It’s Ashram Sadhana Day for this month at the monastery. Everyone one worked in their personal and kulam areas in the morning and then in the afternoon we split into two teams. One worked in the temple and the other worked in the kitchen and our food store room and refrigerators… *everything!* was removed from every shelf, every cupboard and the whole place scrubbed from top to bottom.

Meanwhile our gilding team completed the work on the Chinna Gopuram in record time today and this afternoon moved on to another project which is to gild the doors of Kadavul. For this we will only use gold leaf on the image of the Deities on the doors and use a new “composite” gold leaf made of copper and zinc for other portions. This afternoon we all took down this door…

And then moved it to the Banyan Mandapam where our team can work on it. Here is Deva Rajan who is managing the project.

That’s all for today. Cleaning, scrubbing, fixing, repairing.