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description: 'Inside '
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description: 'Our iPad was frequently used to show them our life in Hawaii'
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description: 'Model of their future temple'
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description: 'Off to Spain'
},
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description: 'The Madrid airport is remarkable, one among the world\'s most beautiful, all in natural wood'
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description: 'Alvaro Enterria and his wife speak with us about Hinduism in Spain, of which they are experts'
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description: 'Oscar Montero has much to share'
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description: 'Along the way, we stay connected to home and the web on our iPad Mini'
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description: 'Next to Baarcelona'
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description: 'Swami Satyananda has arranged our days here, a brillian Spanish swami who spent over 30 years in India'
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description: 'In the home of Elena Saura we speak with local sadhakas.'
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description: 'Martine Thom has come to join us, from France'
},
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description: 'The face of Hinduism in Spain'
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description: 'We gather one evening with all the leaders of temples and ashrams for a group interview and dinner'
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description: 'They are an animated group'
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description: 'Swami takes us to see the famed cathedral la Sagrada FamÃlia'
},
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description: 'Also to Barcelona\'s main cathedral, with a great pipe organ inside'
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description: 'We climb to the top for a photo'
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description: 'Then enjoy the sights and some tea'
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description: 'By chance we meet a swami who has been to Kauai and pose with him.'
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description: 'Venice calls.'
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description: 'We arrive in the fames Italian city of Venice'
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description: 'A boat takes us fromthe airport to our hotel doorstep! That\'s different\/'
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description: 'Expresso in Italy'
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description: 'Senthilnathaswami finds some mushrooms in the market'
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description: 'The culture is amazing, here a music concert in a cathedral'
},
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description: 'In the streets we are approached by a newlywed couple who read the magazine. '
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description: 'By train we head for the other coast'
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description: 'They show us their Sri Lalita Temple'
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description: 'Inside you would think you are in India'
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description: 'Senthilnathaswami worked for weeks in advance to coordinate the entire journey.'
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description: 'Swami Yogananda Giri is our affable host for two days'
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description: 'Nandi the bull'
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description: 'Swamini Hamsananda Giri took two days of her precious time to help us with the article and, here, to share about their life in this remote ashram'
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description: 'Shrines are all around'
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description: 'And a massive bell!'
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description: 'They have murthis of Ganesha, Murugan, Siva, Parvati: all the holy family'
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description: 'We are taken to their rose garden'
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description: 'Over 5,000 rose bushes provide daily offerings to the Goddess'
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description: 'Only the fragrant ones are cultivated'
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description: 'Swami Nityapriyananda is our co-host'
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description: 'Ma Umananda shows us the flowers in the garden she helps tend.'
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description: 'The main facilities of the ashram'
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description: 'We meet with their publications team, Lakshmi Publishing'
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description: 'They all read Hinduism Today and so we have a fruitful conversation about articulating Hinduism in the West'
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description: 'Then we are asked to address 2- yogis who are here on a retreat'
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description: 'Swaminii Hamsananda introduces us'
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description: 'We speak of yoga, its promises and perils'
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description: 'Life here centers around the temple with daily pujas'
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description: 'Swami himself does the noon puja each day'
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description: 'We circumambulate the sanctum'
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description: 'Swamini Umananda leads the bhajan one evening'
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description: 'They chant the entire Lalita Sahasranama twice each day'
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description: 'To the kitchen, where wood-fired pizza is being prepared for lunch'
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description: 'Before this day we thought our monks in Kauai made the world\'s best pizza'
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description: 'Meetings between the two Saiva Siddhanta orders were the most precious part of the visit'
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description: 'As we prepare to depart, Swami brings some gifts'
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description: 'We have brought a Rudraksha mala for him and offer it with immense respect for what he has accomplished'
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description: 'A meal in Swami\'s quarters'
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description: 'Our guesthouse, built by Swami Nityapriyananda and his team'
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description: 'With Lord Murugan behind'
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description: 'They have 51 murthies, one each for the Sanskrit letters'
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description: 'Who would have thought this was Italy?'
