Bodhinatha left for California this morning. He will be holding receptions called “Donor Appreciation” events in San Diego on Saturday and San Francisco on Sunday and he will fly home on Monday. The program will provide an update of his mission work, travels, and the progress of the Iraivan Temple over the past year.

He will also have private satsang with the close devotees of the parampara in both regions.

We don’t have any photos from today, but bring you a fascinating “walk thru” time lapse movie taken by Sadhaka Jivanandanatha and refined in our new video software tools. He starts at the entry way of 107 Kaholalele Road and goes for a walk to Iraivan and back again.

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Dasami Tithi, Sun One, Sunday, October 15th

The exquisite art of S. Rajam: paintings commissioned for the book on the Guru Parampara. Here a devotee prostrates before Siva Yogaswami.

A few devotees are singing in Yogaswami’s small hut. A vision of Lord Siva appears.

Chellappaswami was a very austere tapasvin. He would train Yogaswami with tests of renunciation. Here they walked many miles in the hot sun to take a bath in the ocean. At the ocean’s edge, in an act of self-denial, Chellappaswami said: “We have bathed!” and then turned and walked back to Nallur, without entering the ocean.