News from Bodhinatha in Chennai… monsoon rains cancelled the trip to Chidambaram, so the team is having an extra quiet day in Chennai, which is probably a good thing..

In this photo Bodhinatha is at the Palani Hills temple in South India on the last India Innersearch.

On the coming innersearch we will also be visiting temples in New Zealand and Australia. Please join us. Being with the guru’s entourage for temple events is always joyous and inspiring. It is satsang of the “sweetest” kind when devotees from far away come and meet with the Hindus locally in the celebration of Sanatana Dharma and worship of God, Gods and Guru…

Each morning of Skanda Shashti there has been a Muruga puja at 7:30am, conducted by a different monastic. Yesterday Yogi Japendranatha did the honors.

Abishekam

The Lord has his bath

Devotees singing Muruga bhajans and Natchintanai while the curtain is closed. Priya Alahan and her mother Isani sang beautifully.

Visitors from afar, and Kulapati Deva Seyon.

A songbird prances outside the temple path

Tandu Sivanathan has such a beautiful voice, we are always happy when he is there joining in the bhajans.

Dasan Mahadevan and Uma Sivanthan glowing after puja.

Lord Muruga is radiant

Visitors by the temple tank with Shama.

This is a wonderful man, currently residing on Kauai, who is from Bali. He is renting a place to our pilgrims and was delighted to learn they were Hindus and to find out about our temple. He’s been on Kauai since 1997…

His outfit was “stunning” from a men’s fashion point of view. Gurudeva would have loved it! It is traditional Balinese jacket and sarong, the headband is called an udang.

Kumara Veylan, originally from Malaysia, now living in New York, visited yesterday and was most impressed so he returned today to attend the 9am Siva puja. He enjoyed the tour of the grounds and of Iraivan. Happy to see Hinduism flourishing in the US.

Special work on a joint between the stones of Iraivan in progress.

Fine finishing on a west side Jalakam….

Rajendran.. with his safety glasses…