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August 20, 2006Bodhinatha In Maryland and Missouri We continue today with the final episode of Bodhinatha's journey. Today's episode continues with coverage of the main purpose of the trip: attending the August festival at Maryland Murugan temple. Here is Bodhinatha during the festival parade. The morning activities ended with the main arati...
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August 19, 2006Bodhinatha's Trip To Eastern USA Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami arrived back at the monastery on August 16th, and we continue now with their "Across America" journey report. Here is Bodhinatha giving a talk in the evening at the Nashville, Tennessee, Ganesha Temple. It was his now very polished talk on the...
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August 18, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a bright sunny day at the Aadheenam. Lots of visitors are coming during these August summer days and the Iraivan Temple site is humming with activity When visitors walk up the path to Kadavul they can find underneath the Banyan tree on...
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August 17, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha is over, Bodhinatha is back from his travels and the Aadheenam was in full swing today with Sun one homa, a change of the flag, new ritau, tour day, and Iraivan worksite busy with preparations for the Nandi Mandapam concrete pour. Here...
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August 14, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami spent a busy day in Kansas City and will be winging their way home tomorrow arriving on Star Two. ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the last day of our phase. This edition of TAKA will remain posted over our coming...
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August 13, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha Day Eleven At home, today was Ashram Sadhana Day and the monks were out cleaning and repairing and renovating. Bodhinatha had darshan meetings with devotees in the Washington, DC, area today and will be flying off early tomorrow to Kansas City to...
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August 12, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha Day Ten Another quiet Sadhu Paksha day at Kauai Aadheenam. Bodhinatha sends a brief report on his day today. "Om Sivaya, everyone, Jai Ganapati. Today was the Nallur Katirgama Festival at the Maryland Murugan Temple. A good crowd, maybe 300-400. We went...
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August 11, 2006Bodhinatha's Travels After a long three-day retreat, our phase starts again. It is all quiet at the Aadheenam. So we will turn to a series that arrived today from Shanmuganathaswami who sends pictures of their time in Colorado. We continue our story on Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami's "Across America" journey. In...