Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-04-11
April 11, 2011Only in Midland airport do you see an ad for an iPhone app for keeping track of live data from your oil wells! http://t.co/CZBzo1v # Time to go home! Bodhinatha and Senthilnathaswami are in LA on the way back to Kauai at the end of an 18-day trip. # Pankaj...
Bodhinatha in West Texas
April 11, 2011First on Bodhinatha's visit to Midland, Texas, was a pada puja at the home of our hosts, Drs. Mrunal and Padmaja Patel. This is Bodhinatha's third visit to Midland. The puja was powerful. Everyone felt the presence of Gurudeva and the parampara blessing the home. Bodhinatha was in high spirits...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-04-10
April 10, 2011Bodhinatha is giving an upadesha at the Hindu Association of West Texas this morning. # http://t.co/4sp1oLI # Video: Bodhinatha explains paradigm shift required to look at our entire day as an opportunity to progress spiritually http://bit.ly/gj0Ksj # Powered by Twitter Tools
Bodhinatha Visits BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Houston
April 10, 2011Last Sunday in Stafford (Houston), Texas, we visited the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir. This is the same temple of which we attended the inauguration ceremonies in 2004. It was exciting to be back after almost seven years at this ornately carved marble and sandstone temple in exquisite Gujarati style. We were...
Bodhinatha's Visit to Chinmaya Mission Houston
April 10, 2011One of the main events during Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's visit to Houston, Texas, was a pair of satsangs at the Chinmaya Mission facility. This is their Siva temple, which Swami Chinmayananda insisted they build here. It was finished just a few years ago. A solemn procession took us next to...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2011-04-09
April 9, 2011Saw this sign in a cafe in the quaint mountain town of Fort Davis. This is not where the West begins. This is the West! http://t.co/0cg44et # Wonderful visit to the mile-high observatory in the Davis Mountains last night. Viewed Saturn, Moon, Pleiades, Orion nebula. # The Master Course (Der...
Mayuran Sokkan Received His Namakarana Samskara
April 9, 2011Brahmachari Mayuran Sokkan has a good Saiva karma to be sure! He is living in Texas but made a special connection with the Tamil community after a pilgrimage to Toronto last year. He went back to the Sri Varasithi Vinayagar Hindu temple on April 7th, 2011. Riccardo Morano was transformed...
End of Phase - Amaryllis Blooms
April 9, 2011It's the end of our 6-day phase. This amaryllis which was planted outside the Siddhidata Kulam office is happy with spring and just bloomed. We will see this for just ten days each year. Tomorrow Bodhinatha will complete the 17th of his 17 presentations made on this mission and be...