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Several of our Kulapatis joined us to greet the home coming team.

We are all overjoyed to have everyone back home together.

It is traditional for devotees to throw flower petals in the path of the holy man as he walks into the temple. Kulapati Deva Seyon and Kulapati Shyamadeva Dandapani do the honors.

All the silpis came forward to greet Gurudeva. They all love him for taking such good care of them and their families through the years during the work on the Iraivan Temple project.

Natarajnathaswami plays a powerful Tavil drum and Sadhaka Tejadeva and Sadhaka Adinatha blow the conch.

The traditional puja to the arriving swami is performed by Sadhaka Tyaganatha.

This was an extra special pada puja for our beloved Gurudeva.

How fortunate we are to have a living preceptor and to be in the satsang of his devotees.

Gurudeva gave a short run down on the trip with emphasis on the theme of his teaching during the innersearch which was: "Maintenance, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Physical maintenance of course you know, proper exercise and diet. Mental maintenance through settling things before bedtime and emational maintenance through the Vasana Daha Tantra and spiritual maintenance through daily sadhana, going to the temple every week, making a pilgrimage once a year."

At our Bangalore carving site a young cobra was found:

Our intrepid photographer there, Thuraisingam, took photos and reports:

"This is an interesting baby Cobra that we had caught yesterday. It was below one of the stones which were being moved for the next shipment. Its about 1. 5 ft long. That is him posing for TAKA."

This is just one among the hundreds of snakes that roam around Iraivan Worksite. All types of snakes move around the place. Snake pits are all over the carving site.

We had no plans of killing the snake. So Ravi, our gardener caught it with a cloth wrapped around his hand. Quite courageous to do that when usually people turn with a 6-7 feet long stick to chase them. Its said that the baby snakes are more poisonous than the the big ones as they do not know how much venom to release when they attack some person.

This is a closeup of the little snake. See the hood at the top.

Another closeup of the little snake. After the photography session, it was taken to the SPCA and later sent to The Bannerghtaa National Park, about 30 kms from the site where it will be released in the wild. It was a lucky day for that snake. Anywhere else, it would have been buried by now!

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