Another phase arrived with our morning homa conducted by Yogi Japendranatha.

Bodhinatha gave another talk in his series of summaries of the Tirukkural….

Our Siddhidata Kulam has been working on expanding their repertoire, which now includes a variety of gourds, cucumbers, long beans and some new kinds of squash and pumpkins.

The vine gourds are especially new: bitter gourd, ridge gourd and snake gourd are growing well.

These supplement our many varieties of greens and reduce the consumption of the brassica family of plants to a minimum

The gold leafing of the Tandava’s is proceeding well. Our Wailua Mission members did 12 more today.

Kulapati Deva Seyon relates the way this all came about with this little story:

Hail to our beloved Guru, and the Gods of Kadavul!

Aum Namasivaya & happy Mother’s Day to all our Mother’s.
“The hand that rocks the cradle . . . rules the world!”

As you all know well, every Satguru Purnima for the past 8 years or so we take all the Tandavas out of the temple and dip them in a tamarind mixture to make them appear bright and shinny for the few days of the event. This takes a good many of us as well as volunteers from the pilgrims that come for the event. A few weeks later they start their ever increasing descent into back into the dark and dusty.

When Tandu & Uma got inspired several months ago (after gold leafing Iraivan stones), to gold leaf each and every one of them and have a golden hall for Siva’s dance right here on Kauai, there was no budget, no funds for such an idea. Tandu & Uma started a fund themselves to complete the job and were content to do the work themselves at a pace they could afford and the time they had. It would probably have taken several years to complete.

One day several devotees were standing and talking with Palaniswami saying “wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could finish the Tandavas by this Satguru Purnima.” Palaniswami just smiled. The very next day Palaniswami reported that Bodhinatha asked Him – “How much money it would take to finish the Tandavas!”

Palaniswami hadn’t said a word to Bodhinathai! Palaniswami asked Bodhinatha smilingly, “Why are you asking me that question!” And the rest you might say is history.

Bodhinathaswami said that by doing some creative financing with their vehicles and postponing a trade in he thought he had found enough money to help finish the Tandavas! Now that’s magic!

A bird captured in flight shows the shutter speed of our new digital camera.