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April 1, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Mr and Mrs Shivaji visiting from Iowa. They are members of the Transcendental Meditation movement and teach at the Vedic University in Iowa. They are from Chennai originally and were struck by the beauty of the Lord Nataraja deity in Kadavul Temple. Enjoy...
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March 31, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha arrived home from Arkansas this afternoon with Senthilnathaswami. Mission to Arkansas Here we present some news of his activities in Arkansas Bodhinatha was invited by the president of the Hindu Students Council at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Mr. Jiger Patel. The...
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March 27, 2008Darshan with Singh Family Vir Amarjit Singh and his wife Harkiran have lived in Honolulu for 15 years but only visited us for the first time a few days ago. He is a professor at the University of Hawaii. They both asked some wonderful philosophical questions of Bodhinatha, making very...
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March 24, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a quiet Sun two at the Aadheenam. Iraivan's Koshta Sivas Today we received the good news from South India that four major murthies have been completed by Selvanathan Sthapathi's team. This is Aghora Siva. These four will go on the Iraivan tower....
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March 23, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? On the left is Radhakrishnamurthy and Sulochana Bhandaru from the east coast of US. They last visited about eleven years ago and fondly recalled meeting Gurudeva at that time and walking on the San Marga path. Here are Shivaram and Kiran Kalugotta with their...
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March 19, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is back again for a short respite from a lot of travel this spring... The end of the daily Siva puja is always a precious moment when Paramacharya Ceyonswami offers the ball of rice to the sun and the birds and invokes the...
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March 18, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami are in transit and will return to the Aadheenam tomorrow. Janakan Krishnarajah from Perth, Australia completes his 3-day pilgrimage to Kauai. He is the cousin of Sadhaka Dandapani. It's his first visit and shared that it was the highlight of his...
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March 17, 2008What Happened Today at the Monastery? At home today it was Ashram Sadhana and all the monks were working on cleaning all morning. In Malaysia Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathswami met with devotees, the Iraivan fund raising team and Dato Vaitilingam of Malaysia Hindu Sangam, our printer there, Sampoorna Printer. Shanmuganathswami is...