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January 17, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam but the steady stream of pilgrims continues, a few every day. Bodhinatha is actively working on the Shum language, putting in many hours a day. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our...
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January 16, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Karthik and Archana brought their 8-month-old Advait from Vancouver for blessings. The couple visited here first in 2005, then met Bodhinatha briefly in Vancouver when their son was only a few weeks old, and now have come to Kauai again. Karthik said there is...
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January 15, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a another quiet day at the Aadheenam. The monks are busy about their duties... Here is Bodhinatha at a temple on one of his travels. Speaking of travels. Today Yogi Japendranatha brings us another installment from the trip to India. This time...
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January 14, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Inniya Pongal Nal Valtugal! Happy Pongal Greetings to everyone! Today early in the morning the silpis performed the traditional Pongal rites. Today's TAKA comes to you in two slides shows. One from this morning's Pongal celebration and the second is another installment of our...
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January 13, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a quiet day a the Aadheenam. With our three monastic home from their pilgrimage in India and all the resident guest, task forcers and new premonastics the population is now up to 25! Saravananathaswami shared news from his one-man Ekadanta Kulam today....
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January 12, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha sits quietly as the Sun One Homa began early this morning. Today Bodhinatha continues with his talks on Shum. Today he gave a deep mystical explanation of the 5th Dimension of consciousness. He also described how we can identify that we are in...
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January 9, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? It was the last full day of pilgrimage for Sivagnanam and his son Sugumar from Edmonton. Sivagnanam presented Bodhinatha a mala made of coral stones interspersed with gold beads. It is meant to be added the temples sacred jewels collection, to be used as...
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January 8, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? A little news from Bodhinatha's world. For decades before Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi, Bodhinatha was the chief administrator for Saiva Siddhanta Church. After Gurudeva's Maha Samadhi he began training the Pillaiyar Kulam, especially Yogi Jivanandanatha, to take over many of those administrative responsibilities. We are happy...