter 106 of yuddha kandha
then we will come to know that ravana was tired.
G some are of the opinion that instead., Anganyaasa and
karannyaasa can be performed by chanting pranavam and
karannayasa by chanting the 6 names of adithya as given in
the 6 th stanza as om rashmimathe nama:angushtaabhyaam
nama; etc.
6. “ Rashmimantham samudyantham devasura namaskritham
Pujayaswa vivaswantham bhaskaram bhuvaneshwaram “
You perform pooja to this adithya deva who rises with rays and
who is prostrated or worshipped by devas and asuras equally
and who is the responsible to lighten up and who is the lord
of loka (bhuvana).
7. “ Sarwa devathmako hyesha thejaswi rashmibhavana
Esha devasuraganan lokan pathi gabhasthibhi”
This lord adithya is the same who is the embodiment of all
devas (esha hi sarva devathmaka) , and enlightens all and who
is responsible to provide rays (rashmibhavana) it is this lord
adithya who protects by his rays (gabasthibhi) all devas and
asuras, and all the worlds (lokan).
8. “Esha brahmacha vishnuscha shiva: skanda prajapathi
Mahendro dhanada : kalo yama: somo hyapampathi”
It is only this lord adithya , who is the brahma deva , the
lord of creations, vishnu deva (lord of protection), lord shiva
(lord of destruction), lord subrahmanya (skanda) and lord
prajaapathi (the swamy who is the lord of all those souls who
have been created. (Prajanam janya vasthunam swami). Again
it is this adithya deva who is devendra, kubera
( Dhanada), who is the destructor of the whole of the universe
(kala) , yama (the lord who punishes) i.e. “Yamayathi
shikshayathithi yama), soma ( who is the ardha narishwara i.e
“ maya prabhaya , uma sarvada sahitha soma : “ and who is
the lord of jala ( water ) i.e “apampathi”
Note : i have also seen soma being interpreted as lord
chandra
9. “ Pitharo vasava: sadhhya hyaschinou mrutho manu
Vayurvanhi : prajaprana ruthukartha prabhakara: “
-3-
It is this lord who bestows light to the worlds who are the
“pithrus” ancestors. Ashtavasus ; the yogis who have attained
the power to do any thing (sadhyas) Ashwini devas those who
have no death ( “ mriyanthe na kada chidithi marutha:”)
Manu (who has attained knowledge in all subjects –
“sarvanjnhan”. Vayu deva,
Lord of fire ( vanhi deva ) and who is the soul (praja prana) of
all subjects, and who is the creator of seasons
(ruthukartha), and enlightens all (prabhakara means the lord
who brings out knowledge in all)
10. “ Adithya savitha surya khaga poosha gabasthiman
Suvarnasadrusho bhanurhirnyaretha divakara”
11. This adithi devi’s son adithya is the creator; he is the
catalyst who makes us to do our “karma “; he is the person
who travels through the sky; he is the god who develops the
world with rain (pushnathithi pusha) , he is the lord with
rays (gabhasthhiman) . His complexion is like gold; he is
the person who gives light (“bhanu”) he is the creator of the
golden coloured universe (“hiranyaretha”) ; he is the person
who makes day (“divakara”).
“Haridashwa: sahasrarchi sapthasapthirmarichiman
Thimironmathhana shambhusthwashta marththandaamshuman”.
The word “haridashwa” has many meanings. One meaning
is the person who wins all the hearts ( handsome ), another
meaning is the person with green horse (haritha = ashwa there
are many more meanings. I leave it to the experts in sanskrit
to analyse.
Sahasrarchi means the god with countless rays although
literally sahasra means thousand. Sapthasapthi : means one
who has a horse by name saptha. Another meaning is one who
has seven horses. Those who have very good knowledge in
sanskrit can interpret this with many other meanings.
Marichiman means one who has bright rays of light.
Thimironmathana means one who destroys “thimira” or
darkness.
Shambhu means one who endows happy life (“ kshema”)
Thwashta means one who is the destroyer.
Maarththanda means one who brings back those destroyed.
Amshuman means one who has many rays.
12. “Hiranyagarbha: shishrasthapano bhaskaro ravi
Agnigarbhe/dither : puthra : shamkha : shishiranashana “
Hiranyagarbha : means one who remains in the middle of the
universe; shisira : means one who cools down the mind of
those prostrating before him. Thapana means one who chars
those who are enemies of those depending on him. Literal
meaning
-4-
“Thapana” is only one who chars by burning others. Bhaskara
means one who gives light. Ravi means one who is revered by
all “ ruyathe sthuyathe sarvairithi ravi”.
Agnigarbha means the one who possesses fire himself during
day. “ Diva agnirgarbhe
Yasya sa” . Abhithe puthra: means the son of abhithee devi.
Shamkha means the one who becomes calm himself after
dusk. “ Shamyathi swayameva sayamkale
Ithi shamkha `. Shishiranashana : literally means one
who removes mist. Here, it means the one who destroys
unintelligence ( “manda budhhi” ).
13. “ Vyomanathhasthamobhedi rugyaju:samaparaga:
Ghanavrishtirapammithro vindhdhyavithhi plavamgama“
Vyomanathha means the king of sky; thamobhedi means
one who kills darkness or one who destroys rahu or one who
destroys the thamoguna of his devotees. Rugyajussamaparaga
means a scholar who is a master of rug veda, yajur veda and
sama veda; ghanavrishti means the one who brings heavy rain;
apammithra means the one who is friendly with “ ap “ i.E.
Water; vindhyavithhi plavamgama means the one who goes
with ease through the difficult terrain like the vindhyas . Note
: many interpretations are given by sanskrit pundits for the
words “ vindhya veethhi plavamgama `.
14. “ Athapi mandali mruthyu : pimgala: sarvathapana
Kavirvishwo mahatheja raktha: sarvabhavodbhava”
Athapi means the one which has heat in it. Here we may
interpret it as the one who gives sun rays (veyyil). Mandali
means the one which is round shaped. Mruthyu means the one
who is the destructor of every thing. Another meaning is the
one who destructs all enemies. Pimgala : means the one who
is golden coloured during rise.
Another meaning is the one who makes us to perform our
duties. There are many meaning for this word. Sarvathapana
means the one who troubles with heat during noon. Another
meaning is the one who destructs the whole universe.Kavi:
means the one who is proficient in all subjects (sarvanjna).
Vishwa: means the one who directs the universe. This word
has much more meanings which only a person with very high
knowledge in sanskrit can explain. Mahatheja : means the one
with great personality (tejas) . Raktha: means the one who
likes all creatures. Again, another meaning is the one who is
red in colour during rise and set. Sarwabhavothbhava : means
the one who is the cause for the wellbeing of all.
15. “ Nakshathragrahatharanamadhipo vishwabhavana :
Tejasamapi thejaswi dwadashathman namosthuthe “
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 “ Nakshathragrahatharanam means the lunar constellations, of brahma, vishnu and shiva; suryaya means the one who
planets and other non-lunar constellations; adipa meand the induces all to work; adithyavarchase means the one who is
ruler or king; vishwabhawana means the one who protects having the brightness of adithya; bhaswathe means the one
all the universe; tejasam api tejasvi means the one which is who is bright; sarvab
brighter
Akshaya means, the destructor of all ( universe ); raudraya
-5- vapushe means the one who destroys the sufferings or the
one who is ferocious during the destruction of the universe;
Than the brightest; dwadashathman means the one which is namah: means i prostrate.
the soul of lord indra, lord dhatha, lord bhaga, lord pusha, lord
mithra, lord varuna, lord aryamav, -6-
Lord archchis, lord vivaswan , lord thwashtwa, lord savitha
and lord vishnu. 20. “ Thamognaya himaghnaya shathrughnayamithathmane
The namah asthu means to thy i salute . Krithaghnaghnaya devaya jyothishampathaye namah”

