The Puvanendran family came again today, and met with Bodhinatha in the “Mahogony Room,” which is “command central” for the Guru Maha Sannidhanam.

A family from San Diego visited today. They came into the press and the 6-year-old Zion met an important person in her life, the creator of Mystic Mouse. She and her mother love this color-book and introduction to Saivism for kids. To meet the monk who created one of the characters of her young life was a precious, if intimidating, moment. Natarajnathaswami took the entire family online to show more of Mystic Mouse’s stories, many that have not been printed yet. But they were happy to learn these are all available, for free, online.

Little Zion, a bit shy, “also acts like this when she meets Santa Claus,” her mom confided. Zion wants all the little boys and girls around the world (and their parents) to know they can get all the Mystic Mouse stories on the web:

Just click here to get all the Mystic Mouse stories.

The pages are in PDF format, and can also be printed out for kids to color with crayons or chalk or paints. A wonderful resource for learning, at an early age, about the divine Self within us all. Oh, yes, Zion’s mom says hi to Dasan and Shakti in their home town of San Diego.

A small murthi of Gurudeva in the publications building… He greets everyone who enters.

After removing the honey bees from inside the wall of the Guru Peedam, we still saw them coming and going… So our team went into action again, this time on the roof.

“Look! Another colony is here under the tiles!” All morning was spent again for three of us, removing this second colony of bees….

The rest of today’s TAKA photos are nature visuals for you all to enjoy… Photos of Siva’s citadel in Hawaii taken this morning. The Mock Orange trees below, 200 of them, were brought from another island to be planted to form a living fence for the Rudraksha Forest.