Day-long Drive to Jaffna & Halt at Ganesha Shrine at Elephant Pass
March 17, 2019At 6:30 am Innersearch pilgrims brought their luggage down to the lobby at Jetwing Blue Hotel in Negombo. We have a long day ahead to Jaffna. After breakfast the pilgrims split up and boarded into two buses, the Banyan bus and the Cow gomatha bus. Lunch was in Anuradhapura. The...
Clearing the Ford Culverts
March 15, 2019To go to Himalayan Acres, which is what we call the agricultural endowment lands on the south side of the river across from Iraivan, requires that we drive one mile north of the Aadheenam and then take a left to go west and across the river. To make that crossing...
Visit to Yogaswami Thiruvaddy Nilayam in Colombo
March 15, 2019The Innersearch pilgrims together with the monastics has an informal breakfast at the Jetwing Hotel in Negombo and later assembled at the lobby to board two large buses for an hour and half ride to Colombo to meet a band of Yogaswami Devotees at the Yogaswami Thiruvaddy Nilayam. Satguru Bodhinatha...
Sri Lanka Innersearch 2019 Welcome and Reception
March 14, 2019Today pilgrims began to arrive in Negombo for the 2019 Sri Lanka Innersearch program. Some arrived as early as yesterday and by 3:00pm today the whole group had arrived. The Jetwing Blue Hotel staff gave a warm welcome and provided an efficient room registration, despite us having such a large...
Visiting a Sri Lankan Coconut Grove
March 13, 2019Today our monks in Sri Lanka are having a day of adjustment to their new timezone before the 2019 Innersearch program begins. A good time for some light activities with Rishi Thondunathan are the Negombo area. Today we visited a small coconut grove to learn how the juice is harvested...
Innersearch Team Arrives in Sri Lanka
March 12, 2019After a 4-hour flight from Singapore, the Innersearch staff arrives at the Colombo airport, greeted by Thondunathan and his team of Sivathondars. Off to the Jet Wing Hotel. } ];
Kodimaran Wakes Up After 10 Years - Going to Iraivan
March 11, 2019It was in 2009 that a giant tall teak tree was harvested and purchased in Karnataka. It came to our site for carving and arrived in Nawiliwili harbor on December the 17th, 2009. From there he was placed into hibernation, in the "Loha Guha" (a giant metal QUONSET HUT warehouse...
Carpentry Project Underway
March 10, 2019Jnanideva Cevvel came down from cold, cold, Edmonton, Canada to work with Acharya Kumarnathaswami on finising up the last corner of the media studio. } ];