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Visitors & Seva

Visitors & Seva

Visitors come daily, some from far lands, many who have been planning their trip for ten or more years. Such was a group of seven from Calgary, Canada, today. One was celebrating her 70th birthday, and all the others were, amazingly, all having an unbirthday. What are the chances. The...

Are you tired of reading word with your eyes?

Are you tired of reading word with your eyes?

  Still want to drink from the fountainheads of wisdom that are Gurudeva's books? Look no further because right now for the low low price of free you can use your God given ear holes listen to 4 new audiobooks from Himalayan Publications. These are not just your standard audio...

Lotus Blooms Again!

Lotus Blooms Again!

Years back we had ponds, large ponds 100 feet across, packed with lotuses. You could not even see the water they were so dense. Then along came a voracious fish, the talapia, who loved their taste and devoured every one. We have been without lotuses all those intervening years, til...

Sun 1 Talk

Sun 1 Talk

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Loving Ganesha, Now in the Russian Language

Loving Ganesha, Now in the Russian Language

We have mentioned briefly that the team in Moscow is continuing its remarkable work with Gurudeva's publishing legacy despite the extreme challenges being faced in that part of the world. They have, for instance, translated and typeset the entire new edition of "Loving Ganesha, Hinduism's Benevolent Elephant-Faced Deity" into Russian....

Progress around Iraivan Temple

Progress around Iraivan Temple

Employee John is nearly finished placing the two rows of paver stones next to the seashore paspalum grass sprigs popping up. Underneath the grass is the geotile, and this will constitute the ground pradakshina path around Iraivan. Below the front of Iraivan Temple, employees Doug and Jim are nearly finished...

Our Annual Appeal

Our Annual Appeal

Following the model of another free resource, Wikipedia, today we begin our eighth annual November-December appeal for support of our publications development. The success of this drive defines the scale of our digital work in the months and years ahead. Right from the days he printed his first yoga lessons...

Happy Skanda Shashti

Happy Skanda Shashti

Another Skanda Shashti festival has come and gone. Dancing with Siva defines the festival as "A six-day festival in October-November celebrating Lord Karttikeya's, or Skanda's, victory over the forces of darkness." After two years of no visitors, we once again have a contingent of pilgrims from off-island. Because the six...

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