Today was the auspicious day of Chitra and our monthly Pada Puja for Gurudeva.

Sadhaka Jivanandanatha and Sadhaka Dandapani perform the rites.

Jai Gurudeva!

Here is the image we linked to yesterday…
— a mountaintop-consciousness view of our island. That’s Kauai as seen from 35 miles high, looking West with the smaller island of Niihau above it. Kauai is 35 miles wide and 27 miles long, and the central mountain is one mile high. The small yellow checkmark shows the location of Kauai’s HIndu Monastery.

It has been raining for days on Kauai, so we thought to go to the South Shore during the retreat where the sun almost always shines. So, off we go…

Palaniswami took the young monks who were free that day. Here they are at Poipu Beach, and that is one of the six signs Gurudeva gifted to the mayor of the island. The signs were carved in Bangalore in rose colored granite.

But we were surprised that it is almost as wet there. Here Sadhaka Nilakanta stands in the Poipu Park parking lot!

Satya is basking in the beautiful feeling he had two minutes before, walking bare-footed into the Pacific Ocean for the first time in this life.

At the Hyatt nearby they all sat for a few hours, enjoyed a cappuccino and listened to Gurudeva stories. At the end they brainstormed together the design of this year’s Mahasamadhi souvenir.

Back home the deluge continues! Wailua River runs high.

The falls, usually eight feet high, almost disappear.

Then, suddenly yesterday, a small cliff collapsed!

Soil about the size of a small house swept down the valley, tearing up ferns and banana trees and creating a small gully.

It looked like a mudslide in South America, but smaller of course.

Amazing, the power of water to change the earth.

Here you can see that the mud traveled about 400 feet from the cliff.

That is the publications building in the upper right, about 400 feet away.

More closeups…

Not to worry though, the Aadheenam is quite safe. This was just another day for Mother Nature… carving on Her Wailua River Valley statue…