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Trinidad Calls

Trinidad Calls

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami arrived in Trinidad & Tobago on Thursday night to a warm greeting by hosts Pandit Narendra and Ashwinee Ragoonanan and family. Friday was a full day of calls to local organizations, including the Chinmaya Mission ashram in McBean Village in Couva, in the central...

Begining the New Phase

Begining the New Phase

The Monastery lives and works according to the lunar calendar, taking a few days during the full moon, half moons and new moon as retreat days. The monk's routine days of kulam duties and group sadhanas make up the other days. These phase days average five per phase. At the...

Austin Visits

Austin Visits

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami visited the Austin Hindu Temple last Sunday, where Bodhinatha gave a talk to a small group in the complex's original Ganesha temple. Monday presented the opportunity to drop in on the Chinmaya Mission's new facility under construction in Austin. Taking the moniker Chinmaya Sundaram,...

Keeping Peace Inside Yourself

Keeping Peace Inside Yourself

It's quite a task, finding and keeping peace within yourself. Gurudeva had much to say about it, and here we share one of his simple admonitions: Keeping Peace Within Yourself Then the next step unfolds from within most naturally: zero tolerance for disharmonious conditions within our own self. This brings...

Hindu Students Association Gateway Camp in Texas

Hindu Students Association Gateway Camp in Texas

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami are traveling in Texas and Trinidad this month. The first stop was the Greene Family Camp, an expansive summer camp facility run by the Union for Reform Judaism in Bruceville, a small town about 100 miles north of Austin. Here the Hindu Students Association...

A Woodshop Buzzing with Activity

A Woodshop Buzzing with Activity

With the Ganapti Kulam's recent finalization of the next issue of Hinduism Today, they are now free to devote a great deal of their energy to their work on the Media Studio renovation project. Today several projects are actively progressing simultaneously. The new tent cover for the saw mill is...

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