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description: 'A new temple is planned for this Sivalingam, just nearby'
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description: 'Off to the South'
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description: 'We fly to the capital'
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description: 'The Catania Geetananda Circle at the Doorga Maa Mandir'
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description: 'The perform wonderful bhajans'
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description: 'It\'s a small group from Mauritius'
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description: 'The market is abundant with fresh produce, some things we have never seen'
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description: 'Next is Switzerland'
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description: 'Bern is a university city'
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description: 'We drive through the fames countryside'
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description: 'Lunch at a hillside inn'
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description: 'Dr. Frank Neubert is an expert in Hindu academic knowledge and we go to the college to chat'
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description: 'He plans to visit Kauai and has written articles on Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami'
},
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description: 'Visiting a small temple in Geneva'
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description: 'Senthilnathaswami on the job, reaching out to our next country in the iPad'
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description: 'We stop at day\'s end at the Sri Manomani Ampal Alayam in Trimbach'
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description: 'Inside, beautifully ornamented shrines everywhere'
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description: 'This will be one of the largest temples in Switzerland'
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description: 'Lunch at a hillside inn'
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description: 'Moving East'
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description: 'We reach the Omkarananda Ashram in Winterthur'
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description: 'Here the powerful presence of the founder, Swami Omkarananda is palpable, as his sannyasins honor his life and legacy each day'
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description: 'Bhajan before the guru\'s shrine'
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description: 'We interview the sannyasins and expert Hindus for our article'
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description: 'Satya Kumar and Madhu Shastri from the UK have much to share'
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description: 'Swami Vishnudevananda is a fan of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami\'s trilogy, and so we sign his copies'
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description: 'Other sannyasins join, asking about life at the monastery in Hawaii'
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description: 'Mr. Jothi give the most lucid and succinct summary of Hinduism in Switzerland, so perfect we feel we can print it without editing '
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description: 'Swamini Vivekananda is the seniormost of the mathavasis here'
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description: 'In this small room the monastics do a homa 24 hours a day'
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description: 'Prayers for peace resonate in all directions'
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description: 'In Berlin we are met by our close members, the Veeragathiyar family and by Niraj Thakar'
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description: 'The Berlin Dome'
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description: 'A small Tamil temple in Berlin'
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description: 'Inside the temple'
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description: 'We speak with the animated and energetic priest'
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description: 'Lagter, a satsang in a small apartment'
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description: 'Veeragathiyas offers arati'
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description: 'Back at the temple the elders tell us they are building a new temple nearby, a proper one'
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description: 'We hear the story of the community, the successes and struggles'
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description: 'We ask the priest to see their new mandir'
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description: 'So, we are taken on a ten-minute ride to this corner'
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description: 'Inside the plaster work is done, and the painting will begin soon'
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description: 'We take a small lift to the upper tower where silpis are sculpting the deities'
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description: 'And painters are doing their magic'
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description: 'Then to the Sri Ganesha Temple, which is in a public park, beautifully situated. The pujari greets us'
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description: 'Puja ensues'
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description: 'This is an important temple in Berlin, and the state gave the land'
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description: 'The elders gather for our Hinduism Today interview'
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description: 'They have much to say about being a Hindu in Germany'
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description: 'They show us the architectural plans for the extension'
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description: 'A wooden model of their plans'
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description: 'Then we walk a short distance to the place of the Rajagopuram for a group photo'
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description: 'Paramacharya blesses the construction with chants and vibuthi'
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description: 'We have always heard of the temples in Hamm, Germany and now we are there.'
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description: 'Greeted at the Sri Sithivinayagar Temple'
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description: 'A short puja for Ganesha'
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description: 'As everywhere, we speak with the founders and elders about Hinduism in their new land'
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description: 'This group is mainly young professionals, a second generation that speaks German fluently.'
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description: 'They are having an easier time than their parents, the pioneers'
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description: 'Puvaneshwari Roberts has come from the Netherlands and helps with the recordings'
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description: 'Off next to the famed Amman Temple in Hamm.'
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description: 'Hindus from all over the Continent pilgrimage here for festivals.'
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description: 'Pure tradition inside'
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description: 'Sri Paskara Gurukkal is the founder and inspiration behind this amazing site and institution'
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description: 'He shares his story'
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description: 'And shows us papers of the temple\'s acceptance by the government'
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description: 'We take our leave'
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description: 'Off to Cologne'
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description: 'We encounter the Afgan Hindus of Germany, building this three-story facility, the Hari Om Mandir'
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description: 'In the Netherlands, the amazingly active Shree Ram Mandir'
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description: 'Siva and Hanuman at the entry'
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description: 'The Afghan elders share the tale of their arrival in the country'
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description: 'Bikram Lalbahadoersing is the head of Hindu chaplains for the Dutch Ministry'
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description: 'Group shot of the visitors and the directors'
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description: 'the Balinese presence in Europe is large, and we visit the home of Made Sukasta and his Balinese wife'
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description: 'We are here to get their story, and we are shown true Balinese hospitality'
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description: 'Luh Gee Juli Wirahmini Bisterfeld takes a train from Hamburg to be part of our interview.'
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description: 'The Baliese have built this temple in Belgium!'
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description: 'The main train station in Paris, an historic landmark'
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