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September 24, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Selvanathan Sthapati completed his stay here and had a final darshan meeting with Bodhinatha who presented him with a peacock as a gift. END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over our coming...
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September 23, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? A quiet day at home... the focus is on Iraivan and the work of Selvanathan Sthapati who departs tomorrow. Selvanatha Sthapati fine tuning various parts of Iraivan. He's very precise.... The island of Kauai has many differing environments. Each year our monks take a...
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September 22, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? The Visvanathan and Kumarasamy families visiting from India and New Jersey. They have known about us and read Hinduism Today articles for a while before visiting here for the first time today. During the darshan with Bodhinatha, Mrs. Kumarasamy specifically recalled Bodhinatha's Publishers Desk...
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September 21, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? We begin a new phase. Bodhinatha gives his morning upadesha as usual. He spoke on Gurudeva's Shum-Tyaef language and how Nirvakalpa Samadhi is explained in it. Meanwhile out at the temple site two potagai's were put up today on top of the Yalli pillars...
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September 17, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? In case you missed it. Bodhinatha's latest talk is online. See the right side bar. We had our monthly Iraivan Day (when the whole monastery works as a team on the temple's many needs). Seven of the monks will be going on the annual...
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September 16, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? We have had a number of request for Bodhinatha's picture. None are printed in poster size but we have put up on the web four images as hi-resolution tiff files which you can use, ask your printer to download, to print out and place...
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September 15, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? We are having a steady stream of Hindu pilgrims these days and it is rare for Bodhinatha to go for a day without meeting someone. And, for Satguruspeaks fans, this weeks upadesha is now up... see the new side bar link. As promised we...
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September 14, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today is the fourth day of the waxing moon in the month of Simha, Lord Ganesha Birthday here in Hawaii. But so much more happened today.... Here Bodhinatha is observing the raising up of another jalakam at Iraivan. Sadhaka Tejadevanatha shares with him some...