Today's News
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Today was another day of intense activities at the Aadheenam.
The Ganapati Kulam — our publications team — reported. The list is typically long: assessing potential Insight sections for Hinduism Today; an upcoming video for Hinduism Today’s january issue; organizing and digitizing our photo and video archives; a pamphlet to help fundraisers in Malaysia; writing new articles for the magazine and, of course, this TAKA!
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Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Sun One, Friday, November 28th.
Though today was not an official Tour Day, about 50 people thought it should be and came to see the Iraivan.
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The sun shone for them, and they learned all about the monastery and its work around the globe.
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They looked in on the silpis, here carving a stone for the entry gate.
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And of course the on-going work of installing the rose-granite flooring. There are a total of 788 stones, most of them two by two feet and 3-4 inches thick. The floor sponsorships are being engineered by devotees in Malaysia and Singapore.
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The massive tiles are laid on a bed of sand.
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This morning the team placed these four in the final position, setting them on a bed of mortar.
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It’s an important process, requiring more exactitude than many of the other fittings, as the water runoff is critical and there is zero tolerance for having water pool up.
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At the Southern end of the temple, Kannan works on a stone for the entry tower.
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Outside the visitors check out the Rudraksha trees, and were seen hugging them.
Yesterday’s TAKA received this thoughtful comment describing the building of Iraivan Temple in a way we have all though of but never articulated: “It’s really inspiring to see the process of building Iraivan; very much like the process of building a spiritual life, and the way we would like to build our society–everything is meant to be beautiful, long-lasting, consciously planned and thought out at every level, like a meditation.”
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