At the Aadheenam, there are big tents covering Kadavul temple… we are heat treating the whole Aadheenam… more new on that tomorrow.

Here is Bodhinatha in Perth…

Ganesha Chaturthi photos are flowing in… This is from the Murugan temple in Bethesda Maryland.

This murthi was given to the community by Gurudeva and worship was performed in homes for many years.

He now live in the temple…

and has a magnificent royal golden, bejeweled crown…

Thamby Kumaran continues on here working on renovation architectural plans.

Lord Ganesha at Sivaram’s home in Malaysia…

On this 2005 Ganesha Chaturthi, Ganesha’s birthday, we received a drawing by 10-year-old Swathi in Michigan. She is the granddaughter of our own Tiru Nellaiappan in India. She based her work on the current cover of Hinduism Today which has a dancing Ganapati. Congratulations, Swathi.

Ganga Sivanathan sends us some excellent photos from Perth…a big team of priests were on hand…

Bodhinatha himself reported…

“This morning was the main ceremony of the kumbhabhishekasm. From about 8 – 1 PM. ”

It went very smoothly, the rainy, windy weather cooperating at the key times.

An interesting part of the ceremony for us was that they blessed the lingam four times with ghee. Each event required a ceremony in the yagnasala, parade to the temple and offering ghee with mantras.

It was explained that it was for the four parts of the lingam: first time was for Brahma, second for Vishnu, third for Rudra and fourth for the base, for Sakti.

The central Sivalingam shrine received a great deal more ceremonies than the other shrines.

Afterwards, we were part of a VIP lunch for local government dignitaries and heads of other Hindu groups.

In the evening it was time for Siva Kalyanam with parade around the temple plus honoring of the priests and the architect.

The priest overseeing the Kumbhabhishekam Visva Somasundara Kurukkal of Colombo, Sri Lanka was very friendly and helpful throughout.