The Rahavendran family are here for the their last day of pilgrimage and had darshan with Bodhinatha today after having been with us for over a week.

Pillaiyar Kulam News

At lunch today the Pillaiyar Kulam share their news.

Shanmuganathaswami described all the work he’s been doing in the establishment of five new Hindu Heritage Endowments. Each one requires new database entries, folders to be made, certificates be set up fund accounts created, etc. Here are the five new endowments:

• Murugan Temple of North America Puja Fund: meant to ensure continuity of pujas through the decades to come the new Murugan temple outside Washington DC. It was started by Padmini Saravanapavan, Nigel Siva and Vayudeva Varadan
• Kodiswara Satguru Malaysia Travel Fund: Is dedicated to providing travel funds to bring our Satguru to Malaysia on a regular basis.
• Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona Endowment
• Bharatiya Ekta Mandir of Arizona Endowment
• India Hindu Tribals Endowment

Swami has also been continuing the research on shipping publications back and forth between Malaysia and USA view Active Air freight forwarders.

Muruganathaswami has been communicating with libraries and library associations to find ways to expedite giving away books. Since libraries may not necessarily put a book on the shelves until after they are vetted, some way must be found to let librarians see what they are getting. A plan is in motion to simply contact librarians with the URL of the books on line saying that free copies of back editions are available, compliments of the book distribution fund established by the Hindu Businessmen’s Association.

He also handles all the incoming web traffic for donations and book orders and reports that there were 15 donations to HHE given on line this phase. Muruganathswami has also been preparing packets of educational literature. Our educational brochures are very popular at the web store.

Yogi Jivanandanatha detailed his accounting work, saying that he is closing the books on the Hindu Heritage Endowment for the month of December and doing more programming in our database.

He also developed an interesting calculation on how many vigils the monks have done since 1973… don’t miss it!

Sivanadiyar Dharmaraj has been busy packing up books to ship off to prisoners and libraries. The goal is to send away all old editions of Dancing with Siva, but get them into good hands.