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April 17, 2010
MiniMela: a store like no other
It's an information center. It's a welcome center. It's a place to chat, to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee. It's our Himalayan Academy bookstore--a Hindu bookstore, metaphysical bookstore, a gift shop. It's a place where you may perchance meet the satguru, or the editor of Hinduism Today and, always, our congenial volunteer staff—seasoned spiritual adepts who love to make your day.
It is our brand-new MiniMela building which opened last September, after 7 years of intense planning, visualizing, research, intricate construction and lots of perseverance. The result is a most welcoming, comfortable and functional place. It is brightly lit, air conditioned and super-green, solar energy supplying all its needs and that of other monastery buildings.
The MiniMela's array of attractive items includes our premier item, Gurudeva's Trilogy, a complete collection of Himalayan Academy books, booklets and posters, prints by artist S. Rajam, puja items, deity statues, crystals, gift/souvenir items and yes, even flowers you can pick for our 9 am puja. We have a wide selection of rudrakshas, from single beads on a string to intricate malas with silver, gold and semi-precious stones. Some of the beads are gathered from the monastery's own rudraksha forest, which you may visit any time of the day, morning or afternoon (but the MiniMela` is open each day from 9 am to noon only.)
The MiniMela is duplicated digitally (except for the coffee) at MiniMela.com—nearly all the items in the one being in the other. Revenues from sales go strictly back into reprinting Himalayan Academy's books or publishing new ones. We publish 1, 2 or 3 new books per year, and our latest release is described in the article below.
Bodhinatha's 31-day tour
Hinduism Today's publisher, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and his managing editor, Acharya Arumugaswami just returned from a highly productive tour of Singapore, Mauritius and India.
They pilgrimaged to the Kumbha Mela, visited temples and ashrams, conferred with swamis and various leaders See photos and videos on Himalayan Academy's blog and on YouTube.
Coming travels & satsang
• May 28, Singapore
• May 29 - June 6, Malaysia . On May 29, at the Scott Road Murugan Temple in Kuala Lumpur Bodhinatha will conduct a seminar on Seeing God, and tapping into our intuition. At the same he will attend the launching of our new release, Gurudeva's Spiritual Visions. See below.
• August 14-15, Maryland, USA. Bodhinatha will participate in the Nallur and Kathirgama Festival at the Murugan Temple of North America in Lanham.
• August 18-22, Trinidad. On August 18, 19 and 20, Bodhinatha will offer the seminars: Hinduism, Karma and Siva at the Edinburgh Hindu Temple, Chaguanas. • On August 22, he will attend a program and speak at the Shiv Mandir, Tunapuna.
• August 23-24, Guyana.
• August 25-26, Saint Lucia.
• August 26-27, Chicago, USA.
• August 28, Nashville, USA. Bodhinatha will give a one hour presentation at the Ganesha Temple of Nashville.
• September 12, Denver, CO, USA. Bodhinatha will attend a function and speak at the Sri Venkateshwara Temple of Colorado.
• November 12-27, India, Singapore, Malaysia. On November 20-21, Bodhinatha and Paramacharya Palaniswami will be guests of honor at Golok Dham, in Delhi, the ashram of Swami Gopal Charan Devacharya who received the award: Hindu of the Year 2009 . At a later time, they will visit the Iraivan temple worksite near Bangalore.
• Stay up to date with Bodhinatha's travel plans,
here.
• More about Bodhinatha
here.
• Formal invitations for him to visit your area are
received here.
Gurudeva's Spiritual Visions.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's (Gurudeva's) lifetime of remarkable accomplishments derived from constant communion with his own superconscious faculties and with our great devas and Gods. His whole life, day and night, he lived in those rarified realms, receiving insights, celestial instructions and visions.
In Gurudeva's Spiritual Visions, successor Bodhinatha shares 15 great inner moments of his master's life. It is a jewel of a book, exquisitely written, designed and illustrated with vintage early photos of Gurudeva, S. Rajam's delicate watercolors and esoteric motifs by Gurudeva himself.
95 pages • order from our MiniMela.
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