Today was tour day and we had a big crowd as usual. Some many travel magazines and guidebooks now include Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, that we no longer have an “on and off” season for visitors. They just keep coming now, week after week, all year ’round.

Meanwhile festival season has come and we bring you later down the page some fabulous rare shots from Canada, where Lord Ganesha goes for his walk outside in the streets during Ganesha Chaturthi there.

Since “Elephants Are In the Air” (well, their feet are on the ground but they heads are way up there…) we bring you this picture from India. This elephant has a special message for you:

“When Bodhinatha travels, like Gurudeva before him, he always gets a grand welcome at the temples. I like to be there when he comes. Why don’t you join him on his next trip to New Zealand and Australia and meet all the Hindus on that side of the equator? Click here to find about more about the next Innersearch I may not have time to come down to Sydney, because I have a lot of blessings to do here every day in Kanchi Puram in India. But perhaps I will see you on the next Innersearch India!”

END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Navami Tithi, Sun One, Monday, September 26th.

The tour goes as usual to the temple site where the silpis put on a small carving demonstration.

Our guest give it a try. It is always a surprise to find out how hard granite can be, and then to wonder how these Indian craftsman can do what they do with such simple tools.

It the hot time of year on Kauai and our guests take a break under the cool shade of nearby rudraksha trees…

Lord Siva in many forms….