Sadhu Paksha Day 3

It’s a very quiet, sublime day at the Aadheenam. A cool gentle breeze.

Our three monks in India are text messaging from their cell phone:

“Aum Sivaya Bodhinatha, we assume everything is well in the Aadheenam.Yesterday we when to Murukuruni Vinayakar shrine. Large deity about 7 feet tall. This morning we will be heading to the first Padai
Veedu-Tiruparankundram. We all are well. Aum Sivaya.”

We take this opportunity for some retrospectives.

More great silent movies! Yogaswami taught the value of silence. So we find these movies in perfect harmony with his teachings on that matter (smile).

This one is done by Arumugaswami from clips he took on the recent journey to India, Singapore and Malaysia.

Here we go back to October, when the young taskforcers and monks adventured to the North Shore of the island. That’s Teja Falzone, Nilakantha, Tandava Brown and Dharmaraj standing at the cliff’s edge.

They stopped at the lighthouse, which is situated, as lighthouses tend to be, on a spectacular outcropping exposed on all sides to the sea.

They took a few seconds of video, one is a 360-degree pan of the area which you can watch below.

Back home we show, from a few weeks back, the team working on Archive Day, organizing and filing all of Gurudeva’s lifetime legacy of talks, videos, photos and more.

Japendranatha and Satya team up on a video project.

Tandava sorts through our photo archives.

He gets to explore the history of the monastery from day one.

There are over 75,000 photos in the archive.

Today we are working on the first phase of having all of them digitized and saved on our server, where they will stop disintegrating and be preserved for the future.