Bodhinatha Visits San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, is home to some of the first Hindu families to have arrived in the US. Dr. Pemmaraju Narasimha Rao and his wife Rani migrated in 1958, when there was not another Hindu to be found for hundreds of miles in every direction. He was a prominent physician and professor in biomedical research, and she was a yoga instructor. They raised two sons and a daughter and generously cared for every other Hindu family that came to the area, a pattern that picked up pace in the 1970s. Meeting Swami Satchidananda and Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami numerous times in the 1970s and 80s, they received much encouragement to build a Hindu temple here. The Hindu Temple of San Antonio was founded by the Raos and several other families in the late 1980s. Gurudeva visited on several occasions, and Rani loves to tell stories about meeting him in the airport and mystical happenings that always seemed to take place around him. Bodhinatha has come to speak at the San Antonio temple several times in the last few years at the invitation of the group here.
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The home temple in these pictures looks like a very wonderful place! I would love to have Bodhinatha come and do puga in my hOMe !!
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April 13th, 2013 at 10:28 am
Happy to see my good friends Dr & Mrs. Rao . Thanks to Bodinatha for visiting HTSA. San Antonio was my first homestead in USA (83-86) and had the blessing of donating Lord Murga Idol , similar to PalaniAndavar idol in our Kauai Temple, crafted by Ganapathi Stapahty.
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