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February 5, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? This is Jogi and Annapurna Pattisapu from Florida. They have visited here several times before and really savor their visit each time. They met Gurudeva here and fondly remember him giving them sadhanas to perform at the Aadheenam like the Wailua Ganga Sadhana. They...
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February 4, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? The great sayings of Sage Chellappaswami: Oru Pollappumillai--Intrinsic evil there is not. Eppavo Mudintha Kariyam--Accomplished is His Will. Naam Ariyom--We know not. Muluthum Unmai--All that is, is Truth Absolute. Arun and Hemah from West Virginia are still on the island and came again to...
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February 3, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? It is Sun One today and Bodhinatha gave a wonderful talk on "Giving." We looked for some quotes from Gurudeva on the subject and found this: "Pure love is a state of Being. Whereas everyone is running around trying to get love, it is...
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January 31, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Mary Beth Harnett, from Ohio, arrived on Kauai yesterday and made Kauai Aadheenam her first destination. She enjoyed the tour of the grounds and seeing the progress on Iraivan. She also had a wonderful meeting with Bodhinatha. Today was the Chitra Pada Puja... Sadhaka...
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January 30, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Ganga Sivanathan from Adelaide Australia had darshan with Bodhinatha today. She is enjoying a very peaceful stay in paradise. Iraivan Temple Construction Progress The big news today: stone lift by crane, 4 and 1/2 hours of painstaking careful, aerial placement. Because the foundation is...
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January 29, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? "Who doth know the luminosity of His Grace, That spreads its radiance everywhere? Who can fathom the grandeur of His gracious Feet?" -- Saint Tirumular A look inside the Ganapati Kulam, where the whole team is focus on the "Last 72 Hours!" meaning the...
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January 28, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? The big news is that containers with more stones have arrived! We think these two containers hold all the necessary stones to finish off the main gopuram, after which we will be able to remove the scaffolding. One section of the lovely fluted Tara...
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January 27, 2005What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun One has come again after a very productive three day retreat during which we had Iraivan day with all the monks working on various projects to push the temple fund raising forward. We had the homa this morning as usual and Bodhinatha gave...