For many years a small shrine in the basement of the Concord Siva Muruga Temple held Gurudeva’s photo, honoring the founder. Now that the temple has been completely rebuilt, a more formal space has been designed for this, and devotees worked to have a sculptor in India make a proper bronze murti, which was then gold plated.
Everyone rushed to meet the deadline. The timing was not what was planned; it was better. The original schedule had the arrival scheduled to coincide with the May 9-10 kumbhabishekam, the Grand Opening. But the shipment was delayed and it arrived weeks later. This was great, because all of the intensity of 50,000 devotees, and all of the sacred chaos had settled, so when Gurudeva arrived the temple was quiet and the priests could focus solely on taking care of him. The slideshow shows the simple greeting. At a time yet unknown to us Gurudeva will be moved to his permanent place and be installed.
“AUM GURAVE NAMAHA”!.