Happy Pancha Ganapati - Day 3
December 23, 2017December 23, red: The sadhana for the third day is to create a vibration of love and harmony among business associates, the casual merchant and the public at large. This is the day for presenting gifts to fellow workers and customers and to honor employers and employees with gifts and...
Happy Pancha Ganapati - Day 2
December 22, 2017December 22, blue: Day two is devoted to creating a vibration of love and harmony among neighbors, relatives and close friends and presenting them with heartfelt gifts. The sadhana of the day is to offer apologies and clear up any misunderstandings that exist. Relatives and friends in far-off places are...
Our Sacred Gardens; The Ivory Palm
December 21, 2017This is the amazing Raffia ruffia palm tree, known in common parlance as Ivory Palm. The pure white seed inside the crocodile-like shell, about 2" in diameter, is so hard carvers use it instead of elephant ivory. It is flowering, and giant columns of seed hang from the tree. Each...
Recent Visitors
December 21, 2017Darshan meetings with Satguru over last couple weeks Sandeep, Deepaa and Devika Kulkarni from Georgia Hallegere Murthy family. Son Vivek was US Surgeon General for the previous Presidency Vaithilingam Sivanathan family from Toronto area Swaminathan and Sreedevi from California friends of the previous couple Sudhir Dhingra family from Vancouver Malar...
Happy Pancha Ganapati - Day 1
December 20, 2017December 21, yellow: The family sadhana for the first day of Pancha Ganapati is to create a vibration of love and harmony among immediate family members. The day begins early, and the entire family works together to design and decorate the shrine with traditional symbols, rangoli, lamps and more. Then...
Ushering in A New Day
December 19, 2017Welcome to Moksha Ritau. Let's get a clear understanding of what's going on: "The third period of the year, Moksha Ritau, the cool season, is from mid-December to mid-April. It is the season of dissolution. The key word is resolution. Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics is the focus of...
Samadhi in Space
December 19, 2017Hinduism Today has a fascinating story in the most current issue, a story about higher consciousness discovered in outer space. In July of 1969 astronaut Edgar Mitchel was returning from the moon when suddenly something surprising happened.In a 1993 interview with Hinduism Today magazine, Mitchell offered that his deep-space samadhi...
Professors & Students Visit the Garden
December 19, 2017Sadasivanathaswami hosted a group of botany professors and students from the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly for short) a few days ago, as he does almost every year. They visit to learn about what kind of plants the monks are growing nowadays. There was lots of talk about plant...