It’s Sun One again. The beginning of a short 4-day phase after a dynamic 3-day retreat.

On the last day of the phase… evening Chitra puja

Sadhaka Dandapani and Sadhaka Nilakantha perform the ceremony

Chanting Gurudeva’s names.

“I will be with you on the inside, 24 hours each day.”

Coming up to today.. a Hindu couple joined us for the morning Sun One Homa…. writing prayers

Messages for the inner worlds from Bhuloka…

Agni the messenger, ready for transmission…

It was such a silent morning, the powerful inner presence of the Divine permeating every cell of your body…

Shaila Pushpa… really enjoys the temple.

Saravananathaswami performs the homa, Paramacharya Palaniswami makes the prayer offerings into the sacred homa, as Bodhinatha remained in seclusion this morning. Paramacharya gave a talk about Gurudeva’s spiritual toolbox, and the many problems life brings to us that can be solved with his magical, mystical and practical tools.

The marvelous wonder from China is continuing to grow at incredible rates… we will keep you posted with more info in the days ahead.

Another interesting project in progress: refurbishing the doors of Kadavul temple… Today the left door is being re-installed

About 15 of us gather to carry the door from the Banyan Mandapam work area back to the temple. Each door weighs about 1,000 pounds, so the 200-yard walk to the Banyan Mandapam was quite a trek this morning.

Ganesha is gold-leafed…

The inner panels use a “composite” that looks like gold.

Hinge bolts going back in… We had a visitor from Oregon three days bck who witnessed the team working on the doors, and volunteered to make new, stainless steel hinges, six of them, for the doors! So Deva Rajan is designing them to be crafted by this retired machinist and sent in the weeks ahead to Kauai.

Yoginathaswami on top of the ladder tightening down the hinges.

The door on the right, was then removed… Can you tell from this photo which door received 200 hours of refirbishing, cleaning, gold-leafing and sealing? Send your answer to…. just kidding!

Several Hindu families came today and enjoyed a spring day in Siva’s Garden. Here they are standing near the 12-foo Dakshinamurthi.

Meanwhile Kanda Alahan has returned home… and here is the result of his work on Task force… two beautiful new doors for the Ganapati Kulam publications building. Amazingly, Kanda made these from Norfork Pine that the monks had milled right at the monastery, and some redwood gifted a few years bck from Callifornia.

Kanda, thank you for the hard work and many hours of milling and sanding! Everytime we enter the publications building we will be thinking of you! We’re thinking to put small bells on the doors later, too. Indian style.