16. “ Namah: purvaya giraye paschimayadraye namah
Jyothrgananam pathaye dinadhipathaye namah; “ Thamognaya means the one who removes darkness;
himagnaya means the one who removes hima ( cold, mist,
snow etc ) ; shathrughnaya means the one who wards off the
I pay obeisance to thee ,who has the east mountain as thy enemies of his worshippers; amithathmane means the one who
rising place and the western mountain as the setting place and has many attributes or facets; krithagnagnaya means the one
swamin of all objects in the horizon and the owner of the day who destroys those who are thankless; devaya means the one
time. who shines himself; jyothishampathaye means the one who
is the master of the whole universe ( jyothis) namah means i
17. “Jayaya jayabhadraya haryaswaya namoh: namah prostrate before thee.
Namo namah :sahasramsho adithyaya namo namah”
21. “ Thapthachamikarabhaya vanhaye viswakarmane
Jayaya who is the the brahmadwarapala called “jaya” Namahsthamo/bhinighnaya ruchaye lokasakshine”
or by the help of whom the bhakthas win their mundane
duties jayabhadraya means the one who gives victory and Thapthachamikarabhyaya means the one who is melted
propitiousness haryashwaya means the one who possess green golden coloured; vanhaye means the one who in the guise of
coloured horses; namoh: namah: means i pay my obeisance fire carries the oblation or offerings (havis). Vishwakarmane
to him. Again i pay my obeisance to him who is sahasramsho means the one who makes the worlds to perform ; thamo/
means the one who possess innumerable types of life or the bhinighnaya means the one who destroys darkness or the one
one who possess innumerable rays; adithya means the son of who removes ajnhana Ruchaye means the one who has the
adithi. shape of brightness or the one who is liked by all “Rochathe
ithi ruchi”. Lokasakshine means trhe witness for all the sins
18. “Namah ugraya viraya sarangaya namoh namoh Namah and goods which we perform; namah: means i prostrate.
padmaprabodhaya marththandaya nomoh namah”
With this sloka the ashtoththara shatha naamah: (108
Ugraya means the one who is the deadliest enemy of those names of lord soorya) Which starts from rashmimantham
who do not worship him and ends with the name lokasaakshine, ends.
Viraya means the one who induces all creatures to perform
their duties (vividham irayathithi) saramgaya means the 22. “ Nashayathyesha vai bhutham thadeva srujathi prabhuh:
one who travels very fast through the skies or the one Payathyesha thapathyesha varshathyesha gabhasththibhih”
who is one who is dealt thoroughly through “pranavam” (Esha: vai bhutham nashayathu prabhu) nashayathyesha
padmaprabhodhaya means the one who makes lotus flower vai bhutham means ,it is this deva who destroys the worlds
to blossom marththandaya means the one who gives life to thadeva srujathi prabhu means thath srujathi eva means it is
the dead universe namoh namah: means i prostrate again and he who creates them also; payathyesha means eshapayathi
again. means it is also this deva who makes every thing to dry up
hapathyesha ( esha thapathi) means It is this deva who makes
19. “ Brahmeshanachyutheshaya sooryayadithyavarchase everyone to burn or it is this deva who makes everyone to
Bhaswathe sarvabhakshaya raudraya vapushe namah” suffer; varshathyesha gabhasthibhi ( esha gabhasthibhi:
varshathi ) means it is this deva who with his rays make rains
to fall.
Brahmeshanachyutheshaya means the one who protects
brahma, lord shiva and lord vishnu or the god who is the god

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23. “ Esha suptheshu jagarththy bhutheshu parinishtitha:
Esha evagnihothram cha phalam chaivagnihothrinam”
This deva remains as as invisible and awake in all creatures
when they sleep. It is this deva who is the shape of the five
indriays which are the five fires (Panchagni) and it is this deva
who is the ultimate goal of agnihothris.
-7-
24. “ Vedascha krathavaschaiva krathunam phalameva cha
Yani krithyani lokeshu sarva esha ravi prabhu”
It is this soorya bhagavaan who is the embodiment of all vedaas,
yaagaas and their results. It is this almighty bhagavaan, who is
the embodiment of all the deeds of the worlds.
25. “Enamapathsu krichchreshu kaanthaareshu bhayeshucha
Keerththayan prusha: kaschinnavasidathi raghava.”
Hei raghava means the one born in raghu kula i.E sree raama,
a person who recites with devotion , this adithya hrudaya,
remains protected from all accidents, difficulties and fears
which threatens him.
26. “ Pujayaswainamekagro devadevam jagathpthim
Ethath thrigunitham japthwa tyuddheshu vijayishyasi.”
Without anything in mind or without thinking of any one
(ekagrachiththan), perform puja to this adithya bhagavan who
is the deva of all devas. If you recite this “sthawa” three times
you will win the war.
-8-
The brave rama, after sipping water three times (achamana),
cleaning himself, took the bow and stood before the sun god
and after chanting (adithya hrudaya), became very happy.
30. “Ravanam prekshya hrushtathma yuddhaya samupa gamath
Sarvayathnena mahatha vadhe thasya dhrutho/bhaveth.”
Happy and cheerful, sree raama went near raavanaa to wage
war against him with a determinant mind to kill him
31. “ Athharaviravadannirikshya ramam
Mudithamana: paramam prahrusyamaana
Nisicharapathisamkshayam vidithwa
Suraganamadhhyagatho vachasthwarethi.”
At that time the surya bhagavan in the midst of other devas
became very pleased and happy and blessed sree raama with
the power to kill raavana and said “start war immediately”
Ithyaarshe sreemad raamaayane vaalmeekiye aadi kaavye
yuddhakaanddhe sapthoththarashathathama sargha
samaaptham -
end of 107th chapter..
- Gokul

27. “ Asmin kshane mahaabaaho ravanam thwam vadhishyasi

Evamukthwa thadagasthyo jagamacha yathhagatham. “

Hei mahabaho (person with strong forearms) i.e. Sree raama,

without any wasteof time, immediately you will kill ravana.
Thus advising , agsthya bhagavan went away, like he came.

28.“Ethacchruthwa mahatheja nashtashoko / bhavaththa thada

Dharayamasa supritho raghava: prayathathmavan”

This is an important sloka wherein it is cleared that it was sree

raama who was tired and was full of chintha (thoughts as to
how to wage war with ravana and win over him).

Hearing these words of sage agasthya, sree rama became

“nashta shoka” i.e. Sri rama overcame his grief. Srirama,
became happy and started praying by controlling his body
and mind (indriyaas).

