Siddhidata Adventures

Our Siddhidata Kulam has some really cool jobs in and around the monastery. As the tools we use get more advanced, our productivity increases and we are able to do more things. Here are a few quick glimpses into the SK life. #monklife

Mango Picking with Natyam Dayanatha. These days we don\

t always need to grab the fruit picker on a pole and pull and pluck our way to fruit utopia. The machine on the right, our new cherry-picker, can climb 50-feet in the air and get to any fruit we want! Don\'t bother reading the manual on these things, they can pick way more than just cherries, sheesh.'

See those mangos that we could never get with a long pole? Ya, we got this now.

A short setup, body brace hookup and ground securing takes place and up Natyam goes

Nirvani Tejadevanatha is the safety man on the ground making sure everything goes according to plan

One mango, two mango, three mango...Our first harvest off this giant mango tree

Dayanatha is a pro at everything high above. Congrats to him for not fearing the distance! I think my record is the first rung of a ladder.

Bucket of mangos!

Next on the list is a big max setup performed by the kulam. We have put up small villages of these containers and the company should sponsor us!

Teamwork. The artisan\/apprentice training is real and alive here at the aadheenam.

Our cats wear hats next to laundry racks

This is a small shed for the new greenhouse equipment\/electrical storage

Painted green

And the last aspect of backyard aadheenam life of the monks is dog rescue! We get many dogs running through the tool shop area and we give them some goodie dog food and call their owners to tell them where their dogs are. This particular set of cuties were pretty far from home. When we called the owner to ask if she knew where her dogs where she said, \"Oh ya, they are in the backyard playing...\" To which we replied, \"Maam, you might want to check real quick,\" She came back to the phone and softly said, \"I\

ll be right there.\"'
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