Mahasamadhi Final Day Morning
October 28, 2011width: 740, imageCrop:true, transitionSpeed:150}); Day Four of Mahasamadhi observances began with the morning aarti for Gurudeva. During Bodhinatha's satsang he give a copy of Guru Chronicles to each pilgrim family. A team of ladies from Perth: Sornavanita and Thamilmani and Malaysia: Nalakini, Brahmacharini Barathy her sister Sarkunavathy joined to create...
Mahasamadhi Final Puja
October 28, 2011width: 740, imageCrop:true, transitionSpeed:150}); The final grand puja for Gurudeva began at 3:30 PM in the afternoon of the 25th. Kumarswami Gurukkal conducted a long and powerful sankalpa and kumbha homa. His powerful chanting and very focused invocation of the guru definitely opened the doors to the inner worlds. With...
Mahasamadhi Celebrations Day 3: Havana
October 28, 2011httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThGUhaGC44&feature=channel_video_title
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-27
October 27, 2011A couple of nice photos from the tree planting http://t.co/YFJjzk97 http://t.co/STZvB60V # Kumaranathaswami & Deva Rajan install kalasas on Sivadarshanavanam pavilions http://t.co/INbplgyH http://t.co/zxtpJPDf http://t.co/y2j1Hocu # Powered by Twitter Tools
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-25
October 25, 2011Ten years ago today in the Hindu calendar (November 12 in the Gregorian), Gurudeva attained Mahasamadhi. # Happy Diwali! Read about Diwali in our Hindu Festival Page. http://t.co/2GT8hFXf # The final homa and pada puja for Gurudeva is beginning. # This may have been the most devotional and powerfully moving...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-24
October 24, 2011Day three of our Gurudeva Mahasamadhi festival began with a guru puja, meditation and singing Natchintanai in the temple. # A few more glimpses of our parade to Iraivan Temple and the Svayambhu Lingam yesterday http://t.co/sBFHXFGY http://t.co/GjESvmc3 # http://t.co/qFfkS5cy - Video of pilgrims' feet walking up steps to Iraivan Temple,...
Mahasamadhi Day Three
October 24, 2011Slideshow reminders: use the gallery icon to to to thumbnails; you can pan left and right and up and down to see more of the images, click the lightbox to see the whole image at once, or go to full screen for a big view. width: 720, imageCrop:true, transitionSpeed:150}); Day...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-23
October 23, 2011Sadhaka Rajanatha got his new glasses, and all of a sudden the world seems clearer! http://t.co/uDUyjFBV # Today is the second day of Gurudeva Mahasamadhi festivities. Pilgrims are having a tour of Iraivan Temple. http://t.co/EFypAUFM # A couple more photos from our Iraivan Temple tour with the pilgrims http://t.co/bXiuVctU http://t.co/qC0ErdYW...