We have another excellent series of photos from Toronto. Here is Bodhinatha arriving for the special function in honor of Siva Yogaswami… more pictures below.

Today we welcomed our newest monastic candidate, Paul Hardman. Paul is from Maryland and is 21 years old, but his soul seems far older.

He began today by joining the Ganapati Kulam, working on our video/audio workstation.

Paul is helping the archiving of Gurudeva’s lifetime of work, logging in videos from the past.

Shanmuganathaswami and Sadhaka Jothinatha are brainstorming this morning.

Swami is making plans for our administrative future and finding new efficiencies.

Sadhaka is working with many Hindus around the country to present Hinduism to visitors to dozens of Hindu festivals that occur each year in different cities.

And past our gnarley Banyan.

Our photographer discovers a 6″ by 6″ board once used to hold up a limb, now almost completely engulfed with the tree. One day it will disappear.

Palaniswami took Paul to the Iraivan Temple site, climbed up the ladder to the roof only to find another photographer there on the scene.

The silpis are there.

They are working on making some roof lines straight by using a system of water leveling.

Then we took Paul to the garden.

The garden team was planting and putting up some protective mesh to guard young seedlings, and also weeding with a torch, one way we have found to avoid chemicals in our growing. You can see a short video of this below.

[Small video survey: the video above of the temple is an Mpeg4 file. The one above of the garden is a .mov file. If you can see both of these, excellent. if you can view one but not the other, please send a note to studyhall@hindu.org explaining which one you can see and which one you cannot see. Thanks]