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Today's Pilgrims
August 27, 2011Swamini Nityamuktananda (Dr. Christa-Maria Herrmann) is visiting from the UK. She asked Bodhinatha some questions about our monastic traditions. She was accompanied by some students from New York. Abhimanyu and Gunjan Singh visited for the first time from Los Angeles area. It was extra special because his parents are visiting...
Inside Iraivan Temple (Panorama)
August 27, 2011
Iraivan's Entry Steps Progress
August 27, 2011Silpi Raman, a silpi from the first batch of workers who went to Kauai for jointing is still working efficiently with us. Here he is carving the Nandi Mandapam steps stone. Totally we have seven steps that lead into the mandapam. This is a rough sketch done by Selvanathan sthapati...
Kauai's Annual Farm Fair
August 27, 2011August 26th Acharya Arumuganathaswami and Brahmachari Mayuran attended Kauai's annual Farm Fair. It's the biggest event of the year on Kauai, attended by over 30,000 people--on an island with 60,000 population. Here's a shot of one of our main interests, the fruit table! Always amazing to see what can be...
New Panoramas For Our Web Site
August 26, 2011
Our First Pure White Lotus
August 26, 2011It's the first pure white lotus ever to bloom at the monastery. It's from Bali (Hinduism Today is sending our journalist Rajiv from New Delhi to Bali soon to do a story). This is the physical manifestation of the deeper insight from our beloved Gurudeva: "Visualize within yourself a lotus....
Darshan with Bodhinatha
August 25, 2011Saiva Siddhanta Church, arulsishya Gunamaya Sivananda is here on pilgrimage for a few days from Tijuana, Mexico.