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September 13, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is working daily on his course material for the next Innersearch which is departing next January. Today at lunch Sadhaka Dandapani shared details of what will be a fantastic voyage to Cambodia, Malaysia and India. Meanwhile at home it was tour day. Our...
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September 12, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha gives his Sun One discourse.... Prayers consumed by fire... He gave bhasya on the lesson of the day on "anava marga," a term Gurudeva coined to describe the thinking of people who have yet to get on the spiritual path. He explained how...
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September 9, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It's Sun Five today. There is not much to report. Peace abounds. Selvanathan Sthapati arrived from India today. The Ganapati Kulam spent more time with John Malcolm Smith consulting on digital media production work flows. There's a lot of work underway at the Aadheenam...
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September 8, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Four today... another quiet day at the Aadheenam. Professional video producer and media productions project manager. He also has a deep background in audio. John hails from Texas and is now living on the Big Island of Hawaii and has come to do...
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September 7, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Three, a quiet day at the Aadheenam. All the monks are about their duties. Visitor traffic has some abated as everyone is gone back to school and work for the fall semester. Meanwhile work on Gurudeva's archives continues. One of the...
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September 6, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It's Sun 2 and we are posting Bodhinatha's great upadesha the day after it was given. This is a "first" since Gurudeva's Maha Samadhi. (Keeping current with our Satguru's upadesha's) Thanks to Hitesvara for his prompt transcription of the audio. You will enjoy Bodhinatha's...
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September 5, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha gives another delightful Sun One upadesha to begin our new phase at the Aadheenam. He gave a commentary on the Merging with Siva Chapter 21 on "Total Surrender" or prapatti. He explained the difference between emotion and devotion, with emotion having its ups...
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September 2, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Kulapati Dohadeva, Kulamata Nagavathy and daughter Anusha have been here at the Aadheenam on pilgrimage for several days. Today they had darshan with Bodhinatha. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over...