It was a short productive, high energy phase, with “tons” of holiday visitors and activity at the Aadheenam.

We will see you all back here in 2008!

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Navami Tithi, Sun One, Tuesday, January 1st, 2008.

The “pressure is on” for Innersearch preparations with only 12 days until departure for our team (staff leaves a few days early.) When the suitcases and boxes come out and the EK office turns into a departure staging area, you know things are getting serious!

This year’s study guide printed by MJA Graphics in Michigan is exquisitely designed and printed.

Personal name tags for all participants.

Sadhaka Dandapani has been working many, many hours over time. Here is his Excel spread sheet containing a master itinerary, with an hour-by-by hour detail for every day of the trip.

He has had to arrange everything for the whole group by “remote control.”

You try this one yourself:

Set up reservations three months advance for 100 people for lunch in a remote Tamil Nadu town, where the largest restaurant has seating for only 50 people. And detail every item on the menu for that one meal of the day! and that is just one of hundreds of small details to be arranged in advance!

The Pancha Ganapati celebration continues at the Spiritual Park. Here are the participants for Team Red. After a quiz on Satguru’s Bodhinatha’s Saivite Hindu Religion Course Book V and a tough puzzle on a Ganesha painting, the youth accompanied by some youth facilitators are ready to go for a treasure hunt….

Team Blue…. Each team has to find a hidden Ganesha on the Spiritual Park…

Team Yellow… to make the search non-competitive five Ganeshas have been hidden for each team ….

Team Orange… having the youngest participants.

Team Green.. Each team have specific clues…

Team Green happily showing their Ganesha hidden in a tree near the Muruga Mandapam.

Team Orange still searching…

Team Blue has got to the right spot following their clues but have not yet found their Ganesha.

All the teams on the Mandapam steps…

Gifts were distributed to everyone. Here is Kulapati Siven Koothan offering a gift to a very young participant.

Jegadissa Chenganna offering a gift…

Mrs Pamela Appavoo an MC student…

Soundiren Arnasalon to little Caramben

Lunch time… the faces look bright and happy.

Our food station…

Kulapati Koothan and sishyas Soundiren and Somandiren were there to give a helping hand.

Kulamata Premila (right) and MC Level 2 student Anandi.

The Jis Chenganna family were a big help for that day.