Bodhinatha at yesterday’s Sun One morning in the temple.

Today at lunch from Saravananathaswami:

He and his helpers are continuing in the massive project of digitizing all the paper in the entire office. Years of forms, files for members and students that fill many filing cabinets are being digitized for long term storage and easy of access. There is always the on-going advanced coordination of pilgrims and future visitors and future events in far off places later in the year.

We are also happy to have Sadhaka Dandapani back from his Sadhaka Sojourn in the World…

(right to left) Tony Kilbert, Head of the Drama Theater of the Kauai Community College arrived this morning with a friend from the mainland. That’s Carlos Santana, in the middle, the internationally renowned musician, whose music has brought so much positive energy to rock fans for over 3 decades. Carlos who has always worked to try to make his music be a channel for a higher spiritual force of upliftment. When the world of rock and roll went “to the dark side” Carlos kept steering toward the light.

He was much uplifted by his visit to the monastery and Iraivan temple. He talked with some the monks. None of whom knew who he was until Yogi Japendra’s mother Vicki said: “You know… that was *the* Carlos Santana.” She has all of his music in her collection at home.

Also visiting is “Max” who is a friend of longtime devotee Deva Rajan. All enjoyed the morning abhishekam and a tour of the Iraivan Temple.

A spontaneous tour was given to another small group of visitors.

(Left to right) Neil and Patricia Seidel from Palm Springs. (Neil is another well-known guitarist.) Ashesh and Anjeli Agrawal from Peusacola, Florida and Srinivas and Jaya Pathapati with Leaha (age 10) and Deepak (age 5) from Amarillo, Texas.

Ashesh stated that “this temple is unbelievably beautiful and the darshan of Kadavul very powerful.”

More photos from yesterday’s homa that speak for themselves.