A Shrine for Gurudeva

During the 2022 Maha Samadhi Celebrations for Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Kumar Gurukkal performed the official installation of a black granite statue of Gurudeva. The statue had been shipped to the Aadheenam from India with the final batch of stones for Iraivan Temple. During the Mahasamadhi events, monks and pilgrims paraded the murti to the monastery entrance area for installation. This area is becoming more and more of a spiritual park, housing small shrines and murtis that visitors can view and enjoy during our closed hours. You can see the parade in slide 38 of this post. Gurudeva was in need of a shrine, so one of our monks was given the task of building this wooden roof for him. Aum.

The assembled shrine, topped with temporary roofing

From an 8-foot chunk of Norfolk Pine, two pieces of douglas fir and some rainbow eucalyptus, the many parts are created and brought together for the little shrine.

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s designed to be mostly held together without screws'

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After many days and many layers of tung oil, the wood is ready

Following the Events of Thai Pusam, the shrine is erected.

This section is held together by a fun little wooden peg.

Almost done!

Finally the protective roofing goes on. It will be covered with another roofing later on, and we plan to add lavarock around the footings too.

Jai Gurudeva!

Om Namah Shivaya

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