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Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar’s Remarkable Satsang/ Lectures &Golden Advise to his followers:

 

  • The following are the small group of  Satsang/ Lecture series given all over the world by  His Holiness Param Pujya “Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar”. These were assembled by swamiji’s long time followers Ms.Chitra Iyer, Ms.Nalini Thumbidi,Ms.Miya Fernadez,Dr Sadagopan , Dr. Goamthi Armainayagam Dr.Kumarappa Lingappa On behalf of Siddhi Times we appreciate their volunteer work to the Shiva Vishnu Temple
 
# 1.Will my God give the things I need?
 
 
During a Satsang somebody asked  Swami Selvam Siddhar following question:" We say God is fair, but we see good people suffering and bad people happy in their lives, why is that?"

Here Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar answer: For each person, when they are born, this comes back to the destiny part, there is karma. Somebody who does bad, and is thinking that this is the reality, do you think he will have God? Hm? It will be more difficult for this person to go away from all his things and realize God. Whereas good people who are always suffering, always focus on God and say, “Oh God, please make my suffering go away.” They always pray to the Divine to help. Do you know 
Krishna? He’s next to Jesus. He was alive about 5000 years ago. The same like you have Jesus, the Hindus have him. He had an Aunt, called Ghandari, and there was a big war where all the sons of his aunt were killed. When Krishna came to his auntie and said, “What do you want?“, do you know what she answered? “My Lord, give me many problems, so that I can always remember you.“ So, when people have everything and are always happy, they forget about God. But when problems arise again in the life, they run again to seek the Divine help. As you said, God is fair. He always gives.
 
#2 To meet the God?
 
There was once a boy who went to see God and on the way he met a great Sadhu standing on one leg with the hand up. So when he went to meet God, the Sadhu said to him “As you are going to meet God,
I have one question: Ask God when will I attain liberation?” So the boy met God and asked all the questions. On the way back he met the Sadhu, who asked “So…have you met God?”. He said “Yes, I met him.” And he said “What did God say?” The boy answered “Well, the Sadhu still has some karmic things to do. He still has to take birth three times before attaining me.” Well, that moment he was very enraged and said “All my tapasya, all my sadhana that I have been doing and still I have to take birth three times!” But the boy was very calm and joyful. So the Sadhu said “Oh, I am sure you are your last time here.” The boy said “Oh, my dear Sadhuji, it’s not like that. Do you see this tamarind tree?” [ A leaf of the tamarind is very, very, very smalll, so there are billions of it] "I have to take as much births and then only I will attain Him." Then the Sadhu looked at him “ Are you stupid? Why are you so happy?” Then he said “Well, it doesn’t matter. I know that at the end I will attain Him.” At that moment he heard a Divine voice saying “Throughout all these tapasya the Sadhu had been doing, all the lives of this boy with the pure heart are erased and he attains ‘mukthi’ in this life.”
This shows that it’s not about how much one has done, but how one is doing it. Love has to be there. If you do things out of love, the Divine will run to you. You just need to do one step. This one step is to do it with love. Then He will do everything. She will do everything. But as long as there is not this one step from your side, it will be difficult. The Divine Mother will help you to become like that, so that this one step can be done with a pure heart. Jagadamba Mata ki- Jai!
 
# 3. Service with Devotion:
Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar once told us an interesting story from the life of Sri Ramakrishna, which shows us how important it is to perform seva (selfless service) and to help others: Once there was a doctor. Of course he took his job very serious. And he was very satisfied. Whenever people came to him to get healed, he was very happy about it. But his happiness had only short duration. He was always wondering “Why I am happy, but yet it lasts very short." We all know about this happiness. So he went to Ramakrishna. He is a Saint in India, who lived last century. He said “Ramakrishnaji, tell me how You love? I feel this love, but it’s very short.” Ramakrishna said to him: ”M Sri Swami Vishwananda once told us the famous parable about the five blind men and the elephant:

