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What Happened Today at the Monastery?
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Bodhinatha was busy today, talking to all the monks, making his last-minute preparations for a journey to San Antonio, Texas tonight. So many things to coordinate.
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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Dasami Tithi, Sun One, Saturday, May 6th.
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Sadhaka Dandapani is helping with the arrangements.
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Bodhinatha also held meetings on Hinduism Today, on future pans for articles and outreach, and more.
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Some wonderful events are planned for Texas and he is taking a special talk on Lord Siva.
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Computers were an important part of the day in the Ganapati Kulam.
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Vicki Hamilton and Yogi Japendranatha look at the open Apple XServe. Visiting Apple Computer technician, Carmel Hawn, is changing out the logic board.
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Yogi is responsible for the server, which is our central brain for the many projects that the monastery undertakes, so he is naturally curious how it is going.
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Vicki and son took a tour of Iraivan Temple afterwards. Lots of progress since our mom’s last visit.
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Meanwhile, out in the Sacred Rudraksha Forest, the only one in the Western world that we know of.
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The forest is used by pilgrims, and is a sheltered corner of the San Marga Sanctuary, open daily from 6 to 6.
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Bodhinatha wants to have a better barrier to soften the traffic on nearby Kuamoo Road.
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So we are planting several hundred Mock Orange trees to make a thick hedge.
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John Anderson brought his Bob Cat to dig a trench for the hedge.
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Also new is the Arid or Desert Garden, not far from Rishi Valley.
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Palaniswami and Satya Subramaniam are placing rocks and planting small arids.
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When they mature, they will make for some spectacular viewing. This is an agave.
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A “Frosted Cookie Cactus.”
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A yucca up close.
And back at the Aadheenam, our renovated heated fresh water aquarium now has some amazing Diskus fish from the Amazon. A short video on our new companions.
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