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What Happened Today at the Monastery?
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We have another excellent series of photos from Toronto. Here is Bodhinatha arriving for the special function in honor of Siva Yogaswami… more pictures below.
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Today we welcomed our newest monastic candidate, Paul Hardman. Paul is from Maryland and is 21 years old, but his soul seems far older.
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He began today by joining the Ganapati Kulam, working on our video/audio workstation.
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Paul is helping the archiving of Gurudeva’s lifetime of work, logging in videos from the past.
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Shanmuganathaswami and Sadhaka Jothinatha are brainstorming this morning.
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Swami is making plans for our administrative future and finding new efficiencies.
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Sadhaka is working with many Hindus around the country to present Hinduism to visitors to dozens of Hindu festivals that occur each year in different cities.
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And past our gnarley Banyan.
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Our photographer discovers a 6″ by 6″ board once used to hold up a limb, now almost completely engulfed with the tree. One day it will disappear.
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Palaniswami took Paul to the Iraivan Temple site, climbed up the ladder to the roof only to find another photographer there on the scene.
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The silpis are there.
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They are working on making some roof lines straight by using a system of water leveling.
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Then we took Paul to the garden.
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The garden team was planting and putting up some protective mesh to guard young seedlings, and also weeding with a torch, one way we have found to avoid chemicals in our growing. You can see a short video of this below.
[Small video survey: the video above of the temple is an Mpeg4 file. The one above of the garden is a .mov file. If you can see both of these, excellent. if you can view one but not the other, please send a note to studyhall@hindu.org explaining which one you can see and which one you cannot see. Thanks]
Bodhinatha in Toronto
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