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December 9, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha, Day Eight We continue with our quiet retreat. We bring you some photos from our retreat day and last night's sunset over Mt. Waialeale, the extinct volcano just a few miles from the monastery. This retreat an amazing new collection of 40...
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December 6, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha, Day Five... Yogaswami often wrote letters to devotees... here he tells Yogendra in a letter, some wonderful thing... "Sivamayam Letter to Self who is Yogendra full of Love. I am with you and you are with me. You are myself and I...
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December 5, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha Retreat, Day Four The Siddhidata Kulam today share their weekly news report. A lot of work has been going on at the temple and on the ground and vegetable gardens. As is traditional our Sadhu Paksha TAKA's are very "light weight." ......
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December 4, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha Day Three.... We bring you our bovine friends... This is Hana... She a Holstein and gives a lot of milk each day.... that is her calf in the back... little Anuradha. And behind her in the shade is our other calf, Nandini....
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December 3, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha Day Two... A quiet, beautiful clear fall day at the Aadheenam...The monks rise and instead of going to the temple for arati, go out for a walk here and there, like wondering Sadhus, find a place to meditate... thus the term Sadhu...
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December 2, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sadhu Paksha, Day One... quiet at the Aadheenam. We bring you some photos take during the retreat... Noni is a tropical fruit with some marvelous medicinal properties. The monastery is growing a few trees. The odd-looking fruits are placed into jars in...
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November 29, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here Bodhinatha meets with Sri Balagangadharanathaswami of Adi Chunchanagiri Mutt. The swami was recently featured on the cover of Hinduism Today for his outstanding religious and social work in Kerala. More picture of the Bangalore portion of Bodhinatha's trip at the end of today's...
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November 28, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here is Bodhinatha in New Delhi. Sri Swami Pragyanand came to visit Bodhinatha at the Oberoi Hotel where we were staying. This is the view of the Akshardam Temple as we drive up to it in Delhi. Another distance view. The temple built on...