29.“Adithyam prekshya japthwa thu patam harshamavapthavaan

Thrirachamya shuchirbhoothwa dhanuradaya viryavan”

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OM SARANAM!! I am so much pleased with Swamiji Sri Sri
Selvam”Siddhar”s (DR. COMMANDER SELVAM) A GREAT
. He came in my life in the year 1999 , when I was living in NJ.
I had lot of problems in my family life. As soon as I met with
him, with his blessings, one by one all my problems are reduced,
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I am the regular visitor of Hindu Temple of Georgia also the
member there. I have never come across a Holy Man like Sri
Selvam Siddhar also known as Dr Commander Selvam. The
life which I am leading in the US is his Biksha. Without him, I,
would have lost my medical profession when suddenly I had my
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To my knowledge he is the 1st Swamiji in the US history, never
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surprised to see his Aiswarya. I shall definitely guarantee that,
anyone get his blessings will come out of any of your problems in
your life. One thing I forgot to add, He is a Top notch Astrologer
and # 1 in Astrologer in the western Countries. He has written
more than 13,000 articles about Astrology in the USA papers
within the last 12 years in the country. All the best God Bless
also let my Swamiji Dr Commander Selvam bless you. & your
family.
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Namaste, Ji. I looked at the pictures of your temple, and the

murthy are beautiful beautiful. The mandir I pray at has a wall
with 1008 Shivling and several enormous Shivling on the floor.
It is overwhelming to be around such extreme presence of
Mahesh. I’m sure to be around your 108 Shiv murthy is at least
as much an incredible experience.
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include more articles about Yoga
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 Vastly studied some time wastely burried because the moto was not inclined to get appreciation.- Sri Selvam “Siddhar”
Meditation & Yoga: An ancient discipline
M
editation is a process that leads to a state of
consciousness that brings serenity, clarity and bliss.
Without much effort, just be as an audience and
witness the mind how it acts. What are the desires that the mind
is longing? What are the dreams that the mind enjoys? From
the reminiscences, what is the expectation? Without giving a
judgment or argument, the watching is noticed. Without coming
to any conclusion about good or bad, just continue watching. In
a state of watcher, the meditation in a form of witnessing is also
one kind of meditation, which can be called as ‘watcher’.
Just by sitting and thinking a subject or witnessing in a state of
witness, the moment when the mind observes the silence is like a
sky. That experience will connect the self to the sense and nerves
of one’s lift, which is exposed as a picture.
In your heart of heart i.e. in deep mind, a deep silence will occur.
It is like a sky, where clouds will come and go, planets like moon
will appear and disappear, stars will appear and disappear, but
the sky, is stable as it is. No one can touch it or destroy it or even
separate it. That is the phrase “such of inner sky”. This is the
object of meditation. You have to go in and find the large sky and
enjoy the expanded happiness. What ever you happen to look;
you cannot be as that of what you have seen.
You can find the thoughts but you cannot become as thoughts. You
can find your feelings but you cannot
become as feelings. You can
see the dreams but you
will not become as
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MEDITATION
Part- 2 - PL.SUBBIAH
day all of a sudden the wonderful event will occur and what all
you have seen will disappear. The future and the induction will be
in your vision. That is called prophet of seer. That is the vacuum
sky. Through that broad sky, the fear of us will disappear. We
can find and observe the love. We can see the God and get the
deathlessness. Such kind of meditation comes actually and not a
givable object. Meditation cannot be added to you. This can only
come to you through a basic transformation.
Almost 5000 years back, even in Bhagavat Gita, the meditation
is considered as a part of yoga. The vibration in life is set
aside by meditation. In Vedas we find the originator of yoga
is ‘Hiranyakarpana’. The divine Brahma is the creation of
Hiranyakarpana. He has established a religion called ‘Yoga
Smiruthi’. Saint Pathanjali has done it as theories with the
experimental processes like Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama,
Prathyakara, Tharanai, Thiana and Samathi. Likewise, the eight
steps are defined as yoga. Many people think that the third step
of the art of yoga (Asana) when read the yoga comes to an end.
This is totally wrong.
Controlling the actions and controlling the mind are not at all
possible for anyone all of a sudden. The human body is practiced
to involve in ambitions, desires and passions. This state derives
to enjoy the earthly pleasure and settle with worries. So, the
human body is the main one to be trained. That is why the
“Asana” (physical exercise) becomes important.
The Saint Pathanjali, in his writings gives the theory “Stability
(Sthira), Happiness (Sugan) and exercise (Asana)”, gives the
meaning that the happiness and the stability lie in Asana. The
neck, the head, and back, these three to be steady in a straight
line and projected perfectly. This posture is most important in
Yogasana.
What is called “Yoga”? The scattered mind to be controlled
and focused to a perfection that is “Yoga”. It is said in 4 stages,
which are:
1. Scattered stage.
2. Brisklessness stage.
3. Confused stage.
4. Bringing to perfection-stage.
In all of the above, the essential one is the important stage of,
united aims to be in perfection. Saint Pathanjali confers “Siddha
Viruthi Nirothi Yoga”. This means the knowledge of developed
thoughts and its unification. ‘Vidya’ is Sanskrit language and it’s
meaning is ‘Art’.
From that art,
1. To frame the body (Asana-Art) After practicing all these things the next formalities are to be
2. To frame the mind (Prathyakara) followed.
3. To frame the thoughts (Thiyuna-art)
4. The physique, mind, knowledge and all together to be brought 1. Purity (Clean, sacred, and faultless)
to a stage and find the soul is called “Samathi”. 2.Penance (Constant worship forgetting
the atmosphere and surroundings)
Let it be any religion or any caste, let it be a male or female, which 3. Theoretical study.
prevails makes no difference. Whether young or old, no such 4. Happiness in equalized state.
restrictions apply. Every one can do the ‘Thiyana’. Involving 5. Worship to lord.
yourself you can become Gnani (A person with wisdom).
The above formulas should be stabilized and
The physique should have the best health and purity. The the asana (posture) should be commenced
“Asana” is the first step where one should keep the body parts and the yoga will be regulated. Without the
clean from his stomach to mouth, also, from the lower portions regularity, the art of yoga cannot be materialized
of stomach and abdomen. By following this habit, the diseases in this birth. So many of the have been
like piles, appendices, hernia, hydrosol, and stomachache will exploited.
be cured.
When you happen to do this, you
As we are active, through out the day, the cheeks, stomach, hands, are also recognized as persons
legs, and their flushes are drawn towards earth. To balance this with wisdom like Sri Shankara, Sir
out, at least for a few minutes of the day, let us try to focus our Ramanuja, Sri Viswamithra and
body to be upwards. It will give lot of comfort to body. To do Sri Vasista. If the yoga is followed,
this the practice in “asana” is most important. so many benefits and aims can be
achieved.
The mind based on thoughts where the sickness commences and
that are why the feelings got the elaborative and results in blood
pressure. To avoid all these, one should practice to do ‘asana’.

Padmasana, Sarnanga Asana, Bujan Asana, Yogamudra and

Mayura are few of many kinds.

Yama explains
1.Ahimsa (No harm to living being)
2. Truth (Not telling lies-speaking the facts only)
3.Thief tendency (Stealing others property)
4. Deathlessness (Immortality)
5.Controling the senses (Control of sex desire and
its ejaculations)

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To be kind is good, but there should be a check to access the worthiness. - Sri Selvam “Siddhar”

I
nformation travels fast, but ideas often move slowly. The
assimilation of information leads to knowledge, which may
help you win a job or even a career.
But knowledge is not to be confused with education. In the
name of education, mushrooming institutions offer job-oriented
courses.
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your
brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life,’’ said Swami
Vivekananda.
“We must have life-building, man-making, character-making,
assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and
made them your life and character, you have more education
than any man who has got by heart a whole library.’’
Information spread depends on technology, which is at the
mercy of obsolescence. Therefore, there is a constant need to
update one’s knowledge in any sphere of specialisation. But
ideas, travelling slowly, take root. Consider this great idea from
Joseph Mazzini’s `The Duties Of Man’.
He writes ``My voice may sound too harsh, and I may too
severely insist on proclaiming the necessity of virtue and
sacrifice; but I know, and you too-untainted by false
doctrines and unspoiled by wealth-will soon know
also that the sole origin of every Right is in a
Duty fulfilled.’’
In a chapter on education, Mazzini
writes ``Present directors of education
imagine that they have fulfilled their
duties towards you when they have
opened a certain number of schools-
where in your children may receive
a certain degree of elementary
instruction,
consisting principally of reading,
writing and arithmetic.’’ Mazzini
points out that this is merely instruction
and not education. However, he says
that both are necessary.
``Education addresses itself to the moral
faculties; instruction to the intellectual.
The first develops in man the knowledge of
his duties; the second gives him the capacity of
achieving them.’’
Information and ideas may not be directly linked. The role of
education in the digital age is to make them compatible. No
information overload, but ideas that can take the reins.

