It is a quiet day at the Aadheenam. With New Year’s holiday well behind us, the visitor traffic has dropped, leaving the monks to their quiet life and work.

The Ekadanta Kulam shared news today. That is a team of one: Saravanathaswami, with occasional help from Sadhaka Satyanatha

Swami share some of the many tasks he has been involved in:

• Answer Innersearch inquiries. We have nearly 50 enrollments so far for the coming innersearch. Don’t wait too long to make up your mind!
• He worked in finding birth syllable for Joe and Robin who want to take a Hindu first name as one of their next steps on the path.
• A lot of work on the advance preparations for Bodhinatha’s coming mainland retreat in the fall which included arranging for insurance at the retreat center and finalizing books at gathering venues.
• He order some special pens to be used as a gift to acknowledge donations to the Kauai Aloha Endowment.
• I reported the first major grant was made by the Kauai Aloha Endowment to a worthy Kauai recipient
• He initiation the first round of invitations being sent out people who we feel might want to join Bodhinatha on the retreat in California.
• There have been some communications with the North American Hindu Temple Council who have sent an invitation to Bodhinatha for some future event.
• And he has been working on tithing reports from members.

All of this an more while all the while hosting pilgrims.

We don’t have any special photos today from the Aadheenam so we bring you a few from the art collection of Rajam paintings on the life of Yogaswami.

Here is Yogaswami with his Guru, Chellappaswami, begging from a merchant. Chellappaswami would make him beg from time-to-time as a way of instilling humility.

It was not uncommon for Yogaswami to ride in the cars of his devotees who would spot him walking and give him a lift.

Yogaswami’s itinerant habit of leaving his hut in the morning and wandering all day, came to an end when he injured his hip.

It gave his devotees an opportunity to gather around him all day long during the last days of his life.