Once there were five blind men. All of them were blind and would sit under a tree. All day long they would talk and talk and talk. So one day, as it was very hot, a huge elephant came and stood under the tree . Although they were blind they could hear. So they heard that somebody had come. Then all five got up and started walking around. They could feel there is something in front of them. The first one said: “What is this!? This is a huge wall made of mud. But I don’t understand how this wall has moved here?” The second one was holding the tusk. Feeling it, he said: “Oh, these are two speers made of ivery!” The third one was holding the tail and said: “No, no, no- you are wrong. This is a rope, a big huge rope!” Fine. The fourth one was holding the trunk of the elephant and he said: “No, no, no- this is nothing of what you have said. This is a snake hanging from the tree!” and the fifth one said: “No, you are all wrong! This is the trunk of a tree!”

So among all three was a big discussion. Everyone was fighting with each other and was proclaiming: “I am right, I am right, I am right!” At that moment a small boy was passing. Looking at them and seeing how they were fighting, he said: “Oh, you five blind men, what are you quarrelling for? Why are you hanging on this elephant like that!?” When they heard: 'an elephant', they all got shocked, thinking 'An elephant!?' After some time, when the boy went, the first one said: “We are not just blind, I think we are also stupid!” The second one said: “No, no, no. I was a bit confused when I said what I said!” and the third one said: “I thought it was something like that, but I didn’t say it!” . Then the fourth one said: “Well, we were just talking loudly whatever was passing through our mind!” Finally the fifth one said: “You know, I feel so foolish! We could have just asked someone and would have been much faster!”

The same thing: humanity is blind to God-realization. Only someone who has realized the Divine can really guide you! Only someone who knows the path can really lead you. Otherwise you will be like these blind men- you will be touching everything, left, right; it will not lead you anywhere. So just surrender!y dear doctor, I know that you help people and you feel this love, but one thing: Your love is based on how much you get as payment.” So go and help people. It’s not that you should not take money- take, but once a week give free consultation. You will see that this love inside of you will grow more and more." And of course He practiced it. After a few months he came back to Sri Ramakrishna and fell down at the feet of Ramakrishna. He said “My Lord, I have done what you have told me and I’m the happiest person. Now I don’t even do only one time a week selfless service, but I do it two or three times a week.”
#4. The Elephant and the Blind Men:
Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar( Dr Commader Selvam) once told us the famous parable about the five blind men and the elephant:

Once there were five blind men. All of them were blind and would sit under a tree. All day long they would talk and talk and talk. So one day, as it was very hot, a huge elephant came and stood under the tree . Although they were blind they could hear. So they heard that somebody had come. Then all five got up and started walking around. They could feel there is something in front of them. The first one said: “What is this!? This is a huge wall made of mud. But I don’t understand how this wall has moved here?” The second one was holding the tusk. Feeling it, he said: “Oh, these are two Speers made of ivory!” The third one was holding the tail and said: “No, no, no- you are wrong. This is a rope, a big huge rope!” Fine. The fourth one was holding the trunk of the elephant and he said: “No, no, no- this is nothing of what you have said. This is a snake hanging from the tree!” and the fifth one said: “No, you are all wrong! This is the trunk of a tree!”

So among all three was a big discussion. Everyone was fighting with each other and was proclaiming: “I am right, I am right, I am right!” At that moment a small boy was passing. Looking at them and seeing how they were fighting, he said: “Oh, you five blind men, what are you quarrelling for? Why are you hanging on this elephant like that!?” When they heard: 'an elephant', they all got shocked, thinking 'An elephant!?' After some time, when the boy went, the first one said: “We are not just blind, I think we are also stupid!” The second one said: “No, no, no. I was a bit confused when I said what I said!” and the third one said: “I thought it was something like that, but I didn’t say it!” . Then the fourth one said: “Well, we were just talking loudly whatever was passing through our mind!” Finally the fifth one said: “You know, I feel so foolish! We could have just asked someone and would have been much faster!”

