Happy Mahasivaratri!

Tonite is the Great Siva Night… we wish you all a profound and compelling time to propel you deeper and further along the path of spiritual evolution for the coming year.

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Dvitya Tithi, Sun One, Friday, February 18th.

The Ganapati Kulam gave their news today at lunch. Many projects are moving forward. Some will come to fruition later, but today we can announce that our resident guest Task force Joe Chikiar has been working with Sivakatirswami all phase on getting Lemurian Scrolls on line.

Joe spent many, many hours of concentrated time on the tedious job of re-purposing text from InDesign over to our online web books format.

Thanks to Joe for his hard work! He is a pleasure to work with. We have a bit more polishing to do, but the content was complete enough to go live today. Check it out: Lemurian Scrolls, Angelic Prophecies Revealing Human Origins, Now Online!

Posing in front of one of the Chitra pillars (left to right)
Arya and Lalita Star ( who own a healing center on Hawaii –the Big Island), Mathini and Chandran Wigneswarans from Sydney, Australia (posing each side of the Chitra pillar) and in front are Rajeev and Manju Bhargava from Anchorage, Alaska and Scott Peterson and Laura Goodman from Las Vegas.

The morning of Mahasivaratri dawned clear, quite cool and very beautiful. Wonderful guests arrived for the morning abishekam.

Sridhar and Kausalya Veeravalli from Virginia Beach feel very blessed to be at such a sacred place on this
most holy occasion.

In front of the main entrance to the very sacred Svayambhu Lingam where Gurudeva Sivaya Subramuniyaswami had a three-fold vision from God Siva.

The entire area is encircled with Bilva Trees (sacred to Siva) and green Ti plants (also sacred plants).

Under the wonderful Banyan tree in front of the very beautiful Shanmukha Kartikeya. This sacred deity was installed by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami over one year ago during the festival of Thai Pusam.

Mathini and Chandran Wigneswaran and Dr. Shun Sunder in the Mini Mela purchasing the new book “What is Hinduism.”

Dr. Sunder attended the same medical school as Chandran’s brother in Sri Lanka. Both families knew each other and were surprised to meet again at the Aadheenam today. Dr. Sunder lives in America while Chandran and his family live in Australia.

Happy Mahasivaratri!!!

Some more photos from Mauritius sent by Kulapati Deva Seyon who is there with his daughter and son-in-law and their family, the Mardemootoos.

Deva sends this interesting anecdote of his observations of Maha Sivaratri observances in the country.

“It was incredible how many pilgrims were there a whole week before Mahasivaratri. Some started walking on Monday (the farthest point on the island) to reach the lake in time to gather water and return to their village temple for Mahasivaratri. …”

“There are little rest stations along the way for pilgrims ( look like big quick tents ) to drink and rest. Extremely warm here at this time of the year, and they push giant chariots on wheels that they make at home.”

“It is the second largest Siva in the world we are told. Mauritius is a nation that seems to have a deep understanding of sadhana – very inspiring.”