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“Darshan pours forth from within the unfolded soul just as fragrance flows from the rose–stronger at some times than at others because some devotees are more in tune than others. For them, the room begins to ring and vibrate. Some people are so sensitive that when a great soul comes to the same town, they feel his presence. This shows their inner attunement to the constant flowing power of the darshan. “

— Gurudeva

It is Sun Five, the end of the phase and our tour day guests are gathering at the entrance at 9 am… Wow! Looks like a huge crowd today.

END OF PHASE

Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Dasami Tithi, Sun One, Thursday, February 17th.

Indeed… perhaps 100 people!

Carving one of Iraivan stones

Sadhaka Dandapani queried the group on what brought them here… 75% said “Word of mouth…”

We will need to find a new game plan for the future… What will we do when it is 200 ?! (smile)

Our secret is out– this magical place in the middle of the Pacific is being found out…

Being Sun Five, the Ganapati Kulam gave it’s lunch report on this phases activities.

The April-May-June edition of Hinduism Today went to Missouri last phase and is on the press today. This means the publication team has their quarterly window open for other projects for a few weeks or a month…

Paramacharya Palaniswami has been working on getting new monks’ clothing made in India. He has been working on designs for new curtains for the Deity shrines in Kadavul, designs for wooden statues in from of Kadavul to replace the old “TIKI” torch lights on either side of the door and he has also been communicating with professional companies on the possibility of taking Hinduism Today to the internet as an on-line full color Digital Publication.

Arumugaswami wears many hats, when he is not acting as the Managing editor of Hinduism Today he will be the Land Manager for our 400 acres across the river and he takes the lead in content creation for our children’s course, the Saivite Hindu Religion Series.

He is working on the updating of Books One and Two of the Saivite Hindu Religion course. The illustrations are being redone by artist Manivel in Chennai. He is almost finished with Book One. The books are being reformatted without the teacher’s guide and supplementary material so they will be less expensive for the students. All the teacher’s guides and other material will go on the Internet.

Arumugaswami is researching additional games to be used with the Saivite Hindu Religion children’s course. These resource books on games are from a number of sources. One is Christian based (Unity Church) book surprised us with this title — “Celebrating My God-Self.”

Others are for teaching yoga and meditation and some just collections of common games with no religious angle. However, some can be adapted to a Hindu class on religion. The goal is to assemble a consolidated set of games which can be used in teaching the Saivite Hindu Religion course.

Natarajnathaswami has been working continuously for several weeks on artwork for the new color edition of Lemurian Scrolls which will be something truly amazing to see. He announced today he complete his task — 100’s of patterns, drawings, illustrations….background patterns..

These are tridents that will form the backdrop of some page in the book.

Sivakatirswami also announced the final touches of the newest online book “Dancing with Siva” . If you haven’t seen this yet… go for a tour of the online version later… it’s very beautiful. He also created some new web pages for our teachers to start submitting stories in our long term goal to collect teaching resources.

Here he is stopped by an interesting guest. This elderly gentleman is a top consultant for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His wife was proud to inform us of what she considered one of his most important life’s works which was to assist in the dissolution of apartheid in South Africa. Now he is a fund raiser for MIT. His wife promised to introduce the monastery to someone they know well back in Boston: Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the World Wide Web…

Not pictured are Ganapati Kulam members Acharya Kumarswami and Yogi Japendranatha. Acharya has been working on on Lemurian scrolls as well. Getting the book into our new page lay out program Adobe Indesign (Creative Suite version)… a big job.

Yogi Japendranatha has been do some research with turning the last edition of Hinduism Today into a single PDF file that we could deliver over the internet. The challenge is to get the entire edition into a single file, keep the file size down and still deliver a beautiful digital edition. Stay tuned for these developments… which are all going on in the back ground and will one day take flight in new directions….

The air is cool and dry and the river water clear and clean and quite cold… Those monks who are willing to brave it, get quite a rush jumping into the water which is about 13 degrees Celsius in the morning!

Silpi helper Chinnu at their residence… We have to really thank these
men for the sacrifice they have made to leave their homeland and families and come to Kauai and live like monks for two years, quite isolated. But we take very good care of them…


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