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A Bright and Joyous Sun 4

Sun Four brings us another dynamic day at Kauai Aadheenam. The focus continues to be on the gold leafing of Iraivan.

Dr. Thiagarajan Continues His Work Here

Dr. Thiagarajan continues with his seva here. Today he finished translating about 280 squares of the complete Snakes and Ladders games.

If you love Sanskrit Chanting, you can hear him on the YouTube video below, chanting in Iraivan. You can also get his CD’s at his web site.

Many guests have commented on the beautiful chanting they hear in Kadavul. Many of these chants are by Dr. Thiagarajan. You can have them in your own home too!
Click here to go to his web site. Find out about his mission to preserve and propagate our holy languages and scriptures. Find out more in the article and interview we did here in Hinduism Today

You can get his chanting CD by clicking here.

This version of snakes and ladders is very sophisticated and complex.

It is a complete map of various states of consciousness, character traits, lokas, behaviors etc. We roll the dice and depending on the square we land on, we proceed toward Moksha or slide back down to the bhuloka.

Potriyan Sivanathan Doing Great Sivathondu!

Potriyan is hard at work in the Ganapati Kulam doing a huge job of scanning past issues for making PDF’s that will be posted on the web.

Re-Gilding Gurudeva's Murthi

Jill London (right) from Gilder’s Studio guides three of our shishya in the re-gilding of Gurudeva’s murthi.

Today instead of rolls we are using small sheets

The team: Kulapati Deva Rajan, Tandu Sivanathan, Kulamata Isani Alahan and Jill

Golden Body

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    Golden Days

    Yesterday the team completed the gilding of the Rajagopuram stone. Here Deva Rajan deftly fills open areas that are called "retreats" in the trade. Did you know that all the gold ever taken from the Earth would make a cube 60 feet long, high and wide? Not all that much when you think of the thousands of years humans have been mining it.

    The professional gilders' hands have done this a thousand times. They did the New York Life Insurance building, a Morman temple and a US Sikh temple, the Georgia State Capital, the Library of Congress and more. Now they can add America's only all-granite temple to their portfolio.

    This team knows its gold. And they have told the swamis a dozen times how special this job is to them, and how honored they feel to be gilding such a sacred and artistic masterpiece. Jill documents the project for their website portfolio.

    Jill is the best of the guilders, and a teacher in the bargain. Jill is working with two brushes at the same time since the wind came up suddenly and the leaf was being lost. They hate to lose gold leaf, and carefully recycle all they can capture.

    She is teaching Isani Alahan, Tandu Sivanathan and DevaRajan the craft.

    Easani has a gift for fine work and patiently applies her concentration skills to Siva's Home.

    Michael Kramer invented this roller applicator and had it made to his specifications, to make application on larger surfaces more efficient. Check out our slideshow showing more of the gilding process along with Gurudeva's teachings on the Golden Body of the soul.

    Happy Pilgrims

    Visiting Hindu guests.

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