Mr. Nirmaldasan
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‘Hope’ of course it is nature which should not mix with greedy and jehousy.
“God is not without sins: He created the world.” - Sri Selvam “Siddhar”
A Great Islam Saint
Al-Kabir “the Great” is also one of the 99
names of God in Islam. Born in 1398
according to some accounts, Al-Kabir was one of the most
interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism.
Born in or near Benares, there is a mystery about his family
background.
However, in early life he became a disciple of the celebrated
Hindu ascetic, Ramananda, who brought to Northern India the
religious revival which Ramanuja, the great twelfth-century
reformer of Hinduism had initiated in the South. A Bhakti
saint, a contemporary of Guru Nanak Dev, who sang the ideals
of seeing all of humanity as one, and also the path of natural
oneness with God; some even believe him to be the
preceptor of Guru Nanak. His Baani is registered in
the holy book of Sikhs Guru Granth Sahib. He was
known to be a weaver and later became famed for
scorning religious affiliation. His philosophies and
ideas of loving devotion to God are expressed in
metaphor and language
from both the Hindu Vedanta and Bhakti streams
using vernacular Hindi. Kabir is also considered one
of the early northern India Sants. He was initiated by
Ramananda.
Kabir is associated with the Sant Mat, a loosely related
group of teachers (Sanskrit: Guru) that assumed
prominence in the northern part of the
Indian sub - cont i nent from
about the 13t h
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century. Their teachings are distinguished theologically by
inward loving devotion to a divine principle, and socially by
egalitarianism opposed to the qualitative distinctions of the
Hindu caste hierarchy and to the religious differences between
Hindu and Muslim. The Sants were not homogeneous, consisting
mostly of these Sants’ presentation of socio-religious attitudes
based on bhakti (devotion) as described a thousand years earlier
in the Bhagavad Gita. Sharing as few conventions with each
other as with the followers of the traditions they challenged,
the Sants appear more as a diverse collection of spiritual
personalities than a specific religious tradition, although they
acknowledged a common spiritual root.
The first generation of north Indian Sants, (which included
Kabir), appeared in the region of Benares in the mid 15th
century. Preceding them were two notable 13th and 14th century
figures, Namdev and Ramananda. The latter, a Vaishnava
ascetic, initiated Kabir, Raidas, and other Sants, according to
tradition. Ramanand’s story is told differently by his lineage of
“Ramanandi” monks, by other Sants preceding him, and later by
the Sikhs. What is known is that Ramananda accepted students
of all castes, a fact that was contested by the orthodox Hindus
of that time, and that his students formed the first generation of
Sants.
Philosophies of Kabirdas
The basic religious principles he espouses are simple. According
to Kabir, all life is interplay of two spiritual principles. One is
the personal soul (Jivatma) and the other is God (Paramatma).
It is K a b i r ’ s view that salvation is the process of
bringing into union these two divine
principles. The social and practical
manifestation of Kabir’s philosophy has
rung through the ages. It represented
a synthesis of Hindu and Muslim
concepts. From Hinduism he accepts
the concept of reincarnation and the
law of Karma.

