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March 12, 2003 
Gurudeva and Ceyonswami at the Edmonton Ganesha Temple Kumbhabhisekam a few years ago. Gurudeva used to say, while surprising trustees at such a temple when he would give a cash donation to their cause, "There is only one temple!"
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Bodhinatha gave a preview discourse today, reading from his preparation notes for an address he will make in Toronto. This will be sent ahead for translation into Tamil before he arrives.
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Title: Focuses for a Malaysia/Singapore Trip |
Cybertalk: Bodhinatha discusses his focuses for a nine-day trip to Malaysia and Singapore. In his satsangs, the focus will be on members completing the Maha Vasana Daha Tantra as well as the annual Vasana Daha Tantra, in all six parts. He will be speaking at a Ganesha Temple, delivering a talk titled "My Friend, Lord Ganesha," which will encourage devotees to view Lord Ganesha as a real being that we can be very close to.
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We had a sublime Sun One homa today. And a very special day it is: it was 30 years ago today, on March 12th, with the moon in Ardra Nakshatra, Gurudeva had the vision of Lord Muruga pounding his Vel on the steps of the newly acquired buildings here in the Wailua Homesteads, putting his shakti at the spot where the icon of Siva was to be installed. This was the founding day of Kadavul Hindu Temple as the Gods themselves made it clear where the giant murthi of Lord Nataraja was to be placed. Since that time, the monks have been performing vigil in the temple 24 hours a day without fail. And today the same auspicious moment arrived, March 12th, also Ardra nakshatra, with the planet Saturn having made full circle around the Sun.
The prayer basked ready for the flames.
The homa kunda...
Agni carries the devotees thoughts on paper to the inner worlds.
This Indian couple came for the Ardra puja in Kadavul and joined us on the tour but left before we could get their names....
Vinodkumar Mandalia with his wife Kalapana and daughter Amy visited from Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Atul and Raksha Trivedi with their daughter Priyanka. They are from Pennsylvania too. Atul and Vinodkumar are good friends and decided to bring their families to Hawaii on a holiday. It is their first visit to the temple.
Young Priyanka Trivedi sits next to a potugai.
Pilgrims trekking together up the far west side of the San Marga land...
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When you are building a one of a kind all stone temple shipped all the way from India... every day is a new day. Four containers arrived this morning. Jai!
Our team is quite adept now at unloading stones
More potagai and roof beams....
The pressure is also on to get ready for the next "crane day" when six pillars and three potagai go up a few days from now...
Coordinated, concentrated, quiet, focused, precise... that's how they are...
Up, up... now... a block... space underneath is made for strapping the potagai for the crane to hoist it aloft.
One of six pillars placed in readiness to be raised up soon.
More potagai..
OK, push!
A retrospective on our retreat... this retreat was the monthly "silpi" outing...
They have seen a lot of the sites and we are revisiting some of the five star hotels... It is one of their favorite activities... something they never experienced in their lives in India. Here we are at the Mariottt which is filled with exotic sculptures.
We normally have them take a bit of breakfast.
Today they just only asked for apple juice.... service for the best of the best.
They are very careful to try to observe all the proper western protocols...
Raman relaxing... photos of him here at this hotel will be a big hit back home in his village in Tamil Nadu!
A photo with the restaurant staff.
When the staff realized these were the stone carvers from the "Hindu Temple in Wailua" they delivered baskets of croissants and muffins on the house!
We didn't have the heart to tell them that it is permissable to eat pastry with your fingers, even in America... Let's see... how does this fork work?
On the way up to the monastery there is the famed look out over the Wailua River... and such a beautiful day it was.
Down below, tourists take the boat up the Wailua River to Fern Grotto.
It's a big drop for the Wailua here at the Opaekaha Falls.
Refreshed and renewed the silpis were back on the job today facing some very intense work. How fortunate we are to have them with us....
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Date: March_05_2003
Title: State of the Church Address 2003, Part 3
Category: Church Activities
Duration: 4 min., 32 seconds
Date Given: January 5, 2003
Given by: Bodhinatha
Another major focus for the year, of course, is Iraivan Temple. It made good progress this last year. This coming year we have two wonderful things to look forward to. One is that the wood and the sand that is around the temple, protecting it, is already in the process of coming down. It will continue to come down and should be down in a month or so, I believe, so that we will be able to see the entire temple while standing there, all at once. You might want to sit down when you do that the first time, it is going to be so beautiful. As Palaniswami says, "We saw each beautiful item go into the temple. Now we are going to see it all at once. It is going to be very spectacular." We have that to look forward to in the near future.
Then the sanctum itself, the entire inner sanctum, garbhagriha mukhamandapam is scheduled to be finished in September, donations permitting. That should be really a landmark for the temple, to have the sanctum totally done and standing there, make it really look fantastic. Guess it will be visually complete all at once. Again, it will be kind of overwhelming to see it all at one time.
Those are two very important physical aspects of Iraivan temple. Otherwise there is a general increase in activity of the global membership in terms of fund raising for Iraivan, promoting Iraivan temple. We saw that here with the calendar, beautiful calendar the Hotranatha family did to fund raise for the temple here this year. In Malaysia, we have Iraivan Day on January 26th, . They are having an all-day display and presentation for Iraivan temple. We will be there on that day, giving a talk. We are hoping to introduce lots of new people to the temple which will lead in coming months to some significant donations coming in from that country.
With the temple coming up so nicely, we felt we better keep improving the rest of the property here so that it all comes up together. So we have two major improvements coming in. One is the large granite Dakshinamurthi, which is 12 ft. tall. I mean this is huge, really, really tall, massive Dakshinamurthi, which will go under the banyan tree there near where the pattarai is, where we used to do the ceremony. It is going to be installed out there. We are going to have Siva and the four sages coming. It is ready to ship, so it should be here in a few months. Totally carved, ready to ship. That is going to add a beautiful dimension to that part of the property, very near the path of the Saiva Saints. Something very spectacular to view this, totally complete at this time.
Them we have the Vel. 12 1/2 ft. granite Vel also finished, that is coming soon to go up on Muruga Hill. If you go out there at this time, you will see we are putting in the base. Nice cement, lava-rock base going in to be ready to receive that. We will install it at an auspicious time.
So, we will have two very nice improvements to the rest of our property coming up in the next couple of months.
As all of you here know but those listening don't, we are starting to plant our four hundred acres which we call Himalayan Acres, across the river. Some land that has come to us for agricultural use. We are already started with coconut trees and a few fruit trees and there will be a few more hardwood trees going in, in the next week. We are starting to plant it. Coconut trees take a while but others will be more visible, I think, sooner. But that is a wonderful part of bringing up the rest of the property. We are going to have some beautiful plants over there for everyone to enjoy.
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