Innersearch Staff Visits the Spiritual Park in Mauritius

After the long flight to Mauritius, which included the added experience of losing our luggage (we just got it back today), the monks checked into the Jalsa Beach Hotel for their stay on the island. The hotel will be where the Innersearchers stay and where we will have many of our meals together.

Yesterday, six of our monastic staff took a short visit to the spiritual park. Four of us had never before seen the park and this was a chance to get well familiar, while also making preparations for our Innersearch class days which will be held there. Five kulapatis gave us a tour. Manon, Mougam, Rajen, Kulagan and Souria Kumaren showed us around the grounds and discussed the preparations being made there.

Upon entering the grounds, one immediately feels a soothing, natural shakti. It is much like walking into a temple. Everything feels holy, from the windy trees and well-trod earth, to the shaded stones and sacred Murtis. To the monks, it feels like home. The park reverberates with the power of our lineage. It is awash with the bountiful blessings of our gurus and Gods.

After a visit to the river and blessings from Panchmukha Ganapti Himself, the group visited the Dharmasala, where monks have previously stayed for years at a time. It was a good chance to have a short but powerful meditation together before moving on the the Mini Mela. Once again, a familiar vibration. Selna runs the Mini Mela here, and she has been pivotal in organizing the Hinduism Today Event.

Inside the Mauritius Mini Mela, the monks take a group photo with Selna

Welcome to Mauritius

Fresh off the plane, the group waits as their passports are stamped

The Jalsa Beach Hotel is right on the beach

some of the monks took a walk along the sand

Just like Kauai! (Many panoramas in the next slides so try scrolling left and right.)

The water here is very beautiful, with bright blues and greens

it is shallow enough that you can walk out into the water for hundreds of feet

While Kauai has wild cats, Mauritius has wild dogs. This wolfpack was sitting quietly on the beach

We arrive at the spiritual park for a tour. Sadasivanathaswami hasn\

t seen it for 8 years!'

There are many new improvements, including upgraded paths and mandapams

This is Senthilnathaswami\

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Our three Sadhaka are also experiencing the park for the first time

The installation of the river platform has made for a wonderful improvement

We arrive just in time for a powerful arati from Lord Panchamukha Ganapati

Dakshinamurti

We are shown the Ganesha Rock

The stone has a natural shape of Ganesha

Many people carve in the bamboo

Lord Murugan is at the far end of the spiritual park

The shrineroom at the Dharmasala where the monks sat to meditate

We meet Selna at the Mini Mela

More photos of the HT Editors Event

Bodhinatha is greeted by devotees prior to the presentations

These are panoramas, so pan far left and right

After the event, the monks dine with about 15 memebers and students

These two Brahmachari\

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