Bodhinatha departed today at 12 noon for Flint Michigan where he will attend a meeting of the Hindu Council of North American Temples and also have satsang with different devotees in the area and also speak at the Chinmaya Mission there. He will be back on Monday.

It was tour day today and it is wonderful to see the many Hindu families who visit the temple these days.

Here is Savitha and Ashok Sudarsanam with their two children, Vinay age 3 and Yasmin 4 months – (Yasmin was a little camera shy.) The Sudarsanam family are from San Francisco and attend both the Livermore and Fremont temples.

Rajesh and Alica Patel from Kansas with their friends Smita and Kamlesh from New Mexico all came for the tour today followed by a trip to the rudraksha forest.

Sadhaka Dandapani is an expert tour guide with a great sense of humor. Here he is with the second tour group of the day. Sadhaka Dandapani explains the history of the Iraivan Temple and answers the many questions from non-Hindus and Hindus alike.

In front of the main entrance of the Iraivan Temple, with Sadhaka Dandapani, a smiling group of happy souls pose for a photo before making their way back home.

A group of multi-national friends arrived for Tour Day. Here is Dawna Sumaria from Kapaa, who first met Gurudeva in 1987, Petra Sundheim from Kalaheo, Lisa Raphael from Florida, Carmelle Desrosiers and Ariana Sheran from Canada and Robert Zauner from Denmark, now Kapaa. Dawna related some brief meetings she had with Gurudeva and felt that “there are no words to describe the greatness of that Great Soul!”

Another wonderful family from Karur, Tamil Nadu. Lakshmi Narasimhan Munugoor, his wife Selvapriya Ranganathan, their 8 yr old son Vedevyas and baby Bharadwaj 1 yr old.

Posing with the “Super Silpis” Pandi, Manikandan, Rajendran and Chelliah.

“Just a Beautiful Temple!” said Lakshmi.

Tihoti Tatau is from Tahiti and is a spiritual teacher there. He’s visiting the island for the first time and his friends decided to show him the monastery as he also does stone carving.