Bodhinatha Upgrades Our Vehicles
July 16, 2010After eight years Bodhinatha felt it was time to upgrade our two primary monastery vehicles. His personal car, which we call our guru vahana, is a new Toyota Prius gas/electric hybrid that gets 50 miles/gallon, replacing the Honda Civic Hybrid we had since 2002. The vehicle used for town trips...
Quartzite Walkways Progress
July 16, 2010Jonathan 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...
Blessing for the monastery's n...
July 16, 2010Blessing for the monastery's new Toyota Prius and Sienna just now. http://twitpic.com/25ygk3
Sun Four - Ashram Sadhana Day
July 15, 2010Today was Sun Four, Ashram Sadhana day, the monks were cleaning all morning.
Yesterday's Tour Day
July 15, 2010Our 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
July 15, 2010Our 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
July 15, 2010Kumara 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...