Sivayogapathy and his wife Rukmin, originally from Jaffna, Sri. Lanka and now residing in Toronto, Canada are both here on pilgrimage for several days.

Today, their last day at the Aadheenam, they met with Bodhinatha. Sivayogapathy’s father, one of Yogaswami’s closest devotees, built the Sivathondan Nilayam in Jaffna. Sivayogapathy grew up with Yogaswami constantly in his life.

We recorded a video of his Yogaswami stories this morning.

After several weeks of very dry weather, the skies “cut loose” today with a full day of rain….

Yesterday Brahmacharini Shama hosted our pilgrims for a tour and learned some more interesting information from our guest to share.

Sivayogapathy knew and served Siva Yogaswami as a young boy until Yogaswami’s Mahasamadhi, as did his father, Thillaiampalam, and his father’s uncle, Saravanamuthu, who first met Siva Yogaswami in the late 1920’s

While here he has translated Sat Siva Guru Bodhinatha’s talk into Tamil and also for Paramacharya Palaniswami he documented his own family’s history with Siva Yogaswami from the 1920’s for the Aadheenam Archives.

Rukmin took an afternoon trip down to the waterfall . .

and to the Wailua River.

Both were really over joyed to finally experience the Aadheenam and compared Kadavul Temple’s vibration to that of Chidambaram.

The late rays of the afternoon sun cascade over the Palani Deity in the garden adding to the spiritual beauty of the deity.

Tracy and her mother Takako Ogihara and Derek Wong (who are neighbors) visited the Aadheenam for the first time and were taken on a tour of the Iraivan Temple and grounds. . . .

. . . and the famous Bali Hai Waterfalls.

We bring you more photos of the March Ganesha Homa at the Spiritual Park attended by some 2000 devotees from all over the island.

The devonic helpers of the inner worlds, though unseen to the physical eyes, are skilled in the art of fulfilling prayers burnt into the Homa fire .

Brahmachari Vel Mahalingum giving a testimony on tidiness at the Park after the cyclone.

The final arati…

Devotees on their way to he food stations stop at the Siva Dakshina murthi to worship Lord Siva.

The crowd moving on to the far end of the property

Everyone partakes the blessed lunch….

The sea breeze blowing over the place makes it ideal for a picnic

Every month volunteers come up to sponsor food at the Ganesha Homa. They take care of all the cooking and serving.

Here is one of this Sunday’s food sponsors…… Miss Artee from Goodlands, a barrister and an enrolled Master Course student.

The ceremony over it is time for cleaning up the Mandapam and the small Ganapati Shrine. Here are Ananda and Bala at the small shrine lovingly doing their seva.

Kulapati Manon Mardemootoo talking to some visitors from Holland.