Jai Ganesha!
May 22, 2015Yesterday was the fourth day (chathurti) after the new moon, a monthly day devoted to the special worship of Lord Ganapati. Kadavul's Ganasha received special attention during his daily abhishekam and alankaram. Click the button of the lower right of the slideshow frame for a full-size image big: '/taka-archive-all-assets/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/taka-chaturti/big/img_0345_1.jpg', big:...
TAKA and HimalayanAcademy.com Now Served from Linode
May 20, 2015All our websites have been running on a CentOS 6.2 web dedicated server in San Fransisco. We have moved all of these to Linode Cloud Servers in Fremont, California, running on the latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system on SSD drives. For the non-nerds amongst us, the web sites are going...
Certificate of Excellence
May 19, 2015Kauai's Hindu Monastery recently received Trip Advisor's Certificate of Excellence. This certificate is based on the reviews of visitors. They have overwhelmingly given the monastery high ratings as a nice place to visit. The only negative reviews appear to be from people who couldn't find the place. Here are a...
Satguru's Travels - Seattle and Victoria
May 19, 2015Last night in Seattle, Satguru and our traveling swamis held a small satsang in their hotel. About 12 people attended and Satguru gave an interesting talk about the many multifaceted aspects of Hinduism. Good questions were asked and answered and the video about the creation of Iraivan was then played....
May 2015 News Video
May 17, 2015httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrkkTXSvFw Our May 2015 News Video covers events in April 2015, including: the annual ladies retreat that took place on Kauai, some recent work of our digital publications team, our progress in the creation of our Wailua Noni Juice and the recent Ritau change and new year.
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Satguru's Travels
May 16, 2015Last night, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami and Sannyasin Siddhanathaswami made their way to Concord for a Satsang and Janaka Param's home with 61 people. The evening began with a padapuja, which was followed by a talk by Satguru. Satguru spoke of the importance of making the home a temple...
The Secret of Chidambaram
May 15, 2015Yesterday's TAKA post on the special puja at Chidambaram Temple inspires us to offer some background for the event that provoked asking Siva Nataraja for His Profound Grace to fall upon Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami on his nakshatra day, Purvashada. So here we go…. Chidambaram. The very word sends subtle...