Final Satsang for Women's Retreat
May 1, 2015Kaivalyanathaswami held the final satsang for the retreat pilgrims here at the monastery. The Lemurian Scrolls publication is a fascinating work and Swami presented it with clarity and relevance. Some of the topics included: coming into the Sat Yuga from the Kali Yuga, reacting to life from the mountaintop perspective,...
Nepal's Earthquake: Satguru's Perspective of Disasters
April 30, 2015From an article written by by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, following the Asian Tsunami of 2004: On the philosophical level, major disasters in the world cause everyone to stop and think--think about ourselves, our family, friends, community, nation and the world itself. If our faith is not strong, our thoughts can...
Ganesha's Aum
April 29, 2015Today, Ganesha provided us with a lovely sandalwood Aum. As you all may know, Hinduism Today Magazine has an Aum at the top-left of each issue's cover image. For this coming July 2015 issue, we've decided to use Ganesha's as that image. Thank you for the artwork Lord Ganesha! Lord...
Class with Acharya Arumuganathaswami
April 29, 2015Our retreat pilgrims gather for a class on the state of the Hindu history work that Acharya has been working on for several years. Acharya gave an informative one-hour talk, starting from the background of the projects history, to present day meetings for change. Swami ended on an uplifting note...
April 27 Homa
April 28, 2015Yesterday the monks began the new phase. This will be a six day phase with Tour Day on Sun 3 and a Gurudeva padapuja on Sun 6. Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami oversaw the early morning homa, because Satguru is currently traveling. Following the chanting of Sri Rudram and the burning of written...
Photos From One of Our Pilgrims
April 28, 2015We recently received these photos from Tina Desai who is here on Pilgrimage from Canada. She's been attending the Ladies' Retreat while here. Tina has darshan with Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami a group photo of the first Ladies\ Retreat class' A nice view of Iraivan and our sacred gardens Paramacharya gives...
The Pilgrimage Continues
April 27, 2015This afternoon, those here for the annual Ladies' Retreat had a class with Brahmanathaswami. The class was held in Kadavul Temple and included a close look at shum and the correct pronunciation of its base alphabet. } ]; transitionSpeed:150});
117 Recordings of Merging with Siva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
April 24, 2015Gurudeva tried to keep the monks on the leading edge of digital content development. In the early days of the web ( 1998) he recorded 117 chapters of Merging with Siva. We release these on TAKA every day and also had a podcast. Now we are bringing these back to...