Bodhinatha's First Days in Singapore and Malaysia
May 30, 2010Bodhinatha writes: Saturday May 29th Jai Ganapati. Saturday morning a small group of Singapore members/devotees saw us off at the airport for a 10:15 flight to Kuala Lumpur where we were greeted by a good size group of Malaysian members and devotees who had a large welcoming sign on display....
Bodhinatha Visits Singapore
May 30, 2010Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami met for a delicious North Indian style dinner with these Singapore members, students and devotees at the Tandoor Restaurant in the Holiday Inn Parkview. This was one of Gurudeva's restaurants, and he stayed at this Holiday Inn frequently when visiting Singapore. You could call this meeting a...
http://twitpic.com/1sk95p Huf...
May 30, 2010http://twitpic.com/1sk95p HuffPost does it again, great piece on Hinduism as world's only open source religion: http://huff.to/9RY0c3
Bodhinatha's Travels
May 29, 2010Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami arrived safe and sound in Singapore and will be off to Malaysia shortly. Bodhinatha has a number of Satsangs with the missions, a talk with leaders of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam and an all day retreat that is dedicated to members and students.
Vaikasi Vishakam
May 29, 2010We began our phase today with Sun one Homa as usual. During the retreat, besides the initiation of Siddhanathswami we also had the annual Vaikasi Vishakam Muruga puja which we held in the evening of Vaikasi. Here is the beautiful image of Subramaniyam in Kadavul temple. Sadhaka Nandinatha after several...
Master Course Student Immersion
May 29, 2010Riccardo Morano, who is studying the Master Course and considering becoming a Hindu and possibly a monk one day, had little direct experience of our Saiva culture. He lives in upstate New York and we arranged for him to go to Toronto and spend a weekend with the Tamil community...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-05-27
May 27, 2010http://twitvid.com/JCE0F - Vaikasi Visakham Muruga abhishekam this evening # Powered by Twitter Tools
New Sannyasin Joins the Saiva Siddhanta Yoga Order
May 26, 2010Early this morning at 3:30 am on this holy day of Vaikasi Vishakam, in a "rahasya" ceremony, only attended by the swamis, Yogi Jivananandanatha, after 12 years of training and dedicated service, conducted his own funeral homa and emerged from the rites as Siddhanathaswami. After the home, he went to...