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July 1, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Two of our phase... a bright beautiful clear day.... The Ekadanta Kulam reported on their activities... which are primarily preparing for the up-and-coming Guru Purnima and Open House. RSVP responses to invitations are over 200 now. And if that is any indication, it...
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June 30, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? We began a bright new phase today with news at lunch from the Lambodara Kulam. It appears we may have as many as 3 priests coming for the Garbanyasa ceremonies during Guru Purnima. Our Sun One Homa.... Someone asked what the "Garbanyasa" ceremony signifies....
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June 27, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is the last day of a short 4-day phase. We had our guest day tour... Iraivan is "in the air" with silpis in India about to go to the US Embassy for Visas to travel here... Meanwhile we have another set of photos...
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June 26, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Mohan and Srilakshmi and daughter Uma Sankaran were here again today with Srilakshmi's mother and their cousin. They had a wonderful meeting with Bodhinatha during which they discussed how careful Srilakshmi has to watch her daughter's education, because Uma started attending pre-school in California...
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June 25, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? All is well at Kauai Aadheenam. The Ekadanta Kulam gave their report today. Saravananathaswami and Sadhaka Dandapani have been working to upgrade their news announcements to a lovely HTML format. Saravananathaswami also completed a mailing for the Kauai Aloha Endowment which is preparing to...
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June 24, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Our phase began today with homa and Bodhinatha's regular Sun One talk... Aum Sivaya, Svaha! Dr. Ramana Rao, his wife and daughter visited from London today. Accompanying them was Dr. Rao's niece Deepika, and her daughter. It was their first visit here and they...
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June 20, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha arrived back home this evening about 7 pm, after a long 18 hours of travel from Florida. It was a very successful mission. Our artist in Chennai, A. Manivelu, has just completed this depiction of Lord Ganesha, dancing on a lotus flower in...
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June 19, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha has complete his last day in Orlando... there were many wonderful reports of the event. Amarnath and Latha Devarmanai visited with their children Shaailesh and Anushri. They came to Hawaii with the intention to visit Iraivan Temple. They were here yesterday and returned...