Darshan with Bodhinatha
May 12, 2009The Rajamahendran and Nallainayagam families visited Kauai for the first time from Calgary and Vancouver in Canada. They stopped over for one day and then back to Maui where one of their sons is getting married. They both met Yogaswami when very young, and asked Bodhinatha for more details about...
Visit To Buddhist Center on Kauai
May 12, 2009Every full-moon retreat, Bodhinatha encourages the monks with a taste for wandering to go on an outing. Kauai is such a beautiful island and Gurudeva taught us to enjoy life and nature. This retreat our troupe went to Anini beach, a paradisiac haven with a mirror-like ocean area protected by...
Siva Yogaswami Guru Puja in Coral Springs, Florida.
May 12, 2009On Sunday, May 3rd a Guru Puja for Siva Yogaswami was held at the Community centre in Coral Springs, Florida. After the Puja devotees sang Natchinthanai songs and Rishi Thondunathan gave a talk on Siva Yogaswami's life and teachings.   Devotees dedicated this puja as a Peace prayer for Sri...
New Phase Begins
May 11, 2009After a dynamic 3-day retreat we began our phase with a homa and discourse by Bodhinatha who gave a wonderful bhashya on Gurudeva's concepts of energy, consciousness, awareness and will power. Saravananathaswami is our homa pujari today. Our magical little Kadavul temple.
Pathway to the River in Mauritius
May 11, 2009The top of the foot steps to the river at our center in Mauritius. Kulapati Manon Mardemootoo reports " "Some more progress. Walls completed. Footpath linking Sivalingam to steps also done."
Iraivan Temple Views (Video)
May 11, 2009Enjoy an updated video view of the San Marga Iraivan Temple being constructed at Kauai's Hindu Monastery. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3SynhO3sUw If you have a high-bandwidth Internet connection, see the video at YouTube's site and click the HD button in the lower-right corner for a spectacular, high-quality experience. If you have a low...
Sun Five End of Phase
May 7, 2009Today is the last day of our phase. The Ganapati Kulam gave news today. This phase they completed the production of the July 2009 issue of Hinduism Today which is off to the press with the Iraivan temple as our lead, feature story for the issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE...
100th Chittra Puja for Gurudeva
May 7, 2009Today marks the 2,733rd day since Gurudeva's Great Departure into his world of light, and we all gathered in Kadavul Temple for Chittra Puja. Here he is at Tiruchendur Temple in 1981, holding Murugan's insignia. It was a milestone, the 100th Chittra Puja held to honor his life and...