It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam but the steady stream of pilgrims continues, a few every day.

Bodhinatha is actively working on the Shum language, putting in many hours a day.

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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, Friday, March 24th.

The Ganapati Kulam shared news today. A few highlights that touch
on just a few of the projects in progress.
* Communications are in progress with Shi Wen in Shanghai on the translation of the Trilogy into Chinese. Copies of the books are on their way to China as he has only seen the teachings on the internet!
* Ten Questions in Telegu arrived from India. For those of you who may have tried to download it yesterday our link was fixed…try again now: Click here to get Ten Questions in Telegu. Did you know that Telegu is the second most spoken language in India after Hindi?
* There is a big focus on Hinduism Today articles as the last three weeks of production are upon us for the April 2007 edition.
* Special DVD’s of 1008 image of Ganesha and Hindu Art DVD are nearing completion.
* The soon-to-be-world-famous book “What is Hinduism” came out of production and is moving now into shipping channels.
* And Online Lexicon, Hindu Dictionary of over 3600 terms from all the glossaries from all of the books of Himalayan Academy Publications is being developed and may be ready to Go Live on the net in the next week or so.
* Yogi Japendranatha is back in the saddle on the team here and the big news today was a breakthrough in the configuration of our Maha Image Catalog software called Portfolio that uses a MySQL database to catalog over 328,000 images. It was a bit slow but with the help of Tech Support at Extensis we made some changes. One testimony on the value of this new tool: Sadhaka Satyanatha was realizing that we did not have many images of Muruga on our Art CD. He did a search in Portfolio for “Muruga” and found 300 images that would have otherwise never be findable before.
* As you have all seen our slide show technology is getting “tweaked” on a daily basis. Latest improvement: long captions with scroll bars are now possible. Everyone seems to enjoy the new presentation. It also allows us to exceed our former self-imposed limit of 43 photos per day. That was a 1 megabyte download when you opened TAKA. Now we can include any number of photos in individual slide shows.
* We are pushing forward on “Satguru Speaks” and hopefully in the not too distant future we will be posting Bodhinatha’s latest talk on the internet the same week that he gives it… Satguru upadesha fans should keep the “eyes peeled” and watch the side bar on the right for updates.