Today is the last day of our phase. What a great phase it was too. So much progress on so many levels.

The Ganapati Kulam shared news today. Work proceeds on many fronts. The new “What is Hinduism?” book is steadily being worked on by Paramacharya Palaniswami and Acharya Kumarswami. The Hinduism Today team is working on the October issue of Hinduism Today. Sivakatirswami is getting ready to release the July Digital Edition of Hinduism Today, along with help from Sadhunathan on the web server e-mail side of things. Yogi Japendranatha is helping prepare “shells” for Bodhinatha’s Keynote presentations and working with a new piece of hardward that will take these presentations and turn them in DVDs anyone can play in the computer or on a TV set. Our newest member Satya Subramaniam is starting a new project to go through all talks Gurudeva ever gave on TAKA, extract all the data, transcript, description, etc., in preparation for selections to PodCast 365 daily inspired talks and also to help upgrade the current audio library and indices on the web.

A busy team!

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Dasami Tithi, Sun One, Tuesday, June 20th.

Saravan Veylan is here from Edmonton, Canada with his wife, Bhavani.

We took them to visit our cows.

This is Anuradha. Raised by the monks she is totally at home with humans.

This is her sister Nandini. Bhavani gives her a banana

Another beautiful day with lots of pilgrims and visitors.

Mr. Chander Shakhar and Mrs. Nellam Babbar are here visiting from New Delhi. Her son Ashish has been attending the University of Hawaii on Oahu for the past three years for his Masters in Electrical Engineering. This is their second visit to the Kadavul Temple and Iraivan Temple with their son and they were amazed and very happy with the progress of the construction of the Iraivan Temple and the peace and beauty of these sacred grounds.

Anil and Ridhika Kapur came for a special blessing prior to the birth of their first child and plan to attend the morning abishekams at the Kadavul Hindu Temple and visit Iraivan while they are here.

Siva and Dharshi Sivakumar are here on pilgrimage with their two sons, Haran and Ganesh ages 13 & 12 who are accomplished carnatic singers. They were all previously here on Kauai at Kadavul Temple in 2001 and 2003 for the Maha Sivaratri Festivals. This lovely family originally came from Sri Lanka and their grandparents were devotees of Sage Yogaswami. They now reside in Sunnyvale, California where Dharshi practices Pediatrics and Siva is an Engineer. They attend the Sunnyvale Ganesha Temple. Both are Temple Builders contributing to the Iraivan Temple Building Fund and also subscribe to Hinduism Today.

Arun and Chittal Chetty (not pictured here) came to visit the temple with their two children, Vijay age 15 and Meena age 10. Originally from Chennai, they now live in California. Arun and his family really enjoyed the morning puja and the tour of the Iraivan Temple and gardens. He’s also very interested in the progress of the construction of the Iraivan Temple and was able to communicate in Tamil with the Silpis. He wants to keep in touch and plans to return for the Maha Kumbha Abhishekam.