From
Islam he takes the affirmation of the single god and the rejection
of caste system and idolatry. Not only has Kabir influenced
Muslims and Hindus but he is one of the major inspirations
behind Sikhism as well.
His greatest work is the Bijak (that is, the Seedling), an idea of
the fundamental one. This collection of poems demonstrates
Kabir’s own universal view of spirituality. His vocabulary
is replete with ideas regarding Brahman and Hindu ideas of
karma and reincarnation. His Hindi was a very vernacular,
straightforward kind, much like his philosophies. He often
advocated leaving aside the Qur’an and Vedas and to simply
follow Shahaj path, or the Simple/Natural Way to oneness in
God. He believed in the Vedantic concepts of atman and therefore
spurned the orthodox Hindu societal caste system and worship
of statues, thus showing clear belief in both bhakti and sufi
ideas. The major part of Kabir’s work as a Bhagat was collected
by the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjun Dev, and forms a section
of the holy Sikh scripture “Guru Granth Sahib”. According to
legendary accounts Kabir and Guru Nanak had met once. While
many ideas reign as to who his living influences were, the only
Guru of whom he ever spoke was Ramananda, a Vaishnav saint
whom Kabir claimed to have taken initiation from in the form
of the “Rama” mantra.
Kabir’s Poetry
“The poetry of mysticism might be defined on the one hand
as a temperamental reaction to the vision of Reality: on the
other, as a form of prophecy. As it is the special vocation of
the mystical consciousness to mediate between two orders,
going out in loving adoration towards God and coming home
to tell the secrets of Eternity to other men; so the artistic self-
expression of this consciousness has also a double character.
It is love-poetry, but love-poetry which is often written with a
missionary intention. Kabîr’s songs are of this kind: out-births at
once of rapture and of charity. Written in the popular Hindi, not
in the literary tongue, they were deliberately addressed—like
the vernacular poetry of Jacopone da Todì and Richard Rolle—
to the people rather than to the professionally religious class;
and all must be struck by the constant employment in them of
imagery drawn from the common life, the universal experience.
It is by the simplest metaphors, by constant appeals to needs,
passions, relations which all men understand--the bridegroom
and bride, the guru and disciple, the pilgrim, the farmer, the
migrant bird--that he drives home his intense conviction of
the reality of the soul’s intercourse with the Transcendent.
There are in his universe no fences between the “natural” and
“supernatural” worlds; everything is a part of the creative Play
of God, and therefore--even in its humblest details—capable of
revealing the Player’s mind.”
His poems resonate with praise for the true guru who reveals
the divine through direct experience, and denounced more usual
ways of attempting god-union such as chanting, austerities etc.
His verses, which being illiterate he never expressed in writing,
often began with some strongly worded insult to get the attention
of passers-by. Kabir has enjoyed a revival of popularity over
the past half century as arguably the most acceptable and
understandable of the Indian Saints, with an especial influence
over spiritual traditions such as that of Sant Mat and Radha
Soami. Prem Rawat (‘Maharaji’) also refers frequently to
Kabir’s songs and poems as the embodiment of deep wisdom.
O SERVANT, where dost thou seek Me?
Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque:
I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash:
Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and
renunciation.
If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me:
thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time.
Kabîr says, “O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath”
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is
against yours.
You will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly
You will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath
inside the breath.
Religious Affinity
It is a fruitless endeavor, indeed one that Kabir himself disliked,
to classify him as Hindu or Muslim, Sufi or Bhakta. The
legends surrounding his lifetime attest to his strong aversion to
established religions.
From his poems, expressed in homely metaphors and religious
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symbols drawn indifferently from Hindu and Mohammedan
belief, it is impossible to say of their author that he was Brâhman
or Sûfî, Vedântist or Vaishnavite. He is, as he says himself,
“at once the child of Allah and of Râm. In fact, Kabir always
insisted on the concept of Koi bole Ram Ram Koi Khudai...,
which means that someone may chant the Hindu name of God
and someone may chant the Muslim name of God, but God is
the one who made the whole world.
In Kabir’s wide and rapturous vision of the universe he never
loses touch with the common life. His feet are firmly planted
upon earth; his lofty and passionate apprehensions are
perpetually controlled by the activity of a sane and vigorous
intellect, by the alert commonsense so often found in persons of
real mystical genius. The constant insistence on simplicity and
directness, the hatred of all abstractions and philosophizing,
the ruthless criticism of external religion: these are amongst
his most marked characteristics. God is the Root whence all
manifestations, “material” and “spiritual,” alike proceed; and
God is the only need of man--”happiness shall be yours when
you come to the Root.” Hence to those who keep their eye on
the “one thing needful,” denominations, creeds, ceremonies,
the conclusions of philosophy, the disciplines of asceticism, are
matters of comparative indifference.
They represent merely the different angles from which the
soul may approach that simple union with Brahma which is
its goal; and are useful only insofar as they contribute to this
consummation. So thorough-going is Kabîr’s eclecticism that
he seems by turns Vedântist and Vaishnavite, Pantheist and
Transcendentalist, Brahmin and Sûfî. In the effort to tell the
truth about that ineffable apprehension, so vast and yet so
near, which controls his life, he seizes and twines together--
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as he might have woven together contrasting threads upon his
loom—symbols and ideas drawn from the most violent and
conflicting philosophies and faiths.
His birth and death are surrounded by legends. He grew up in
a Muslim weaver family, but some say he was really son of a
Brahmin widow who was adopted by a childless couple. When
he died, his Hindu and Muslim followers started fighting about
the last rites. In Maghar, his tomb or Dargah and Samadhi
Mandir still stand side by side. Another legend surrounding
Kabir is that shortly before death he bathed in both the river
Ganges and Karmnasha to wash away both his good deeds and
his sins.
One popular legend of his death, which is even taught in schools
in India (although in more of a moral context than a historical
one), says that after his death his Muslim and Hindu devotees
were fighting over his proper burial rites. The problem arose,
as Muslim customs called for the burial of their dead, whereas
Hindus cremated their dead.
The scene is depicted as two groups fighting around his coffin
one claiming that Kabir was a Hindu, and the other claiming
that Kabir was a Muslim. However when they finally open
Kabir’s coffin, they find the body is missing, in lieu of which
is placed a small book in which the Hindus and Muslims wrote
all his sayings that they could remember some even say a bunch
of his favorite flowers were placed. The legend goes on to state
that the fighting was resolved, and both groups looked upon
the miracle as an act of divine intervention. Kabir is revered as
Satguru by the Kabirpanthi spiritual group, based in Maghar.
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Nandani’s News
Interaction
with stars on Earth
A
nandan Sivamani, an Indian percussionist, was born
in 1959 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. This artist is
commonly known to the world as Sivamani. He plays
many instruments which include mridangam, tabla, maddalam,
kanjira, drum and odukku. Sivamani first laid his fingers on the
drum at the age of seven and then began his music career at the
age of eleven. One of his noteworthy performances was with
Zakir Hussein at a fusion concert in Mumbai. He has performed
at many tours with A,R, Rahman, which includes Bombay
Dreams. Sivamani has given outstanding performances on
drums for numerous Bollywood films, which include Rang De
Basanti, Taal, Roja, Lagaan, Dil Se, Guru, and Kabul Express.
Many know Sivamani for his remarkable contribution in the
famous tune, Chaiya Chaiya. Sivamani’s albums are Kaash,
Golden Krithis, and Drums On Fire. He has given remarkable
performances in many cities across the globe, including Dubai,
Moscow, New York, Toronto, and Washington D.C. It was here
in Washington D.C., at the last A.R. Rahman concert, where
Sivamani stole the hearts of thousands. This concert’s promoter
was Vijay Taneja of Financial Mortgage Inc. and Re/Max
Summit. I, Mandira Nandani Mehra, had a chance to sit down
with Sivamani and have the following conversation:
Mandira Nandani (MN): Hello, welcome to Chitrmala. You
were absolutely phenomenal out there on stage. Congratulations!
How do you feel?
Mandira Nandani’s
int erview with
Anandan Sivamani
Sivamani (SM): Hello Mandira
and everybody. This is a gift
that I got from God that I am
just sharing with everyone
through A.R. Rahman. Every
concert has some magic on stage with
A.R. Rahman. Every concert has been nice and
I love to rock on stage. I love to play!
MN: I myself am a musician but not a drummer, so I have to ask
you: your set of drums on stage is simply crazy! Tell me the key
components of the set.
SM: My set is unique, it’s simply global. I collect wherever
I go. For example, Africa, China, India – I just collect lots of
percussion. Whenever I close my eyes I feel global. If I want to
feel like I’m in Africa, I close my eyes and turn to the instrument
from there. The framework for the set is custom made and was
the gong drums were specially designed for this tour. I am the
first Indian to use these drums, designed by Remo – whom I
have to thank. I love my instruments and I love to talk to them.
It is just like Alankaar, a god decorated with jewels. When I
close my eyes I can talk to my instruments as if I were talking
to God.
To be continued page no : 67
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Sankatahara Chaturthi August 2nd 2007

Mr. Mit Sr, Mr .Tracy Perry & Mr.Brooks

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 Pradosham August 10th 2007

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 Shailesh Bhai Patel
family & Sainathan
Family
Doing Special
Abishekam

Community Night August 19th 2007

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 Hindu Temple of Georgia
th

August 19, 2007 purush, Ambalal Patel, who is called as “Dadashri” by his
followers. He stressed the importance of ridding oneself off
A Grand Night of knowledge sharing, thought provoking
discussions, cultural events, games, fun & yummy
food…
of ego. He talked about egoless state, selfless soul, and total
surrender to the Lord, unity of body, mind and speech, and the
importance of the virtues of humility and patience.
The Hindu Temple of Georgia organized its 6th monthly n Human attempts to describe God as “satyam - truth”, “anbe
community night in the temple’s grand auditorium. It was held shivam – love is God”, “consciousness”, “all wisdom and
on August 19, 2007 from 5 to 8 pm. It was a grand evening for knowledge”, “all energy”, “sundaram - beauty”, as well as God
the community to get together, share their thoughts and ideas, is within each of us were discussed.
show their talents, and have fun as one community in spite of
their multiple cultural backgrounds. n Lord Sri Ramachandraji was recognized as the highest role
model of principle centered spiritual living.
The Evening began with an arthi for Lord Shiva and Goddess
Parvathi Devi. After receiving the blessings from the Lord, n Chandra Mohan briefly discussed about spiritual
the community night started with the Open Discussion on enlightenment and spiritually enlightened community who
“Spirituality - How it helps everyone to be more effective in are people from all walks of life such as doctors, engineers,
day to day life”. The panel members were Sri Selvam Siddhar scientists, business professionals, home makers, students, IT
“Swamiji”, Mr. Hiresh Patel, Mr. Thakor Patel, Mr. Mani professionals etc. He added to say that all religions converge at
Subramanian and Mr. Chandra Mohan Loganathan. Mr.
Mani Subramanian introduced the topic of discussion in the
beginning followed by the panelist’s speeches with interactive
audience participation.
The key points of discussion included the following:
n Leading Vedic principles centered life; helps attain the
balance of body, mind, and intellect to maximize the inner
energy flow to be effective in everything we do in day to day
life.
n Hiresh Patel shared some of the teachings of the Gnani-

