Bodhinatha receives a gift of a small Ganesha from devotees in Malaysia…

At home today we started the day with our usual Sun One Homa and then we had our monthly Ashram Sadhana day, cleaning up all the mess from the termite heat treatment, making the Aadheenam all bright and shiny again…

Saravananathaswami is sending up lots of great photos which we will show over the days to come… let us go now to first and second day in Malaysia.

Sishyas and students welcome Bodhinatha at the Kuala Lumpur international airport.

Young couple Sivanathan and Puvana meeting Bodhinatha the hotel. They are expecting their first child early next year. Puvana is a Saiva Siddhanta Church sishya and Sivanathan is preparing to become one.

Bodhinatha looks at Sivaram and Devika’s wedding contract which they finally had the opportunity to read before Bodhinatha and invite him to sign.

Bodhinatha signs their wedding contract.

Sivaram and Devika read their contract in front of Bodhinatha.

The happy couple…

Sivaram’s mother and two aunts on the left…

Arrival at the Sri Selva Vinayagar Temple in the evening for our usual satsang gathering of all the members and students of Saiva Siddhanta Church, this time being held in a temple hall instead of a family home, so that all the participants can be accommodated…

In the adjacent temple hall, ready to begin the satsang…

Saiva Siddhanta Church sishyas Rohini, Hema and Thivya sing Natchintanai at the beginning…

Display of our publications at the entrance.

Young Premila entertains the audience

Bodhinatha prepares to give a talk about building a relationship with Lord Ganesha

Chanting Gurudeva’s ashtottara (108 names) and then Bodhinatha’s new ashtottara

The temple had just celebrated Ganesha Chaturthi in the preceding days, so festive lights were everywhere for the occasion

Bodhinatha giving his talk

The audience

Giving vibhuti darshan at the end

Each family comes up

The queue waiting to get darshan from Bodhinatha

SSC sishyas serve dinner to the audience at the end

Sivaram and Nanthakumaran on the right

Bodhinatha officially signs the Sri Selva Vinayagar Temple guestbook

A photo op with the temple priest and management

The next morning, Sunday, we are up on a hill at the Gasing Sivan Temple

Flower petals are offered in front of Bodhinatha as he walks up the steps

Everyone crowds around…

Taking arati at the powerful Sivalingam sanctum

The main purpose for coming to this temple was to have a homa and then give Namasivaya mantra diksha to two SSC sishyas. The homa is now beginning…

Bodhinatha going within during the homa, to prepare for giving mantra diksha

Our enthusiastic publications display team

Making special offerings at the peak of homa

Another offering of a leaf garland

A homa sacrament made by mixing burnt grass with ghee

Taking the arati at the end of the homa… more tomorrow on the important dikshas that were given at the temple.

Here is the team that did the heat treatment, on the left is Bob Madamba with his team from Honolulu.

Fil Am Termite Services can do the job for you without poison!

This morning we had a good long meeting with Michael Linford, Ph.D. who pioneered the implementation of heat in the pest eradication industry. Over 15 years ago some scientists discovered that termites could not withstand more than 120 degrees, Michael took this knowledge and brought it to the industry. Michael is the Chief Operating Officer of ThermaPureHeat Company (http://www.thermpureheat.com) which licenses other companies to use the process. Bob Madamba’s, Fil Am is his first licensee in Hawaii.

He can over to Kauai to watch of the operation because this was the first such very large job on Kauai and he wanted to make sure everything went well. Sadhaka Adinatha on the left was our lead man on taking the initiative to get the problem under control. It was an important step in preserving our monastery for the future.

On the left is Danial Hickinbotham of Precision Environmental, Inc. in California. Michael brought him over as he has experience and was here to help train the Fil Am team. If you live in California, Arizona or Nevada, and you want a a non-toxic solution to termites, mold or fungus in your home, contact http://www.precisionenv.com

We want to really thank this team for the hard work they did. Setting up all the tents, working late into the evening in intense heat and going inside the buildings to take temperature reading from the beams until they were very certain they had reach the necessary temperatures. What a tough job!

A look at the Aadheenam two days ago when were heating up the second story space…

Here is Michael again, with his wife… (sorry about the sun shadows …. it was mid-day). They are Mormons and Mrs. Linford does not work outside the home. They have five wonderful girls and have been together for 34 years.

Gurudeva always appreciated Mormons for their strong commitment to many of the same values that Hindus stand for.