It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam. Hot summer day, no wind, all is still, very few guests, monks busy as bees on their various projects.

Bodhinatha is currently putting in many, many hours on his teaching presentations for the coming journeys this fall.

Meanwhile we have a series from our small satsang group in Chennai where they observed Guru Purnima recently.

Adi Shankar writes today.

Primeela, Dhanialakshmi and Parvati, waiting for puja…

During the pooja

Adi Sankara performing the pooja

Devotees standing for the arati.

Little Parvati has been very attentive during the pooja

A special altar on this Great Occasion

Flowers for our beloved Satguru

Prostration. Here is Premila Gunalan who is a student in Bharata Nathyam in Chennai.

followed by her younger sister Dhanialakshmi

Singing of Natchintanai

Preparing the next generation

Anjeeni Devi and Lalitha Gunalan….full of energy!

Adi Sankara and Anne Gunalan from Mauritius and Malaysia meeting in Chennai

Good vibration here

Our Beloved Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

Reading of sutras in Living With Siva

Lalitha Gunalan

Anjeeni Devi giving her testimony

Vote of thanks. AUM SIVAYA

This was a very quiet and peaceful day with very few visitors. Ursula and Jasmin (mother and daughter) arrived for a tour of the grounds. Ursula is from Cologne, Germany and her daughter Jasmin lives in Mexico City. Ursula is visiting her daughter for a three week vacation on Kauai. They thoroughly enjoyed visiting this profoundly spiritual temple and, after observing the silpis creating lotus flowers in stone, Jasmin noted that it was “unbelievable, just unbelievable!”

Hugging a rudraksha tree makes one feel peaceful. . .

The ever changing scene in front of the Aadheenam.