The same thing: humanity is blind to God-realization. Only someone who has realized the Divine can really guide you! Only someone who knows the path can really lead you. Otherwise you will be like these blind men- you will be touching everything, left, right; it will not lead you anywhere. So just surrender!
# 5. Thoughts- Negative and Positive?
 
You know one thing: on the spiritual path the utmost thing that we have to do is the control of one’s mind. We say ‘Watch our thought’. What is this thought? A thought is an image. A thought is a creation. A thought is an imagination, but why is it said that we have to watch our thought? Because most of the time the thought makes us negative. We have to watch, we have to have it under control, but very often it’s quite difficult, no? Our thoughts make us who we are, because we always run behind them. A few days ago, there was a reading in the Chapel, where there was a saying from a Saint, from St. Silouan from Mount Athos that said “Let your thoughts be in hell, but you rejoice in the Divine.” I commented a little bit on that. I said “Nowadays, the moment they see their thoughts running to hell, everybody runs with the thoughts to hell. Your thoughts are jumping, jumping, jumping and “bow”. And you also jump behind them and do the same. When we watch ourselves, we see that very often we like to speak out what we have in our mind. We like to tell everybody how great we are. We like to say: “Oh, I have seen that light, I have seen this and I have seen that. I have felt this and I have felt that. “ Why? To feed the thoughts, so that the thought can become bigger. It’s like when you analyze a reptile. A reptile can be very soft, going it’s way. The moment it falls in a pit, it will try it’s best to come out. But the moment that reptile comes out of that pit, the reptile will be more aggressive than ever. That is how our thoughts are also. The moment we let it out, it’s in flame wi th this rigorous power, saying “Yes, I am out.” That’s what Christ has said, no? It’s not what goes inside the person, which makes one person polluted, but what comes out of the person. The Gita said it: “The controlled mind is your best friend. The uncontrolled mind is your worst enemy.” The controlling of our thoughts- Like I said: The way we think, the way we are.
# 6.The creation of Godessess Gayathri Devi
Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar tells a story about Brahma and Saraswati and explains how Gayatri Devi was created: Of course there are many stories that relate her to Goddess Saraswati.
 
One of the stories is that the first being that Brahma, not Brahman, but Brahma created was Saraswati. Saraswati is the creativity power of Brahma, the Creator.

Brahma was so much in love with Saraswati that he created four heads to look at Saraswati.
Then He made His proposal to Saraswati, but Saraswati said ‘No’. Even when He called her ‘Brahma-Patni’, she was never married to Brahma. It’s not a marriage, that they got married, but it was a spiritual marriage.
After Brahma had created everything He had the great desire, wanting her so much, that He created another head, a fifth head, so that all His eyes can be on Saraswati.
Wherever Saraswati will go, Brahma will be there. All the form that Saraswati appeared or transformed herself would also be transformed and manifested by Brahma. Finally Saraswati was really, really, really angry. (Laughter)(Swami laughing) But she controlled herself and went to Shiva. As she was passing by Shiva, Shiva was as usual in meditation. Such a great ascetic. But Brahma also was following. His mind was so much on Saraswati and also on this deep desire inside of Him that Shiva came out of His meditation. When He came out of the meditation, seeing how Brahma is, He got very furious. At that moment, He threw His trident and chopped one of His head. This is one story of course. He chopped one of Brahma’s head. When this was done Saraswati said to Brahma “You are the Creator, why all this?” Then she said “Wait for me. I will come.” Brahma waited one day, two days, and three days. Saraswati was in a cave inside and didn’t come out. Years passed. He still was waiting. Hundreds and thousands of years passed. He got really tired. And thereby the lake was Savitri. So Brahma fell in love with Savitri. Then when He was with Savitri, Saraswati came. (Laughter) When Saraswati saw that Brahma is with Savitri, She became furious and cursed Brahma, that Brahma will never have temple. There are only two places in India, one in Tamil Nadu and one in the North, in Pushkar, that have temples of Brahma. So out of her anger Gayatri was created
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# 7.Siddhadri Yakshini and Lord Shiva
 
