It’s a quiet day at the Aadheenam… though the stream of “tourists” who find out about us in guidebooks is growing… there are several pilgrims here as well. Bodhinatha is back on his regular schedule… and daily editing publications in the afternoon. It is the “lull” between events as the count down to the next Innersearch to Australia and New Zealand in January.

Kulapati Deva Seyon brings us photos from a recent Family Home evening on Kauai where our members gather to work on rudraksha beads. This seva has been bring in a steady income for Iraivan. In August, $1,364.00 worth of bead and malas were sold and the proceeds given to the Iraivan building fund and $768.00 in September. Deva sends these captions:

We had some special guests for this months “Iraivan Evening”. Both Tyler and Potriyan helped put their positive pranas into our fund raising project. It gave them an opportunity to meet some of the families and enjoy “family life” for a few hours.

The Rudraksha project for this month was focused on keychains. These make wonderful Pancha Ganapati gifts! Beautiful and affordable for even the most austere budget. It’s hard to believe that car keys can feel that good in your hand!

Brahmachari Rajadeva works for hours to get us ready for Iraivan family home evening.
He has to drill enough beads to keep us all busy.

All the ideas for keychains, earrings, come from the shakti’s of the mission.

Isani and Brahm. Lila Shakti Devi just returned from India where they brought home more special stones and crystals for the project.

Each month a different family “hosts” the event keeping refreshment time to a minimum so the production moves ahead without distraction!

Pictures of sacred images here and there at the Aadheenam… here is “Hari Hara” an image of Siva which is half Siva and half Vishnu, showing they are one and the same. Also known as Shankaranarayanan, He was brought out from the side shrine to enjoy an abhishekam with Nataraja today on the monthly Ardra puja. You can see the unique murthi is made with one half copper color and the other brass.

Nandi…

Pink Rose Quartz Ganesha, measuring almost a foot high, is being blessed in front of the Crystal Lingam before being sold in the Minimela…

The Maha Sphatika Lingam…

The planets on the board…