It is the end of a short four-day phase. The Ganapati Kulam gave their report today. There has been a lot of focus this phase on the upgrade of our Himalayan Academy site that will be coming in the next few months. Thanks to the generosity of those who donated to the Digital Dharma Drive we will be able to move our web site and offerings to a new level.

We are in the planning stages now, focusing first on making all our existing resource more available and more easily accessible to our viewers. We will also be using a dynamic page assembly system and “opening up” sections of the web page to allow full horizontal use of the “canvas” for video, slideshows and large photos. Stay tuned.

Sadhaka Adhinatha brought this papaya to breakfast this morning. We asked Muruganathaswami to pose for us.

It is as big as a basketball!

The Siddhidata Kulam has been carefully collecting seeds from the trees that are most productive in our often very damp weather. We are slowly developing our own breed of Kauai Aadheenam papayas, cultivars whose seeds grow true generation after generation.

Amma Puvaneswary our sishya from Netherlands arrived on 11 th February 2011.

She is teaching the children English and introducing them to Gurudeva’s Yoga asanas.

She visited the Nallur Temple, Sivathonda Yogaswami Nilayam, Yogaswami Shrine and the Kerrimalai Sivan Temple.

She also had the opportunity to visit the Sivapoomi School for children with Special Needs and the Elderly Home.

She also volunteered to help at the Kopay Navalar school.
Her husband, Appa Clive, will join us on 6 th March. We are looking forward to seeing him.

It is good to know that people can now travel safely in Sri Lanka.

Arati for Gurudeva at the Kopay Siva Lingam shrine

Work continues on Himalayan Acres. More details in a few days…