Guru Parampara Painting Arrives From India
March 16, 2009The Selvarajah family visited our publications offices and were on hand to help Paramacharya Palaniswami open up a package that had just arrived from India with a giant new Guru Parampara painting Shankeetha and Amma Mangai hold up the painting. Nandinatha from the Himalayas, who initiated Tirumular... The line continued...
Gurudeva in Sri Lanka
March 16, 2009On the right is Subramania Kurukkal with Gurudeva in Sri Lanka. He writes: "Here with I am sending the photos which were taken back home in our temple Navaly Chintamani Vinayagar Koyil in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1982, when Gurudeva visited and had his birthday celebrated at his Alaveddy Ashram....
Ganesha Homa March 2009, Spiritual Park
March 16, 2009The March Ganesha Homa at the Spiritual Park of Mauritius was another wonderful spiritual event for devotees coming from all over the island of Mauritius. The early morning devotees are already seated inside the Mandapam while preparations are being finalised for the ceremony. Kulapaties start the Homa ceremony at 9.30...
Spontaneous Iraivan tour with Paramacharya Palaniswami
March 16, 2009Paramacharya Palaniswami spontaneously gave a very special tour of Iraivan to local guests and other visitors during the cement roof pour. A sweet deva and new resident of Kauai, four year old daughter of Anastasia and Bruce Allyn, dances about Iraivan Temple. Sadhaka Haranandinatha explains details of Iraivan to local...
A View From Iraivan Temple's Roof
March 16, 2009March 12th was the historical final sixty yard cement roof pour for Iraivan Temple. Special guest included neighbor Nicole Lawerance and Kulamata Savitri Palani from Concord, CA hosted by Kulamata Isani Alahan. Between the third and fourth of six eleven yard cement trucks, the roof was available for observation. From...
Ashram Sadhana Day
March 15, 2009It's the middle of the month and today the monks had their Ashram Sadhana day for March, cleaning, repairing and renovating all kinds of things on the physical plane.
Today Pilgrims
March 15, 2009The Selvarajah family (originally from Sri Lanka) are visiting for a few days from Edmonton, Canada. Chidambaram sthapati and two silpis, Rajendran and Pandi, take a moment pause in their work to pose for a photo with our visitors. They are busy working on the East gopuram rail which connects...
Hinduism Today's Introduction to Hinduism
March 14, 2009Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and the editorial staff of Hinduism Today in the Ganapati Kulam have just finished a momentous 45-minute video. In this presentation, Bodhinatha reads his Publisher's Desk article from the April/May/June 2009 edition of Hinduism Today magazine, an extended editorial, drawn from our book What Is Hinduism? and...