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This was a regular scene through the years: Gurudeva departing for a trip to some far off place like Canada, India, Germany or Australia. Sannyasin Muruganathaswami our travel coordinator would always be on hand for the mandatory final visual check:
“Passport?” Check
“Visas? Check
“Tickets?” Check
“Traveler’s Checks?” Check
Our Beloved and Revered Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Attained Maha Samadhi on November 12th, 2001
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Sivajnani and Amala Nagappan are here on Kauai staying with Amala’s mother and father, Kulapati and Kulamata Deva and Tara Katir. The Nagappans live in Malaysia. Sivajnani is a teacher who specializes in private tutoring. He has a great reputation for inspiring young people in the learning process and is in much demand by parents eager for their children to excel in school. This is a critical issue in Asian countries where seats at institutions of higher learning are much fewer than the number of high-school graduates and where acceptance in foreign universities requires top grades from applicants. Sivajnani is also much in demand by expatriot residents in Malaysia: people from UK, Australia etc. who want their children to get the highest standards of education. The family is taking a break and Amala is going to stay with her family here on quiet Kauai for a few months before returning to life in the big, busy, beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur.
Cybertalk: 2002 Kauai Innersearch/Guru Purnima Day 1, Part 2: Bodhinatha discusses some common misconceptions about the law of karma and balances them out with a few very clarifying correct concepts.
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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Chandran and Sahanadevi Param who have become Vrata Sishya in Saiva Siddhanta Church. This is a big step in their religious and spiritual lives. They have legally changed their names to Saivite names, taken the Tithing, Vegetarian and Paramapara Vratas (vows), and also agreed to follow the 51 most important Sutras and completed various other membership requirements. Here they are with Bodhinatha and their two sons, Bhajana and little Jeyendra. The two boys are always the life of the party when they come to the Aadheenam, being full of energy and extremely active while at the same time they have the wonderful gift of being quiet. It may be very different at home were we to ask his mother…
Welcome to the great family of Saiva Siddhanta Church, Chandran, Sahanadevi, Bhajana and Jeyendra! It’s always wonderful to have another addition to the great satsang of dedicated souls on the path of spiritual transformation working to live and be an example of the life of Saiva dharma!
Yesterday we did our best to get a photo shoot at our Nepali Ganesha entrance to the monastery, for Hinduism Today, of a family posing to show the concept of adults working to pass dharma on to their children. Tuhina Nagappan was fairly cooperative, while her older brother, the usually bright and enthusiastic Yajatadeva, buried his head in his father’s shoulder every time we pointed the camera at him. This was for an article in Hinduism Today highlighting a new program to help dharma in the US. See below for the full article and become a supporter today!
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Here and there around our property. we have placed small images of Lord Ganesha inside the trunks of trees. Over time they will be completely embedded inside the trees. But wait! Is this a big tree or a little tree? Can you tell?
Aaaa HA! It is a bonsai created from a piece of banyan from a large tree placed in this flat and then carefully nurtured by Tandu Sivanathan to produce a mini-banyan tree which he has gifted to the Aadheenam.
Here is our Rishi Valley, a small secluded area surrounding a pond formed by the stream that passes down through San Marga on it’s way to the Wailua River. Just east of the Iraivan Temple, the area is dedicated to the line of Gurus and will be developed over the years as a quiet place where devotees can come to tune into the illustrious Kailasa Paramapara. All is quiet again as most of our pilgrims have returned home and the monks are back on their regular schedule of sadhana and sivathondu.
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Innersearch 2003-4 in India!
We just completed the July 17-23 Kauai Innersearch, 2002. Bodhinatha will lead the next Innersearch to India, between Dec 2003 and Jan 2004. We will visit Bangalore and the Iraivan Carving Village, and settle in the South in Tamil Nadu, Click on the above for details on what will be an inspiring journey to our holy land of Bharat! |
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From Our Gurus' Teachings
Archives are now available through 2001. Light colored days have no posts. 1998-2001 coming later.
