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July 16, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Yogaswami wrote: " We are the servitors of Lord Siva. We lack nothing. Our duty is to serve the Lord. It is the fundamental goal of our life in this world. "The moon fulfils the will of Siva. The sun and other planets also...
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July 15, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha meets with Vayudeva Varadan who lives in Maryland where he is very active at the Murugan Temple, and does a lot of Sivathondu there. He also helps serve at our event promotions, staffing the Himalayan Academy Publications literature tables. He has been a...
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July 14, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is working hard on his Keynote presentations for up-and-coming educational programs he will be giving while he travels this fall. Visiting today is Sundaresan Hariyogam, originally from Malaysia, who lives in New York. He and his five brothers are in the vegetarian frozen...
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July 13, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun One beings a bright new phase.... Here is bodhinatha at the homa. One of our top Star Temple builders, long time supporter of Iraivan, Suriyakumar (father of Seiyonne, who has been staying at the Aadheenam for a few days) has been on Kauai...
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July 9, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? And this morning, his successor Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami sat on the peetham to receive the same puja. Yogaswami said: ""Transcending all mutations of form and attribute. Surpassing all finite measure is the GURU, An embodiment of the highest wisdom." END OF PHASE Today is...
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July 8, 2006Bodhinatha With Children in Edmonton We bring you another installment of photos from the Edmonton trip today (see below after the Aadheenam series) Here is Bodhinatha with the students of Aran Veylan's religion class. Each of the kids received a pocketbook edition of Merging with Siva from Bodhinatha. They all...
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July 7, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today we had a special visitor from California, Lady Nellie, a Choctaw medicine woman, who is 94 years old. Though advised not to travel at her age, she insisted on the pilgrimage to fulfill a vision she had. A year ago she was given...
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July 6, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha is home after a marvelous journey. Sadhaka Haranandi is home too. Everyone gained a new appreciation for all the many, many details of our life and temple duties, kitchen, domestic engineering, fund-raising activities and more, that he handles -- because we had to...