Vignettes from Mauritius Innersearch
July 14, 2014Aside from the intensity of classes and pujas, Innersearch always includes a lot of cultural variety taken from the locale where we travel as well as site-seeing to get an overview of the country. (Some images are panoramas, try going left and right) A local music and dance troupe entertains...
Innersearchers—Always Together
July 13, 2014While Innersearch is about being with the Satguru and his monks, it is also profoundly about competent souls meeting and melding. There is a sharing that is daily, at meals, during breaks win the round of classes with the swamis, on the bus rides to and from the Spiritual Park....
Rishi Valley Rock Garden
July 12, 2014Sadasivanathaswami has created several dry gardens planted in a bed of lava rocks. Using desert, drought tolerant plants, these little rock gardens require very little maintenance. Here in Hawaii they also have the added advantage of being impervious to damage by chickens and wild boar, who might otherwise come and...
Innersearch -- The Power of International Satsang!
July 12, 2014This Innersearch is like no other. The scale of our Saiva Siddhanta Church membership here is unique in the world and Innersearchers have been greeted with a hospitality that has no measure. Not only that, the members here, hundreds of them, have turned out to clean the Spiritual Park, cook,...
Innersearch -- A Time for Teaching
July 11, 2014Lots of questions coming up in the Teaching Tent in Mauritius. Classes are wide-ranging, and more than one Innersearcher has said her brain feels like it is growing from all the new insights coming her way. Bodhinatha is in such a great form, guiding the group through the Microcosm, answering...
Guru Purnima 2014 at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
July 10, 2014Today and Kauai Aadheenam we celebrated Guru Purnima. Several of the young monks did a beautiful job decorating the Guru Peedam, the ceremony was full of light and love of our beloved Bodhinatha. Brahmachari Girish is assisting today Sadhaka Nandinatha gets settled before starting the puja Monks chanting Sri Rudram...
Innersearch Visits Grand Bassin in Mauritius
July 10, 2014On the 5th, the Innersearch visited one of the most sacred places on the island of Mauritius. Ganga Talao or "Grand Bassin" as it is also known, draws many thousands of Hindus from all over the island for Mahasivaratri each year. Years ago, a temple priest, originally from India, was...
Two New Electric Replacements for the Aadheenam Fleet Have Arrived
July 9, 2014After many years of service we are retiring our Kawasaki Mule fleet. They were beginning to require more and more repair and several had broken down to the point of being unusable. To replace them we ordered new Polaris Ranger electric vehicles. This is part of the long range plan...