 
On the eighth day of Navaratri, the 26th September 2009, Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar told us a Story about Goddess Siddhidatri.
When we pray to Shiva Bhagawan, we know that Shiva is one of the Ultimate, but actually it’s                 Ma Siddhidatri who gives Shiva the power to liberate Himself.
There was one story how She swallowed Shiva. Shiva was talking and always explaining, because Shiva is Dakshinamurti. So He was always explaining and explaining and explaining and the Mother said: “Look, I am hungry”, but Shiva didn’t bother about it. Mother requested again “Prabhu, I am hungry!!”. But again Shiva didn’t react. Then she said: “Listen Shiva, I am hungry right now!! (Laughter) And if you don’t listen to me, I am going to eat you!.”(Laughter) Saying that, She did swallow Shiva completely, showing that She is the Greatest and the power behind everything. Even the Yogis said “Without Shakti we are nothing. Without Shakti, even Shiva is just a corpse, nothing else.” So by devouring Shiva, She showed Her greatness and that everything merges into Her. All the power of creation, the power itself is Her. All the other Prakriti Shakti come out from her and merge into Her. So with a clear mind, with a clear heart, ask Mother Bhagavati Devi, Durga, Jagadambaki to help each one of us. And if we ever make any mistake, Ma shall forgive us all. She always does. Om Soolini Deviye Namha!!
 
# 8.Devotion, Bakthi, Proper, Discipline?
 
 During a Satsang Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar was once asked : Swami, would you speak please about the balance of Bhakti and discipline? The aspect of discipline in exercises and Sadhana?

Here is his answer:

You see in Bhakti and discipline, devotion and discipline go together. Together with Bhakti you practice discipline. It is that discipline that you put towards yourself, so that you know how you have to do certain things, certain exercises that you do regularly.

This discipline is because you want something…

You know that there is something greater that you want to achieve and you do anything for that. Whether you have to run or whether you have to speed up- you will do anything. That’s where the discipline comes from, that’s where the Sadhana comes from.

And this is also a part of Bhakti. This is actually the beginning of Bhakti.

That devotion comes to a point, where you practice all this, but real devotion crosses over all this. There is a big different between- we start with discipline, we start with with certain Sadhana, where we throw ourselves into and which will lead us to surrender.

Until we don’t throw ourselves into something, it’s very difficult to surrender. To what to surrender? We don’t know, because the mind still plays a big role in everything, our mind still is in action with everything, but to calm this mind we need to do certain Sadhana.

This is where you take the step to throw yourself, saying “Yes”. You have the determination and you know you have the goal. You know where it is leading you. You know the goal that you want to achieve and you throw yourself into it. So how do you want to achieve it? Do you want to put breaks and go slowly or do you want to go directly? There are different ways.
 
# 9. Discipline and our Heart Problems?
 
Discipline helps us to calm our mind, because when the mind is very agitated on the spiritual path, we can’t concentrate. We can’t really focus ourselves on our heart. So even if you want to focus yourself on your heart, your mind is jumping, jumping, jumping. So we do our Sadhana. We chant, we practice Yoga or we do Om Healing or Atma Kriya to calm the mind. It helps that we can listen more clearly to ourselves and realizes the Divine within ourselves. Not just tell somebody “Just do your Sadhana and meditate and you will attain God"... It’s true: If one is sincere towards oneself, one will attain God, because God will come to that person and will manifest itself, the heart will manifest itself. But yet we look at the world and ask “How many people really are sincere towards themselves in that way?” We are so busy with what we see outside, what we think. We want to always analyze everything with our mind, that we give so much less importance to the heart, even when we know that “Yes, we have to be in the heart, but we see how dominant our mind is.” So without saying “Yes, I want really strongly to follow, I want to change and I want really to attain my goal, it's difficult.” We can outside say “Yes, yes, yes I want this”, but inside we say “Wow, it’s far away”. As long as you see this distance and are discouraged, you will not enjoy your practice. It doesn’t matter how big the distance is. Keep trying. And never loose hope.
 
