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December 21, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? As we write today, it is Wednesday in Malaysia, and Bodhinatha is on a bus going north from Kuala Lumpur to Teluk Batik, which is a coastal area, one of Malaysia's naval ports and seaside retreat area where the Himalayan Academy Study Retreat is...
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December 20, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? The big news is that Bodhinatha is off to Malaysia for the "Gurudeva's Essential Teachings" Himalayan Academy Study Retreat. Here we are stepping back two days ago to the first day of our retreat when Bodhinatha departed for the airport. Sannyasin Yoginathaswami and Yogi...
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December 17, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? Gokul and Priyanka Shanbag from Michigan were among our guests today. They are here for 9 days and plan to come up everyday they said. They were very much impressed by Lord Siva's island home. After the tour they had a nice meeting with...
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December 16, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? What is happening? Bodhinatha leaves for Malaysia in just two days for the 5 day intensive Himalayan Academy study program he is conducting there. Sannyasin Yoginathaswami and Yogi Japendranatha will be accompanying him. Yogi has been working very hard on getting the study materials...
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December 15, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sadhu Paksha is over and we begin the Moksha Ritau today... It was also Ashram Sadhana day for this month at the monastery and Flag Raising Day. We had this interesting guest yesterday...all the way from San Paulo, Brazil: Vladimir Paulon. He has a...
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December 14, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? ""Each guru has his own methods of mantra initiation from his own sampradaya. It's a school of verbal teaching. Most importantly, preparation must be attained and maintained in order to convince an orthodox guru that the commitment is strong enough to make the initiation...
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December 13, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? "Carry your karma cheerfully. Then begin the tedious task of unwinding these multitudinous patterns through performing daily sadhana." "Each next step will become quite obvious to you as you begin to find that you are the writer of your own destiny, the master of...
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December 10, 2004What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha with our elder brother... Swami Bua Maharaj... he is somewhere around 114 years old.... Siva's followers all believe in the Mahadeva Karttikeya, Son of Siva-Shakti, whose vel of grace dissolves the bondages of ignorance. The yogi, locked in lotus, venerates Murugan. Thus restrained,...