Here is Bodhinatha in the first get-together of Innersearch held in the Holiday Inn in Darling Harbour in Sydney. Each Innersearcher introduced themselves and told marvellous stories of how they had decided to come on Innersearch. There were many wonderful and amazing testimonies.

This is Stan Lee a new investment councilor with Halbert, Hargrove/Russel, LLC., Long Beach, California. Stan recently took over management of our Hindu Heritage Endowment account. He speaks several languages fluently and has a vast financial background. Stan will oversee HHE’s several dozen financial managers, for it is HHR’s multi-manager strategy to select the best financial advisors possible. Our HHE accounts, overseen by Stan, have dozens of such managers in each allocation field.

Stan is in Hawaii on vacation and came here to find out about what we do, the goals and mission of HHE, to learn about HHE’s 64 individual endowments, and to meet the HHE stewards and staff of HHE and have a tour.

Little Anuradha our young calf does not seem to be afraid of the cattle guard which is made of metal poles that cover a section of the road. She still thinks she is a little human. She will very carefully, step, by step, place her feet between the poles and walk through the guard, then find her way back to where the monks raised her…. now we have to take her back to the fields….

It’s a windless, very quiet mystical day on Kauai…

A lot of work is underway under the banyan tree in preparation for raising up Arumugam, Six-Faced Murugan.

He is out of his create and special scaffolding is being made and a granite peedam prepared….

It is actually quite a logistical feat, requiring a special winch… stay tuned….

A remarkable and unexpected “confluence” of monks in Australia… at the Reptile Park… Three swamis from the Swaminarayan Fellowship were in town and their devotees took them to the park where they met Bodhinatha and our Innersearch monastic staff. They were surprised to learn that Bodhinatha, Arumugaswami, Shanmuganathaswami and Yoginathaswami were at the opening of the grand Akhshardham memorial in Delhi last month.

Ganga Sivanathan who went on Innersearch has an excellent camera “eye” and using our TAKA caption writing software has provided several sets of Innersearch photos, bringing us lovely scenes and people and places in Australia and New Zealand.

Day 1 of Innersearch in Sydney – a young but very beautiful city, just over 200 years old, and Australia’s largest city. These terrace houses are fairly typical of Sydney’s older suburbs.

Palaniswami preparing to meet the Innersearchers.

Some were “old hands” at Innersearches having traveled with the monks many times; for some it was their first experience.

Carole Kahn from Kauai.

Going “walkabout” – off to see the sites of Darling Harbour, and our first meal together.

Arjunan Subramaniam from Malaysia. Arjuna hosted a magnificent lunch for the Innersearchers in KL in 2004 and writes the beautiful Murugan poetry in Hinduism Today.

Sydney was kind to us during our trip – cool weather with a little sun. Before we arrived and after we left for New Zealand, there were temperatures across Australia in the 40 degree Celsius range (around 110 F). Here Bodhinatha is admiring the view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and enjoying the weather.

Bodhinatha with Deva and Gayatri Rajan.

Sydney Harbour is one of the most beautiful harbours in the world. Here we sail past the Opera House.

A view from near The Heads (where the Harbour meets the ocean) towards Sydney and the Harbour Bridge. Quite a few of us managed to get sunburnt out on the ocean.

Kailash Dhaksinamurthi, our intrepid tour organiser who did an amazing job, with Puvaneswary Roberts from the Netherlands.

We were treated to a digeridoo performance by an Aboriginal artist with deep knowledge of his people and the place of the digeridoo in the culture of the different Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Behind him were pictures of the Australian Outback.

Innersearch provides lots of opportunity spend time with the monks. Here Rudy Tanzi is in deep discussion with Palaniswami.

Lynda McClanahan and Joel Knepp with Devi Tandavan and Marlene Carter. Devi had her Namakarana at the Murugan Temple in Mays Hill in Sydney.

We ate….

and ate….

and ate…..

and became just a little more Australian each day – Michael Duncan who took his Vegetarian Vrata on this Innersearch.

Eleanor McCarthy from Hawaii.

Deva Rajan and Manon Mardemootoo from Mauritius.