September Chitra Puja 2022
September 30, 2022September is almost behind us but before that happens enjoy some photos from this month's pada puja to Gurudeva. "You need a tremendous, indomitable will to make a reality of your quest of realizing the Being within." -Gurudeva Jai Gurudeva! First pada puja with the new Gurudeva Shrine display The...
New Art from an Indian Master
September 29, 2022Suresh Mutthukiulam of Kerala sent this canvas recently, commissioned by us to adorn Bodhinatha's Yoga Sutras to be printed next year. We thought you might like a previews. In this unusual piece, Suresh creatively describes eight siddhis, powers, that a yogi naturally attains (and is encouraged to renounce). There are...
Siva's Golden Eye
September 28, 2022One of the creative things happening at the monastery is the golden Rudraksha beads. Our trees are now in full blossom with more flowers than we have ever had since the forest was planted in 1978. Of late, we are experimenting with applying 23-karat gold leaf to the home-grown seeds....
New Gurudeva Photo Display in Kadavul
September 27, 2022Happy Chitra Nakshatra! After 22 years, we have replaced the trusty, conventional lightbox that has displayed Gurudeva's photos at his shrine in Kadavul Temple. The technology was old school. Each month a monk stepped up on the shrine, opened the box, pulled out the plexiglass sandwich and inserted a new...
Satguru in California
September 26, 2022Jai Ganesha! Recently, Satguru and our two other traveling sannyasins enjoyed some time in California as a final stop on their short mainland trip. While there they visited the Concord Temple construction site in the Bay Area, and also enjoyed a hike in Mount Tamalpais state park. They then made...
Tirukural - Chapter 107
September 26, 2022Chapter 107: Dread of Begging Verse 1065A toy maker has labored in the sun all day to produce small wooden toys for the market. He takes a break when his wife brings a simple bowl of sweet rice for his lunch. Though it is not a feast, he finds it...
Botany Explore
September 24, 2022Beautiful flowers! Dragon flower in the dark this morning A lovely flower in the Nepali Ganesh garden. } ];
Natchintanai - 73 Spiritual Songs! Now in Unicode!
September 23, 2022A book of Natchintanai by Siva Yogaswami: Seventy-three songs full of the wisdom of the Sanatana Dharma and the enlightened vision of one of the most evolved siddha yogis of modern times, Siva Yogaswami. Since 2009, Natchintanai - 73 Spiritual Songs was available with MylaiSri text for the Tamil. It...