Festival Preperations

Today monks are beginning some preliminary preparations for our upcoming celebrations of Maha Ardra and Pancha Ganapati. Coconuts are being harvested and bilva leaves are being picked to offer to Lord Nataraja. The small shrine for Pancha Ganapati is also being made ready. Aum

Sannyasin Saravananathaswami picks bilva leaves for the Ardra puja

The best ones are high in the tree

Though you can still get a few without a ladder

Nandi also gets some attention

Today he was well cleaned and oiled

Earlier, Nirvani Tejadevanatha and Natyam Dayanatha harvested coconuts

108 coconuts to be used in the abhishekam

Also today, Lord Panchmukha Ganapati gets a cleaning

He is cleaned using tamarind and vibhuti

The beginning stages of his small temporary shrine

Aum Gam Ganapataye Namah

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