It is a quiet day a the Aadheenam. With our three monastic home from their pilgrimage in India and all the resident guest, task forcers and new premonastics the population is now up to 25!

Saravananathaswami shared news from his one-man Ekadanta Kulam today. He has been quite busy with the orientation and care of our new resident guests, Robin Jesse and today, Joe Chikkiar (more about him in the days to come). He has also been actively pursuing the logistics for the coming mini-innersearch retreat in California and handling the on-going arrangements of daily darshan meetings between Bodhinatha and pilgrims.

Light showers accompanied our little group to the Iraivan Temple site this morning. From left to right, Blaine Schafer from Kauai who plans to go on the 2008 Innersearch Pilgrimage to India, David and Mark from Sacramento, California, Subba Rao with his family, Kusuma, Rajesh Vijaya Lakshmi and the Raman family all from Wisconsin.

They were all “amazed” at the intricate and sacred designs hand-carved on the stones by the shilpis with such concentrated dedication. “Not even in India do you see such work as this anymore!” said Mr. Rao in obvious awe.

Yogi Japendranatha is offering us more photos of the monks’ India pilgrimage in slide show form below.