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Sun Two at the Aadheenam. Bodhinatha is still in California and will return tomorrow. More news after he returns.

Many wonderful guests have visited the Temple during Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi Ceremonies and now the Skanda Shasthi festival.

left to right: Annapur and Anusuya Sivakumar who is a microbiologist. Their daughter, Deepti and son-in-law, both physicians, all originally from outside Bangalore and now living in Libertyville, IL. All attend the Chicago temple. The whole family made the pilgrimage to celebrate Annapur's 60th birthday. On the far right is Satya and Nanda Dornadula from Fremont, CA where there is a large Hindu community.

All our guests enjoyed a wonderful morning attending the puja and touring the Iraivan Temple and grounds.

More guests arrived today and were blessed to see the Jalakam stone windows in place each side of the Yallis. Here they pose for a photo with our very dedicated and gifted silpis.

R/L Newlyweds, Michael and Sara from Florida. Michael is somewhat familiar with Hindu temple architecture and has helped sculpt Kalashas and capstones while also studying Stapatyaveda. Next is Sulochana and Deepal Mohan on their second visit since 2004; and Nancy Gardner who studied with Gurudeva back in 1972 in SF; and also Anupam Shah who heard about the temple through reading a friend's HT magazine. He made his first pilgrimage in February 07 and is very happy to be here again today. A warm welcome to you all!

Stepping back to the last days of last phase and the stone lift during the retreat... pilgrims try their best to chip the stone.

This family arrived on Kauai to see the temple and unexpectedly joined in all the religious activities. They were overjoyed.

Larry Conklin, our crane operator, on the job.

On top of the roof, the jalakam is moving into place

Our ladies watching from the distance.

Here we go with a second jalakam....

It was another successful day at Iraivan...