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May 19, 2017
New Day; New Cooks
May 17, 2017Aum Everyone, the monastery has been rotating monastics to share the cooking duties and we have been enjoying it quite a lot! Each day a new monk is on the schedule to make lunch, dinner, clean and wash dishes. Today was the turn of the Siddhidata Kulam to manage the...
Our Friendly Planets
May 16, 2017In the Hindu view, the planets are not mere celestial bodies circling the Sun. They are also divine beings. Each is like a prism, conveying subtle energy from the far galaxies, thus impacting affairs on Earth according to its unique nature and location in the sky. The ancient science of...
The Great Vivekananda
May 15, 2017Swami Vivekananda is a household name and you can use him in any context where true, religious, insightful, enlightened and wise conversations are taking place. Vivekananda lived just over 30 years but impacted India, Hinduism and meditation/yoga for as long as this yuga is concerned. It's not the amount of...
Monastery Pilgrims
May 15, 2017The Ganapati Kulam had the fortune of hosting two lovely pilgrims at the morning editorial meeting. Indivar Sivanathan, a long-time disciple of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, and Gananatha Subrahmanyam from Quebec. Gananatha is here on pilgrimage until the 23rd of May and is filled and thrilled with being here for the...
Word of the Day
May 15, 2017[Words from the lexicons of all our books] Go Lexicon
Bodhinatha Bhashya, Are Souls and World Essentially Good?
May 14, 2017Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas - What Is the Nature of Our Sould Are Souls and World Essentially Good, Path to Siva Lesson 24 (May 12,2017) "The world does contain suffering; it's this way for a reason. If the world was perfect why would we want to transcend it? We're not all...
New Artwork From Pieter Weltevrede
May 13, 2017Today we received a sketch of a new painting by artist Pieter Weltevrede. As many of you know he was on Kauai late last year. While here he worked on a painting of Kadavul Nataraja, which he later finished. However, he recently took a trip to India that inspired him...