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one point and can take you only up to that point. Beyond that,
you have to go alone all the way to understand the secret of
creation or know the creator (whom you can call as God). He
also emphasized that to know beyond what we already know,
it not enough just to rely on our five sense organs (eye, nose,
mouth, ear, skin) but at least attempt to get the sixth sense (it’s
more of intuitive nature rather than logical reasoning). The first
step in that process is to bring your body, mind, energy and
emotions at the same level through daily and consistent practice
of sadhanas (yoga, meditations etc.). It is also 100% possible for
every human being to know the unknown. But the unfortunate
fact is more than 95% of world’s population are not even aware
of that or even if they are aware, not attempting to take the
spiritual path.
When the question was asked about how to teach such values to
the children, it was summarized as a few basic steps
n Caring - taking genuine interest in the children
n Learning - what their interests are and what they will The fun filled sports event followed the entertainment segment
enjoy as their life pursuit; what their dreams are.
n Appreciating - all the things they do well / respecting
them for all of their positive accomplishments.
n Contributing - Adding value to their efforts.
n Verbalizing - Affirm them and make them feel volunteers and all the attendees for making the 6th community
good about themselves. Praise their strengths night a grand success. All the attendees thanked Swamiji for
and sincerely compliment them at every opportunity.
“Patience is the most beautiful prayer.” - Sri Selvam Siddhar
n Leading - after the 5 above, you will be able to lead
them to success in their chosen pursuit of life.
n Winning - Win with your children in the principle
centered Vedic way of life.
Most importantly, be a role model to your kids. You as parents
are always their first teachers and never forget that. Your
attitude towards anything directly reflects on them as well. So,
be positive and be optimistic. Also, please keep in mind that
you are raising adults not kids. Until the age of 17 or 18 they
are with you all the time, but what matters is after they leave
you and face the outside world without you – how they take it
or react to it?
Following the Open Discussion event, the entertainment segment
of the community night started with Mrs. Kalyani Ravi’s Bhajan
songs. The Bala Vihar children namely Arti, Vishal, Shilpa,
and Abhirami sang a group devotional song as the following
item. Next, Abhiramii sang a Tamil Song, “Puthiyathor Ulagam
Seivom” from the new Tamil movie “Elakkanam”, lyrics by
great poet Bharathidasan. Ajay Sai Nathan, a Pre-K student
recited Aathichudi written by great poetess Avvaiyaar. Sabarish
Sainathan played “Song for a Scarecrow” and “Journey by a
Camel” on the Key-Board. Following it, Arvind Ravi played a
Tamil Film Song, “Ennai Konjam” from Tamil movie “Kaakka
Kaakka” and a Hindi film song, “Dhoom Machale” from movie
“Dhoom”. Following that, Mr. Chandra Mohan Loganathan
rocked the stage by singing the “Thiruvilaiyadal” Tamil
film song from 1960’s, “Onraanavan…” - a song in praise of
Lord Shiva, sequencing from 1 to 10; lyrics written by great
lyricist Kannadasan and the song sung by great legend K. B.
Sundarambal in the movie.
of the evening program. The kids and adults played musical
chair and passing the ball games. In the end, the potluck dinner
with several delicious dishes were served in the buffet manner.
The success of the community night is a joint effort of many
volunteers and the temple staffs. Special thanks go to all the
sponsoring such a great event for the community.
Pictures of this event can be seen at temple website URL:
ht t p://w w w.h i ndutempleofgeorgia.org /Com mu n it y _
%20Night_%20August 19,2007.html. Readers are also
encouraged to attend the next Community Night event with
family and friends. Please visit the website http://www.
hindutempleofgeorgia.org/ for the next community night
schedule.
- Compiled by
- Mani Subramanian
- Sainathan Sivasubramanian
- CM Loganathan
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MN: Earlier on when I spoken to A.R. Rahman ji and Hari
Haran ji they explained that they allot time each day for riaz. As
a drummer, what do you do to warm up? What is your riaz?
SM: Whoever wants to be a musician has to practice. I used to
practice six to eight hours a day. Whether I am in an aircraft or
in a car, I practice. Whoever wants to practice the drums needs
to follow the beat or the music, whether it’s the radio or the
television. You can’t play against the beat, you have to follow
the pulse. Actually, my first drum beat was my mother’s heart
beat. I follow three gurus of which my father is the first one. I
never forget Ustad Zakir Hussein as my inspiration.
MN: For every song you are the pulse. As in Hinduism, Natraja
holds the drum – that’s the heartbeat.
SM: In every concert, I think that Lord Shiva is dancing there.
He gives me the energy – through me I can feel the energy that
goes to everybody. That’s the trance.
MN: In the concert they gave you fifteen or twenty minutes of
time as a solo artist. During that time, what’s going on in here
(points to heart and mind)? What are you thinking with your
eyes closed?
SM: I don’t know what happens on stage – it’s some kind of
magic. I can’t think of anything else except matching with the
pulse. I don’t want to disturb it. In India I have done solo concerts
up to two hours. I basically meditate through my concerts.
MN: When was the first time in your life that you knew that this
was what you were going to do?
SM: That’s a good question. I remember the moment – I was at
IIT. I was doing the first fusion show with Gayatri Vena. I am
crazy about my guru and the audience started shouting his name.
After the concert my father was crying and holding me. I asked
him why he was crying. He told me that I was given a gift and I
am realizing the dream. I knew at that moment and his blessings
are always there even though he is no longer with me.
MN: Sorry to hear that, but he’s always with you, in and through
your music. I know that we’re running out of time, but do you
have any message for any music lovers either in Washington
D.C. or throughout the nation?
SM: Namaste, A Salaam Walekum to everybody in Washington
D.C. I always love to come and perform here. Please take care
of your ego, share with everybody, love one another, and keep
peace.
MN: Thank you for sharing your precious moments with us.
Once again, my hats off to you on your superb performance.
SM: Thank you for the interview Mandira. You should continue
to be a musician and keep on rocking!
-Mandira Nandani
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 HOW IS SEPTEMBER 2007 FOR YOU

These forecasts are based on ‘Janma Rasi’ (birth sign), which is the sign occupied by the Moon
when you are born. These predictions are based upon a clear interpretation of movements of
transition of planets.

MESHAM (ARIES) and Venus, agriculture lands will give

[Ashwini, Bharani and Karthigai (Part
1)]
The position of Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
and Ketu indicates that you are having
happy life now. As your bank balance
increases, financially the second part
of the month will be significantly well.
Some of you will carry through your
gift of the gab. Overall, you will enjoy
a good health and you may overcome
some minor problems in the first part of
the month. As Jupiter aspects to Mars
increased produce. Regarding career, this
is a period to hope for a position with
power. For students, your intelligence
will be sharpened and you will study very
seriously and conscientiously.
Ashwini natives should eschew
extravagance. Bharani born natives will
get the help of their brothers in times of
need. Some of the Karthigai (1) Natives
will be blessed with a government job.
Visit the temple of Dakshina Moorthy and
worship Lord Guru.

