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Flowers in the Garden

Our Taskforcers Roshan and Vel Mahalingam

Jai Ganesha!

As we were strolling around the Aadheenam we caught up with the monks of the Siddhidatta Kulam who were doing their seva in the Garden. It’s a routine they do each week to maintain our vegetable plants. From here we get several of our vegetable verities such as zucchini, pumpkin, kangkung, okra and green beans. The Siddhidatta Kulam usually spends their morning on the first day or our lunar week here, harvesting, planting and mulching. Our two taskforcers, Roshan and Vel are also here, enjoying the Garden Day with Mayilnathaswami and Vishvanathaswami. Here are some of the pictures we took, to give you a glimpse of our beautiful Annapurna Garden. Aum!

Gurudeva’s shrine in Moscow

Madurai street life story

Satguru’s Publisher Desk editorial

Opening spead of the Adi Shankara Insight

Magazine cover for this issue

There is a kind of James Bond unbelievability to the fact that Hinduism Today magazine continues to be published each issue from Russia. The small team there translates, retypesets, prints and distributes it every three months—a lot of work for a small team. We just received the latest Russian edition PDF and posted it to the HT site. If you have Russian speaking friends, they can download it here: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/HT-russian_No3.2024.pdf

Here is a short email that Dinanath Bodhiswami, the Russian editor, sent two days back:

Jai Gurudeva! Jai Satguru! Jai Kauai Aadheenam! Om Namasivaya!

Dear Sadasivanathaswami, Namaskar!

Today we celebrate the Day of Mahasamadhi Gurudeva (according to the Solar calendar).

We are sending the link to the Russian PDF. Thank you so much for supporting our publishing activities.

With infinite love, Dinanath & Russian Team.

Aum Sri Gurubhyo Namah

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami gives his weekly upadesha in Kadavul Temple at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii. It is part of a series of talks elaborating on the inspired teachings of Satguru Śivaya Subramuniyaswami as found in his book Merging With Śiva.

“We can see that from the mystic’s point of view, he is the watcher. And as the mirror is in no way discolored by what it reflects, so is the mystic in his perfected state. Your perfected state, too, as the watcher, is right there, deep within you. The next time you sit for meditation, follow my guru’s advice to us all and witness your thoughts. Be that stationary awareness, holding form in its own perfection. All you have to do is to watch your mind think. Then and only then are you experiencing your perfect state of inner being. The only difference between the jñānī and the novice is that the jñānī stays in there longer as the watcher, whereas the novice experiences this only momentarily from time to time. “

Kodiswara putting up the sign

There are two signs on each corner

Jai Mahalingeshwara!

For the past few months we have been facing a small issue where some visitors have walked up to Iraivan Temple while still wearing their shoes. They are not aware that the proper thing to do, is to remove them before walking up the entry steps towards the Nandi Mandapam. Since some people simply don’t know the protocol, we decided to put up a sign to inform them “No shoes or sandals beyond this point.” In some temples people are allowed to wear sandals within the outer structure. However, we must be strict because the consecrated Nandi Mandapam requires that people not wear their shoes around it. Today Kodiswara printed, laminated and installed the sign, which will be temporary until a more elegant, aluminium sign is created. Have a great day everyone! Aum!

Our Server Is Being Upgraded

Every few years it is necessary to change our server which is hosted by a professional company. On November 11 and 12 they will be porting our extensive data to new hardware and we will not be able to post TAKA for those days. We will return.