Give Me a Few Good Men

The past few weeks has been a bonanza Task-Force time for our monastery. Task Force is a program instituted by Gurudeva long ago, whereby close devotees may qualify to come work, live and meditate along with the monks. They volunteer to come work, usually at a specific task for a specified length of time. At one point, recently, we were delighted to have these five stalwart souls here, working along with us, all at the same time. Aditya Vinadhara came from Utah for three weeks and worked on finishing touches for the Media Studio, installing soffits under the eaves. Roshan Sivayogum of Malaysia here for three weeks worked mostly on landscaping projects. Jnanideva Cevvel of Edmonton, Canada here for three weeks also worked on the soffits along with Aditya (a task they are working hard to complete before their time is up in a few days). Adi Srikantha of Utah/Washington and other points in the Western USA joined us for three months. His skills were put to good use repairing, maintaining and upgrading our agricultural equipment, from tractors to … well, you name it. Dean Drulias of California stayed with us for the maximum six months, helping with just about everything from landscaping, noni production, managing our MiniMela gift shop and serving in the Media Studio generating publications and web posts. What a great crew! Spirituality, devotion, sadhana and yoga really do work.

Task-forcers Aditya Vinadhara, Roshan Sivayogum, Jnanideva Cevvel, Adi Srikantha and Dean Drulias of California came to serve faithfully with us anywhere from three weeks to six months.

With such dedicated help, the Siddhidatta Kulam (who oversee our grounds and maintain our physical assets) enjoyed the influx of power and accomplished more than ever.

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