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January 30, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is happy to announce the arrival of the soon-to-be-world-famous book What Is Hinduism?. Sixty copies have arrived of the ten thousand printed and the book is being stocked at our distribution service in Michigan and will soon be in our web store product...
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January 28, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha joined other board members of the Kauai Aloha Endowment during the retreat to make a $10,000.00 grant to Na ‘Āina Kai Botanical Garden-Kauai. More about that below. Meanwhile today was another beautiful day on Kauai (temp. high 70's). Here are Milin and Bijal...
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January 27, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? A new phase began today with homa this morning. Bodhinatha read from Gurudeva's 1968 writing, the Advaitan, in which Gurudeva delves deep into the nature of realization. It was this small book that led to Gurudeva's creation of the Shum language, when he found...
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January 24, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Mahendran, Krishnamurthy and Thenagaran visited us from Singapore for a couple days. They've wanted to visit for a long time, and one of them used to attend Kulapati Dohadeva's Saivism classes years ago. They had a a good darshan meeting with Bodhinatha. They asked...
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January 23, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is working on a some pamphlets on the basics of shum describing the basic alphabet, chakras, dimensions and the 12 monthly meditations called "Mamasane." All to be unfolded later this year. It is quiet at the Aadheenam. The Siddhidata Kulam reported on their...
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January 22, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today the Pillaiyar Kulam shared news of their many activities. Of special note was the activity at the Mini-Mela web store. Our pamphlet collections presenting Hindu life and philosophy are very "hot" these days, as are vibhuti and kumkum we import from India. Marketing...
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January 21, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam. With New Year's holiday well behind us, the visitor traffic has dropped, leaving the monks to their quiet life and work. The Ekadanta Kulam shared news today. That is a team of one: Saravanathaswami, with occasional...
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January 20, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha met with this wonderful pilgrim from Sydney on the retreat. It was the last day of her pilgrimage. Her parents were devotees of Siva Yogaswami and she knew him when she was a teenager. She shared several stories of Yogaswami. One was how...