Venkatakrishnan and his wife, Jayshree, continue their week long pilgrimage here at Kauai Aadheenam. This morning Venkatakrishnan met with Bodhinatha. He came prepared with his list of questions which Bodhinatha insightfully answered.

Devi Gibson meets with Bodhinatha. It is her last day on Kauai with her father.

Prakash and Veena Bajaj visited us today from New York, originally from Delhi. They are great Siva bhaktas and Mr. Bajaj performs hours of puja and other religious sadhanas every day.

He was proud to show us his cell phone which contains dozens of photos of Siva murtis, other Gods and swamis in India.

They had printed out our website’s Visitor’s Info pages and looked forward to spending lots of time on the monastery grounds.

They very much enjoyed slowly examining the different parts of Iraivan Temple like the artwork on the pillars, lion pillars,…

…then exploring the new rudraksha seed crop …

..and hugging the tree, …

…then visiting the original Swayambhu Lingam which they were in awe of …

…then doing pradakshina to Dakshinamurti

…and finally performing abhishekam for the Narmada Sivalingam.

They said “Siva is just everywhere, in the stones, the plants, the trees, everywhere.”

A walk down to Bali Hai falls where the Narmada stream that flows through our Aadheenam (actually an incredibly well engineered irrigation channel created nearly a century ago…) pours into the Wailua River.

It’s a magical place…can you see the deva face behind the waterfall?…hmm…a lot going on inside there.

to watch the waters flow to the sea,

bouncing and rolling over the rocks …

as if full of joy to know their eventual destination…

the inevitable, glorious, guaranteed for all beings, all souls…

Merger with Siva.