Today at Kauai Aadheenam

Yes! it’s finally happening! The monastery entrance archway is being installed. Yoginathaswami and the silpis continued their work today. Here they’ve installed one of the pillars with the help of the forklift.

One pillar installed. One to go!

Hitesvara Saravan gets up early every morning and transcribes Bodhinatha’s and Gurudeva talks. Thanks to him we are able to bring you Bodhinatha’s talks and transcripts together. He lives on the Big Island and on the lava flow gravel land of his small estate he does magical things with plants. Here a photo of a lotus from his garden.

For many years we had bees living in the roof and walls of the Guru Peetam. Up there on the left. It took us all of two days to take apart the walls and open up the roof to remove them years ago.

Well, it is summer time and the hot roof must be generating the sweet fragrance of the honey and wax that was in there years ago.

Bees have an uncanny sense for finding the location of a previous residence and they have decided to move in.

The monks are doing their best to discourage them. We love bees, and in the Hawaiian culture and beehive in your residence is considered very auspicious.

But having them in such close proximity is a safety issue where some monks and visitors may be allergic to bee stings.

But, nature will have her way and it seems the new young queen has already entered and this means the bees will be very determined to stay put.

The other morning we had a light shower moving from west to east just past Iraivan temple. When this happens when the sun is in the east we sometimes get incredible rainbows that seem so close you could almost reach out and touch them.

Lord Muruga as Dandapani in the garden…covered with Sandal paste

Tiny beautiful orchids, magically growing in thin air!

The surinam cherries are really fruiting well this year.

Wow! Now that is Red!

The annual rudraksha season is upon us and our land is covered with hundreds of thousands of blue marbles… the tears of Lord Siva’s Compassion.

Yogi Jothinatha shows some sprouted rudrakshas. The seeds can be notoriously difficult to sprout and seem to have a mind of their own. It may take months and months and conditions must be just right.

Our recent classic Kauai weather, showers, sun, showers, sun, rain for hours, sun… is perfect. The seeds are slowly permeated with moisture and the warm sun does the trick….

Yogi takes a look at the iPad

This photo was taken only seconds after the previous photo.

Full moon over Waialeale after Sun 1 Homa this morning.

An incredible crystal clear morning.