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July 15, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Five today. The Ganapati Kulam gave their report. The team is very focused on the final work of the October issue of Hinduism Today and also on video production. This afternoon we all decorated for Guru Purnima puja tomorrow morning. Iraivan...

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July 14, 2008Monthly Video Summary The monks have finished the first edition of our new monthly video and are happy to present it here. This month, Bodhinatha tells us of his travels to Arizona, Illinois, California and Ontario. Iraivan Temple gets a floor and a ceiling, a silpi departs the monastery after...

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July 13, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Three: The Pilliyar Kulam gave their news today. The major work of the Kulam has been the upgrade of the 4D Data base, which has been consuming all of Shanmuganathaswami's and Yogi Jivananandanatha's time. Shanmuganathaswam is also getting ready for a number of...

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July 12, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Two and Ekadanta Kulam of two gave it's news. Sannyasin Saravananathaswami has been handling all the incoming Annual Rededications from sishya around the world. He sends a special thanks to everyone who sent in an updated digital photo for our database....

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July 11, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? We begin a new six-day phase today. Saravanathaswami performs the homa. In his talk this morning, Bodhinatha explained how he would respond when someone says they have lapsed in their sadhana. He said he always encouraged them to associate with those who are doing...

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July 8, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Five, last day of the phase. The Ganapati Kulam gave their report today. Lots of work on video, the next school book history, lesson, articles for the coming October issue of Hinduism Today and many web projects. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is...

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July 7, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Four... The Siddhidata Kulam gave their news today. Yoginathaswami is ever busy at the temple site. For the past month the team had set aside most of their projects to focus on Iraivan Temple and the four stone lifts. Now they are free...

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July 6, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Three today... The Pillaiyar Kulam shared news on its work. Shanmuganathswami reports on his preparations for a planned giving seminar in California later this year. He's also been deep into programming our 4D Database which has a completely new engine which has switch...