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Happy Birthday Sivarathna!

Happy Birthday Sivarathna!

Today is Sivarathna's 21st Birthday. As many of you know, he has been at the Aadheenam on taskforce for many months. He felt that now, just a few weeks from his departure and on his birthday, would be the perfect time to perform the Atmartha Puja for the monks during...

Rajasthan Cow Festival 2014

Rajasthan Cow Festival 2014

As our Hinduism Today subscribers are busy reading their recently arrived April 2015 issue, we'd like to offer you a look at some of the extra photos from the feature story. Some of these you'll recognize and others will be entirely new. Last October our editor, Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami, received an...

Something to Reflect On

Something to Reflect On

"What we're trying for is not perfection, but improvement." Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami With weather moving to spring many flowers have begun to bloom at the aadheenam some are right in front of you when your looking towards the mountain one of the world\s smaller orchid species grows right on the...

March Padapuja

March Padapuja

This morning the Aadheenam observed its monthly padapuja to Gurudeva, which takes place on the chitra nakshatra. Monks and devotees gathered in Kadavul Temple in the early morning and Natyam Rajanatha and Natyam Nandinatha performed the puja. Some of monks chanted Sri Rudram, while others dove within themselves and within...

Satguru in Sri Lanka - Visit to Velanai Murugamurthy Temple

Satguru in Sri Lanka - Visit to Velanai Murugamurthy Temple

On January 30th, Bodhinatha visited Velanai Murugamurthy Temple. Velanai is an island off the cost of Jaffna. This Temple is one of the charitable funds in our Hindu Heritage Endowment. } ]; imageCrop:'false', transitionSpeed:150});

Carving in Bengaluru

Carving in Bengaluru

Today we received these photos from our carving site in Bengaluru. They include the Nandi Mandapam yesti, which act as the side rails for the Nandi Mandapam entry steps, and some of the small statues which will be for the guru statue's peedams. "Like the Hindu religion itself, the Hindu...

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