It is very quiet at the Aadheenam, so we dip into our reservoir and bring you photos of the Maha Samadhi day puja. We had only run the video previously.

We had five priests at work that day.

Bodhinatha pours the water from the kumbha that has been energized by everyone’s chanting.

Verses from the Tirumantiram:

127. In Siva was he rooted: Sivam did he see everywhere.
In the will of Siva did he discern all things,
Transcending consciousness of past present and future,
And duality ceasing did he realize sweet serenity.

1576. He who’s beyond the visible universe, came down on earth
As a Guru to abide in the hearts of the virtuous,
And illumined them by His grace and made them His own.
The peerless Siva is the priceless NatGuru.

1581. The Guru indeed is Siva,
He is the kingly splendor too;
He is beyond the wisdom of the Vedas.
He is beyond all finite consciousness.

1584. If not for the grace of Siva who came as the Guru,
The import of the scripture,
The way leading to liberation,
The reality of Truth cannot be understood by man.

1527. Endowing me with equanimity, the power of Grace
Descended as the Guru and purged my dross,
And enlightened me from the sway of my ego.
Thus freed did I commingle with Siva.

2959. When you meditate on the form of thy Guru
Then all the bonds that bind you
To this prison house of the body
Shall give way and make you free in Siva.

2971. Siva Peruman did I invoke and adore whence,
He came down as my Guru in the form of a sage.
The majestic Lord did overpower me as my Guru,
And I pay my homage to this Lord of the universe.

1590. Sternly did my Guru chastise my ignorance;
He placed his holy hands on my head,
And his beauteous Feet lit up
The secret chambers of my heart.”

Leaving the temple after the puja… we are blessed with a rainbow.

Later in the afternoon, Paramacharya Palaniswami gives another class on meditation.

Some photos have arrived from the cameras of other pilgrims… Today’s feature a few of the ladies on pilgrimage. This is Maria Alice, all the way from Brazil. She is studying the Master Course. She made good spiritual friends here and people like Priya Alahan and Shama Kumaran were kind enough to help her out with some traditional Hindu outfits during her stay.

Alice has given this gift of a carved lotus crystal to Bodhinatha.

From the lens of Ganga Sivanathan, some of the ladies gather in the temple and then go for a walk together to San Marga.

Here Mrs. Suselah Periasamy
from Singapore takes her Vegetarian Vrata in Kadavul temple.

Another happy day for the animals, birds and fish….

She signs her vrata before Lord Siva.

Now… off to San Marga.

Devi Tandavan navigates the rocks in the Wailua River.

An interesting bhuta deva carving…

The Swayambhu Lingam…

Inside of Iraivan, the central sanctum… where the maha Spatika lingam will be one day…

Alice at Iraivan

Pilgrims try their hand at stone carving.

Kulamata Savitri Palani, whose son Jivanandanatha, is now a yogi…

Tirumati Chamundi Sabanathan who has been doing service for the publication team for years. All the indexes of all our books have been honed under her dedicated precise eye.

Kulamata Chandra Sankara

Sheela Young was on the recent innersearch to New Zealand and Australia. And avid student and practitioner of meditation!