It’s Sun One of new phase and we are back on the job here at the Aadheenam. We had our usual homa the morning following by a morning with guests from Texas.

Dr. N.R. Pemmaraju from San Antonio is here from San Antonio, Texas with his wife Rani. Today they joined the morning homa, had darshan with Bodhinatha and visited the publications offices. Here they are with Arumugaswami.

The Pemmaraju family have a long association with the Aadheenam. He loves to say that “a piece of the Aadheenam exists in San Antonio,” where, decades ago, Gurudeva bequeathed a murthi of Ardhanarisvara to the Hindu temple there. That temple has grown to encompass today around 2,000 families and the Ardhanarisvara Deity continues to carry the message that God is neither male nor female, that Siva is All, inseparable from His energy, Shakti; and that in Siva the ida (feminine) and the pingala (masculine) nadis (psychic nerve currents) are balanced so that the sushumna (the central psychic current in the spine) is ever active. They were so happy to come back to the Aadheenam after so many years and hope to have Bodhinatha come visit San Antonio sometime soon in the future.

Here are some photos from recent GG mission satsang.

Absorbing the vibration created by the homa satsang.

Mira Sendan holding young Bodhi Sivam Param

Raja Sivamani played vina and explained the Tamil lyrics in English, a song about Siva-Shakti.

We celebrated Kulapati Vijay Shankara’s birthday.

Dr. Narayana Rao and his wife are regular pilgrims to Kauai Aadheenam and a planning an extended family pilgrimage in June this year. In his email informing the Aadheenam of his “sankalpa” (intentions) to come on pilgrimage he (an engineer-math-scientist-professor) makes the following esoteric offering:

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“Appreciation, admiration, and adoration, are the key words for this visit. When one is able to appreciate, admire, and adore, he/she gets inspired beyond imagination. With such inspiration, I have challenged myself to create a mnemonic (in this case, a string of words intended to aid in memorization) involving the Iraivan Temple. The mnemonic has to do with the transcendental number Pi, which consists of an endless string of numbers following the decimal point after 3. People have devised various means of memorizing the digits of Pi.

Here I have devised a mnemonic to aid in the memorization of the value of Pi to 31 digits following the decimal point. The 32nd digit is zero, and hence the string stops. The number of letters in a given word represents the digit in the value of Pi in that position. Thus, for example, the first word “How” represents 3, and the word “Aadheenam” represents 9, and so on. Punctuations are not counted but an apostrophe is counted as one letter because it is part of the word.

Thus, I am pleased to present to the Aadheenam the “Mnemonic for the Transcendental Number Pi, Involving the Transcendental Iraivan Devalayam,” created with the imagination driven by the appreciation, admiration, and adoration toward the Aadheenam. It is attached as a pdf file. Once again, please share it with Bodhinatha and all the monks.

Aum Namasivaya,
Narayana Rao