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Quartzite Walkways Progress

Quartzite Walkways Progress

Jonathan has been doing a really marvelous job on our walkways upgrade. Every day he does another 10-foot section and is now working on the path from the temple to the drinking fountain. The stone is beautiful and sparkles in the sunlight. It has the added boon of never becoming...

Yesterday's Tour Day

Yesterday's Tour Day

Our neighbor and good friend Greg Smith with his beautiful family joined about eighty inspired souls for this week's public tour. The Mohamed family from Vancouver, Canada expressed their appreciation for what the monks are doing here. A treasure hunt of sacred seeds! Guests appreciate the miraculous, after hearing of...

Innersearch Kauai 2010 Diary Day 10

Innersearch Kauai 2010 Diary Day 10

Our Innersearch journalists report on the final day, Day 10, June 21: We began our last day of Innersearch with a beautiful sunrise meditation on the beach at 5:45 am, a rare opportunity for most of us, therefore inspiring us to make the most out of the moment. The sun rose...

Kumar Nataraja Takes Brahmacharya Vrata

Kumar Nataraja Takes Brahmacharya Vrata

Kumara Nataraja, a devotee of Gurudeva's for forty-one years, traveled 800 miles from his home in Seattle to the Siva Murugan Temple in Concord, California to take a vow, a brahmachariya vrata to remain celibate for the remainder of his life. He beloved wife recently made her transition to the...

Rudiren Carpanen Pillay Becomes Arul Sishya

Rudiren Carpanen Pillay Becomes Arul Sishya

Rudiren Carpanen Pillay is on pilgrimage, all the way from South Africa. He originally met Gurudeva when he was six-years old in Mauritius and we put in his Arul Sishya booklet "Who introduced you to Gurudeva's teachings" we put "Gurudeva himself at age six." Rudiren grew up, studied hard and...

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