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July 5, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Two and the Ekadanta Kulam gave news of their activities today. Saravananathaswami explained how he was working to implement the new digital Master Course. Students fill out their self-evaluation pages for the Master Course lessons in the computer in PDF's. In...
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July 4, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun One begins a new phase with Bodhinatha looking bright during his weekly upadesha after the homa. He spoke this morning on Gurudeva's teaching that one must become simple, direct and uncomplicated in order to experience Parasivam. It is the intellect that makes things...
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July 1, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is the last day of the phase and the Ganapati Kulam gave their report at lunch. While they are doing many, many projects the big innovation of the day in our media world is a major shift into video production. Here we are...
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June 30, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha has darshan with a family who are devotees of Yogi Ramaiah, from Arizona. Today's Pilgrims and Visitors A bright sunny day with majestic Mt. Waialeale outlined against a clear blue sky. Five families arrived for the wonderful morning puja and a tour of...
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June 29, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? The Pillaiyar Kulam reported on their work today. Shanmuganathaswami told us about major upgrades to our main in house database software called 4D which has completely revamped their database into an SQL based structure and they have also upgraded their server. So he's been...
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June 28, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Saravananathaswami and Sadhaka Dandapani gave their kulam report today. Swami is working on the logistics of Bodhinatha's up and coming trip to Singapore and Malaysia. There is planning to be done for the conferences be held by the Hindu Center in Singapore as well...
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June 27, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? A very auspicious day at Kauai Aadheenam to begin our new phase. This morning Chidambaram Sendan and Shaila Pushpa Sendan both received the Vidyarambha samskara, the official beginning of their education. They were all smiles as Bodhinatha handed them the plate of rice upon...
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June 24, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here is Bodhinatha in Baltimore at the installation of the Murugan Deity there. At home the Ganapati Kulam gave their report today. Many projects are in the works. Paramacharya Palaniswami has been working on creating a quarterly video for Hinduism Today. Acharya Kumarswami is...