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November 22, 2006Bodhinatha in India Bodhinatha and Arumugaswami are on the move in India, having gone to Pondicherry. With the indefatigable help of Prof (retired) Manickavel in Chidambaram and Sheela Venkatakrishnan in Chennai our "behind the scenes" Natchintanai songbook work is progressing well. Three goals of the project are to provide an...
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November 21, 2006Bodhinatha in India Bodhinatha and Arumugaswami are stationed in Chennai at the GRT Grand business hotel. They met with Dr. Srinivasan, former director of the Saraswati Mahal Library in Thanjavur mainly discussing details about the library, its collection, staff and projects. Then they met with a video team to discuss...
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November 18, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Yesterday Bodhinatha departed for India with Sannyasin Arumugaswami. He left the Aadheenam late afternoon, overnighted in Honolulu and then departed early this morning for Taiwan. The monks see them off. Speaking of traveling, interest is building in the 2008 Innersearch. About 8 people have...
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November 17, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It was an amazing day at Kauai's Hindu Monastery, with magical happenings from dawn to dusk. The morning began with Chitra Pada puja for Gurudeva. Chanting Sri Rudram This magnificent trident was a gift to Gurudeva from a jeweler in Salem, India. He and...
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November 16, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bharat and Saroj Dave have wanted to visit us for over ten years and finally had the opportunity. They live in Massachusetts and are from Gujarat originally. They are friends of Bhairava Sundaram Sivacharya, who is the son-in-law of the late Sambamurthy Sivacharya. Both...
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November 15, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here are Devagharan and Krishnakumari Nair with their daughter Devina. They live in Texas and are originally from Malaysia. They last visited in 1999 and are back again. They had darshan with Bodhinatha and got advice about raising their daughter in the US. Devina...
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November 14, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun One begins again with a bright homa and a joyful talk from Bodhinatha. Today we will let the photos do the talking. Bodhinatha read Gurudeva's explanation of the origin of the Shum language. You can find this intriguing account in the April, 2002...
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November 11, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha meets with pilgrims: Madan Chatterji and his wife Tanushree Chatterji, from Indiana, Rup Chatterji and Indira Chatterji, from Los Angeles. All were originally from Calcutta, India. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will...