Tushar and Alka Doshi with their daughters Ekta and Amrita are here on pilgrimage. It’s their 3rd visit to Kauai and our monastery and they love it here. The Doshi’s have also been very instrumental in raising funds for our Hanuman statue project. Alka shared that she wants her future generations to make this their temple so she is starting the process by bringing her children here as often as she can and to help with the project.

We are having lots of visitors these days.

And yet another beautiful day in paradise, with a light mix of showers, sunshine and trade breezes.

Among our visitors today were Sunil and Vasundhara Kakodka from Pennsylvania. They are temple donors and longtime subscribers of Hinduism Today. Sunil met Gurudeva several years ago and was moved by his great spiritual presence. Today they were blessed to have a meeting with Paramacharya Palaniswami following the morning puja.

They were really surprised at how far the construction phase of the Iraivan Temple had advanced since they were last here several years ago.

Sunil noted that he and Vasundhara are on pilgrimage and “want to come here every day while we can to enjoy the beauty and peace of the gardens and the darshan of this beautiful Kadavul temple.”

On the far right is Nieve Shere who works for the New York Botanical Gardens. She is on Kauai visiting friends and family members, Tory O’Malley, Jacob DasMarais and Ana Mohamad.

Only here for one day, she was unable to meet with the creative botanical architect of the beautiful Aadheenam gardens and grounds, Paramacharya Palaniswami, but hopes to do so on her next visit if possible.

Everyone is “astounded” by Iraivan.