After a dynamic three day retreat, we begin a 4-day phase. Bodhinatha gave his talk today as usual. He spoke about the esoterics of worship, how Gurudeva was able to see into the subtle way the inner worlds worked. The temple ceremony strengthens the connection. We provide energy to the temple through the offerings, then blessings come back.

He said he was working on the Innersearch classes, trying to tailor them to fit the needs of the students. One of the areas that came up recently was channelling, hearing voices inside one’s head or communicating with second world beings. He explained how Gurudeva discouraged this practice in favor of going directly to the realization of the Self without distraction.

Yoginathaswami and Senthilnathaswami are still in India and have been meeting with the Sthapati’s there in Bangalore, getting organized for future Iraivan construction work. They will be back on September 4th, bring all the silpis back with them.

Meanwhile below you can enjoy a short video clip of Yoginathaswami giving and a talk on the Yamas and Niyamas in Tamil in Malaysia and a field trip to a rubber plantation.

It was tour day today and one of our guests was a Kashmir Pandit, Inder Mohan Kaw, who met Gurudeva years ago.

He met with Arumugaswami and talked about conditions in Kashmir. He said that a lot of people are thinking conditions have improved, but in reality, the Kashmir Pandits remain exiles from their homeland, spread in refugee camps and relocation centers around India.

Sivakatirswami shows Inder’s son, Eashan a little bit of what we do in our high-tech publications office as he has been working on getting the next digital edition of Hinduism Today out the door. Eashan is an avid Mac fan, has his own Macbook Pro and makes iMovies for school and listens to music on his iPod. He’s also a vegetarian by his own choice and Arumugaswami is recruiting him to write about that for Hinduism Today.

They will be back tomorrow…

A newly release book which sports the Iraivan temple painting on it’s cover.