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 RISHABAM (TAURUS)
[Karthigai (Part 2, 3, 4), Rohini,
Mirugasheeram(Part 1,2)
The position of the planets in their
respective houses indicates that you
should take good care of your health
during this month and be extra cautious
while driving. Not a favorable period
for real estate related matters. At work,
allocate your duties and responsibilities
to your sub-ordinates appropriately, as
this will make improvements in your
organization’s growth.
Avoid any misunderstanding with your
spouse and children. Some of you will
MIDUNA (GEMINI)
[Mirugasheeram (Part 3, 4),
Thiruvathirai, Punarpoosam(Part
1,2,3)]
You will be immensely pleased with the
financial flow this month. You may have
to take extra precaution in health and
be cautious with the diseases related to
blood impurities, bile or heat during the
second part of the month. Agriculture
lands will give you increased yields.
This is not a favorable period for any
real-estate deals. Your ability to work
will increase. Happiness will be in
abundance as your enemies will be
challenged. You will enjoy good food
be immensely happy on the arrival of a
new baby in the family. There could be
some obstacles in the matter of sensual
enjoyment. Try to solve bilateral problems
mutually and avoid any litigation.
Karthigai (2, 3, and 4) Natives are advised
to visit Shiva temple on Mondays. Rohini Sponsored by
natives should not part with their secrets Paruchuri
to strangers. Mirugasheeram (1, 2) natives
Gopalakrishna Garu
should avoid going to crowded places to
avoid any eye related issues.
Visit Sani (Saturn) Temple on Saturdays
and feed crows. Pray to Lord Hanuman
and recite Hanumam Chaleesa daily.
September 2007
uhá gy‹fŸ
Rasi Reding
and avoid any harsh words with your
wife and children.
Traveling is favorable and you will gain
respect in your society. Be polite while
talking to your siblings. Mirugasheeram
(3, 4) natives can leave a sign of relief as
a long standing problem will get solved.
Thiruvathirai natives should keep off
from games of chance. Punarpoosam
(1,2,3) Natives will get a chance to go
abroad for higher studies.
Pray to Lord Shiva / Dakshina Moorthy
and recite Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam.
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 KADAGAM (CANCER)
[Punarpoosam (Part 4), Poosam, Ayilyam]
The position of planets designate that, speculation when
done prudently will be favorable to you. Charity work will
dominate your expenses column. Export related businesses
may be favorable. The natives will feel healthier and it’s
advisable to consume Satvik food which helps the mind to
keep cool. In real estate matters, first part of the month is
favorable for making addition to your landed property. But
you should take care of your agriculture produce.
Regards to career, you will be able to complete difficult tasks
due to your hard work and some of you will get a commanding
position. For students, intelligence will get sharpened
SIMHAM (LEO)
[Magam, Pooram, Uttiram (Part 1)]
The positions of the planet in their respective houses indicate
that financially this month may not pose any problem. A part
of your expenditure will be on various kinds of entertainment.
Some of you will buy a vehicle. During the first fortnight
drive carefully as exhaustion may trouble you. During the
2nd fort night avoid crowded places and safeguard your
health. In real estate matters, second fortnight will be
favorable for land and property transactions and some of
you will be lucky to get a good house.
In career matters, some of you will be blessed with an
advisory job. Those who are in service should obey the
orders of their superiors. For students, you will do well
in your examinations and come out successful with flying
colors. Some of you may consider learning an art or more
KANYA (VIRGO)
[Uttiram (Part 2,3,4), Hastham, Chitra (Part 1,2)]
The positions of planet indicate that you will buy a vehicle
and expenses may increase. In health matters, you should
take nutritious food in order to overcome weakness and
to enhance the resistance power. Care is needed while
outdoors. Distance yourself from the bad. In real estate
matters, you will consider buying a house or a piece of
land. Farmers should be happy that their lands will give
higher yield.
In career matters, by the grace of Almighty some who had
lost their position will regain the same. Those who try for
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and you will attain success in your efforts. Creative ideas
will sparkle in your brain. In personal matters, the planets
above will confer on you all kinds of enjoyment. As always,
beware of cheats. Long standing problems will get solved in
the second fort night. For some of you, wedding bells will
ring and foreign travel will be helpful. Health of your wife
needs care. Some women natives of the childless will adopt
a child.
Punarpoosam (4) born natives will get married. Poosam
natives should scrutinize the documents very cautiously if
they propose to make any deals. Ayilyam born natives will
consider buying a house
Pray Lord of Saturn and Lord Karthikeya. Give alms to the
poor and the needy. Recite Hanumam Chaleesa daily.
so music. In personal matters, you will be blessed with
domestic happiness and some of you may be blessed with
a baby. Avoid misunderstandings with your near and dear.
Take care of your health and you may go on a tire some
journey, with enemies around. You may be forced to take
up a change of place. But do not sign any surety yet. For
women, your husband will leave no stone unturned to make
you happy.
Magam natives will be happy as they will agree to what
their children want. Pooram born natives may earn through
music if that interests them. Uttiram born natives can hope
to get transfer to places their choice.
Recite Aaditya Hridayam daily and visit the temple of Lord
Saturn on Saturdays and feed the needy. Recite Hanuman
Chaleesa daily and light a ghee lamp before Dakshina
Moorthy on Thursdays.
a job will succeed. Regards to personal matters, you will
be bestowed with all types of happiness including conjugal
happiness. The stars above will ensure safety and protection;
some of your efforts will get fulfilled. Change of place is
indicated. For women, some of you will be blessed with a
son. You will acquire perfumes and other related things.
Uttiram (2,3,4) natives are cautioned not to invest huge
capital even if any one forces them to do so. Hastham an
Chitra (1,2) born natives should be cautious while driving.
Pray to Goddess Lakshmi and recite Kanakadhara Stotram,
Hanuman Chaleesa and Hridhayam daily. Visit Lord Sani
temple and help people.
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[Chitra (Part 3, 4), Swathi,
Visagam (Part 1,2,3)]
The planet positions indicate
that during the first fortnight, income would be from many
directions. Speculation could also bring in some gains; you
can consider expansion of your activities. Business loan is
not advised as expenses are likely to go up. In health matters,
you should be happy that you will enjoy good health. Be
cautions as there may be a bodily injury. Agriculture lands
will give increased yield.
In career matters, some of you will be blessed with a new
position with power and prestige. Never antagonize your
superiors. In personal matters, your relatives will be happy
with you and you will be held high in your circle. However,
restrain your unruly speech and do away with any quarrel
either with your family members or relatives. You will
VIRCHIGAM (SCORPIO)
[Visaga(Part 4), Anusham, Kettai)
The planets indicate that some of you will buy a vehicle
and in health matters, you should avoid going in to crowded
places, always remember that we eat to live and not live
to eat. Do include green leafy vegetables in your diet and
be cautious in your activities. There will be enhanced
agricultural produce and normal activities will continue to
go on.
In career matters, your earning capacity will enhance. Good
work always has its rewards. Business will be successful.
This is favorable month for students and they will acquire
knowledge of various spheres. For women, give much
needed support to your husbands. Work on creating peace
at home. Be careful while cooking and during other
activities.
In personal matters, your family and children will be
happy. Auspicious functions like marriage take place in
your house. You will enjoy domestic happiness. This is a
DHANUR (SAGGITTARIUS)
[Moola, Pooradam, Uttiradam (Part 1)]
The planet positions indicate that increase in income may
be noted and there will be gain through gold ornaments and
copper vessels. You may get some money from unexpected
sources. In health matters, some minor eye ailments and
stomach problems could trouble. You should always watch
out what is before you and safeguard yourself. In real
estate matters, you can hope for some gain in a transaction
relating to a plot of land.
In career matters, a challenging task will be posed before
you and you will complete it successfully. This will bring
in due recognition from your bosses. In personal matters,
an auspicious function like marriage will take place in your
have success in litigation; if any is indicated don’t sign any
surety. There may be some undesirable travels; charity work
will go on smoothly without any impediments.
For women, be extra cautious with your work and some
of you who are unmarried will get good news in the 2nd
fortnight.
Chitra (3,4) born natives should be cautious when handling
machines or while driving a vehicle. Swathi natives will be
lucky to get high class food. Visagam (1,2,3) born natives
will be able to recover the amount lent by them.
Do pooja for Goddess Lakshmi with lotus flowers. Recite
Kanakadhara Sthothram and Shri Vishnu Sahasranamam.
Visit Shiva temple on Mondays and offer “bilwa” leaves
for pooja.
good month. For romance, some of you will go abroad and
marry a girl you love there.
You will involve yourself in activities like construction
of temple, well and charity work. You will spend some
time for religious rituals. In case you are entangled in any
litigation, you will succeed. Be patient with your spouse
and friends. Don’t sign any surety, beware of enemies.
Visaga (4) natives should take important decisions only
after consulting their well wishers. Anusham natives may
hear the good news of the arrival of a child. Kettai natives
can hope to get a favorable turn in their career.
Visit the temple of Lord Dakshina Moorthy and do pooja
with yellow flowers. Donate educational materials for poor
children. Visit Thiruchendur and pray God Karthikeya.
Also visit Shiva temple on Pradosham days and offer milk
for abishekam and bilwa leaves for pooja. Recite “Om
Namah Shivaya” at least 32 times.
house, where you will meet your friends and relatives. You
will win over your enemy and end of your mental strife
may be noted. Change of residence is indicated for some.
Litigation if any will end favorably. You will be friend to a
great man in your family and children will be happy.
Moola natives will hear good news from a distant place.
Pooradam born natives will get a comfortable house.
Uttiradam (1) natives will be lucky to get married to a girl
who owns a house.
On Mondays visit the temple of Lord Shiva on pradosham
days and offer milk for abhishekam as also ‘bilwa’ leaves
for pooja. Recite “OM NAMAH SHIVAYA” at least 32
times daily.
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 MAGARAM (CAPRICORN)
[Uttiradam (Part 2,3,4), Thiruvonam, Avittam (Part 1,2)]
Financially, this will be a good month. There will be gain from
gold and copper items. Loans given by you will be recovered.
In health matters, some minor ailments like stomach disorder,
fever etc. may nag you. In real estate matters, you will succeed
in a house transaction with moderate gains. Agricultural lands
will give increased produce.
In career matters, you will meet with success in your career.
Change of job is indicated for some of you, you will earn
a good name in the office in the 2nd fortnight. For student,
you will shine during this month more so, those having
mathematics and managements as their field of study. For
women, some of you will be blessed with a baby. In personal
KUMBHAM (AQUA)
[Avittam (Part 3,4), Sadhayam, Poorattathi (Part 1,2,3)
The planetary positions indicate that monetary difficulties
could arise. Though your income will be same, expenses
will increase. In health matters, stomach disorders, fear of
poisonous insects and minor injuries could be causes for
worry. For students, you should not waste your precious
time for trivial entertainments and concentrate well on your
studies. In career matters, you have to work hard and sustain
the same.
In personal matters, you will achieve success in your efforts.
You should avoid any quarrel with your near and dear be it
MEENAM (PISCES)
[Poorattathi (Part 4), Uthiratathi, Revathi]
The planetary positions indicate that financially this month
is excellent and there will be an increase in income and bank
deposits. Speculation may be favorable and some of you may
buy a vehicle. In health matters, avoid over-eating and enjoy
a good health for this month. In real estate matters, you will
also consider buying a good residential plot. There will be
gain from transactions pertaining to houses and agricultural
land.
For students, you are mentally sharp and you will able to
grasp easily and you can possibly develop debating skills. In
career matters, a government service is available for some of
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matters, life is a cycle and good and bad come alternatively
in first fortnight you may face some adverse happenings like
misunderstanding with women in the family, various types
of fears, bad friendship, trouble to your spouse, loss of peace
at home, change of residence etc. During the 2nd half fears
will vanish, enemies will with draw and you will enjoy all
types of happiness. Some auspicious function like marriage
will take place in your house. You will spend more time in
prayers.
Uttiradam (2,3,4) native will go abroad. Thiruvonam natives
should not reveal their secrets. Avittam (1,2) natives will get
married.
On Saturdays, visit Lord Sani temple and help the needy
people. Recite Hanuman Chaaleesa daily.
your wife, children, relatives or friends. Otherwise you will
have to face the consequences. Beware of foes. Avoid any
harsh words with the women in the family. Try to understand
the feelings of your children objectively.
Avittam (3,4) natives should take the blessings of the family
deity and the elders before commencing a new activity.
Sadhayam natives should avoid giving surety. Poorattathi
(1,2) natives may go on a pilgrimage in the last week of the
month.
On Saturdays visit the Lord Sani temple and help lame and
handicapped people. Recite Hanuman Chaleesa daily.
you. In personal matters, you will find sorrows and mental
tortures. You will have the good opportunity of meeting a
guru, who will guide you about your future. There will be
success in your efforts and your enemies will lose. Avoid
quarrels with your near and dear. Some of you may plan a
pilgrimage.
Poorattathi (4) native will buy a vehicle. Uthiratathi natives
may take up social work activities and Revathi born natives
will acquire dress materials.
On Friday, perform Rahu kalam pooja at durga temple with
red flowers and recite Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Sthothiram.
dhar”
Sid
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ri Sel
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 Ms. Nilima Mehra(Global TV Network)

