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Frank Meets with Satguru Bodhinatha

Frank Meets with Satguru Bodhinatha

Dr. Frank Neubert, our visiting professor from the University of Bern in Switzerland, has been having a wonderful time learning about the monastery. He's reading through our books, enjoying the pujas and observing how the monks produce the magazine for his research. He had a meeting with Bodhinatha today and...

Tour Day!

Tour Day!

Yesterday was the monastery's tour day, which brought about 70 people to see the grounds and Iraivan temple. More and more, individuals who come to see the monastery on these tours, turn out to be very interested, respectful and spiritual people. The big group squeezes into the frame, pan left...

Guests of the Ganapati Kulam

Guests of the Ganapati Kulam

Today the GK had two wonderful guests attend their morning meeting. Dr. Frank Neubert from Switzerland and Seiyonne Suriyakumar from California. Dr. Frank Neubert is a professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He has been studying Saiva Siddhanta Church, Himalayan Academy and Hinduism Today for some years, writing...

Beginning a New Phase

Beginning a New Phase

This morning's Siva homa invoked the presence of the devas and mahadevas, as notes were burned in the fire to be read by the inner worlds. It is a great blessing to have such a connection, one which is utilized daily by our order to make all our projects go...

Family on pilgrimage

Family on pilgrimage

Kumar, Lakshmi and Siddharth Gutta are visiting on pilgrimage from Fort Worth, Texas. They last visited about 16 years ago when Siddharth was just age two and rolling around in a stroller. On that visit they had the opportunity to meet with our late Gurudeva for a few minutes. That...

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