The Ganapati Kulam gave their news today. Paramacharya Palaniswami is busy preparing for his five-week trip to India (north and south), Mauritius, China and Hong Kong. He and Yogi Jivanandanatha have many futuristic goals for their morning-to-night schedule, and hundreds of people to meet. Planning has been in the works for six months now, and help has been amazing from key Sivathondars like Rajiv Malick in Delhi, Jiva Rajasankar in Bangalore, Tiru L. Nellaiappan and Sheela Venkatakrishnan in Chennai and Kulapatis Manon Mardeemootoo and Rajen Manick in Mauritius.

The kulam gave news during our lunchtime sharing of a new Shum booklet in progress under Bodhinatha’s guidance, the next edition of Hinduism Today coming together, Satyanatha’s music article coming together, a few web upgrades (including the completion today of the fullly illustrated online edition of “Lemurian Scrolls”), making of new slideshows and much more. It was Taskforcer Rajan who meticulously put the Lemurian Scrolls online this week. Thanks, Rajan! You can access this newest book online at:

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/ls/ls_table_of_contents.html

There was a note that Google has just come out with a remarkable tool that will help all Mac users. It is Google Desktop, and it basically performs Google-like searches on your own hard drive, with a speed that is mind-boggling. With hundreds of thousands of files on our systems, efficient navigation functionality is a most welcomed ability. Thank you, Google!

The Golden Gate Mission celebrated New Year with a cultural program, a feast, and distribution to each participant of kaivishesham blessed by Satguru Bodhinatha at Kadavul Temple.
Here is a picture of the basket with the kaivishesham.

Art by S. Rajam: a household feeds a visiting sannyasi… a time honored tradition.

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