We begin a five day phase with our morning homa.

Yogi Japendranatha is today’s homa priest.

Task forcer Robert Brown enjoys the inner vibration.

And Teja Falzone

Thambynathan Dharmaraj

Bodhinatha gave a wonderful talk today on faith, coming later… keep your eye on the side bar for new updates.

The annual Ayudhya puja was celebrated today at Iraivan. The silpis have everything decorated.

Our new Kawasaki Mules are standing by to be blessed.

The all-important forklift for moving Iraivan’s stones.

Bodhinatha arrives, after the homa….

Silpis await him at the patrai (blacksmith forge)

The silpi’s ever-useful forge, which tempers steel, cooks the pongal rice, boils tea water, or, in this case, provides hot charcoal to burn incense.

The forge fire ablaze…

Next we move over to Iraivan for the main puja.

Below you will enjoy the video of today’s events. (click to play as the first frame is nothing but clear white light!)

Gurudeva presides… tools arrayed on the altar as Bodhinatha does an arati.

Next, the chipping of the stone.

Giving dakshina to the silpis

Our new team of young men enjoying one of their first festivals.

Interest is building up rapidly for our next Innersearch travel-study program, Asia Odyssey 2008. Several people have applied already.

Here is the arresting photo of Angkor Wat that you may have seen in our communications, the first stop of our journey. This main temple and many others located there are from the time of India’s greatest expansion. We found this enticing description on the web:

“The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, are one of humankind’s most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remains of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis…”

On the short video below, Bodhinatha answers two questions, one about innersearch programs in general and the other about Asia Odyssey 2008 in particular.