Bodhinatha’s Toronto Events

You, your family and friends are lovingly invited to attend Satguru Siva Yogaswamigal’s Mahasamadhi Aaradanai on Saturday, April 8th 2006. Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Guru Mahasannidhanam of Kauai Aadheenam and spiritual successor to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, will preside over this sacred event in tribute to Satguru Siva Yogaswami, mystical giant and protector of Saiva Dharma, in celebration of this great sage’s 42nd mahasamadhi anniversary.

Satguru Siva Yogaswamigal’s Mahasamadhi Aaradanai
Date: Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Time: 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Richmond Hill Ganesh Temple
10865 Bayview Avenue
Richmond Hill
Ontario, CANADA

On this evening, Bodhinatha will share inspiring words about Satguru Yogaswami’s life and teachings. Accompanying Bodhinatha is Sannyasin Yoginathaswami, who will conduct a pada puja to Satguru Yogaswami’s tiruvadi. There will also be singing of Natchintanai and cultural perfomances. The event is dedicated to preserving and promoting the life and teachings of Satguru Yogaswami to the next generation.

For more information on the above event, you may contact:
Siva 416-335-5458; Jayanthi 905-842-0982 or Thiru 416-756-4380

Bodhinatha will also be at the

Sri Varasiththy Vinayagar Hindu Temple of Toronto
Sunday, April 9th from 9:45am to 12:00pm
3025 Kennedy Road Unit 10
Scarborough, ON M1V 1S3
Bodhinatha gives a talk titled “Worship in the Home”

We received notice this week of a special gift being prepared for Iraivan Temple. It is a wooden chariot, just 5.5 feet tall and intricately carved. This marvelous chariot, Ther in Tamil, has been commissioned by Koviloorswami who visited us last year.

Koviloorswami Swami heads up a 200-year-old monastery in Tamil Nadu that is a leader in art and craft.

Swami is working hard to develop educational programs for the various traditional temple arts: Agamic puja, temple music, temple chariot carving and building, temple decoration and several other traditional art and craft form integral to temple culture.

The chariot is in its final stages of preparation. One day we can all pull it around Iraivan during festivals.

Natarajnathaswami is working on a major feature story for the next issue of Hinduism Today: Sivalaya Deepam at Tiruvannamalai.

Saravananathaswami, every busy with communications for Bodhinatha.

There is a great project underway, sponsored by Pathmarajah in Malaysia, to have a simple summary of Saiva Siddhanta and Gurudeva’s life on line in 180 languages. He wants an authentic, but brief, view of our path to be available to nearly everyone on Earth. Visit: http://www.siddha.com.my/

Rev. Bieber and his wife Jane, from Nova Scotia, came to visit. They are friends of a father of one of the monks. After a tour of the temple he came to learn more about the monks publication and community service activities. Arumugaswami shares the progress on the children’s courses, in several languages.

Rev. Bieber spent 30 years doing ministry in the inner city of Detroit. All his years of giving to others has made him a bright, shining soulful being. Though retired he is still active in many ways, continuing to serve as best he can.

Palaniswami speaks to this Indian family that has dropped by…

This phase we received the Tamil version, 12 pages long, which is now being typed in India. We include Vaidehi Ganesan’s text and thank you, Vaidehi, for this contribution to an important project.

If anyone has language skills and would like to help, you can e-mail Palaniswami at palani@hindu.org for details.

Languages completed include:

English
Hindi
Sanskrit
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Marathi
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Portuguese
Arabic
Balinese
Bahasa Malay

Gurudeva’s portrait in the Cedar Room. He watches over all our meetings there.

With his dear Yogaswami nearby.

Many have asked about our rain of late. It’s a bit intimidating, and we are glad to occasionally see the sun peek through.

That’s our mountain in the mist. Mount Waialeale received 93.18 inches for the month of March, which broke the 1950 record by about a foot.

The Wailua River continues to impress us with its power. Perhaps the most impressive record is Lihue (7 miles from the monastery as the crow flies); the 35.84 inches of rain broke the old March record by 21.30 inches, and the monthly total was only about four inches less than the average yearly rainfall. That’s right–nearly a year’s worth of rain has fallen in one month.

The sun’s recent reappearance has brought us the ever remarkable light shows over Mount Waialeale which we share with you to close our phase.

But first, a little light moment from the last innersearch — an unusual video taken in New Zealand at the Sheep World. It shows our Innersearchers feeding the lambs and a small piglet from baby bottles.