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February 12, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha with Kathirgamanathan and his wife, Sarathadevi from Newfoundland, Canada The Ekadanta Kulam of one, Saravananathaswami gave his new today. Here a terse list of his activities. emailing tithe reconciliations and dealing with the responses update Master Course Level One course order web page...
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February 11, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha read from the introduction of Merging with Siva on Nine Ways to Merge with Siva and then gave a spontaneous talk on the subject. The audio and transcript coming to you very soon! Sun One begins a new phase with Yogi Jivanandanatha performing...
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February 8, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun Five of a wonderful phase. The Ganapati Kulam gave news today. The completion of the April issue of Hinduism Today print edition was top of the list. We are also engineering a coverage of Thai Pusam in Malaysia for a major...
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February 7, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? A cool and beautiful Sun Four and Chitra puja day at the Aadheenam. The Siddhidata Kulam gave their news today... more about that later.... The Chitra padapuja invoking Gurudeva in the morning... it is always a profound experience. The atmosphere gradually fills with an...
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February 6, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is continuing his work in shum, daily editing the definitions for the "Mamsane" which are 12 meditations that are performed each month throughout the year. Today the Pillaiyar Kulam gave their news. Talaivar Shanmuganathaswami has been very busy with preparations for the arrival...
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February 5, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Two today... Some of our guests today. Ram Arora and his son Amit Arora with Siva Yoginathaswami. Ram and Amit are very gracious hosts for visiting monks and shilpis who first arrive on Oahu. Ram owns an Indian restaurant in Honolulu. Amit regularly...
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February 4, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? We are back from a dynamic three-day Thai Pusam full moon retreat. Bodhinatha is here give a wonderful talk on the Shum concept of "Kaef," awareness being aware of itself and nothing else, this morning after homa. Hitesvara Saravan, Ganga Sivanathan and Jnani Shanmuga...
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January 31, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Vetri Vel Muruganukku! Happy Thai Pusam! Today is a auspicious day in the world of South Indian Saivism. Several million people have been preparing for this day through prayer, fasting, to take Kavadi or simple attend the powerful Thai Pusam puja.. the day before...