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July 24, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha continued to meet with pilgrims today. Here are Kulapati and Kulamata Vel and Valli Alahan, from Colorado. Our two guest priests departed back to Canada today. They were very inspired to be here and already started making plans for their next trip to...
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July 23, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha shares a preview of a talk he plans to give in Toronto on his up-and-coming trip at our Sun One homa today... Today our home was very special as it was conducted by the elder Kurukkal, Nrityaraja, who performed all the kriyas (actions)...
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July 20, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Star 1 here at the Aadheenam, the first day of a three-day retreat... but activities are still in full swing and with 100's of picture in the queue we are posting the balance of the morning Guru Purnima ceremonies...sharing more quotes from...
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July 19, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Happy Guru Purnima! we have nearly 90 photos and though today is the last day of this short phase we will do a special edition of TAKA tomorrow to bring you all the photos of the profound ceremony and activities... Here is Bodhinatha deep...
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July 18, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? We had another joyful day of Guru Purnima activities. In fact, there will be so many photos coming in today and tomorrow that we will defer the final installment of Open House photos until next phase... The morning began with a powerful Muruga Abhishekam...
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July 17, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here we are, the second day of Guru Purnima. Early this morning all the devotees gathered for "walk San Marga" sadhana as a group, walking down the San Marga path, gathering water into small kumbha pots from the Narmada Stream, singing bhajans along the...
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July 16, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here is Bodhinatha amidst our joyful open house festivities today. We have 120 photos of events from the Chitra puja, this morning's homa and open house, which we will bring to you over the next three days. Ah, what a remarkable day this was,...
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July 12, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? We had a big guest day today... Lots of wonderful people... but our server is being "renovated" this afternoon so, no photos today... We will keep it short... All here are gearing up for a busy three-day retreat full of preparations for Open House...