Tour Day Visitors
January 13, 2010"Does anyone know what "namaste" means?" This is the first question we ask on public tour day to those who gather at the puakinikini mandapam. Kulamata Amala Seyon decided to play a little joke and met with the group a few minutes early and gave them all the answer. When...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-01-13
January 13, 2010Happy Pongal! It's dAwn as Bodhinatha lights the fire for boiling the auspicious rice. http://twitpic.com/xxsyo # Happy Pongal! http://yfrog.com/37lajjj # The fire is raging, sort of http://twitpic.com/xxtu3 # The pot boils over! Toward the northeast. Anyone know what this augers? http://twitpic.com/xxviv # Oops! It was north by northwest # Bodhinatha...
Sun Five
January 12, 2010Another beautiful day on Kauai. Visitor traffic has slowed down quite a bit as everyone has returned home after the holidays. The monks are all very busy as usual with their many projects. There is new tile being placed in front of Kadavul. We will bring you some photos of...
Sri Lanka's Swami Chitrupananda receives a gift from Sat Guru Bodhinatha
January 12, 2010It takes time for events in Sri Lanka to filter back to the Aadheenam. We bring you a positive note from Jaffna from last year. Swami Chitrupananda, of the Ramakrishna Saradha Sevashram, visited the Sri Subramuniya Kottam on October 8, 2009. Two kottam children ceremoniously presented a gift to Swami...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-01-12
January 12, 2010Bodhinatha is getting ready for a February 1-10 trip to Arizona and Texas. Plans for Fort Worth are coming together. http://bit.ly/ut5A6 # Riccardo Morano, here on task force, is interested in monastic life. This phase he is applying his computer savvy in the Ganapati Kulam. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Pancha Ganapati Around the World, 2009
January 12, 2010We want to thank every one for uploading photos from the home shrines. We have made a slideshow of all the contributions. For a sweet treat don't miss this! A Master Course student said yesterday, about Gurudeva's contributions: "Just look at what he accomplished, it's incredible and such a gift...
Master Course Students Progress
January 11, 2010Bodhinatha met today with two Level One Master course students, John Stern and Larry Otis. Both men have years of background in meditation and sadhana and are serious about their spiritual unfoldment and plan to move forward into Level Two of the study. Larry Otis has called himself a...
Sun Three
January 10, 2010Today is Sun Three and the Siddhidata Kulam gave news of their activities. Every day they spend 1.5 hours picking fruits and vegetables for all of us. They have really mastered the garden and recent sunny weather had helped a lot. Almost all the vegetables we eat now are grown...