Here are Devagharan and Krishnakumari Nair with their daughter Devina. They live in Texas and are originally from Malaysia.

They last visited in 1999 and are back again. They had darshan with Bodhinatha and got advice about raising their daughter in the US. Devina is homeschooled and Bodhinatha advised to carefully monitor her friendships as she grows up.

Worship at the Swayambhu Lingam.

This original site of Gurudeva’s vision will be preserved for the future. Plans for a mandapam to be built over it and a surrounding plinth are in development stages.

At the Iraivan Temple, temple stones continue to see the light of day after their long journey from within the earth to the Bangalore carving site, to container, across the ocean to their new home in Hawaii.

Three beams extracted all at once.

And, next! (drum rolls, nadaswaram playing loudly…) the Rajagopuram capstone…

Oops! It is so heavy the back of the forklift is going up!

Yoginathaswami drags the crate out very slowly….

This is one of the heaviest stones in the entire temple. our team places pipes underneath the crate so we can easily roll it out. This is how it was done in ancient days with elephants pulling stones on logs as rollers.

There it is! The Raja Gopuram

Meanwhile a magnificent Yalli pillar has had the base of it’s crate removed.

Work begins on the base, in preparation for standing the magnificent piece up in place.

A very kind guest, Garrett Scott, offered his camera yesterday during the tour and e-mailed us the photo today. The group was by the Rishi Valley lake, where there are shrines for
the gurus of our Parampara. Mahalo Garrett!