Bodhinatha's California Retreat, Day 1
Bodhinatha's first day at the Santa Cruz retreat. It is quite and intensive program. Over the course of two and a half days, Bodhinatha will give 8 sessions:
#1 -- The Focus of Hinduism: what exactly are we striving to accomplish
#2 -- Integrating Spiritual Advancement into Work: an A,B,C,D,E approach
#3 -- Character Building: fifty-two character qualities and how to strengthen them
#4 -- Shum Study: understanding and experiencing awareness; thinking about versus actually experiencing. keeping it in the present.
#5 -- Prana: understanding it and learning to direct it through the physical body.
#6 -- Affectionate Detachment: what is it and how can negative attachments be released.
#7 -- An Exercise in Spiritual Identity: Soul Controls Instincts, Intellect and Ego
#8 -- The Guru Chronicles: Stories and teachings
Yoginathaswami is also giving two presentations on the significance of Siva puja
Bodhinatha at Santa Cruz Retreat
Bodhinatha, Yoginathaswami and Sadhaka Nilakanthanatha had a smooth trip to California and today the retreat program in Santa Cruz is going strong.
Bodhinatha at the Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona
The temple is celebrating its Maha Kumbhabhishekam and invited Bodhinatha. Everyone was extremely happy and grateful he was there. This was expressed many, many times over the two days of pujas.
In addition to the two residend priests others were from Canada, San Diego, New Orleans, Maryland and Washington, DC. They and their many assistant acharyas worked extremely well together and the two days Bodhinatha was there, everything went smoothly.
In third from last photo below, with Bodhinatha in the Ganesha shrine, the priest on the right in red had met Bodhinatha before. The first time was in Rose Hill, Mauritius, then again in Baltimore. Small world for sure.
Bodhinatha Participates in Phoenix Ganesha Temple Festival
On May 26th and 27th, Bodhinatha traveled to Phoenix with Sannyasin Muruganathaswami to attend tha Maha Kumbhabhishekam of the Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona. See their web site for details on the temple http://www.ganapati.org Seven Deities were consecrated
Bodhinatha's Publisher's Desk Video
Bodhinatha Safely Arrived in Phoenix
Om Sivaya, everyone,
Jai Ganapati.
Friday's flight was pleasant and on time arriving around midnight in Phoenix.
Saturday at the temple just a few hundred. Head priest is Bhairavasundaram. He is the priest that helped Sambamurti Sivacharya with our Pancha Silanyasa ceremony for Iraivan, currently serves at the Boston Lakshmi Temple and is Sambamurti's son in law.
Ceremonies were mainly the seven homas, one for each murti, eye opening, placing of navaratnas and closing puja. Excellent group of priests, and powerful ceremonies.
Main day is Sunday.
Evening a satsang at Chellappa and Banu's home. About thirty devotees, attentive group, good questions.
Om
Bodhinattha
All of Bodhinatha's Sun One Upadeshas On Line
We are happy to let you all know that all of the Sun One upadeshas that Bodhinatha has given to date have been processed, transcribed and now online. The sidebar link is for the talk he gave this phase. Here are links to all the other talks he has given in May.
• Decisions, Discover and Use Your Intuition, 2012-04-30
• The Soul and Its Five Bodies, 2012-05-08
• Methods for Maintaining Inner Awareness, 2012-05-14
• Classical Definition of Yoga, 2012-05-21
Bodhinatha Departs for Phoenix
A temple in Phoenix has invited Bodhinatha for the Kumbhabhishekam. He is off on a whirlwind two-day trip, comes home and then departs again on Sun One for Santa Cruz.
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