It is the last day of a dynamic phase… All areas of Gurudeva mission work are unfolding powerfully under Bodhinatha’s wise direction.

END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming three-day retreat,
until Tritya Tithi, Sun One, Tuesday, April 26th.

Kanda Alahan is staying on Kauai for a while and coming to the monastery every day to do karma yoga. He is a master carpenter and is building some new beautiful doors for our publications building.

Here he is with Acharya Kumarswami in our very well equipped carpentry shop.

Kanda is using natural woods that Kumarswami has worked hard to gather.

When local trees are felled we try to be there to get the logs which might otherwise be wasted.

These are panels that will be on the face of the doors

This is from an old pine log.

The log shows some beautiful “spalting” where water has gotten into the wood and the fungi started to work before it was dried out… leaving incredible natural patterns and colors.

Of course, Lord Siva really knows how to do color!

Paramacharya Palaniswami is documenting the temple progress from a very specific point on the northwest edge of the Iraivan compound area… which will one day provide a time-lapse history of the temple’s progress over the years.

Stones await their time…

The scaffolding is secure on the northern side of the vimanam, ready for the roof of the Chinna Gopuram that will go up soon

Pots with lotuses…

One of the many gifts Kanda has given with his own hands through the years have been the wooden Tiruvadi, that are blessed by the feet of the Satguru and then sent to the homes of senior sishya where Pada puja is performed at mission satsangs. He did this for Gurudeva and continues the offering with Tiruvadi he brought for Bodhinatha on this trip.

Tour day today.. about 40-50 souls…

Mother and son… “on the rock…”

Colorful crowd!

Hugging the healing rudraksha trees.

These little chameleon lizards always seem to have a curious streak and the look back at you as if there was a deva inside… who is watching who?

A few from the publications building…

In the Kadavul Temple Kulapati Deva Seyon and Tandu Sivanathan decorate the shrine for this evening’s monthly Chitra pada puja for Gurudeva at 6pm.

Tandu is a master of bonsai and flower arrangement…..looking for the perfect balance.

All the seeds that Gurudeva planted are growing at a great speed, as if his wind and prana is blowing everything forward from within. This plant exemplifies how it feels to be at the Aadheenam… you look at it… it is perfectly silent, perfectly still, yet growing at a miraculous speed.