Family from Texas visits for first time
April 13, 2009Srikanth and Haritha Deme, with their three young children, visited Kauai from Texas for the first time while on vacation, stopping over for a day after being on Maui. They are friends of the Master Course student family of Mrunal, Padmaja and Pooja Patel. Padmaja teaches the children in the...
Elephants on Kauai?
April 13, 2009Three elephants, in black granite, will be walking up the steps of Iraivan Temple. This is the drawing of the mother and her calf, made by Selvanathan Sthapati about three years back. Yesterday, jiva Rajasankara sent photos of his recent visit to the carving site, which is near Mahabalipuram...
Bodhinatha Arrives in Mauritius
April 12, 2009A big smile to Mauritius from Beloved Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Shanmuganathaswami just stepping into the gangway from the plane. Bodhinatha is welcomed at the SSR Airport VIP Lounge by our kulapaties.. A souvenir photo at one of our granite plates donated by Kauai Aadheenam to...
Bodhinatha in Mauritius
April 11, 2009After a three-day retreat the monks are back in service. Meanwhile Bodhinatha has been having a wonderful time in Mauritius and in a day or so the photo documentary on his mission there will begin. For now, we have an arrival photo and his own brief reports from the last...
Tandu Sivanathan Decorating with Rudraksha
April 11, 2009Tandu Sivanathan holds a rudraksha tree branch and contemplates how to incorporate it into the flower arrangement he's making for the Gurudeva puja. Is he the first florist to decorate with rudraksha?
Good Thoughts - Word Clouds
April 11, 2009Word Clouds. Everyone has a least a few floating around inside their heads. If you had total control of what the words might be, what would they be? Try sticking your head up into these word clouds for a breath of fresh thoughts.
End of Phase
April 7, 2009As we write it is night in Mauritius and Bodhinatha must be sleeping after a long journey. At home, Sadhu Paksha Continues. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over our coming three-day retreat, until Tritiya Tithi, Sun...
Monastery Launches Presence on Facebook
April 7, 2009Everyone knows Facebook, right? The monastery has been receiving suggestions from devotees to create a Facebook Page for months. Being that the monks don't have social lives outside the monastery, it never really occurred to us what the benefit would be. When Josh Mellicker of DVCreators.net in Los Angeles was...