Here is Gajanan Nataraj, our dynamic and cheerful taskforcer from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. He’s been serving in the Pillaiyar Kulam of late–the team that manages our monastery’s Minimela Gift Shop. The Minimela enterprise was initiated by Gurudeva himself in 1983 in San Franscisco. His goal was to make sure that the precious items and supplies that devotees needed in their homes for religious life would always be available.
A huge order of devotional artifacts recently arrived from India and Gajanan spent several days pricing thousands of the new items that then immediately find their way to the store’s shelves. You can check out the beautiful offerings at minimela.com. Note the little Nataraj in the background, Gajanan’s namesake. He says that Nataraj statues have a way of appearing spontaneously in the background of photos of himself.