Remembering Gurudeva - Thivaashenee's Song
August 14, 2014Thamilmani Visakan writes from Perth, Australia: "Master Course student Sudha Vinadharan's daughter S. Thivaashenee got to know this song to Gurudeva during our Jaffna pilgrimage from the Malaysian members. She was so attracted to the song that she memorized it within couple of hours during their journey back from Jaffna...
Kumarappan Family visit from Fremont, California
August 13, 2014Many years ago, Mrs. Ulagu Kumarappan attended the Palaniswami temple Gurudeva had established in San Francisco in 1960. Then she attended the Siva Murugan temple in Concord, also established by Gurudeva, in 1986. And a few days ago, she and four members of her family visited our Kadavul temple, here...
Hinduism Today Offers Gifts to BAPS Guru
August 13, 2014On the second day of the Mandir Mahotsav in Robbinsville, New Jersey, the BAPS devotees were stunned and delighted with a second public darshan of their guru, Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Though 93 and frail, the guru had been brought on a chartered aircraft from India so he could be here...
Recent Guests
August 12, 2014Catching up with a few photos of some recent visitors and pilgrims Anusha Tharmarajah and her sister, disciples of the late Satguru Yogaswami, visited from Sydney. Anusha is a dance teacher and her students performed at Satguru Bodhinatha\s dinner in Sydney last year.' Rama, her daughter Abhaya, and parents Balaraman...
Swaminarayan Prana Pratishtha in Robbinsville
August 12, 2014On Saturday, August 9, the two swamis from Hawaii joined in the investiture of prana, life, into the murtis of the new BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey. It was the main event we were called to be part of, the central purpose of our travels. The night before,...
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Swamis in New Jersey
August 11, 2014The two days that Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami spent at the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey, seemed more like four or five. During this time, the organization's swamis kept our swamis very close, taking us right in to their private swamis-only ashram areas to be among the...
Deity Parade at BAPS Temple in New Jersey
August 10, 2014On Friday evening, our two swamis were given seats of honor along with the three of the organization's five Sadguru Swamis who were present at this grand temple inauguration. The Sadguru Swamis of the BAPS monastic order are the equivalent of our Paramacharyas, their most senior monks who have received...