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February 26, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Venkat and Jeyashree from the Bay Area in San Francisco were among our Maha Sivaratri pilgrims. They were here last year and returned this year specifically to share in last night's event. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASEbr /> Today is the last day of our...
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February 25, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Happy Maha Sivaratri! The atmosphere at the monastery is still, windless and quiet... Lots of decoration in progress. Kulapati Deva Seyon cleans and oils the two statues of Tiruvalluvar ... and Tirumular.
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February 24, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam, the Pillaiyar Kulam shared news today. They are distributing all old editions of Dancing with Siva and Merging with Siva to libraries in Australia. Shanmuganathaswami continues to work hard on developing new efficient mailing programs and...
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February 23, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? From the "eye" of Sadhunathan... we bring you a series as seen by a pilgrim... "Bodhinatha contemplates his talk after the homa yesterday." Dasan Mahadevan (of San Diego) and Satya Subramaniyam (of Brazil) reconnect, they met on Innersearch India. Satya is an aspirant monk...
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February 22, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sivaratri week... the vibration at the Aadheenam is very, very high... Subha Subha Sivaloka Days. And we are overjoyed to have a new monastic aspirant join us today from Brazil! Here is Bodhinatha, answer questions from a spiritual group that visited us...
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February 19, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today is the last day of the phase. Tour days have been "suspended" for a while, until we working out more parking. Nevertheless there were a lot of visitors today. Today's video from the Iraivan temple, a close up of the silpis at work....
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February 18, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? We want to welcome into our international family and to the Bhuloka a new born baby boy... Sivanathan and Puvana Batumalai are proud parents of a child born on Thai Pusam day. His name has yet to be chosen so we call him "Thai...
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February 17, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Ashram Sadhana Day for the month of February, so we will keep our TAKA short... Everyone is cleaning, fixing, upgrading.... Today was also Chitra puja in the morning..... In the Ganapati Kulam we we reorganizing some art work and uncover a few...