Kauai Aadheenam Filled with Pilgrims
October 5, 2011Today a large group came after celebrating a wedding the other day in Poipu. Dr. Pemmaraju and Rani Rao and Dr. Halekote Kumara brought a group from San Antono, Texas, and London comprising one side of the wedding, and Sundari and Velayudhan Velu brought a group from southern California comprising...
Monks Attend Uberoi Experts' Conference
October 5, 2011Here are Acharya Arumuganathaswami and Sannyasin Sivakatirswami at the Uberoi Foundation Experts' Conference, 2011. They are with Professor Siva Bajpai who is a member of the Foundation and a leading expert Indian historian who has been collaborating with with Hinduism Today for over 20 years. In the past five years...
Issues in the Teaching of Hinduism in American K-12 Schools
October 5, 2011The history of India and Hinduism is taught in 6th and 7th grade social studies classes to nearly 4 million American children each year, along with the history of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and sometimes Jainism. The course material on Hinduism is negative in tone and scholastically deficient. This presentation...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-04
October 4, 2011http://t.co/kaq9PTLe Amma Corinne with son Tejadevanatha & daughter Ashley (holding Roxanne the hibiscus) enjoy a garden tour. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Swamis Visit the San Francisco Bay Area
October 4, 2011Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami visited with Mr. K. Suriyakumar at his home in Diablo, California, last Thursday. Enjoying the great weather outdoors, we sat and showed The Guru Chronicles, which we just had converted to the ePub format for the iPad. Suriyakumar and his wife, Rushika, are both from...
Meeting with Yogaswami Devotees in Toronto
October 3, 2011While Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami and Sannyasin Senthilnathaswami were in Toronto, they met with a small group of Sri Lankan Tamil elders who knew Yogaswami when they were kids. One's father was a stationmaster whom Yogaswami used to visit frequently in the middle of the night, another's mother took detailed notes of...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-10-02
October 2, 2011http://t.co/KaNGUAlP Many bhaktars in the temple today. By their shoes we see they had a more-than-usual sense of orderliness. # http://t.co/fQGRRW88 See the full report of the HMEC conference on HPI. One of the most successful Hindu gatherings. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Iraivan Temple: Drawing the Yesti Designs
October 2, 2011This if the final part of the drawings and its the closeup of the makaram. Its an composed of various animals like parrot, crocodile elephant etc. We can see the elephant trunk, then a crocodile like mouth and it has wings and legs of a bird. This is the elephant...