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February 28, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? A good friend and former Innersearcher, Jeff Weiske, came back to Kauai today and he came right away to the monastery to visit the temple and have darshan with Bodhinatha. Jeff is an accomplished physical therapist with a wonderful healing touch and an Pilates...
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February 27, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Umanath Tiwari and wife, from Montreal, Canada, made arrangements for their pilgrimage to Kauai about 2 months ago and after their late arrival on the island last night, they were here this morning for the 9am Siva puja. They enjoyed having darshan with Bodhinatha....
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February 26, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun One.. we are back on the job after a full three-day retreat out of the offices... This morning's normal homa rites were deferred as tomorrow is Chitra puja. Kulapati Deva Seyon decorates Gurudeva's shrine. Beautiful antheriums... Thank you Deva! A beautiful job... We...
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February 22, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today was the last day of a long six-day phase and full of guests. A huge crowd of tourists were here for the regular phasely tour and two devout Hindu pilgrim families to attend puja. It is Konanur and Arundati's 48th wedding anniversary today....
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February 21, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? "Thou art not the elemental forces. Thou art not the five senses Nor the inner faculties of the mind. Thou art Chit--Intelligence pure. So said my Guru full of Love. His utterance is full of sweetness. Sankara Sankara Sambu." --St Tayumanavar. 1429 Congratulations to...
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February 20, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? After a very active monastery cleaning day yesterday, all the monks went back to their regular duties today... Today, being Sun Four, the Siddhidata Kulam gave their report. Sannyasin Yoginathaswami detailed the Iraivan temple progress. Sthapati has set himself a mini "deadline" to finish...
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February 19, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today is Sun Three, the middle of the month, and it is ""Ashram Sadhana Day" for February. The entire monastery has been cleaning, cleaning, fixing, putting things in order... And *everyone* worked all afternoon just in Kadavul temple, cleaning the marble, scrubbing the Ganesha,...
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February 18, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? During our last retreat, we traversed a very auspicious day... February 15th, the 30th anniversary of Gurudeva's vision of Siva, walking the lands of San Marga in the early morning of 1975. It was a life-changing vision, not only for us but for every...