Sadhu Paksha Day 4

Another quiet Sadhu Paksha day… The Pillaiyar Kulam shared news today. More and more people in Malaysia are buying books from our web site, so plans are in the works to set up a distribution center there. Since many of the books are printed there… this makes perfect sense. Muruganathaswami is active in the travel arena, as we have silpis arriving, monks traveling… lots of activity in the months ahead.

Sadhaka Jothinatha described the various efforts underway to set up booths and distribute literature at the venues where Bodhinatha is traveling. We have to thank our dear Thiru Satkunendran in Canada for all his hard work and service in this area.

We have no pictures from the mission in Canada today but Bodhinatha wrote a quick note from the events of today, saying they had a wonderful day at the BAPS temple where an enthusiastic youth group asked questions for a hour and later 600 people attentively listened to his talk at the temple which was translated into Hindi…

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To give you some idea of the excitement in the air that is being generated in advance of Bodhinatha’s trip… here is a poster that is up in a temple in Montreal, where Bodhinatha will be going later in August.

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Among our visitors to the monastery today was the son of oceanographer Jacque Cousteau, Jean-Michel and his wife, Nancy. Palaniswami met with them and suggested that their Ocean Futures Society group explore the Indian civilizations off the Western shores of India. They want more information on the sites. They also want some Rudraksha trees for their California home! Nancy surprised us when she shed soft tears when talking of Gurudeva. She never met him, but something about his departure from the earth�saddened her. It may be she intuited his deep and loving spirit through his sacred place here. It turns out Nancy went to high school with Almitra Zion, the lady who brought the giant crystal from Arkansas in 1987, and Almitra introduced her to Gurudeva’s teachings.

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They are deeply involved in saving the oceans and its creatures, and water. So some water imagery from our sacred lands is offered in acknowledgement of this visit. We wish Jean-Michel well in his efforts to get the northern Hawaiian Islands and the oceans surrounding them into a protective sanctuary, like a national park, something that is dear to his heart and that he and his team have been working on for years.