#10 Arjuna & Lord Krishna
. During a Darshan to his Devotees in the 2009 Navarathri days one day Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar told this story: After the battle of Kurukshetra, Arjuna and Krishna were walking together in the fields. Krishna raised his hand and said to Arjuna, “Look at these birds in the sky how nice they are!”
“Yes”, answered Arjuna, looking in the sky.

“But there are no birds”, said 
Krishna.

“No, there are no birds”, answered Arjuna.

“Look how nice these birds are”, said again 
Krishna. “They are really magnificent.”
“Yes”, said Arjuna. “These birds are really magnificent.”

“Why are you always repeating what I am saying?” asked 
Krishna, “There are no birds in the sky.”
“Yes, it is true. I don’t see any birds in the sky but I know that you could manifest at every moment, these birds and let them fly in the sky.”

Arjuna had total faith in 
Krishna and had totally surrendered body, mind and soul to the Divine. He did not trust his mind or his eyes but he trusted every word from his Divine Sadguru
 
 
# 11 : smile in the time of hardship in the life?
 
Another inspiring story by Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar who is considered as a living God to his followers all over the world
There was once a Rabbi. He was giving his discourse, his lecture and as he was talking to his students, there was a line which said “The one who is close to the Divine, the one who is close to God, to Jahwe, is the one who smiles in the midst of difficulties.” Then his students stopped him and said “Professor, Mr. Rabbi, reverent Sir, can you please explain us how it is possible that we can smile in times of difficulties? The Rabbi said “Well, it's very difficult to answer this question, because when there are difficulties, I, myself forget where the smile is gone. I forget how to smile." It’s true: our mind is so engrossed into negativity, that we forget the reality. Saying so, he said “It’s very difficult for me to tell you how to smile in times of difficulties or in times of great tests. But I know one person in the village, who has gone through so many trials in his life. When he was just one week old, he lost his parents. Then later on in life, in everything that he did, he didn’t succeed, but he was always very joyful and smiling.” So they went to that person, knocked at the door, and an answer came “Who is it?”. The students said, “Oh, we are the students of the Rabbi, we came to ask you certain questions.” He replied” Tell me what questions do you have?” Then they said “Oh we came across this line in the Bible that said ‘The one, who is closest to God, smiles in the midst of difficulties’”. The man answered “Well you have come to the wrong address, because I am 78 years old. Yet I don’t know what difficulties are, so I can’t tell you how to smile in it.”

So, know how close you are to the Divine, the difficulties transcend itself. How much your mind is focussed on the Divine or on your true Self? Everybody wants to attain this true Self, no? But everybody wants to attain the true Self only by being good. You don’t need to be good. You don’t need to pretend to be good. You just need to be yourself. Even if people think that you are bad, you have to know how you are.
 
# 12. Trust me…God never let you down
 
Another piece of information Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar from the Maha sivaratri Day celebration @ Hindu Temple of Georgia :
The power of chanting the name of God, it's not only purifying the mind, it’s purifying the body and it's purifying the soul. When your mind is purified, you have a healthy mind. Your mind is positive. Eventually, your body will also be in a positive way. Your body will be healthy. How many times people who are ill surrender completely and say, “I’m fed up now. God, I’m praying to you and I surrender to you. Do whatever you want to do with me.” What happens then? The miracle happens. The miracle of faith. The miracle of love. The miracle of surrender.

But nowadays people are so scared of surrender. They say, “I will surrender, but... what will happen? I will surrender, but how will I live?” This insecurity is already present. How can they trust when there’s insecurity? Only when there is complete trust in God, complete trust in your self, when you ask God for Himself, will He give Himself to you. And trust what? Whatever He does is right, even if the mind doesn’t understand it, it is right.
 
More to ome in the following months in our world famous Siddhi Times. Please call swamiji or meet with Swamiji Sri Selvam Siddhar( Dr Commander Selvam) immediately , if you are facing any kind of problems in your life to get his spiritual advise, after all he is considered as a living God to his followers. The number to each Swamiji in USA  is 408 829 7780. E mail:- avtemple@aol.com

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