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What Happened Today at the Monastery?
The stream of winter holiday visitors and pilgrims continues on….
Two families from Chicago and elsewhere meet with Bodhinatha.
They asked Bodhinatha to share how to experience love towards the Satguru and Siva. Bodhinatha suggested they read his talk on line: “I Want to See God! Suggestions on Where and How to Look”
Another pilgrim visitor, Ashwani Sagar from California…
Pillaiyar Kulam News
Today the Pillaiyar Kulam shared their news at lunch. The tradition is for each member to share what they are doing as everyone eats. Thus way we all keep in touch with the many, many activities happening on all fronts.
Shanmuganathaswami told of his work this phase. Here is a short list from him.
- Arranging for new shipping channels for books by Gurudeva printed in Malaysia to be flown in to the US instead of being shipped by sea.
- Getting all the honey bears ready for give away (each year the monstery gives Kauai honey to neighbors and island friends during the holiday season)
- Setting up three new Hindu Heritage Endowments, which involves new accounts, setting up bank wire numbers for the new fund creators to be able to wire funds to the new endowments.
- Working on the site map of our buildings in preparation for final submission to the building department for approval of our new visitor information building.
- Training Dharmaraj in the Hinduism Today subscription department and other areas.
- Finalizing phone scripts for our fund raisers to use when call people who have made inquiries about Hindu Heritage endowments and more.
Muruganathaswami told us about:
- Book distribution, which has been unusually high recently. “Loving Ganesha” continues to be popular at Amazon.com.
- Reactions to the “What Is Hinduism?” bound galleys by would-be reviewers and distributors.
Yogi Jivanandanatha described his work these past few days distributing honey bears to all our friends and associates on Kauai which was his main duty this phase. He has also been doing some database programming in the ever continuous quest for better and better information management in the accounting world.
Dharmaraj has been doing many, many small but essential chores, including handling our own Minimela gift counter which had a record day yesterday with 150 visitors all wanting to take sacred gifts back with them for friends and family. He also went out to give away honey bears on the island. Dharmaraj was impressed by how much everyone in the community appreciates and respects the monastery and how our annual gift giving is such a delight to everyone.
Happy Pancha Ganapati Day 3, December 23rd!
If you don’t know about this modern-day Hindu festival, please read about it in the following articles on our web sites and listen to Gurudeva explain, in his own words, about this joyous celebration and make plans to celebrate it every year in your home and community:
From Our Gurus' Teachings
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