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Bodhinatha's Recent Sun One Upadeshas on Language and the Conscious Mind

Bodhinatha's Recent Sun One Upadeshas on Language and the Conscious Mind

Bodhinatha's Latest Upadeshas:"Detach Awareness From the Conscious Mind" (October 6, 2015) Avoid creating ripples in life, being permanently emotionally disturbed. The English language is a conscious mind language structured to teach us that we are our emotions. Be observant of thought patterns and detach yourself. The "I" is not the...

Granite Bases for Bronzes

Granite Bases for Bronzes

This morning Sadasivanathaswami received the photo above of a circular granite base from Thurai Rajasankara in Bengaluru. It's part of a massive push the team there is making. Paramacharya wrote a note to the team that is responsible for the bronze masterpieces, and we thought you would like to look...

New Garden Water Tower

New Garden Water Tower

The monks of the Siddhidatta Kulam recently created an improved water tower for the monastery's vegetable garden. Using old I-beams that had been left on our newly acquired land, they fashioned the tower's main structure. This tower can hold more water, weather more weather, and has increased natural water pressure...

Monk's Travels

Monk's Travels

Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami and Sannyasin Siddhanathaswami have recently returned form their short trip to California. Here is Siddhanathaswami's last message he's sent from the road: Aum Namah Sivaya, Yesterday was a busy day. We went up to Santa Monica for coffee with an IT professional, Sekuo Page. He runs a company...

The Illusion of Time

The Illusion of Time

Today we ponder time, and the increasing convergence of science and spirituality, on a collision course with truth. First the voice of science by way of a post on Quora by Ryan Carlyle, an engineer. He writes: The way you perceive time is wrong.  We live in an "ever-changing now." Time, as a...

Sun 1 Homa

Sun 1 Homa

Namaste everyone, were back from a 3 day retreat with a short slideshow of our weekly homa held in Kadavul temple. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gave a wonderful talk that will be posted this week. Devotees entering the temple at 6 am sharp Another fire dance. What could it be this...

Iraivan's Year End Report 2015

Iraivan's Year End Report 2015

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZRkikb0QU This is Kauai Aadheenam’s twenty-fifth year of carving a sacred masterpiece that brings the best of Indian temple architecture to the West in the form of a unique, hand-carved Chola-style granite temple that has no peer in the US. We reached our yearly goal of 780,000 dollars ($65,000 per...

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