The Ekadanta Kulam gave their Sun Two report today. Both Saravananathaswami and Sadhaka Dandapani have been working on advance coordination for Bodhinatha’s future travels to Orlando and Canada. The Toronto visit looks like it will be a new outreach kind of trip in the sense that Bodhinatha will be going to a number of temples we have never been in touch with before. He will also be conducting a 4 hour seminar in line with his new emphasis that some education programs should be part of all his journeys.

Hindu visitors today… they were here four years ago and have come back and are awestruck and all the new developments.

Kadavul Door Number Two… refurbishing in progress. Word has spread about this karma yoga and 16 people came through to help today.

Applying sealer over areas that have been finished.

This composite copper-zinc “gold” is much, much harder to work with than gold leaf itself, so the team tells us.

Vidya and Shankar Nathan from Koloa also spent some time helping out today. They have decided to move back to Chennai for sometime. They will be near their families and they want their children to grow up in a Indian cultural atmosphere. Of course they will miss the cool and peaceful atmosphere of Kauai, but Chennai and India are “exploding” these days with all kinds of exciting developments. And having an extended family in the area makes for a lot of support for the children especially, who, Vidya tells us, don’t seem to mind the heat at all.

Our Siddhidata Kulam.. on their “routines”… which takes them from one area of the Aadheenam to the next on a carefully planned schedule… Today they were working out in front of the temple. Sadhaka Nilakantha with perhaps one of the most used tools in the state of Hawaii: the trusty “rice cutter.”