Today was the holy day of Skanda Shashti. We had a very powerful homa and puja in the temple this morning. The pictures tell the story, as does the video below (high bandwidth, 92 megabyte, 16 minutes)

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming three-day retreat,
until Dasami Tithi, Sun One, Monday, November 19th.

Lord Muruga in the early morning, awaiting his bath…

Monks chanting Sri Rudram.

The Holy Vel has been taken out of the shrine and place by the yagna altar.

After the puja, Senthilnathaswami, our homa priest for the day, is paraded with the Kumbha pot on his head, out of the temple around Nandi and back to Lord Muruga’s shrine.

The abhishekam begins….

The murthi of Lord Muruga in Kadavul is consider one of the most beautiful of stone images.

The awesome moment of the milk abhishekam.

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On other interesting digital fronts, Robert Dakota who produces videos for WorldViewZ came to visit with Leilani Petranek last week and his visit is already up on you tube. Click here for more about his visit and You Tube videos on Iraivan and Kauai’s Hindu Temple. Note the slide show uses screen shots and you cannot actually click on the links in the slides. Go to the link below to view one of Robert’s videos.