Exploring the Mini Mela (and Plants!)

Recently our TAKAgrapher took an expedition to the Mini Mela gift shop to explore the many little items that our daily visitors love to go home with. The monks of the Pillaiyar Kulam have done a fantastic job of acquiring many religious items and sacred murtis that our guests can enjoy. On the way there we stopped to enjoy some of our flowers and many coleus plants which fill the landscape. The Mini Mela has a nice website you can visit as well: www.minimela.com

Jai Ganesha!

Our solar panel fence is blooming with thousands of these wonderful little flowers

The coleus plants enjoy some water on this sunny day

pretty purples

glittering greens

mystical maroons

wow!

Ok, off the the Mini Mela!

We happen across Chamundi. She gives a great deal of her time to helping here.

So much to see!

Shelves and shelves of books as well

Outside is a place for guests to sit and enjoy the peace of this place

Ganesha is everywhere

Our members make many hundreds of rudraksha-related jewelry, which people love

More little Ganeshas!

A golden-hued Gomata

Lord Nataraja dances everywhere

A giant crystal! Perfect for a small temple

A Crystal Lingam from a shop near Chidambaram

And of course, Noni Juice for all.

Plenty of malas for a life full a sacred mantras

One of Shiva\

s many forms'

Aum Sweet Aum

No shop would be complete without the Master Course

A wonderful wooden Ganesha

So many murtis give the shop a temple-like feel

Aum Namah Sivaya

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