Saravananathaswami reported on the Ekadanta Kulam activities. He sends his bullet list to TAKA today:

• updated Innersearch website with Bodhinatha video clip
• figuring out new voice mail setup
• correspondence about Kauai Aloha Endowment grants, insurance questions
• responding to new monastic interest in San Diego, age 18
• more visitor arrangements
• mapping out new flow for answering Master Course worksheets on a regular basis. Creating standard answers for various stages
• Satellite News
• Arranging darshan with Bodhinatha for new Innersearcher Danie
• set up cable lock for rudraksha forest gate
• REviewed some paper work from new monastic candidate, Kamil
• More advance logistics work for the California retreat in the fall.

Tour day dawns again with a seemingly endless stream of visitors arriving to view, what one visitor stated was the “eighth wonder of the world,” the very beautiful, magnificent, and sacred Iraivan Temple.

Here the early morning 9 am group crowds around the outer sanctum and spills down the steps to the main temple floor. The shilpis on scaffolding high above their heads never tire of answering their endless questions about their sacred art.

The second group of visitors pose with their ever-positive, proficient and patient tour guide, Sadhaka Satyanatha, as well as three of the shilpis, Kumar, Pandi and Rajendran (right).

Yogi Japendranatha’s mother, Vicki Hamilton is visiting for ten days. Yogi is working on the monastery’s bi-annual (every two years) computer hardware upgrade and she is giving him a helping hand. We will be sending in all our old computers and monitors and upgrading to the latest technology

Here the article on the silpis in the Garden Island that we ran in yesterday’s TAKA.

Below we have a slide show for you of a monks’ outing on the retreat.

The March Ganesha Homa took place just a few days after the recent cyclone over
the island. Much efforts were put into raking the ground that were covered with
leaves everywhere. As usual a large crowd of devotees poured into the Spiritual
Park to worship Lord Ganesha.

On the eve, the ground close to the Mandapam was being tidied up.

The place suddenly looked clean and beautiful again….

Siven, our main gardener is also good a brick laying. He is constructing a stone
path that leads to the Mandapam from the Ganesha Bridge

Back to our Sunday Homa. A talented group of singers from Curepipe entertained
everyone with beautiful bajans on Lord Ganesha.

The whole Mandapam echoed with devotional songs.

The early comers are happy to be seated so close to Lord Pancha Mukha Ganapati.

The Homa is lighted while bhajanas continue….

Wherever devotees are seated, they always feel the spiritual vibration of the
ceremony .

A few prefer to sit around the little pond.

Hundreds of written prayers dipped in ghee are burnt into the homa. The devas
are having a busy time in the inner worlds.

Time for testimonies open to all those who want to share them. Many devotees
came forward this Sunday. Their real life experiences are a real inspiration to
all…

This gentleman and his family have been preparing food all night to be served at
the Park after the ceremony. He has been inspired to do it just because he feels
something special about Lord Pancha Mukha Ganapati at the Park. Each month
volunteers come up to sponsor lunch for the Ganesha Homa.

The leader of the bhajana group too has a testimony….He feels so blessed by Lord
Ganesha. He is a graduate in music and is happy to sing for Lord Ganesha at the
Park.

This lady has prayed Lord Ganesha tasking for solutions to her family problems.
She is a regular devotee attending Homa . Her prayers have been answered and she
is so happy to have now become so close to Lord Pancha Mukha Ganapati!

Our friend, the brother of one of our members, has suddenly discovered the
greatness of Lord Ganesha and the high spiritual vibration of the Park. .He
wants to share it with everyone….

This gentleman, a GM of a well known tourist resort entertained everyone about
his story where Lord Ganesha helped him out of a perilous situation where he was
about to lose his job due to unforeseen circumstances. He said how rats
mystically solved a problem that needed an urgent solution.

Our young lady here prayed to Lord Ganesha to help her in her HSC
(pre-university) exams and she came out among the best and was awarded a
scholarship by the Government to study abroad.