Bodhinatha offers prayers to the homa fire as we begin a short 4-day phase.

Saravananathaswami performs the yagna rites today.

Many prayers from devotees around the world are offered to the homa fire.

Today Bodhinatha has a reading review of the principles of his karma management presentation.

It has been a quiet contemplative few days as some of the monks when off on a camping retreat to Polihale beach and Kokee park for the 3-day retreat, leaving the Aadheenam very quiet… a powerful, full-moon time for setting aside the conscious mind and looking within and beyond.

Sunset at Polihale is a “spiritual experience” as the sun slowly slips below the horizon over the ocean, just north of Niihau Island in the distance, the sky all orange and a myriad of changing crimson coral fire colors, reflecting off the wet sand at the beach’s edge turning the water into a liquid metal mirror of the sky’s amazing show that stops the mind and heart for an awesome twenty minutes of one of the most beautiful experiences given to us by God at the “edge of the world.”

This is Christopher Becker’s photo from his Polihale.com web site. He writes: “…visiting Polihale Beach is such an overwhelming and unexpected experience. Even before you learn the details of its role in ancient Hawaiian mythology as the gateway to the afterworld, Polihale will fascinate you…. Few other places on Earth combine staggering physical beauty with such a pervasive sense of the divine.”