As we said on Sun 1, Everyone speaks of the grace of the Satguru's Feet, but the eyes of a great soul have their own gracious gifts, like a direct encounter with our soul.
It's a bit warm in the tropical sun, so they have their heads covered to avoid sunburn....that's Diksha Kandar in the back, blissful to be on Kauai after many years.
The monks would like to extend a warm thank you to Kulapati Vel Alahan of Colorado who just gifted 50 beautiful, healthy saplings of the coastal rewood tree to Kauai Aadheenam. The coastal redwood, or Sequoia sempervirens, is the tallest tree on Earth. Native to the coastal area of northern California and southwestern Oregon, the redwoods occupy a narrow strip of land approximately 450 miles (724 km) in length and 5 to 35 miles (8-56 km) in width.
With these newly arrived and very healthy saplings from Colorado, the monks hope to establish a small forest of redwoods on the Aadheenam property, possible somewhere near the already existing rudraksha forest.
Tree to 60-100 (110) m tall and 300-460 (900) cm dbh. Trunk much enlarged and buttressed at the base and often with rounded swellings or burls, slightly tapering Crown crown conic and monopodial when young, narrowed conic in age, irregular and open. Bark red-brown, to ca. 35 cm thick, tough and fibrous, deeply furrowed into broad, scaly ridges; inner bark cinnamon-brown. Branches downward sweeping to slightly ascending. Twigs slender, dark green, forking in a plane, ending in a scaly bud. Leaves 1-30 mm, generally with stomates on both surfaces, the free portion to 30 mm, those on leaders, ascending branchlets, and fertile shoots divergent to strongly appressed, short-lanceolate to deltate, those on horizontally spreading to drooping branchlets mostly linear to linear-lanceolate, divergent and in 2 ranks, with 2 prominent, white abaxial stomatal bands. Pollen cones nearly globose to ovoid, 2-5 mm, borne singly on short terminal or axillary stalks. Female cones 12-35 mm long, elliptical, reddish-brown, with many flat, short-pointed scales; pendant at end of leafy twig; maturing in one season; with 2-5 seeds per scale, light brown, 2-winged. Seeds flattened, 3-6 mm, leathery. 2n = 66 (4, 5). Does that sound like a tree to you? Hmm!
Taking Reservations NowDon't Delay as the group is limited in size
Gurudeva says,
"Come with me to the Caribbean next March, on the Year 2000 Innersearch. Besides our wonderful study together, we are planning a gala gathering of Hindus in Trinidad for one day."
We will depart from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 25th and return to Fort Lauderdale on April 4th and be traveling on Holland America's spectacular, brand new cruise ship, the MS/Volendam. For information contact our wonderful tour agent who will be conducting the Innersearch: Kailash and Indra Dhaksinamurthi of Search Beyond Adventures, Inc. ASAP at search11@mail.idt.net
Very Important!: Be sure to include your mailing address and phone number in the body of your message! Kailash will be mailing you information, but if you don't send an address there is nothing he can do.
