It’s Sun Two at the Aadheenam. The Ekadanta Kulam shared news of their communications with prospective monastics and arriving pre-monastic aspirants… stay tuned for some new faces from Malaysia and Brazil on TAKA…

The big news is out under the Banyan tree where a huge scaffold has been built over Lord Muruga…

Because we cannot bring a crane into the banyan tree, this is all being done the old fashioned: Tall cross-beam and hoist…

Lord Shanmugam, the Six-Faced Murugan, will be lifted up on Thai Pusam day….

Sri Subramuniya Kottam of Sri Lanka celebrates Gurudeva’s Birthday in a Special Way.

As with every year the Sri Subramuniya Kottam celebrates Gurudeva’s Jayanthi or Birthday on January 5th with a Padapuja to Gurudeva’s Tiruvadi at the Tiruvadi shrine at the Kottam followed by cultural events for the Kottam’s children.

Apart from this, this year the Sri Subramuniya Kottam also sponsored celebration of Gurudeva’s Birthday at Jaffna’s first ever school for children with disability called Sivapumi. The Sri Subramuniya Kottam trustees and teachers also participated at the events and later presented the children there with presents.

Photo: Sivapumi students and teachers are dancing together.

When the clouds hover just above the edge of the mountains, and the sun sets behind and through the clear parting… it is always an amazing site….