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Sendan Children Advance in Life

Here is Bodhinatha signing the certificates for Shaila Sendan’s karnavedha samskara (ear-piercing) and Velan Sendan’s vidyarambha samskara (first learning).

The parents previously mark the spot where they want the ear pierced.

Paramacharya Ceyonswami and Siddhanathaswami pierced both ears at the same time. Shaila did not seem to feel anything other than to be delighted.

Her younger brother Velan then wrote his first letter A in a plate of rice. And then they both made offerings of grains into the homa along with Bodhinatha.

Welcome to New Saivite Hindu

Roger Brown has completed his formal conversion to Saivite Hinduism and was formally inducted into the Hindu faith on today at a Namakara Samskara held the Murugan temple in Highgate, London. Here he is with three priests and Gurudeva presiding.

The priests had previously written his name in the rice in Tamil and he traced over the letters and then walked around the fire three times and the priest then offered his tray over the homa fire. Sankar has complete his legal name change as well.

Welcome to Sankar Skandanatha! He has completed Level Two of the master course having started his study in 2007 and now will move on to Level Three.

North Shore Satsang

Our NorthShore satsang in mauritius. All members of the extended kutumbha of Kulapati and Kulamata Manon and Selvon Mardemootoo

Golden Gate Mission PadaPuja

Easan Sankara performs the Guru Purnima Pada Puja for the Golden Gate Mission.

Sri Venkateswara Temple Summer Camp

Kulapati Eesan Katir sends photos from Pennsylvania where he has regularly been giving classes each summer at the Venkateswara annual summer camp for youth.

Hatha yoga

Color meditation.

Studying the history lessons prepared by the Ganapati Kulam

Join Bodhinatha in Maryland

The Nallur Festival will be held at the Muruga temple in Maryland from August 13th and 14th. If you are in the area joing the festive occasion!

The Monks, Polihale Beach, and a Visit from Venus

This last three-day retreat was Purnima –the full moon. The monks took some time to put behind all the intense activity of the last weeks, unplug from the internet, leave behind civilization and take a camping trip. They went to famous Polihale — the most spectacular beach on the world’s most beautiful island, Kauai.

In the mostly deserted beach, the monks assembled a tent to protect them from the unforgiving Hawaiian sun. The sea was mellow and pleasant.

Here is the final result. Everything very neat and monastic.

Polihale is hardly accessible to the common tourist. It stays pristine, never crowded, and somehow gives us a taste of how Kauai was originally like.

We were rewarded with an unforgettable sunset. The sun only sets over the ocean on the other side of the island. From the monastery’s east side, we normally see the sunrise.

The night sky was so, so crisp and beautiful that we saw something we had never even heard of: Venus reflected over the placid waters of the ocean. A few minutes later we saw our first Venus-set, which just like the Sun-set makes the planet turn orange as it disappears.

http://twitpic.com/297po2 Shai…

http://twitpic.com/297po2 Shaila’s ear piecing ceremony this morning at homa. Dad holds her ear while swami readies the tool.

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