Bodhinatha with the Madurai Aadheenam Kartar, January 2005.

A bright new phase began today with homa in the morning…

Sadhaka Jivanandanatha does the honors.

Our Kauai sishya, writing prayers…

Bodhinatha gave an inspiring talk today, drawing on the daily Master Course lesson and quote from Yogaswami on the nature of “knowing nothing,” as an indication of spiritual awareness.

He quotes Gurudeva:

“The intellect strengthened with opinionated knowledge is the only barrier to the superconscious.”

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Today the Jagadeesh family visited us for the first time from California. B.V. Jagadeesh, his wife Anuradha and sons Karthik and Akshay were vacationing through the Hawaiian islands. Jagadeesh and his wife attended our 6am Siva homa and then later the whole family returned to see Iraivan Temple.

They were very impressed with the authenticity, the traditional aspect of Iraivan Temple.

It turns out that Jagadeesh is from a village in Bangalore area that he figures is quite close to the quarries where the Iraivan Temple white granite comes from.

The family was very touched to hear about Gurudeva’s powerful visions regarding Iraivan Temple, as they visited the original svayambhu lingam where Gurudeva’s vision of Siva took place.

Jagadeesh proudly announced to his sons that Iraivan will their pilgrimage temple throughout life. He said, “When we all pass on, this will be your temple to come to.”

Later in the morning a busload of elderly came on a tour with Larry Rivera, local musician and friend of the monks, who always comes here to sing the Waialeale Song on the look out over the river with the mountain in the distance.

Seshan and Radha Raj from Sunnyvale were among our guests today. Here
they are with their children Anand and Priyanka hugging a rudraksha tree.
They had met Gurudeva before in California but it was their first trip to
Kauai Aadheenam.

Michael and Catharine from Queensland, Australia are here to see our crystal
Sivalingam.

The sun shade over the Chinna Gopuram.

It is difficult to feel it from these photos, but these new pieces suddenly gave the gopuram its “grand entrance” vibration…

From the magical close up lens of Ganga Sivanathan… it is interesting to think, that Gurudeva often talked about color, the colors of nature and the colors of the inner world and… well, here it is!

Sunset…