By Sri Skanda's Warrior of Light

September 19, 2002

Last night, I was greeted by Sri Ganesha and Sri Murugan. I found myself in a temple with the puja about to start. I recall hearing the temple bell ringing signalling the devas, Gods, and the people within the temple that temple worship is about to start. Since I had just arrived, a little boy (Murugan?) came to me, grabbed my right hand and said,"Hurry, hurry! You are going to miss the worship!" He was pulling me into the direction from where the puja was supposedly in progress.

Then the boy quickly ran away and came back to me. He presented to me a whitish-yellow coloured veshti (lined with a red border) for me and helped me to put it on. Then He pointed me in the direction that the puja was taking place.

When I went to that location, the first thing that I saw was a nice statue of Lord Skanda seated on His Myol. It was very much like the one that Gurudeva has in His Hawaii Kadavul Temple (see figure on left). Sri Skanda's pose and attire was identical to the picture on Hilda Charlton's book except the form was a black vigraham (statue). He was wearing a yellow veshti with a red shalwey around His arms. He looked very lovely.

My attention was then drawn to my right where a priest was pouring honey and milk into a kumbum (tumbler). He mixed the two by shaking it and then walked to my left (past the Murugan statue) and gave the milk-honey preparation to the head priest. The head priest took the tumbler and poured it over a statue. It was Lord Ganesha! He was receiving an abishekam with honey and milk. He looked exactly like the little white Ganesha statue I have in my prayer room, except for that this statue was black. The priest then took a katpooram (camphor) pancha-aarathi (lamp that holds five camphor) that was lit by the assistant priest and held it to Sri Ganesha. I closed my eyes and prayed. When I opened my eyes, I awoke.

Bhagavan Skanda showed that He is present no matter what form I pray too. He also showed me that by paying obescience to Sri Ganesha, Murugan too is pleased. After all, why did that little boy (Murugan) take the time and trouble to get me dressed to see this wonderful abishekam for Sri Ganesha as well as have Sri Skanda's darshan?

October 11, 2002

Today I went to visit Gurudeva's website (www.gurudeva.org) when I was greeted with wonderful pictures of God Ganesha and God Skanda (see below). It was then when I realized that this was the vision I had on September 19, 2002. The subtle goldish tone of the light and atmosphere, the size of the statues, the independent statues in their respective altars, etc. This was identical to all the things that I saw in my dream on Sept. 19. Hence, I must have travelled in my astral body during my sleep to Kauai Kadavul Hindu Temple and participated in a puja that was in progress halfway across the world! Hence, I was reassured of the truth that things do not just happen by chance, they are all part of God's play and will.

Aum Saravanabava!