A New San Marga Ganesha Shrine

Jai Ganesha!

Today, two very exciting events took place at Iraivan Temple and along San Marga. For a while now, the monastery has had several stone works that have been waiting to be installed in their final locations. One being the granite Ganesha Shrine which pilgrims will be met with along San Marga. The others being the granite elephants that will adorn the future, longer, entry steps leading up the hill to Iraivan Temple. Today Larry Conklin and his masterful crane operating skills were put to the test as we moved one of the stone elephants from the Iraivan Temple foundation over to it's location along the soon-to-be staircase. The monks of the Siddhidatta Kulam, the siplis, and Larry then proceeded out to San Marga with the Ganesha Shrine and installed the new shrine in its new home. Aum.

The newly installed Ganesha shrine along San Marga

The first order of the day was moving the elephant. More on that in a future post.

While there, Larry lifted the forklift onto the foundation to help us move things around up there more easily.

We find Manikandan and the other siplis out at San Marga, where the pitam for the shrine has already been set

You might remember the old shrine, a picture of Ganesha and an installed Yantra. This wooden hut had seen much better days. We\

ve since dismantled it in favor of the new stone version.'

After Larry places the shrine on a flatbed truck, Yogi Dayanatha drives it to the site

Larry also has to bring his crane around

The move requires a little off-roading

Time to lift it

And set it down gently

Thankfully Larry is an expert at such things, having helped to place many of the stones on Iraivan Temple.

Jai!

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