Kodimaram Gilding Timelapse
July 1, 2009Below is a 15-second timelapse of the gold gilding of the Kadavul Temple kodimaram. Weather made it hard to capture, but you can see the scaffolding, and glimpses of the priming and gold-leafing. Rains caused the team to put up a put up a tent that concealed most of the...
Darshan with Bodhinatha
June 30, 2009Mr. Sriskandarajah, his wife, daughter and her children visited today from Washington DC area. Sriskandarajah is a retired engineer who designed the structure for the Maryland Murugan Temple. Bodhinatha signed copies of Tirukural, What is Hinduism? and Saivite Hindu Religion books for them.
Chitra Puja Begins Guru Purnima Phase
June 30, 2009Our Annual Guru Purnima phase began today with a scintillating actinic pada puja to Gurudeva on this Chitra Nakshatra day. Sadhaka Nilkantha receives milk from 5-year-old Abinav who is attending Chitra puja this morning with his mother and father. Gurudeva's photo in the light box above his golden murthi
Golden Kodimaram in the Morning
June 30, 2009The Kodimaram in the pre-dawn hours shining brightly...
Potriyan Arrives Home in Malaysia
June 30, 2009Ramesh Sivanathan writes frmo Malaysia: "Jai Ganesha. Thank you for taking care of our son Potriyan so well and for all the help rendered in accomplishing his 3 months retreat in Kauai Aadheenam. Photo shows his arrival at Kota Kinabalu International airport on 26th June at 10.30pm. Here he is...
Jupiter
June 30, 2009Here is a photo of Jupiter who will one day be installed in the Navagraha shrine out near Iraivan temple.
Meditating Within
June 30, 2009A CyberCadet was inspired with a photo of a meditating monk, and wrote this poem, called 'ATMALINGA DARSHANAM," seeing within the soul of ourself and meditating on the Lingam there. At the edge of land where Heaven meets Earth he sits alone one with all within, without, around and beyond him action collapsed into...
Sri Lanka Orphans on Pilgrimage
June 30, 2009We received a wonderful report from Babu, the head of our boy's orphanage one Sri Lanka's East Coast. He sent these photos too, and new of a major adventure the young ones took recently to that holy abode of Murugan, Kararagama, in the deep southern jungles of the island nation....