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It’s the last day of the phase and we have no more photos from Bodhinatha’s past mission… Which makes perfect sense as today, right here at Kauai Aadheenam things were very, very busy! We could hardly keep up with the flow of tour day visitors and pilgrims asking for darshan with Bodhinatha.
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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
Over our coming three-day retreat,
Until Tritya Tithi, Sun One, Thursday, Sept 30th
You and your family and friends are warmly requested to attend a special function for a discourse, satsang and darshan with Bodhinatha on his next visit to San Francisco.
Date: Monday, 11th October 2004 (Columbus Day public holiday)
Time: 4 – 6pm
Venue: The Spinnaker Banquet Room
The Spinnaker Restaurant
100 Spinnaker Dr
Sausalito, CA 94965
Tel: (415)-332-1500
For directions visit www.thespinnaker.com
Bodhinatha will present the fascinating progress that has been taking place on the hand-carved granite San Marga Iraivan Temple, the latest issues addressed by Hinduism Today and the many other activities that have been taking place at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. At the end of the afternoon, there will be an opportunity for you to personally meet with Bodhinatha and share your questions, thoughts and inspirations with him. Your presence is indispensable, and we look forward to seeing you there. Please RSVP to Sadhaka Dandapani (808-822-3012, Ext 239; danda@hindu.org)
TRAVEL NEWS! Bodhinatha’s next travel is October 8-12 in San Francisco Bay Area, California. See travel page for more information.
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Mahesh and Krithika are visiting from southern California. To plan their visit to Kauai, they searched on the Web for things to do on Kauai and discovered our monastery website! Krithika started scanning all the pages and felt mesmerized by all the information and resolved to definitely visit and if possible have darshan of Bodhinatha. So they did, and asked some very practical questions about what kind of feelings are healthy feelings to cultivate, and how to maintain peace in their home and with relatives.
The weather devas were taking care to watch over our schedule and brought a bright sunny day for all our tour day visitors.
Our silpis have taken an interest in the tour day and prepare a stone and chisels for guests to have a hand at carving the temple.
A bright family….
As the sanctum nears completion, roof beams extending outward are soon to be placed and our silpis are working on these. Our guests are amazed at the huge stones.
Hugging a Rudraksha tree. A practice Gurudeva recommended, beloved by all.
After the tour, visitors are allowed to enter Kadavul Temple. Many have never been in a Hindu temple in their lives. They sit totally captivated by the power of the shakti.
Sivakatirswami happened to meet these young men from New York. It seems another famous East coast travel guide has a write up on Kauai and our temple. They are in the software industry, working for big enterprise companies and banks. Their father on the right is visiting from Punjab.
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Date: January051999
Title: Gurudeva Jayanthi
Category: Festivals and Sacraments
Duration: 7 min., 22 seconds
Date Given: January O5, 1999
Given By: Gurudeva
Today at Kauai Aadheenam, January 5th. Happy Birthday to me! Seventy-three birthday parties. That’s a lot!
The most embarrassing one was when I was born. That was embarrassing. Getting slapped on the behind. That started an ongoing campaign that we have against child abuse. What a way to enter a physical consciousness, with a pat on the butt that didn’t feel very good. Can almost remember it to this day. Hanging upside down there, somebody holding my feet, and whap! That’s unfair, to beat a little kid. But it is being done to little kids all over the world and laws are being passed and laws are being enforced.
Another memorable birthday was 21 years of age, arriving and walking through the Gateway to India. Stepping off a freighter boat, the first one to leave for India after the war. Stepping off on India’s soil. What a fantastic ‘Happy Birthday’ present that was for a twenty-one year old looking for his Guru.
Quite a few birthday parties. I wish I could have attended them all; are going on right now- Denmark, Sri Lanka in Batticoloa at our Tirunavakarasu Gurukulam. It is an orphanage that we support through Hindu Heritage Endowment.
Myself, also being an orphan at a very early age, about 9 or 10 years of age, know exactly how those young men feel. This orphanage was told that a sizable endowment was set up for them and they are going to get megabucks of rupees, every year to add on buildings, to buy books and they are celebrating Gurudeva’s Jayanthi, which is the Sanskrit word for birthday, in appreciation.
They were told that unless they stop corporal punishment to keep the kids in line, the endowment would not get even one rupee. This had a magical effect, believe it or not. All the teachers, all the instructors sent us letters pledging that they would not pinch a kid, twist his ear, hit him with a ruler on his hands or whip him on his legs if he were a naughty boy. They printed pamphlets in English and the Tamil language and distributed them throughout the city. They are still doing that, telling people that there are better ways of raising children than to throw them into the state of mind of fear, the state of mind of resentment, the state of mind of locking themselves in and shuting off their intelligence simply because they are afraid of their teacher. They are afraid of their elders. They are afraid of their parents. These young people and their instructors hope to make a difference in Batticoloa, Sri Lanka. To me, that is a wonderful birthday gift.
Another wonderful birthday gift was, and is, six young men from the age eight years old to twelve, who have been enrolled in the Vedic-Agamic Gurukulam under the aegis of Sri Sri Sri Tiruchi Swamigal of the Kailasa Ashram in Bangalore, close to where we are building the Iraivan Temple. These young men are going to be the priests of Iraivan Temple. They are going through a five-year training, in learning all of the necessary Sanskrit slokas, the ways of performing puja. A thorough training to turn them out as authentic priests, well educated in the Agamas, the Vedas. We are very proud of them, all given to me by their parents with love and devotion. Today is the day when their parents are there, and the head of our temple site, Jiva Rajasankara, Sri Sri Sri Balagangadaranathaswami, Sri Sri Sri Tiruchiswami, Sri Jayendrapuriswami and all the other Swamis, devotees and disciples of this great state of India. Tiruchiswami, Sivaratnapuriswamigal, heads a very very large ashram called Kailasa Ashram, with a fantastically beautiful temple, a Rajarajeshwari temple.
What a wonderful gift to be given, these six young men! We accept them with love in our hearts and believe you me, we will take care of them extremely well.
Well, that is my birthday testimony. It is nice to hear myself saying these things but, another thing is that we are very happy that you have tuned into our Cyber Ashram and that you are living in cyberspace with us. It is like the Akashic world. We can look out through the computer and see you through cyberspace, and you are looking good today, many of you.
I see one sad face. Realize all that you have gone through in this life has brought you to the point where you can say, “I want to change. I want to be happy.” Be happy by making someone else smile. The reaction to that will make you smile. Life is too unsure, and life is too short to experience unhappiness for too long a time. So cheer up, out there.
I’ll see you tomorrow through cyberspace at ‘Today at Kauai Aadheenam’, tomorrow.
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