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Bodhinatha Is Back At Home

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami is back at the Aadheenam, which is great news for us all.

We welcome the guru with a small padapuja, a traditional way of honoring the blessing of having him with us.

Sannyasin Arumugaswami has wonderful stories to tell about our efforts to translate the Saiva Agamas into English. Many luminaries of Saivism rushed to thank Bodhinatha, and offer their support, during this trip.

An arati is performed at the temple, alerting the Gods and the Devas that the travelers have returned.

Bodhinatha receives the shakti from the flame.

And also Arumugaswami.

More Stories From Bodhinatha's Trip to India

In Bangalore we visiting the RK Mission, which is over 100 years old. The resident Swami Harshananda produced the three-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism, reviewed in the January issue of Hinduism Today. He said they printed just 2,000 copies last year and have already had several reprints with a total sales over 10,000 copies.

Bodhinatha was invited to give the Sunday evening, English-language lecture. He covered a wide range of topics on Hinduism.

About 400 people attended. It was an educated audience, and very receptive.

This young man, Anand, contacted Bodhinatha about studying the Shum language. Bodhinatha invited Anand to meet him at the RK Mission.

The Mission’s large bookstore.

We proceeded in the evening to the city ashram of Sri Balagangadharanathaswami to meet. Swamiji had just come back to the city and had a very busy schedule the next day, so this late evening meeting was most convenient for all.

Swamiji and Bodhinatha talked mostly about the progress of Iraivan Temple, a project Swamiji has been central to from the very beginning.

Meeting with Choodie Shivaram, Hinduism Today’s Bangalore correspondent, and her daughter at the Golden Palms hotel.

Bodhinatha and Jiva Rajashankara, the Iraivan carving site manager, conduct a business meeting on the project.

Jiva shows the plans for the outer prakaram wall which sits on the edge of the foundation. It is quite a lot of material, but the carving and assembly will be relatively simple compared to what has been done so far.

Another view of the plans and the cross section.

Tomorrow on TAKA, more photos of the trip. We will be seeing you.

Aum Namah Sivaya

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