December 2011 2-minute News Brief Video
Our December 2011 news video covers events in November, including progress on the giant Hanuman statue to be placed near the San Marga Iraivan Temple, events with Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami in Malaysia and Mauritius, development of ebook editions of the monastery’s publications and the visit of one of the senior priests from Chidambaram Temple in Tamil Nadu, India.
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Publisher's Desk: Improving Our Character
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Jan/Feb/Mar 2012 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. If we start at the beginning and work systematically, we can replace undesirable qualities with their opposites. Watch the video below.
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November 2011 Two-minute News Video
Our November 2011 news video covers events in October, including: two swamis’ attendance at the Uberoi Foundation’s 2011 Experts Meeting at Loyola Marymount University where they released our book “The History of Hindu India;” the gathering of nearly 100 people from around the world on Kauai for four days of celebrations of Gurudeva’s life and remembrances of his mahasamadhi a decade ago; testimony from Aran Veylan about Gurudeva instructing him to start the Mahaganapati Temple in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; photos of the Nandi and yalli handrails for Iraivan Temple; an update on our “Save the Agamas” project in India; and a major upgrade to the monastery electrical system by the monks, volunteer Easvan Param and the island electric company.
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10th Mahasamadhi Anniversary Puja
Feel Gurudeva’s shakti, absorb the blessings, touch his feet as if you were there.
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Kadavul Temple's New Raja Mela Thalam
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Monastery News Video: October 2011
Our October 2011 news video covers events in August and September, including: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami’s travels to Trinidad and Guyana; the release of our latest book, The Guru Chronicles; two swamis’ presentations at the Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference in Columbus, Ohio; an interview in Toronto with Dr. James George, who knew Yogaswami when he was stationed as the Canadian High Commissioner to Ceylon in the early 1960s; the visit of Shivarathri Desikendra Mahaswamiji of JSS Suttur Math in Mysore, India; and brainstorming sessions with leading web design firm Happy Cog for the monastery’s completely overhauled website to be launched at the beginning of 2012.
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Issues in the Teaching of Hinduism in American K-12 Schools
The history of India and Hinduism is taught in 6th and 7th grade social studies classes to nearly 4 million American children each year, along with the history of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and sometimes Jainism. The course material on Hinduism is negative in tone and scholastically deficient. This presentation will explain how the course material is created and adopted, and how Hindus can improve the process.
Presented by Acharya Arumuganathaswami, managing editor of Hinduism Today, at the Uberoi Conference, held October 1, 2011, at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles, October 1, 2011. The History of Hindu India described in the presentation was given an award at the conference. You may purchase it by clicking here.
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How to Live a Fulfilling Life
Here is a short, trendy video by the Hindu Students Association, from their QuickFire series. They asked Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami to talk about how to live a fulfilling life, from the Hindu perspective. We shot it at the monastery, and they edited and released it on their YouTube channel. Enjoy!
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Monastery Year in Review Video
We are happy to release our year in review video today, summarizing activities of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery from September 2010 to August 2011. See progress on Iraivan Temple; follow Bodhinatha on his travels across the globe; enjoy some powerful words about the Self from Gurudeva; learn about publications, art, sculpture and grounds projects; and take a peek at what is happening at our center on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
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Hiking the Alakai Swamp Trail
Yesterday three monks hiked the Alakai Swamp Trail in Kokee State Park on the northwest side of Kauai. There is a swamp at the very top of Kauai, just behind Mt. Waialeale, at around 4,200 feet. The trail is made up mostly of an old boardwalk that renders it traversable. Enjoy our simple swamp depth test at one point in the video. We hiked from the trailhead in Waimea Canyon on the west side all the way to the north end, called the Kilohana Vista, where, on a clear day one can see all the way down to Haena, Hanalei Bay and Princeville. It was cloudy this time, and it was quite the experience walking through the clouds near the summit. The vegetation up here is not like the rest of Kauai; it is high tropical mountain forest, with mosses and lichens, Ohia Lehua groves, ferns of all kinds, some evergreens and only a handful of other vegetation–and not a single mosquito! Jai to Siva’s perfect universe.
We highly recommend switching from 360p to the 720p HD version of the video using the button in the controller bar underneath the video. Enjoy full screen!
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From Our Gurus' Teachings
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