Every Brick Added to a Temple Made of Brick...."

"Brings that temple closer to completion." Gurudeva wrote those words back in 1957. If written today, it would be stone. Here the silpis are working at Iraivan, doing several maintenance tasks and some creative carving as well. Afternoons they work at Kadavul Temple after the morning pilgrims have left since it is a bit noisy installing the red granite flooring tiles near Nandi.

We are inspired to share one of the 1,452 songs by Tayumanavar today, something the editing team is working on almost daily. This poem is entitled "Where is God?"

Is it on top of this universe? Or beyond the top of the universe, or in the midst of the solar region, or in the midst of fire, or in the midst of the ambrosial lunar region, or in the worship of images that Your devotees adore with flowers and a melting heart? Or is it in the four directions, or in the rims of the horizon, or in the spaces vast, or in the sphere of luminous bindu and nada, or in the state of Vedanta-Siddhanta, or in the innumerable things seen, or in the invisible state of the void, or in the tenses three, or in the state of creation, or in the devotees who have conquered the sense potencies and sense organs? Where are You seated? Will You please tell the secret to this slave? O ocean of bliss that is cosmic light! The pervasive God of pure formlessness!

Small adjustments to the Namaskaram Mandapam

Little details that make a difference.

Using the carbide-tipped chisels our team invented.

Murugesu removes some calcite on a pillar.

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Adaikalam does the same removal on a floor stone.

New details on the floor by the gomugai

Beautiful.

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