H
is Holiness,
Sri Sri Selvam
“Siddhar” is also
known as Dr. Commander
Selvam. Many in the US
and throughout the globe
also know this divine
personality as “Swami
Ji”. Needless to say, this Swamiji is a great scholar and the only
living “Siddhar” (in the U.S.) with the powerful knowledge of
Atharva Veda. In all paths and walks of life, Swamiji is known
to relieve and resolve all human related problems; may it be

mental, material, stress, etc. Sri Selvam “Siddhar” was initiated

by his Guruji – Sri Sri Chinnappa Siddhar (an Atharva Vedic
Swamiji from Kerala, India). Besides attending to the world’s
demands and needs, Sri Selvam “Siddhar” is also managing
Sri Akasthiyar Siddhar Peedam as the 126th Madathipathi. His
ashram is in also famous in California. Currently, a massive
Hindu Temple (in Atlanta, Georgia) with 108 Shivji is being
developed by Swamiji. This Shiva Temple will be the first and
the only one of it’s kind in the world. Swamiji is the highest
single donor in this globe for a hindu Temple in USA and have
contributed a major money for the Hindu Temple of Georgia.
On August 26th, 2007, Sri Selvam Siddhar paid a visit to the Sri

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Shiva Vishnu Temple (SSVT) in Lanham, MD. There he was
very graciously greeted by the president of SSVT – Mr. Raja
Gopal. Thereafter he was given a grand tour of SSVT, where he
met various pundits in session. He also was gracious enough to
address many attendees. Later that afternoon a gala event hosted
for Swamiji was that of a grandeur garland and a shawl around
His Holiness. Swamiji then met, along with Mr. Raja Gopal, the
other Board members and Trustees of SSVT. After his address to
these Committee members Swamiji, along with his three pundits
from Hindu Temple of Georgia, were treated to a luncheon that
was prepared and served at SSVT.
After the departure from SSVT Dr. Commander Selvam then
proceeded onto Murugan Temple where he was once again
greeted very graciously. Swamiji is invited by both of the
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temples to give a satsung at both of their premises in the near
future. Swamiji ended his trip to the Washington Metro Area
with private satsungs held in devotees’ homes. The Washington
Metro Area looks forward to another visit by His Holiness Sri
Sri Selvam “Siddhar” in the near future.
For more information about meeting with Swamiji or to organize
a Satsang, Seminar, Lecture in Virginia, Maryland, Washington
D.C., New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania.
please contact@ Toll Free 1.800.574.3427.
E-mail: avtemple@aol.com. Web: www.108shiva.com,
- Photography, Shailendra Singh (Global TV Network)
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