Sun One has come again after a very productive three day retreat during which we had Iraivan day with all the monks working on various projects to push the temple fund raising forward.

We had the homa this morning as usual and Bodhinatha gave another rendition of his talk on Happiness and Desire, which he has refined carefully for using in the Vanakkam newspaper in Mauritius.

We had many guests today. Kishore and Kripa Venkat from San Francisco are on Kauai for a few days and came up again today to attend the morning puja.

They enjoyed very much the tour of the grounds and to be able to see a traditional temple being built on this Hawaiian island.

Ganga Sivanathan, from Adelaide, South Australia, is here on a week long pilgrimage. It is her first trip to Kauai Aadheenam – a place she said she has been wanting very much to come. Ganga was one of the participants on Bodhinatha’s 2004 Indian Odyssey last year in January.

We had a special tour today for the Crimson Circle Sundance group who are here on the island on a spiritual retreat. Many of their members visit the temple when they are on the island and today they decided to come up as a group.

The pada puja starts with Kulapati Vijay Sankara as the priest and Tiru Eesan Sankara assisting.

Various abishegam items were offered to Gurudeva’s tiruvadi.

While the tiruvadi was being decorated,we chanted the 108 names of Gurudeva.

Followed by prostration to Gurudeva’s tiruvadi and arati.

We also wrote and burned Maha Vasana Daha Tantra.

There were some time left and Jothi Param lead us all into singing Nachintanai songs.

Gurudeva’s tiruvadi after the puja. It looks gorgeous!.

Celebrating birthdays this month were Hotranatha Ajaya and Janaka Param. Happy Birthday!

Back at the Aadheenam… a replacement for one of our digital cameras (which had died) arrived a few days ago. It has a much better lens and is much faster. We captured this bee coming for nectar of the magnificent blue jade vine flowers.