Day 6 Alaveddy Pasupathiswarar Temple Sivapuja and Planting Trees around Ashram

Recently, Satguru led the Innersearch pilgrims to the village of Alaveddy where Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami received his introduction to Hinduism and Jaffna Saivite culture. The Ashram's Pasupathiswarar Temple has Yogaswami and Gurudeva's photo above the shrine. After puja, the pilgrims planted 63 trees including Sandalwood and Teak to beautify the landscape of the future Parampara Shrine area. Sanjai Shanmuganathan, the young contractor has started work in rebuilding the retaining wall area and later work on the Shrine.

Bodhinatha puts the first Sandalwood tree in

Just adjacent to the shrine is a piece of land where the Parampara shrine will be erected. Tree planting will take place around the perimeters of the property

The three sandalwood trees

Satguru Bodhinatha honors the young contractor, Sanjai Shanmuganathan

Sanjai Shanmuganathan and Satguru

The little ones gets their trees in. Lyla Tanzi and Dishanna Nagarajan

Bhuma Ravindraraj with her teak tree

The pre-school kids are taking a break to join us. This is an important date for their future and not missing this historic moment. School can wait, beside there were goodies for all

Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami meets up with familiar local Bramacharinis

Yum!

Alaveddy Pasupathiswarar Temple where Gurudeva spent lots of his time

Ganesh Annadurai from Bangaluru on the left and Suganth Srichandramohan in reflective mode

Aubrey Burke from Canada stands amongst local worshippers

Shren Moodley from Johannesburg, South Africa steps in to ring the temple bell

Ganesha gets the first yogurt abhishekam

Satguru Bodhinatha walks around the temple

Padapuja welcome

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