Great Devotees of Lord Siva 74C

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

Subramuniyaswami

 

 

 

 

 

"The goal is to realize God Siva in His absolute, or transcendent, state, which when realized is your own ultimate state - timeless, formless, spaceless Truth."

- Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

 

 

 

In late 1949 Subramuniya sailed back to America and embarked on seven years of ardent, solitary yoga and meditation. He had been given instructions not to do any teaching until he became thirty years of age. Until then he was to observe, have experiences and learn. His book Cognizantability, a collection of profound aphorisms and commentary on the states of mind and esoteric laws of life (recently republished as an appendix of his book Merging with Siva), began to unfold from within him in these years.

 

In 1956, Gurudeva had a tremendous spiritual experience in Denver, Colorado, where “the soul body would finally fully inhabit the physical bodyâ€. The following year, in San Francisco, Subramuniya founded what is now Himalayan Academy and opened America's first Hindu temple near Presidio Park. Sincere devotees gathered around him, and in 1960 Gurudeva formed his monastic order. He delivered many inspired talks to his early students. One in particular, The Self God set the pace of advaita philosophy for the West. With the creation of The Master Course, he began doing his part as a helper on the path. In Switzerland, 1968, he revealed Shum, a mystical language of meditation that names and maps inner areas of consciousness. In 1969, Gurudeva’s desire to return to Sri Lanka intensified.

 

The first India Odyssey Travel/Study program was formed and Gurudeva traveled to Sri Lanka with sixty-five students. He traveled extensively from 1969 to 2001, addressing hundreds of thousands of Hindus, especially followers of Siva in Sri Lanka and India.

 

 

 

 

Gurudeva moved his ashram to Kauai in 1970, establishing Kauai Aadheenam, on a riverbank near the foot of an extinct volcano. Also known as Kauai's Hindu Monastery, Kauai Aadheenam is a 458 acre (1.9 km²) temple-monastery complex on Hawaii's Garden Island. In 1975 he conceived the San Marga Iraivan Temple on Kauai as the first all-granite temple established outside of India. In 1977 Gurudeva intensified requirements for his Western devotees to sever all prior religious and philosophical loyalties, legalize their Hindu name and formally enter Hinduism through the name-giving rite. In 1979 he published the Holy Orders of Sannyas, defining the ideals, vows and aspirations of Hindu monasticism with unprecedented clarity. In 1979 he founded the Hinduism Today magazine, and in the early 80s, after his world tours, focused his magazine on uniting all Hindus, regardless

of nationality or sect, and inspiring and educating seekers everywhere. His international Hindu renaissance tours in the 1980s brought him face to face with hundreds of thousands of Hindus, most notably in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, and Mauritius, to whom he spread a powerful message of courage and pride of heritage. In Sri Lanka, Gurudeva formally took possession of the main building of his Sri Subramuniya Ashram in Alaveddy, founded in 1949. In the early 1980s he established the antiquity and legitimacy of monistic Saiva Siddhanta at international conferences among pundits who had insisted that Siddhanta is solely pluralistic.

 

 

Sivaya Namah

 

 

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