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Farewell to Chandan Prabhu: A Beloved Mridanga Player and Devotee

Posted by | Jun 7, 2024 | 6,556 views

Yesterday (June 6th), another of our friends, Chandan prabhu, a long time devotee at Dayalu Baba’s ashram, passed away, just 10 days after baba had left. He was a professional mridanga player, and would always be there to help in the ashram and perform kirtan. I had known him for around 15 years, and his father was the one who sold us the farm land which we gave to Dayalu Baba for him to grow rice and sustain his ashram.

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Sri Dayalu Baba Enters Maha Samadhi at His Ashram in Odisha

Posted by | May 29, 2024 | 4,839 views

Yesterday (May 28th) at 10 am one of the great hidden sadhus of Odisha left his body and was placed in samadhi at his ashram in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. Dayalu Baba had spent many decades roaming the forests around the sacred Ratna Giri mountain in the Salandi Reserve Forest and performing severe sadhana. He was a disciple of a great local saint named Rama Baba, who’s samadhi is now located in Jharkhand.

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Ashram News and Notes (April, 2024)

Posted by | Apr 11, 2024 | 5,294 views

Recently we heard that one of the senior sadhus of this area who stays at the ashram in Chakratirtha had fell and hit his head, so we went to see how he was. He is now between 102 and 103 years old and due to his age has difficulty walking down steps.

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Update on Eye Operations for 102 Year Old Sadhu Brahma Chaitanya Das

Posted by | Dec 7, 2023 | 3,887 views

Back in February we had written about a senior sadhu in our area, Brahma Chaitanya Das, who needed to have cataract operations on both of his eyes, as due to his advanced age of 102 years he was no longer able to see clearly. Now that it is all complete we are able to inform you of the final update on everything.

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From Yamadeepam to Jack-o’-Lanterns: Tracing Halloween’s Hindu Origins

Posted by | Nov 4, 2023 | 9,207 views

Unknown to many is the fact that Halloween is actually descended from the ancient Hindu worship of the god of death, Yama, and a festival called as Yamadeepam, held each year on Dhanteras day, which falls roughly in the same week as Halloween.

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Ashram News and Notes (October, 2023)

Posted by | Oct 7, 2023 | 4,040 views

Here are some pictures of the first harvest of the ridge gourd we planted in the ashram goshala. The plants were growing too much so we had to add a trellis roof to stop them from going over the compound wall and give them a place to expand to.

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From Orphaned Puppy to Beloved Temple Visitor

Posted by | Sep 30, 2023 | 2,046 views

Yesterday we had to burry one of the street dogs we helped as a puppy. We heard she had been hit by a car, so we went out and found her body and brought her back to burry in our goshala. She had no external injuries or blood, so I guess it was a brain injury. Someone told us a car had hit her, after she walked for a minute and then died.

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The Northern Lights: A Glimpse into the Cosmic Dance of Divine Effulgent Beings

Posted by | Sep 29, 2023 | 5,188 views

What are the Northern Lights? According to the ancient Vedic teachings, the north pole contains the pivot of the universal earth plane in the form of the magnetic Meru mountain (hence compasses point to the North Pole), and all stars revolve around that pivot like lights on a spinning chandelier.

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Cow Leather in Sports: Unraveling the Asura Agenda

Posted by | Sep 17, 2023 | 1,799 views

The NFL kills 3,000 cows a year to make footballs, totaling over 300,000 cows since 1920. If you include the official regulation footballs sold to the public its 35,000 cows a year.

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Building a New Temple Chariot for Ratha Yatra at Our Jagannatha Temple

Posted by | Jul 4, 2023 | 4,716 views

This year we took up the task of making a new temple chariot for conducting the Ratha Yatra festival at our temple in Bhadrak, Odisha. This has been our desire for many years, going back to when this temple was first established 17 years ago.

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