Blog Archives
January 1, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery?
~~~~~~~~~~~
END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our short 4-day phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming three-day retreat,
until Dvitya Tithi, Sun One, Friday, January 5th.
The Ganapati Kulam gave their news today... it was a long list of projects they are working on! Hinduism Today articles for the next issue, various web and media initatives and working on books.
All of the visitors today were Tamil speaking - to the delight of the Shilpis.
Deskin and Radhika with their two children, Shriya age 16 and Shriman, age 9 from Michigan. All originally from Chennai, S. India. Desikan felt that visiting this sacred place was "a great spiritual start to 2007."
On the far left is Varathaledchumy Shanmuganathan and her daughter Priyatharshini from Toronto, Canada; originally from Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
And here is a slide show of the first day of 2007.
Varathaledchum and her daughter Priyatharshini between St. Tirumular and St. Tiruvalluvar. Mrs. Shanmuganantha felt very moved by her experience here today. She was previously here in 2000 when the temple-building had not really begun.
And another slide show from Anna Purna Gardens, (our vegetable garden) below: