Two shades of sunrise cloud dome, small mountaiin
January 27, 2010This photo was taken only seconds after the previous photo.
Sun Three
January 26, 2010Today the Siddhidata Kulam reported on their work. They continue to keep the food flowing in our garden and all the equipment on the property running and in good repair. At Iraivan temple the floor is slowly but surely coming to completion.
Festival Pager Project
January 26, 2010The Ganapati Kulam is in the middle of the pressure-cooker final days of editorial work on the Hinduism Today April issue. This issue includes a major achievement: coverage of 15 festival that are being designed as "Pagers" for distribution to the mainstream media and then re-formatted for our magazine. Here...
Wailua Mission Iraivan Day
January 26, 2010Over 25 years ago Gurudeva planted an entire forest of Rudraksha trees at Kauai Aadheenam. What some of us didn't know then was: Would they grow as well here on Kauai as they do in the foothills of the Himalayas? Would we one day be able to create our own...
Sun Two
January 25, 2010Another dynamic day at the Aadheenam. Tile is being set outside in front of Kadavul. Dohadeva, Nagavathy, Bhani and Remadevi are here from Singapore. Many guests coming and going. The Pillaiyar Kulam reported on their activities. Shanmuganathswami has opened up a new channel for importing things to the US from...
Vayudeva Varadana Sivathondu
January 25, 2010Vayudeva Varadan just finished six days of pilgrimage at the monastery. During his stay he worked on writing some short summaries to display with the books in the Mini Mela. He completed 48 summaries for books and booklets. The Loving Ganesha summary: "If you open this book, you will always...
Iraivan as of January 2010
January 25, 2010Iraivan temple has come to life, its beauty open to see. This video captures it well as it is today. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78f3iPkrurE
Sun One
January 24, 2010We began another phase today with a dynamic Sun One Homa. Bodhinatha also gave a short but super insightful commentary on Gurudeva's teachings about chakras and the 3rd and the 4th dimension. Stay tuned for these talks in the days ahead.