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 Dvitiya Tithi, Sun One, Thursday, December 21st.

This is the last day of Rishi Thondunatha’s visit. He was joined yesterday by an old friend, Kumar Sankara.

Lieutenant Kumar Sankara was born to Gurudeva’s Sishya, later he joined the Air Force and is now serving as a navigator on jet planes that come and go from air-craft carriers. He is stationed in Japan right now and this was his first time back to visit us in five years. Good to see you Kumar!

Thondunatha will return to his work in Florida. He’s been helping the swamis a lot with their work in Tamil and especially the new Natchintanai booklet that continues to be developed in the background here… more news on that in the months to come.

The big news today is the migration of Koi fish that were gifted by someone in the area whose ponds will be closed down. With the coordination of the whole thing by Kulapati Deva Seyon, we were assisted by the generous efforts of Jim and Tim Geis, of the “Kauai Koi Guys” company in the delicate transfer. We bring you the tale as a slide show today.

A new initiative to do more ornamental carving is underway at Iraivan. Paramacharya Palaniswami bring us the story by video and a few photos of the work.

Gurudeva always like to participate in interfaith activities and Bodhinatha is currently attending the monthly meetings of the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai. The monks of the Ganapati Kulam assisted with a small greeting card that the Roundtable is sending out to clergy around the island. It has a good message for us all…

By the way. That photo of a rainbow is *real” rainbow seen here at the Aadheenam and not done in Photoshop.

It was Sun Five today and the Ganapati Kulam shared the many projects. One is a giant DVD with Hindu clip art that Sivanadiyar Satya is working on. It will have 4,700 hundred images. 1008 of these will be pictures of Lord Ganesha!

A picture of the DVD label.

In addition we are preparing a brochure that describes the DVD and which will be a beautiful piece of work in itself, for sale in our minimela… we bring you some image from the brochure to close our TAKA for this phase… we will see you in a few days. Tomorrow is Iraivan day and all the monks will be hard at work on Iraivan temple projects.