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“Let us look within and see if we are reacting to anything right now, holding any resentment, holding any fear. Let us know that that is just a gauge of experience of the instinctive nature. Loosen it and let it go. Mentally look ahead to the future and know that everything we do and say will have a reaction. Let us give birth to good, positive, controlled reactions, and be sure that if they overlap, they are transparent–that they create a light growing brighter. Overlapping negative reactions bring darkness, depression, and make man nervous.”
–Gurudeva
Bodhinatha is finished with his program in Maryland. He had two days packed with darshan meetings with devotees all over the area…
Bodhinatha’s next travel is to Atlanta, Georgia, and Bethesda, Maryland. Please visit his travel page for more information.
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Ravi and Purnima Sreenivasan and their daughter, Akanksha from Concord, California.
This is what Dakshinamurthi looks like from the perspective of a little girl only three feet tall.
It was Akanksha’s birthday today. She turned three years of age today. She and her mother watch the fish in the ponds on San Marga.
The family saw an advertisement somewhere about our temple… probably it was some magazine called Hinduism Today…
They came today to give Akanksha a special archana here in Hawaii. Nice birthday gift!
They go to the Palaniswami Sivan in Concord every week. Off the path to San Marga there is one orange tree that bears fruit in the off season… Let’s get one for little Akanksha.
Fresh from Lord Siva’s orchards.
Happy Birthday Akanksha!
A photo documentary today of the famed “Anna Purna Gardens.” brought to you by the dedicated and hard working Siddhidata Kulam.
After several years of hard work, the vision and plan is manifesting: 75 beds for planting vegetables that would otherwise cost a fortune in the market…
Each of these has been “double dug,” compost added, and mulch.
The slogan of the team is: “Absolutely no chemicals, and no machines!”
And there are tons of flowers for the temple also. Lord Ganesha presides at the center, soon to be manifest as a larger, incredibly beautiful one from Bangalore… a story for another day…
The beds are rotated with a careful plan… some are planted with this Crotelarius, Sun Hemp which is a nitrogen fixing plant… When this is about half way mature it will be turned back into the soil. Then the bed will be rotated with “heavy feeders” like crucifers (broccoli, cabbage etc.) that take a lot of nutrition from the soil and next the bed is planted with a lighter vegetable like Amaranth.
Tomatoes are notoriously expensive and also difficult to grow because they are easily stung by the tropical fruit flies. But our team is vowed to raise them and are succeeding by planting them in pots inside a small makeshift green house tent.
These are a special variety known to do well in Hawaii.
It takes a lot of planning and advance thinking to keep up the seedling production for future plantings…which includes flowers, like these marigolds that are almost ready to leave the nursery for the open skies.
This may be Swiss chard? Very few plants survive direct planting out in the open. Chickens and small birds will eat the shoots of the small sprouts. Those that do make it through the first stages of sprouting may get beaten down in a heavy tropical rain downpour. The solution is to start them inside and transplant them when they are strong.
These are pole beans…
This variety is a “long bean” and that means sometimes as long as 15 inches!
The Mauritius pumpkin has a very hard shell if it can hide under the vines, the young gourd fruits will usually manage to mature to the point where their skin is too hard to be stung by the fruit flies. Then, they grow, and grow and GROW… we’ve had them grow to nearly 30 pounds for a single pumpkin.
A new amaranth planting… a soft, delicious, quickly cooked, nutritious green vegetable.
Jai Ganesha!
Two of the tomato plants have been brought in for display during lunch.
100 % organic.
It’s a mini-victory for us to be able to grow our own…
Saiva Siddhanta Church
Malaysia Mission
Gurudeva encouraged his devotees to celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day with a Hindu spirit. It’s always great fun in Malaysia… here is the story from Malaysia.
The walls are decked with tiny hearts of love.
The eldest and first “queen” to receive her crown:Amma Rajalakshmi and her family. Appa just had an eye cataract surgery.
Amma Mohana Gunasegaran being garlanded by her beloved husband
Our bevy of beauties in a row.
More beauties joining the line
Performance by Bro. Gunasegaran’s family:a humor filled depiction of a day in amma’s life
Young Tirunyanam’s poem recital
Promising little “angel”, Tarakini full of emotions during her poem recitation
Kulapathi Guhan’s children with their remixed version of the kummiaddi natchinthanai
Surprise!!!!Sister Gowrie gleefully cutting her cake.
All beautiful mothers invited for a cake cutting ceremony.
Eldest amma invited to light up the candles, Hindu way.
Beautiful sight! All ammas cutting the cake.
Testimony time, bro. Arvind’s amma sharing her thoughts.
Closing ceremony: Bro. Kailasam Chinnatamby with his catchy number.
It was a joyful day for all.
Today’s Inspired Talk |
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Title: Muruga, The God of Yoga and the Spiritual Path, Part 1 Category: God and Lords of Dharma Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds Date Given: May 20, 2004 Date Posted: May_31_2004 Given by: Bodhinatha |
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