Visiting the Taos Area
Siddhanathaswami writes us from the road:
Yesterday we drove up to Taos, New Mexico. Stunning views along the way of canyons and rivers and mesas. We visited the Neem Karoli Baba ashram there. We have an HHE endowment that helps with the upkeep of the large hanuman there. After a short meditation in the powerful hanuman shrine, we presented the first HHE grant. Currently nine people live there full time with more in the summer months for seva. The property is ten acres with lots of garden and farm space. In the summer months, they grow a huge amount of vegetables to feed all the devotees once or twice a week.
Hindus and devotees come from all over to worship Hanuman. They get around 200 people coming on weekends and over 800 on their two festival days. The whole ashram was guru centric which was wonderful to see.
On our way back we stopped at Bandelier National Monument at had a beautiful, long walk along an ancient Native American village. They have found evidence of people living there going back 11,000 years. Many homes were built into the sandstone walls. Some were remade so that people could climb in.
I'll send some more photos later, but there is no wifi at the hotel since in the most recent storm, lightning struck twice on the hotel grounds and fried two routers! Glad we missed that!
Next we are heading to Syracuse, New York.
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May 27th, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Lightining struck twice??? Oh my God…..
May 28th, 2015 at 1:15 am
Jay Hanuman…
May 28th, 2015 at 6:48 am
Thank you for the narrative and for sharing the photos.
Ambe Sivamayam Satyame Parasivam
Savitri Amma
May 29th, 2015 at 6:33 am
Jai Jai Shree Maha Ganesh!
Jai Ram!
Jai Hanuman!
Rama Rama Rama Rama Rama Rama Ram!
Thank you!