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November 14, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? These families are visiting from California and never expected to see such a beautiful place (and the weather was really beautiful today). They marveled at the various features of Iraivan Temple, intrigued by the Shum script carved on many pillars. Then they later excitedly...
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November 13, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Yogaswami sang: "My Guru, Peerless Chellappar, I saw at Nallur, beneath the sacred Chariot of Murugan. He gazed at me in grace, my wise Teacher-- Him do I praise engulfed in bliss." The Ganapati Kulam gave a report today. The trip to India brought...
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November 12, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here is Bodhinatha sitting with Jeyandrapuri Swami the new head of Kailash Ashram in India. Sadhaka Dandapani is working hard on the coming Innersearch... beside constantly being on the phone and email settling arrangements in New Zealand and Australia, at home there are all...
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November 11, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha on stage at the celebration to honor the silpis in Bangalore....Today we bring your more photos from the India mission, from our Bangalore worksite. The story of the evening celebrations of November 5th, in Bangalore continues....caption sent by Thuraisingam Rajasankara. Next we have...
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November 10, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Our beloved Satguru Bodhnatha Veylanswami returned home from India today with his team, Sannyasins Arumugaswami, Shanmuganathaswami and Yoginathaswami after 24 hours in transit from New Delhi. Monks are on hand at the front to greet him... All the monks were there to greet him......
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November 7, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is the last day of our phase today. This morning was Skanda Shashti Homa and Abhishekam... (no pictures today...) And we conducted the weekly tour as usual later in the morning. Bodhinatha is still in Chennai as we write today... our team is...
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November 6, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? News from Bodhinatha in Chennai... monsoon rains cancelled the trip to Chidambaram, so the team is having an extra quiet day in Chennai, which is probably a good thing.. In this photo Bodhinatha is at the Palani Hills temple in South India on the...
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November 5, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It has been a quiet day at the Aadheenam. We were visited by a Hindu couple from Chicago who met Gurudeva about 25 years ago when Gurudeva donated the first Ganesha statue to the group that eventually built the Sita Ram temple. That murthi...