November 2011 Two-minute News Video
Our November 2011 news video covers events in October, including: two swamis’ attendance at the Uberoi Foundation’s 2011 Experts Meeting at Loyola Marymount University where they released our book “The History of Hindu India;” the gathering of nearly 100 people from around the world on Kauai for four days of celebrations of Gurudeva’s life and remembrances of his mahasamadhi a decade ago; testimony from Aran Veylan about Gurudeva instructing him to start the Mahaganapati Temple in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; photos of the Nandi and yalli handrails for Iraivan Temple; an update on our “Save the Agamas” project in India; and a major upgrade to the monastery electrical system by the monks, volunteer Easvan Param and the island electric company.
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10th Mahasamadhi Anniversary Puja
Feel Gurudeva’s shakti, absorb the blessings, touch his feet as if you were there.
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Monastery Year in Review Video
We are happy to release our year in review video today, summarizing activities of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery from September 2010 to August 2011. See progress on Iraivan Temple; follow Bodhinatha on his travels across the globe; enjoy some powerful words about the Self from Gurudeva; learn about publications, art, sculpture and grounds projects; and take a peek at what is happening at our center on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
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Gurudeva Pada Puja (video)
We bring you a short iPhone video with highlights of our monthly puja to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami’s sandals at his shrine in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery on the monthly occurrence of his mahasamadhi nakshatra, Chitra, September 1, 2011. Only two months to go before the grand tenth annual observances of Gurudeva’s Mahasamadhi!
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Photos for "The Guru Chronicles" Continue
Senthilnathaswami is hard at work color correcting the digital photos for our new book The Guru Chronicles. We bring to you a few special gems for your viewing pleasure. Here Gurudeva offers arati to a Saivite Saint at Nallai Aadheenam at Nallur, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the 1982-1983 Innersearch.
January 17, 1982: Gurudeva’s first visit to the village of Kopay in Jaffna. Boys pulled him in a Morris Minor convertible. “Golden days with a golden guru,” says Rishi Thondunatha, one of the boys on the ropes.
Gurudeva reviewing plans for Iraivan Temple with Selvanathan Sthapati at the carving site in Bangalore.
Some Jewels From Gurudeva’s Photo Archives
All of our physical photo archives have been digitized. But viewing them all will take much time. As we go through the collection, we find marvelous shots of Gurudeva. We bring a few of these to you today.
“I see you, you see me.”
“Dance with me!”
Siva Is the Life of Your Life
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From Our Gurus' Teachings
Archives are now available through 2001. Light colored days have no posts. 1998-2001 coming later.
