Tirukural - Chapter 35
May 10, 2021Chapter 35: Renunciation Verse 350A devotee clutching a Sivalingam with loving attachment is soaring in the air, while another, clutching material possessions, is bound to the earth. TAKA Presents the Tirukural You can access the entire text, in Tamil and English here: Weaver's Wisdom Verse 341 Whatsoever a man has...
Essential Ingredients for a Powerful Puja
May 8, 2021Satguru's video presentation of his latest Publishers Desk editorial from Hinduism Today Magazine's April/May/June 2021 issue. Here Satguru discusses the mystical elements and knowledge behind Hinduism’s major form of temple worship
Foundation Pour Then and Now
May 7, 2021[twenty20 img1="893495" img2="893493" offset="0.5" before="Iraivan Temple's initial foundation pour in August of 1999" after="Iraivan Temple Today"]In August of 1999 the foundation of Iraivan temple was poured. At the time, the lead engineer exclaimed: "This hasn't happened for 2,000 years! It's historic. Not since the Greeks and Romans has such a...
Pumpkins, Birds and Bamboo!
May 6, 2021If you've ever been to Kadavul Temple, then you may have noticed that off to the right side of the temple there is a little bamboo gate and fence that separates the cloistered area of the monastery from the area that guests may enter. After years in the elements this...
Shum Maps of Meditations - Part 5
May 5, 2021Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives part five of a series of talks which give insight and elaboration into a variety of fascinating concepts revealed in the Shum language of meditation. Here, Satguru gives special attention to the 54 mambashum—important areas of the mind detailed by Shum.
Tirukural - Chapter 34
May 3, 2021Chapter 34: Impermanence of All Things Verse 338A chick breaks out of a shell, leaving it behind as he discovers the world. Nearby a woman meditates on her own attachment to the physical body, a shell which she realizes she will one day leave. TAKA Presents the Tirukural You can...
Our Spiritual Park in Mauritius
May 2, 2021This morning, when Rajen Manick sent us the photos you are about to see, we could hardly believe our eyes. There was the Spiritual Park that Gurudeva founded in 1986 (Yes, 35 years ago). But it was not the land we have grown accustomed to in our mind's eye, a...
A Morning in High Dynamic Range
May 1, 2021Aum Namah Sivaya. Recently, one of our monks has been enjoying his morning walks accompanied by some iPhone-photography. He took these HDR photos which combine three images, at dark, medium and light exposures, thus giving us color and detail in the shadows, midtones and the highlights. A beautiful way to...