Hinduism Today: Modern Method Match-Making
October 5, 2010Our Hinduism Today, October/November/December 2010 edition, Educational Insight this time explores a new trend in matchmaking. The two models that once clashed--arranged marriage and do-as-you-please dating--are merging into something that can be called "arranged dating." Parents meet and approve a daughter's suitor, and then the couple embarks on the Western...
Hand Made Molding for our Kitchen
October 5, 2010Sadhaka Adinatha is doing a bit of renovation in the monastery kitchen. In the process he needed 10 linear feet of crown molding to match the original. That brown piece is a sample from the construction done in 1929, presumably. Acharya Kumarswami volunteered to create the needed pieces. The wood...
Sun Three
October 4, 2010Today the Siddhidata Kulam gave their report at lunch. We are sending the four tires from our caterpillar skid steer to Honolulu to be filled with rubber. This is a major innovation for our land maintenance vehicles because it means this piece of equipment will never again have a flat...
Last day for Kondapi Family Pilgrimage
October 4, 2010Anil, Devajyothi, Manu and Meera Kondapi had satsang with Paramacharya Ceyonswami this afternoon. They talked about Jyotisha. The young ladies are trained singers and sang for Siva and we recorded them. They fly back to Phoenix tonight.
Students Religious Ceremony Mauritius
October 4, 2010Every year the Spiritual Park organises a special elaborate religious ceremony for all the students of Mauritius who are preparing to take their end of year exams at primary, secondary and university levels during that period. This year the attendance of youth to this ceremony was beyond expectation. The traffic...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-10-03
October 3, 2010Thank you to the first 25 donors to our Digital Dharma Drive. In just over a day we have reached 5% of our goal! http://bit.ly/b1Rp5s # Magnificent YouTube video is a palindrome: Lost Generation http://bit.ly/aPco3E # Powered by Twitter Tools
Sun Two
October 3, 2010All is well at the Aadheenam. All engines running as usual. The Pillaiyar and Ekadanta Kulams reported on their activities today. Saravananathaswami is back on the job with hosting and handling the Master Course student body communications. Shanmuganathaswami has been helping out with an emergency project to pump water into...
Yogaswami Girls' Home - Sittandy, Sri Lanka
October 3, 2010For those following the girls' orphanage in Sri Lanka, some news today. The Yogaswami Girls' Home kitchen was inaugurated during September. Here milk is prepared in a clay pot to be boiled on the small fire. The new kitchen is spacious and well-appointed. The girls all gather for the ceremony....