We began a new phase today. Here is Bodhinatha give his Sun One Talk.

The Lambodhara Kulam gave their news today at lunch. Fund raising for the temple is going very well and Sadhaka Haranandinatha has been busy handling all the mail and communicating with donors who have remembered Iraivan at year’s end. Ceyonswami told about the efforts to get special warm shawls from India for all the monks as their Pancha Ganapati gift this season.

Saravananathaswami performs the homa today.

Bodhinatha gives his discourse for this phase. Keep your eyes on the right side bar for updates of his upadeshas coming available on line.

Meanwhile, far off in India our monks are on the Six-Muruga Temple pilgrimage. They stopped in Chennai two days back, long enough to send a few photos which you will enjoy in the slideshow below. Yogi Japandranatha is behind the camera, so we don’t see him in this series.

Happy Pancha Ganapati, Day 1…. We begin today the annual celebration of this new Hindu festival that Gurudeva created for Hindus to have festive period during this period. It’s a joyous time. The winter solstice day usual comes near the beginning and so Pancha Ganapati occurs during the first week of the Uttarayane half of the year when the Sun begins moving northward. This time of year was an ancient period of celebration for ages and ages inmany cultures on the Earth.

We have a small altar set up in Kadavul in front of Ganesha… many gifts and season goodies are arriving at His Feet.

A new sign out front which gives direction to the temple for visitors first stepping onto the property.

The Spiritual Park at Saiva Siddhanta Church in Mauritius has been a soothing pilgrimage site for 20 years since its creation in 1986. Today is the last monthly Ganesha Homa for 2006. As usual hundreds of devotees attended the ceremony.

A few devotees are seated inside. The men prefer to leave the sitting space for the women…..

Every month devotees come to worship Lord Pancha Ganapati with their loving offering…

Our sishyas lead the bhajan ….

At 10.30 AM the homa is lit ……

Devotees have been instructed how to write their prayers to the inner worlds as taught by Gurudeva by using a plain white sheet of paper and using black ink.

Kulamatas Sornambal Mardemootoo and Premila Manick have been busy welcoming and taking offerings from the devotees to be placed at Lord Ganapati’s Holy Feet.

Time for testimonies…. Rohit Jagessur told everyone how his years of training at Kauai Aadheenam has helped him in his life.

This gentleman originally from Chennai, South India has offered 1008 home made sweets to Lord Ganapati. He prayed that his uncle be elected MP in India and his prayers were answered….

The Talk of the day given by Kul. Manon Mardemootoo was on Niyamas as explained by Satguru Bodhinatha.

The practical examples provided in the talk kept everyone attentive…

Each month Lord Pancha Mukha Ganapati is majestically garlanded…Thousands of flowers are being offered

The homa ceremony, devotees walk down the Park where lunch is being served

The lunch is usually sponsored by two or three families

A family of our membership, Sishya Tiru Siva Mahadevan Thungavelu with his wife and children…

Everyone gives a helping hand to clean the Mandapam…

Back to the ongoing projects of the Park. The Ganesha Bridge….