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Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary Blessing

Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary Blessing

Dasan and Shakti Mahadevan, devotees of Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, are here celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They received a special archana during the morning puja in the Kadavul Temple where their marriage was blessed. Paramacharya Ceyonswami then presented them with a beautiful shawl. Congratulations Dasan and Shakti!

Scribd: Where the Future Will Find Gurudeva's Teachings

Scribd: Where the Future Will Find Gurudeva's Teachings

OK, so you, like most everyone else, have never heard of Scribd. Back in the day, we remember explaining to visitors the magic of a little search engine we found useful--Google. Well, Scribd is to printed publications what Google is to search and YouTube is to video, a rapidly growing,...

Spiritual Park - Mauritius, August 09 Ganesha Homa

Spiritual Park - Mauritius, August 09 Ganesha Homa

Rajen Manick sends photos and a report from our Spiritual park in Mauritius, a few hundred miles off the coast of South Africa. Pancha Mukha Ganapati decked with garlands and hundreds of flowers for the August Homa. Thousands of devotees attended the ceremony with love and devotion in their hearts. ...

Bodhinatha At Murugan Temple Nalluran Festival

Bodhinatha At Murugan Temple Nalluran Festival

Sadhu Paksha continues at the Aadheenam. Meanwhile we our focus is on Bodhinatha's travels. Today he has moved on from Albany and is in transit, departing for Europe tomorrow morning. From Maryland, devotees are sending us photos and news now of the grand annual Nallur Chariot festival observed at the...

Bodhinatha Completes His Mission in Maryland

Bodhinatha Completes His Mission in Maryland

Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathaswami finished their stay at the Murugan Temple where they participated in the annual Nallur Chariot festival. We have more photos and video of the events coming later. Bodhinatha writes: Om Sivaya, everyone, Jai Ganapati. We were at the temple from 11 AM to 6 PM yesterday for...

Wailua Mission Iraivan Morning

Wailua Mission Iraivan Morning

Sunday, August 9th the Wailua Mission members and Master Course students living on Kauai gathered at the lovely home of Tandu and Uma Sivanathan. Here is one of the many beautiful Ganesha murthis in an alcove surrounded by water lilies and bonsai trees. Master Course students Faith Collier and Kamala...

Monastery Quarterly News Video

Monastery Quarterly News Video

Enjoy our latest video: Kauai's Hindu Monastery news for the months of January through June 2009. Since we skipped last quarter, here we will share with you about important events over the past six months, including five festivals, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's travels to Australia, Mauritius, Singapore, Washington state and Canada,...

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