Bodhinatha with Swamis in Bangalore

Sri Balagangadharanatha Swami

Giving gifts to Bodhinatha

and Arumuganathaswami

and Yoginathaswami

Tiruchi Mahaswamigal presides near the temple entrance

Taking the flame after aarati to Goddess Rajarajeshwari

Back outside the temple we look up to the towering rajagopuram

The structure is complete and the ornamental plaster work is underway

Greetings by Jayendrapuriswami

chanting by the gurukulam boys

Two hours with Swami, discussing the origins of various forms of Hindu temple worship

This is an underground chamber in which one can be "entombed" for extended meditation

A vermaculture project--voracious worms turn everything they eat in to fertilizer

And other areas of the garden

And this huge pile of coconuts is being dried for copra

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On the 9th we visit Sri Balagangadharanatha Swami of Adichunchanagiri Mutt and Sri Jayendrapuri Swami of Kailash Ashram. Both are long-time friends of the Aadheenam who have been especially helpful in the Iraivan temple work which is done in Bangalore.